Aunt Rocky’s Crunchy Double Chocolate Almond Cookies

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Cover 2 large cookie sheets with silicone mat or parchment paper, set aside.

In a small mixing bowl, whisk cocoa, erythritol, baking soda, and salt until well blended. Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk egg and syrup. Add almond butter and stir with mixing spoon or rubber spatula until smooth (don’t use the whisk, the sticky “dough” gets stuck in it). Fold in chocolate chips and sliced almonds.

Using a 1-inch cookie scoop (well packed, but leveled off), scoop 20 cookies onto each cookie sheet in 4 rows of 5 cookies. Press the cookies with your fingertips to flatten. They don’t spread, so the shape you make is the shape you’ll get.

Bake 15 minutes, or until cookies look dry on top and around the edges. Transfer to a cooling rack. For a drier, crisper cookie, leave out on rack uncovered for about 24 hours.

Yields 40 cookies, or 20 servings of 2 cookies each.

Notes:
1. For paleo, substitute maple syrup or honey for the Walden Farms syrup.
2. For nut free, use sun butter in place of almond butter, and sunflower seeds in place of sliced almonds.

Nutrition estimates are calculated per serving with My Fitness Pal’s online recipe analyzer. If you make any changes to the ingredients, your results may differ. The recipe is stored there and available to MFP users for logging in their food diaries. I do not include sugar alcohols or liquid Sucralose in my nutrition counts, as they are not absorbed by the body and rate zero on the glycemic index.

Per serving (2 cookies): Calories 73, Total Fat 5 g, Saturated Fat 0 g, Sodium 50 mg, Potassium 21 mg, Total Carbohydrate 3 g, Dietary Fiber 3 g, Net Carbs 0 g, Sugars 0 g, Protein 2 g. Macros: 85% fat, 15% protein, 0% carbs.

© January 5, 2018 Roxana Lopez for Aunt Rocky’s

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