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Chocolate Cookies

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Chocolate Cookies – doesn’t this sound great?!

 Schokokekse

Sometimes I miss cookies. I really love to drink a cup of coffee or tea at the weekend and enjoy a cookie. As I haven’t found sugar free cookies yet, I decided to create my own ones. The result are deliciously super chocolate cookies. They are more soft than crunchy, but really taste great. For the sweetness I used medjool dates. As there are only 1/4 dates in one cookie, they are a great alternative if you don’t eat refined sugar and try to reduce the sugar in your live.

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Ingredients for 8 chocolate cookies:

  • 50 g (medjool) dates (approx. 2)
  • 25 g raw cocoa powder / backing cocoa powder
  • 2 egg whites
  • 20 g ground hazelnuts
  • 5 g coconut oil
  • 20 g (gluten-free) rolled oats*
  • 10 g (gluten-free) steel cut oats*

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 180° (356°F) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Pit the dates and blend them with the cocoa powder, egg whites and ground hazelnuts until you get a smooth mixture. I normally use a hand blender for this.
  3. Melt the coconut oil and add it to the dough.
  4. Add the (gluten-free) oats*.
  5. Form little balls from the mass, put them on the baking sheet and press them to flat cookies.
  6. Bake the chocolate cookies for approx. 8-9 minutes and let them cool down.
  7. Store them in a cookie box

* Oats are gluten-free. As they are normally produced together with gluten products, make sure to buy marked gluten-free oats (if gluten free is necessary for you!). Otherwise the cookies are not gluten-free!

Gingerbread Energy Balls

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Today someone offered me some gingerbread. “Normal” Gingerbread with sugar. I said no, but was thinking of gingerbread whole day. As I wanted to bake some vanilla crescent cookies today, I didn’t have so much time to create a sugar free gingerbread recipe. For this reason I decided to make some gingerbread energy balls.

Lebkuchen Energy Balls

Energy Balls have the advantage that they are easy and fast and you can create any flavor. Together with my cinnamon energy balls, they constitute the perfect duo of christmas energy balls.

Ingredients for 15 gingerbread energy balls:

  • 60 g pecans
  • 60 g (medjool) dates (approx. 3)
  • 1 tsp. white almond butter
  • 10 ml water
  • 2 tsp. gingerbread spice

Ingredients for the topping:

  • 2 tsp. raw cocoa powder / backing cocoa powder

Instructions:

  1. Blend the pecans until they are finally ground.
  2. Pit the dates and puree them with the almond butter and the water.
  3. Add the puree and the gingerbread spice to the ground pecans and blend all ingredients until you get a smooth mixture.
  4. Form balls from the mass and roll them in the cocoa powder. Then move the balls back and forth between your fingers to remove excess powder.
  5. Store the gingerbread energy balls in the fridge and enjoy each ball!

Cinnamon Energy Balls

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I LOVE CHRISTMAS! For me, it’s one of the most beautiful times of the year. I really enjoy backing christmas cookies and eat them with a hot cup of tea or coffee at the weekends. As cinnamon is one of my personal christmas tastes, and I ate my last wake-up coffee balls this week, I started christmas backing session with cinnamon energy balls.

 Cinnamon Energy Balls

Ingredients for 15 cinnamon energy balls:

  • 50 g (medjool) dates (approx. 3)
  • 50 g walnuts
  • 25 g ground almonds
  • 2 tsp. white almond butter
  • 2 tsp. raw cocoa powder / backing cocoa powder
  • 3-4 tsp. ground ceylon cinnamon

Ingredients for the topping:

  • 2 tsp. raw cocoa powder / backing cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp. ground ceylon cinnamon

Instructions:

  1. Blend the walnuts until they are finally ground.
  2. Pit the dates, cut them into small pieces, add them to the walnuts and blend them.
  3. Add ground almonds, white almond butter, cocoa powder and ground cinnamon and blend all ingredients until you get a smooth mixture.
  4. Mix the cocoa powder with the ground cinnamon powder for the topping. Form balls from the mass and roll them in the cocoa cinnamon mixture. Then move the balls back and forth between your fingers to remove excess powder.
  5. Store the cinnamon energy balls in the fridge and enjoy them!