Gluten Free Salty Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
Most of the time I have very specific cravings. Same goes for creating these cookies, I wanted chocolate and nut and saltiness in a cookie form. And viola, that's what I created. These can easily be made completely gluten free (although the cookies become more crumbly as mine were) or you can replace the quinoa and oat flour with spelt or regular unbleached wheat flour. I didn't have baking powered in-house so I made do without however I do believe a small pinch of baking powered would be helpful to add a little fluff.
Gluten Free Salty Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
Ingredients to make approx 20 cookies:
200g hazelnut flour/ground hazelnut
40g palm or coconut sugar
40g brown cane sugar
1,5 tsp salt (I used himalayan salt as I do with everything as it's much healthier)
200g oat flour
1 egg
100g rice or quinoa flour (or spelt/wheat which takes away the gluten free aspect)
50g coconut oil
40 grams butter
300 grams good quality chocolate
Gluten Free Salty Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C.
Mix all the dry ingredients then add the softened butter and coconut oil and mix.
Add the egg once the ingredients have combined mix into the dough.
Finally add the chopped up chocolate and mix.
Spoon out a regular spoon of the dough and place on baking paper on an oven tray. Make sure there is space between the each cookie so they can spread out as they bake.
Bake in the middle of the oven between 9-12min.
Enjoy these with a cup of hot tea coffee or if your in a real chocolate mood a cup of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream. I hope you like these as much as I did.
Gluten Free Salty Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
