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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…

Chocolate Hemp Cookies

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!

Easy Chocolate hemp Cookies

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.

Healthy Chocolate hemp Cookies

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.

Easy, Gluten Free, Chocolate hemp Cookies

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.

Easy Chocolate hemp Cookies - Gluten Free

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Easy, Gluten Free, Chocolate hemp Cookies

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Hemp Cookies Recipe

Yield: 15
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 17 minutes

Delicious and ticker friendly, these gluten free Chocolate Chip Hemp Cookies would make a delicious afternoon snack.

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. Add the peanut butter to a microwave safe bowl and microwave it for 25 seconds so it’s runny.
  3. Add in the hemp hearts, the coconut sugar, GF flour, baking powder, egg, almond extract, and 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
  4. Shape into heart shapes, place on a parchment lined baking tray and bake for 12 minutes.
  5. 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.

Notes

You can use 2/3 cup brown sugar instead of coconut sugar if you’d like a sweeter cookie.

Nutrition Information
Yield 15 Serving Size 1
Amount Per Serving Calories 224Total Fat 14gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 9gCholesterol 14mgSodium 129mgCarbohydrates 20gFiber 2gSugar 14gProtein 7g

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Allie Taylor

Friday 16th of June 2017

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

Sonali- The Foodie Physician

Thursday 8th of June 2017

Yum! These heart healthy cookies would make the perfect afternoon snack. And the decorations are adorable!

puja

Wednesday 7th of June 2017

This looks and sounds like the most addictive cookie recipe Shashi. Pinning! :)

Healthy World Cuisine

Tuesday 6th of June 2017

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!

Ben|Havocinthekitchen

Tuesday 6th of June 2017

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:)

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