I created these Valentines-themed cookies for the amazing Doisy & Dam using their 74% dark coconut and lucuma chocolate. I love both dark chocolate and coconut so this bar was like chocolatey heaven and perfect for these cookies, I can’t wait to try their other dark chocolate flavours! I usually only eat unrefined sugar so don’t often eat cane sugar but when i do it’s in chocolate! Cane sugar is low FODMAP though so definitely not a problem in that respect! These little cookies are gluten free, vegan and low FODMAP.
Makes approximately 14 cookies
INGREDIENTS:
70g melted coconut oil
45ml maple syrup
100g gluten free oats
60g hazelnuts
50g buckwheat flour
25g cacao powder
2 tbsp desiccated coconut
70g Doisy & Dam coconut and lucuma chocolate
Optional toppings:
Desiccated coconut
Cacao nibs
Edible flowers to decorate
METHOD:
- Preheat the oven to 150oc and line 2 oven trays with baking paper
- Start by pulsing the oats in a blender or food processor until you are left with oat flour
- Tip the flour into a large bowl along with the buckwheat flour, coconut and cacao powder
- Place the hazelnuts in the blender of food processor and blend on a high setting until they are ground to a course flour
- Add the hazelnut flour to the bowl and stir to combine
- Pour the melted coconut oil and maple syrup into the bowl
- Stir with a wooden spoon until a soft dough is formed (leave it to sit for a few minutes if it’s too soft to handle)
- Use a rolling pin to roll the cookie dough between 2 pieces of baking paper until it is about 5mm thick
- Using your choice of cookie cutter, cut the dough into shapes before placing them on a baking tray
- Re-roll the dough and repeat until all the dough has been used
- Bake the cookies for 12 minutes
- Leave the cookies to cool on the tray for 5 minutes before placing them on a cooling rack until completely cooled
- Melt the Doisy & Dam coconut and lucuma chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water
- Remove the bowl from the heat and drizzle the chocolate over the cookies before sprinkling over your choice of toppings!
