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Posted onNovember 23, 2011 - 4:30 am by Admin | 0 Comments

Gluten Free, Flour-free and Very Simple

These days it is sometime difficult to find a natural and delicious snack or dessert that most everyone can eat and enjoy. With the plethora of special diets, it is increasingly more challenging to make something for everyone. With the double nut chocolate chip cookie recipe here, you can also have vegan, sugar-free, and carb-controlled cookies from the same gluten-free base. Life is more simple and just as delicious. Keep this recipe for holiday cookie baking and try making up the dry mix in several multiple zip lock bag batches to have handy for super easy and fast preparation during extra busy times. The dry ingredients together with a pretty bag and recipe label make great homemade gifts, too.

Makes (1-1/2 dozen) -18 – 3” (7.6 cm)cookies.

Ingredients for making Easy Double Nut Chocolate Chip Gluten-Free Cookies:

  • 2 cups Almond Meal (475 mL)*
  • ¼ cup Pecan Pieces (60 mL)
  • ¼ cup Pure Cane Sugar (60 mL)
  • 1/3 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (80 mL)
  • 1-1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder (7.5 mL)
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract (5 mL)
  • ½ teaspoon Sea Salt (2.5 mL)
  • 1-Large Egg
  • ¼ cup (60 mL) Butter, softened

Directions for Making Easy Double Nut Chocolate Chip Gluten-Free Cookies:

  1. Preheat Oven to 350° (F) – 177° (©).
  2. Coat a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray, or line with parchment paper.
  3. In medium-sized bowl, combine sugar and butter.
  4. Add egg and vanilla to the sugar and butter and stir.
  5. In small bowl, combine almond meal, baking powder and sea salt. Stir.
  6. Add almond meal blend to egg and butter mixture, stir to blend well.
  7. Stir in pecan pieces and chocolate chips.
  8. Drop by cookie dropper or tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet 2” (5 cm)apart.
  9. Press down to flatten to 2” (5 cm)wide.
  10. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes, for softer cookies. Bake for 15-17 minutes, until light golden brown, for crispy cookies.

These cookies are all natural and gluten free. They can be kept in the refrigerator for two weeks and/or frozen for up to two months.

*Almond meal can be purchased in the health section of your supermarket, online at low carb and health food distributors or you can make your own by grinding blanched almonds in your food processor or coffee grinder.


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