Nut & Chocolate Clusters

1/2 cup natural nut butter (peanut/almond – whatever you typically use)
1 & 1/4 cups natural sugar
4 eggs
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/2 tsp pure salt
2 cups nuts, chopped
1 cup chocolate chips (or 1/2 cup nibs)
2/3 cup coconut flour, sifted

• Mix together nut-butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla &  salt.
• Stir in nuts, chocolate chips and coconut flour.
• Drop by spoonful on greased (or parchment paper covered) cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375 for 13 minutes (or until done to your liking).
• Cool slightly and remove from cookie sheet.

Makes approx 28 clusters.

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SIDE NOTES:

~ These chocolate chip nut clusters are fantastic. Although somewhat reminiscent of a chocolate chip cookie, they’re way nuttier (and less coconutty than last week’s cookies). A real keeper. Have become the cookie test kitchen lately (the family is not complaining).

~  If you reduce the nuts by 50%, these become more like cookies & less like clusters.

~ I usually cut cookie recipes in half until I tweak them to our liking. Of course, your taste may be different from ours, so consider doing the same – make the first batch a small one.

~ More cookies to come….!  🙂

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