Chocolate Hemp Cookies (Gluten Free)
Delicious and ticker friendly, these gluten free Chocolate Chip Hemp Cookies would make a delicious afternoon snack – though, I’ve gotta admit, I sneaked these for breakfast a couple of times too. Read on to see why you could enjoy these for breakfast as well…
Now, I know my memory tends to be a bit dodgy, but, y’all I didn’t make these gluten-free Chocolate Chip Hemp Cookies today thinking it was Valentine’s Day.
And, nope, I didn’t make these for Heart Health month and forget to post them.
I made these cookies in the month of May as a reminder to myself that even though February, the month filled with heart-love and heart-healthy gluten free blueberry cookies, turmeric salmon and delicious quinoa and veggies, has come and gone, I need to be making ticker-friendly treats year round!
As I make nutbutter chocolate chip cookies often, I try my best to healthy-fy them somehow. Sometimes I throw in some beets into them, other times I leave out the sugar, and sometimes I even add in protein!
And today is no exception. Today, I added in some hemp hearts into my nutbutter chocolate chip cookie mix.
While I’m no nutritionist, I will refer you to this site to read up on the benefits of hemp hearts. All I’ll say is that they have a reputation of contributing to heart health and so I figured why not!
These gluten-free, Chocolate Chip Hemp Cookies are no overly sweet, though you could add in 3 or more tablespoons of coconut sugar to the mix – or even, brown sugar, if you’d like.
Now, the decorations are optional. My daughter recently brought home some red fondant and she helped me make the variety of little hearts y’all see here. I melted some chocolate and added in the little heart beats for dramatic effect.
This recipe first appeared on Food Fanatic – for more delicious cookies and other meal or dessert ideas, make sure you take a quick gander over to check out Food Fanatic!
Ingredients
- 1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup Hemp Hearts I used Bob’s Red Mill
- 1/2 cup Coconut Sugar
- 3 tablespoons GF Flour blend
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 Egg
- 3/4 cup Chocolate Chips divided, your choice of dark or milk
- 1 teaspoon Pure Almond Extract
- Red Fondant for decorating, optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Add the peanut butter to a microwave safe bowl and microwave it for 25 seconds so it’s runny.
- Add in the hemp hearts, the coconut sugar, GF flour, baking powder, egg, almond extract, and 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
- Shape into heart shapes, place on a parchment lined baking tray and bake for 12 minutes.
- When cooled, decorate with red fondant hearts and melt the 1/4 cup chocolate chips and use it to draw little heart beats on the heart shaped cookies.
They look divine! I just had a whole tablespoon of hemp seeds as a snack :-))
These are the cutest, Shashi, with the little hearts on there! Definitely a good reminder to always eat heart healthy foods….love it! And any excuse to have a cookie for breakfast sounds good to me. Love that there’s no added sugar in these and I can actually eat a whole bunch without feeling blah. High five, my friend! Happy Monday 🙂 XO
Love the red fondant Shashi. So very creative and cute!
Hemp isn’t something I’ve baked with before, I’m intrigued.
Thanks for sharing this amazing recipe. Hope you are well! 🙂
Haha! What a fun way to remember to keep feeding your heart good stuff! I can’t say I’ve ever baked with hemp, but I totally want to give it a shot. I’ve heard all sorts of good things about it in terms of health benefits. And I gotta say that Lil Shashi killed it with the red fondant decorations here. The pop of color is perfect! 🙂
These cookies look and sound utterly delicious and dangerous, Shashi! Why dangerous? Cause every time when nut butter being involved, I cannot control myself. Like a week ago we bought to try a jar of mixed nuts and seeds butter (cashews, pecans, almonds, Brazil nuts, flax seeds, etc) and you cannot imagine how delicious it turned out! Needless to say it’s almost gone. Uppps. I’ve had just a couple of spoons:) I swear! Anyway. The bottom line is when (note I’m not saying “if”) you’re shipping me these cookies, please pack just a few of them (like 7 or 10). Thanks for your consideration:)
PQRST…PQRST.. your daughter will know what that is… right? Is she applying to med school? Love your healthy enough to eat cookies for breakfast cookies. Always so delicious. Pinning for sure!
This looks and sounds like the most addictive cookie recipe Shashi. Pinning! 🙂
Yum! These heart healthy cookies would make the perfect afternoon snack. And the decorations are adorable!
Dear Shashi — SO CLEVER!!! I have never used hemp hearts and love learning ways to healthy-fy — as you say!!! Hope all is well my friend – I have tasted your cookies and they are DEEE-LISH, and so hoping to try these ones soon. XOXO
Made these with brown sugar and loved them!