Hemp Chocolate Cookies
Sneak a little chocolate into your morning with these Hemp Chocolate Breakfast Cookies. Packing a hefty nutritious punch, these cookies are just the right amount of sweet to get you energized to face the day.
One evening, a couple months ago, when it wasn’t too cold, or too wet, or too hot…
We had a little visitor in our driveway.
When I caught my daughter looking at him adoringly and calling him “Cute Steve”, I told her she should pick him up and let him stay in her room…(if you thought I was talking about a boy – shame on you!!!)
Of course, this is when she scrunched up her face and said “mom, eooooowwwww, I don’t want warts”
Yup – Steve happens to be a toad – who seems to love our driveway! He has been faithfully showing up these past couple of months and helping in bug control!
When he first showed up though, I found myself Googling toads and warts, only to find out how big a misconception my daughter and I had been operating under!
Seeing I am confessing and all…that’s not been my only misconception…
For the longest time, I used to think that using hemp hearts could result in me getting a positive result on a drug test.
–Am I the only one with a smorgasbord of misconceptions…or should we start a support group? -And serve chocolate at our meetings? 🙂
However, after more Googling, I found out that, while hemp is a species of “Cannabis sativa”; it contains “0.001% Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)” and will not cause a positive reading on a drug test, nor will it lead to any other episodes of hallucinations. According to their website, Manitoba Harvest’s co-founders played a part in having Industrial Hemp legalized in Canada in 1998.
Since then, these slightly nutty, nutrition dense seeds, containing “10 grams of plant-based protein and 10 grams of Omegas” have exploded in popularity and use!
So when I was given the opportunity to review Manitoba Harvests’ Hemp Hearts – I figured I had to come up with something different than sprinkling it on my smoothies…And, since we love cookies at home…I figured I would go the cookie route.
Hemp Hearts are non-GMO and while the hemp seed is naturally gluten free, Manitoba Harvest specifies that a stray kernel of wheat or barley could result in a positive reading for gluten so, as they work towards methods to harvest hemp seeds in the best way possible – these hemp hearts do not have a gluten free labeling on them.
I based these Hemp & Chocolate Breakfast Cookie Recipe on these Healthier Chocolate Scones. I used a mix of rice four and almond meal (though an equal quantity of ground oats can be substituted for them), and combined it with hemp hearts, cocoa, dark chocolate, brown sugar (which can be substituted with honey/agave), an egg and coconut oil (which can easily be substituted for butter) and voila – cookies for breakfast!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rice flour can be subbed with 1/2 cup ground oats
- 1/2 cup almond meal can be subbed with 1/2 cup ground oats
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons Hemp Hearts
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 2 oz roughly chopped dark chocolate 1/3 cup
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup melted coconut oil can be subbed with melted butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Mix all the dry ingredients with a spoon/spatula
- Add the egg and melted coconut oil and mix well
- Form into 6 balls and gently flatten slightly before placing on a parchment lined baking tray
- Bake 10 – 12 minutes and let cool
- Can be enjoyed as is or topped with almond butter or chocolate hazelnut butter
Nutrition
Disclaimer: As a Sweat Pink Ambassador, I was given the opportunity to participate in this opportunity hosted by Manitoba Harvest and Fit Approach; I was provided with a sample of Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts to review. I received no other compensation; as always all opinions are 100% my very own.
hi, can we omit eggs for flax egg for vegan ? thankx
Definitely worth a try though I have not tried it with a flax egg.
You always introduce me to great products. I heard about hemp seeds but never about hemp hearts… Needless to say, I am very curious about and want to tried them!
Thanks Daniela – I am not positive I know the difference between hemp hearts and hemp seed…guess I need to do some Googling…
Wow!
I love the use of hemp in these cookies. So creative!
Asmita – I so appreciate your kind words!
I’ve used hemp seeds for smoothies, but these cookies look much more enticing!
Thanks so much Christin!
My favorite two words to put together? Breakfast and cookie. Heck to the yes!
Haha – thanks Chris!
Interesting! I had no idea you could bake with hemp hearts. I need to stick around you, Shashi…I keep learning things by accident. Haha! But more importantly, can we talk about Cute Steve? I love that he shows up regularly…you should start keeping some bugs around to feed him. 🙂 When we lived in Atlanta, we had a snake that lived in our driveway. He’d show up about once a week, and we named him BOLO (Be on the Lookout). I’m terrified of snakes, and he always gave me a start…especially when I’d find him in the bushes when I was weed-whacking. But he was our buddy. (Don’t worry…I did some extensive googling to make sure he was a harmless corn snake…but that doesn’t mean he didn’t scare me still.)
Haha – Thanks David! What do you say about hemping those count chokula treats? 😉
Yup – Steve met us this evening too – though tonight he was quite energetic – kept leaping around! My daughter loves collecting bugs -so I am sure she would love that challenge!
YIKES – a snake in the bushes! I would scream like a girl!:) But, I guess a snake outside is better than a snake inside right? I am glad that y’alls one was harmless – I have seen one in my yard too – but since the “Steve” has been guarding our abode, I haven’t seen the snake.
Here in Queensland we have the dreaded cane toad. They can kill heaps of things and even dogs aren’t safe around them. They’re also really big and ugly. Ugh. No kissing toads for me.
I love the idea of the hemp into cookies. I’ve never seen it in Australia.
Maureen – we saw our toad this evening too – it’s been cooler here today and he seems a tad more perkier!
I will join that support group and yes, we’ll chocolate 😀 i am under the impression if you eat a poppy seed bagel it will show up on a drug test- is that true? i have no idea. (I’m afraid of slimy things so im going to go on believing the thing about warts and toads 🙂 Is there another support group for denial?) these breakfast cookies look sooo good! i want one (2) for breakfast!
You know what Charlotte – I don’t know either – some articles I Googled said yes and some said no and some said it depends on how much time passed between eating a poppy seed pastry and taking a test – my mind is boggled!
Yes – there’s a group for denial too – though in it – if you happen to have your chocolate cookie stolen, you might have a hard time figuring out who took it or if it was indeed stolen…
Hi Shashi, did not know that about hemp, very interesting. Will have to pick me up some. Love these cookies.
Thank you so very much Cheri!
Cute Steve!!! I love it!! I feel stupid to write this, but I didn’t know you could use hemp in recipes and that is was so good for you! You learn something new every day! (and obviously anything in cookie form will get a thumbs up from me. Make that a chocolate cookie, and I am totally sold!!) –Lisa
Nope – don’t feel stupid – I have never had a candy apple nor have I had a beef burger …I guess the scales are tipped towards me eh? 🙂
Thanks Lisa!
I had no idea that hemp might possibly (or not:) make you test positive on a drug test. My husband absolutely refuses to ever eat anything with poppy seeds since he is subject to random drug testing. I’m pretty sure that he would have to eat more than any recipe calls for in order to have it show up but…
Love these breakfast cookies, look so good! I need to buy some hemp seeds! Pinned!
Thanks so much Manali!
cookies for breakfast is always a great idea! I use those hemp seeds for smoothies or salads.
Any excuse to eat cookies right 😉