Wednesday, April 11, 2012

"Nutritious and Delicious"- A cookie with Goodness- Chocolate Almond Cookies

Want to eat your Cookie and feel good about it too? You are at the right place!! In my mania of ' eating good foods'...here is one more recipe I tried last week.

The cookies came out chocolaty, nutty, fulfilling and tasted delicious.They had a unique texture....not chewy...not crispy...not crumbly either...but  something in between!! You got to try it.Even my picky little 'E' loved those. For him ..I made little 'cupcake cookies' with the same cookie dough.


I call them" A cookie with goodness' because they have- half -whole wheat flour in the recipe, has oat meal, has almonds, flax seed meal....all good for you!

Ingredients: Makes 24 cookies/ cupcake cookies
3/4 cup Whole wheat flour
3/4 cup All purpose flour
1/2cup Oat meal ( pulse quick cooking oats in a mixer and powder them)
1/4 cup Flax seed meal
1/3 cup Almonds finely chopped ( see the white specks in the cookies?..Those are the almonds)
1/4 cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup Light brown sugar
1/2cup white sugar
1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
5 tbsp butter (room temperature)
1/4cup canola oil
1Egg
1/4tsp salt
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda
1tsp Vanilla essence
2tsp water

Method:
1) Preheat the oven to 325F. Spray a cookie sheet with non stick spray. If you want to make 'Cupcake cookies'...spray the mini muffin pan with non stick spray.
2)Beat the butter +Eggs+ Sugar.
3) Add all of the above ingredients and mix.
4) Mold into small balls and flatten/ press into mini muffin pans

5) Bake at 325F for 15 mins. Let them cool
6) You can frost the cupcake cookies with 'chocolate butter cream frosting' or other frosting of your choice.
Butter Cream frosting:
1/4 cup room temperature butter
1/2cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2tsp Vanilla essence
Mix together. Add few drops of water to achieve desired consistency
Frost the cookies when cooled


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