Chocolate Almond Cookies

4.7 (3)

These delicate cookies are astir similar a shortbread but with a much melt-in-your-mouth texture. Because they usage nary flour, they tin cater to the gluten-free crowd. We chose to marque them vegan-friendly arsenic well, by taking up the archetypal recipe's proposition that virgin coconut lipid could beryllium substituted for the butter. Unlike refined coconut oil, the virgin worldly tastes similar coconut, giving the cookies a beauteous spirit reminiscent of a Mounds bar.

Pay adjacent attraction to the extended clip needed erstwhile you are creating the cooky dough. If you don't premix it agelong enough, the cookies mightiness autumn isolated arsenic you assistance them disconnected the baking sheet. (Not flattening the scooped dough excessively overmuch volition assistance forestall this, too.) You person to springiness the coconut lipid plentifulness of clip to incorporated into the mix.

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The dough tin beryllium portioned and refrigerated overnight. The baked cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for respective days.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

• Calories

  130

• Fat

  10 g

• Saturated Fat

  5 g

• Carbohydrates

  11 g

• Sodium

  95 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  8 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Black Girl Baking: Wholesome Recipes Inspired by a Soulful Upbringing," by Jerrelle Guy (Page Street Publishing, 2018).

Tested by Becky Krystal and Bonnie S. Benwick.