Triple Chocolate Beet Cookies
I’ve partnered with Sprouts Farmers Market to bring y’all these, gluten-free, thin and slightly chewy, Triple Chocolate Beet Cookies – another delightfully delicious way to add some veggies to your Holiday Treat Exchange!
‘TIS THE SEASON for ALL the TREATS! – Am I right or am I right?!
Y’all, I’m a little bit hopped-up on Triple Chocolate Beet Cookies AND coffee this morning, and a lotta bits hopped-up because I feel I found my baking mojo again! YASSS!!!
You see, for the longest time, things were just not jiving for me on the baking front. From muffins to cookies, everything seemed to tank. What used to work before, didn’t! The baked treats that made it onto this little space of mine were the result of many, many, many, many, many failed attempts. That’s one too many “many’s”, if you ask me!
At one point of my misadventures in baking, I decided I needed some major therapy. Produce-therapy to be exact. So, I made my way to one of my favorite produce sections and sniffed the beets! I kid, I kid!
At least about sniffing the beets!
I did find my happy place as I rifled through the vast array of golden, orange and (my favorite) ruby red beets at Sprouts. Which lead me to bring beets (and a whole slew of items) home and whip up a whole bunch of these Triple Chocolate Beet Cookies. And, these were the first batch of cookies I had baked in a while that seemed to work on the first try. I actually made these a few weeks ago and teamed up with Sprouts Farmers Market and 11 other bloggers, in their “Bulk Bin Treat Exchange”. I ended up sending a bunch of these to a couple other bloggers and Sprouts Headquarters, and stored the rest in my freezer. This morning I decided to thaw some cookies out – because, veggies for breakfast is a thing – right?!
Ok, so I’m cheating a bit because the veggie (beetroot) in these cookies comes with not one but 3 different kinds/forms of chocolate …. buuuuutttt… ’tis the season – right?!
I used grated beets in these cookies – like I did with the biscotti I posted yesterday, along with oats, cane sugar, eggs, cocoa powder, milk chocolate, semi sweet chocolate chips, and white chocolate – I know – that’s 4 types of chocolate, but seeing I only used a couple of tablespoons of cocoa, I figured I couldn’t really call these “Quadruple Chocolate Beet Cookies.” These gluten-free, Triple Chocolate Beet Cookies are thin, slightly chewy and drizzled with milk and white chocolate. But, don’t let the chocolate distract you – with all the oats in these – these are basically like eating a bowl of oats in cookie form – or maybe I have to tell myself that to justify eating 3 of these this morning!
As I’ve mentioned in posts before, I love perusing the aisles of Sprouts for fresh produce, dairy, meat, and seafood. I enjoy loitering by their freshly-baked goods, their organic and gluten-free groceries, and eclectic beer and wine selections (thankfully, they haven’t kicked my loitering bahotay out-yet). I love to mosey through their vitamins and supplements and bulk bins! I’ve been going through a bunch of oats recently and I’m so thankful that Sprouts stocks it in their bulk bin section, along with varieties of sugar, flour, nuts, chocolate chips and more!
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By the way, if you have a Sprouts near ya, they are running a huge 72 hour Incredible Bulk Bin Sale in which ALL “scoopable” bulk bin items will be 25% off -THIS weekend (December 9th thru 11th)!
‘Tis the season for all the treats so why not stock up on all the good quality ingredients you need for all your treats -in bulk- from Sprouts?
Ingredients
- 3 cups ground up rolled oats I use my blender to grind up a whole bunch of rolled oats and keep it on hand to use as "oat flour" as needed
- 1/4 cup tapioca flour
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 1/4 cup cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup + 1/2 cup milk chocolate roughly chopped good quality milk chocolate -I got mine from in a huge slab from Sprouts and cut it up to fill required quantity
- 1/2 cup + 1/2 cup white chocolate good quality white chocolate -I got mine from in a huge slab from Sprouts and cut it up to fill required quantity
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup grated beets uncooked
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter
- 1/4 cup butter softened/room temperature
Instructions
- Add the ground oats, baking powder, tapioca flour, cocoa, cane sugar, and salt to a bowl and mix well.
- Into this bowl, add the eggs, the softened butter, and vanilla and mix well
- Add 1 cup of milk chocolate into a microwave safe bowl and microwave on 30 second intervals - taking out and stirring between them - till melted (it took me 2 x 30 second intervals)
- Do the same with 1/2 cup of the white chocolate
- Add the melted white chocolate and the melted milk chocolate into the oat mix and stir
- Add in the beets, peanut butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips and stir well
- Chill dough in fridge for at least 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Roll beet/oat/chocolate dough into balls and place on parchment lined baking tray
- Bake for 12 minutes and let cool
- When cool, melt the remaining 1/2 cup of milk chocolate and the remaining 1/2 cup of white chocolate and drizzle the cookies with these
- Enjoy
You are SO RIGHT!!! Woohoo on finding your baking mojo again! It’s the worst when you’ve lost your vibe in the kitchen… but I gotta say, you’ve definitely got it back, my friend! Love the sound of all the chocolate (triple is SO much better than double) and beets in these cookies! What a delicious and creative combo! Now, when are you coming over with a nice big batch? 😉 Can’t wait to see what else you release for the holidays! Happy almost weekend, Shashi! xo
Oh man, why don’t we have a Sprouts near us?? I’d be all over that bulk bin sale! I actually keep most of my baking supplies in bulk bins here at home…so it would work perfectly. Anyways, I think these cookies totally qualify as 4x Chocolate Beet Cookies. I count 4 different chocolates in there…so therefore it works. 🙂 You are a culinary genius with the way you work the beets into all sorts of recipes, Shashi! Laura likes to roast beets, but I think I just need to steal her beets and try baking with them. Because the thought of some beet cookies + coffee sounds amazing to me right now!
Oh, girl, I’ve certainly my share of kitchen fails. It’s so disappointing when that happens, but I guess that’s how we learn, right? Positive thinking! Though, there have been times when I felt like throwing it straight out the door, lol 😀 This is especially true for me with gluten free baking….we definitely don’t get along!
We don’t have a Sprouts around here, but if we did I would totally be going there and checking them out. I love grocery shopping. Some people don’t it, but it’s one of my favourite things to do. Weird, right?
Now, these gorgeous beauties!! This recipe is the PERFECT excuse to eat cookies for breakfast! Because there’s beets in there we will just forget the fact that it has all that chocolate 😉 I’ve never had beets in cookie form before, so I have to give these a try. I’ll take a baker’s dozen, please 🙂
These are such a stunning color, and we absolutely LOVED these cookies! Thank you SO MUCH for sending them my way and spreading the good cheer this holiday season. Nothing like a gorgeous naturally red cookie!
What a fun way to sneak some veggies in!
Heck these cookies have beets/veggies in them they are practically diet food. LOL I seen the title to your recipe and I knew right away you had your baking mojo back again. I have eaten cookies for lunch for the last four days so having them for breakfast is completely normal in my book. Sharing, of course!
I am drooling over these cookies! I love the addition of beets in these! Such a great idea!
I really feel like I’m missing out by not baking with beets!
I really need to bake more often with beets! I always just roast them .. so boring! 🙂 haha ANYWAY. I’ll take a few of these cookies please! They sound awesome!
I love the contrast of all the chocolates on this cookie. I hope someone brings them to my cookie exchange.
OK. Another first for me- beets baked in cookies. The recipe sounds quite delicious and they look beautiful!
I’m so intrigued by these cookies! I’ve never liked beets but am thinking that some chocolate, oats and a cookie recipe would turn them into something magical. Nice color too!
Wow, I can’t even tell you how fabulous these sound…I’m a beet lover, but I’ve always hesitated to bake with them, thanks for the inspiration!!
Absolutely lovely! They are so healthy that I can even enjoy them as the breakfast, Shashi.
I saw the title of this post and said OHHHHH! That is fun I love this idea combo!
You are definitely the beet queen! LOVE what you do with the little fellas. These cookies look exquisite — really good recipe. Thanks!