Description
Healthy chocolate almond butter thumbprint cookies perfect for the holidays or whenever a cookie craving strikes! Just 6 ingredients for the whole recipe and they’re vegan, paleo, gluten-free and refined-sugar-free!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1¼ cups almond flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ cup almond butter, or nut butter of choice
- Optional: ½ cup vegan dark chocolate chunks, melted
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix together all ingredients except for the nut butter and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes (or up to 24 hours).
- Preheat the oven to 375ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Form 12 balls from the dough. Make an imprint in the center of each cookie with your thumb and leave the cookies unfilled.
- Bake for 11 minutes until firm around the edges. Immediately fill each imprint with almond butter and drizzle with melted chocolate.
- Let cool and enjoy!
