Recipe: Almond Meal Quinoa Flake Chocolate Chip Cookies (for Santa)

When most people get bored, they watch TV or play on their phones, but when our co-founder Ravi gets bored, he makes mass quantities of homemade almond milk. If you've ever read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" you know it's a slippery slope from having a glass of milk to needing a cookie to go with it - which is why you may have noticed a lot of cookie recipes on the blog lately! These vegan, gluten-free cookies pair perfectly with a tall glass of almond milk - leave them out for hipster Santa and you'll be sure to get just what you wished for. 

 
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Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup I Heart Keenwah Toasted Quinoa Flakes, ground into flour (in coffee grinder)
  • 3/4 cup almond meal
  • 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • sprinkling of sea salt
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 flax eggs (2 Tbs ground flax seeds + 4 Tbs water)
  • 3 TBs coconut oil
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup vegan dark chocolate chips

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 
  2. Combine quinoa flour, almond meal, coconut, baking powder, sea salt and brown sugar in a bowl.
  3. In a separate bowl, stir together flax eggs, coconut oil and vanilla extract.
  4. Combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients and stir until a dough forms.
  5. Fold in chocolate chips.
  6. Scoop 1 Tbs-sized balls of cookie dough on prepared baking sheet. Gently flatten cookies to desired shape before baking (cookies will not spread much during baking process). Bake for 7 minutes.
  7. Cool on cooling rack and serve. 

Recipe inspired by Minimalist Baker. 

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