Chocolate Cookies

1/4 cup butter or coconut oil, melted
1/3 cup cocoa (or cacao) powder
3 eggs
3 TBSP natural sugar
3/4 tsp liquid or powdered stevia (optional – see notes)
1/4 tsp pure salt
1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/4 cup coconut flour, sifted

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan.
• Stir in cocoa powder and remove from heat.
• In a separate bowl, combine eggs, sugar, stevia (if using), salt and vanilla.
• Stir in cocoa mixture.
• Whisk coconut flour into batter until there are no lumps.
• Let batter rest 3 or 4 minutes to allow it to thicken slightly.
• Drop batter by spoonful on greased (or parchment paper covered) cookie sheet.
• Bake for 14 mins.

Makes about 18 cookies.

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SIDE NOTES:

~ Adapted from “Cooking with Coconut Flour”. A very moist & tasty chocolate cookie. Reminiscent of chocolate cake – only bite sized. The kids love them.

~ If you prefer to omit the stevia, simply increase the sugar to 1/3 cup (total).

~ FYI…. When making a reduced sugar cookie (replacing part of the sugar with stevia) they sometimes need a little help flattening out – depending on the particular recipe. When testing this recipe out, I flattened them slightly with the back of a spoon before putting in the oven, but I always leave a few unflattened to see if they’ll spread on their own. These did great – they looked almost the same as the ones I flattened myself. Of course, they always taste good, no matter what shape they end up!

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