Almond Butter Delights with Dark Chocolate

Almond Butter Delights with Dark Chocolate

These are a nutritional powerhouse! Loaded with good quality fats and whole grain flour, this is a tasty treat that's good for you too! Packed with nutritionally dense almond butter and ground almonds, they will fill you up fast, and keep you full for hours. Lightly sweetened with pure maple syrup, these are a fantastic healthy mid-afternoon snack for when you're on the go!

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Ingredients:
½ cup plus 2 tablespoons almond butter
½ cup pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, or another oil of your choosing
¾ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2/3 cup white whole wheat flour
1/3 cup almond meal (if you can’t find almond meal to purchase you can grind almonds in a food processor until finely ground).
1 pinch sea salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
¾ cup dark chocolate chips (I like to buy a 72% cocoa chocolate bar and chop it into small pieces)

With a mixer cream:
almond butter
maple syrup
olive oil
vanilla extract

In a separate bowl, whisk:
flour
almond meal
salt
baking soda

Add the dry ingredients to the wet, in 3 batches. Using a spatula give a few stirs between each batch. Stop stirring as soon as flour mixture has been completely incorporated. Do not over mix.

Gently stir in chocolate chips.

Spoon tablespoon sized drops onto a parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake at 350 for 9-10 minutes in the middle oven rack. Test doneness by removing 1 cookie from the oven with a spatula. Turn it upside down onto the counter. The bottom should be slightly to medium golden brown in color. Do not over bake these!

Makes about 38 moist and chewy cookies.

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