Recipes | December 7, 2016  | by  Shari Broder | 0 COMMENT
Chocolate Nut Mounds-This is a delicious, macaroon-like chocolate cookie that is gluten-free and easy to make.

Chocolate Nut Cookies

Ingredients

  • 100 g. (3 1/2 oz) dark chocolate
  • 125 g. (1 c. plus 1 T.) Almond Meal (I use Trader Joe's)
  • 125 g. (4 1/2 oz) coarsely chopped pecans
  • 150 g. (3/4 c. plus 2 T) dark brown sugar
  • 1 T. cocoa powder
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 1/2 t. vanilla extract
  • 50 g. (1 1/2 oz.) pecans sliced crosswise (optional)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 355 degrees F/180 C. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.

Microwave chocolate until it melts. Start with one minute, stir, and add more time in shorter increments if necessary. In the alternative, melt in the top of a double boiler over barely simmering water. Cool slightly.

Put the nuts, sugar and cocoa into a food processor and process until fine. Add melted chocolate, the egg whites and vanilla, and mix well.

Plop heaping tablespoons of the dough onto the lined cookie sheet. The dough is sticky, but you can shape them with wet hands or fingertips. They don't spread much, but leave around 2 inches in between each one.

If you like, top each cookie with a pecan slice pressed gently into the middle.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, until set and puffed, but still chewy inside. Store in an airtight container. They keep well.

This recipe is adapted from Claire Ptak’s The Violet Bakery Cookbook. It is a wonderful cookbook containing sweets and savories, many of which are made with whole-grain and less commonly used flours. Many, like this one, are also gluten-free. I also love that her recipes use weights as measurements, as this produces better baked goods. These cookies are more like macaroons in shape and texture. 

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About the author 

Shari Broder

My mission is to help foodies ditch dieting and lose the weight for good. Discover what is really causing your weight issues (it isn't that you love food!), and learn how to stop obsessing about food and make peace with food and eating. Get off the diet hamster wheel once and for all and learn to eat consciously, stop emotional eating and enjoy the foods you love while permanently losing your desire to overeat.

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Meet Shari

I am passionate about helping women lose weight without dieting by teaching them how to trust their inner wisdom and make peace with food and eating.  I love teaching women how to get off the diet hamster wheel by learning how to eat consciously, stop emotional eating and enjoy foods they love while losing their desire to overeat along with their excess weight.