Yum! These golden, flavorful cookies disappeared in seconds in my house! A plant-powered spinoff from the classic White Choc Macadamia cookie, my cookie recipe is modest in sugar, and packed with the power of chia, flax, coconut, and almond flour!
Ingredients:
1 ½ tablespoons chia seeds
½ tablespoon flax seed, ground
¼ cup plant-based milk (i.e. soy, coconut, almond)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup dairy-free margarine
2/3 cup light brown sugar or coconut palm sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt (optional)
1 ½ cups flour (may substitute white whole wheat flour or gluten-free flour blend)
½ cup almond meal flour
½ cup chopped macadamia nuts
½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1 cup dairy-free white chocolate chips or broken dairy-free white chocolate (available at natural food stores or online)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Mix together chia, flax and milk in a bowl with an electric mixer (or mix vigorously with a wire whisk) for 2 minutes.
3. Mix in vanilla, margarine and sugar until smooth and creamy.
4. Mix in baking powder, soda, salt, and flours only until smooth.
5. Stir in macadamia nuts, coconut, and white chocolate chips.
6. Scoop heaping spoonfuls of dough onto baking sheets.
7. Bake for about 25 minutes, until golden brown.
Makes 2 dozen cookies
Images by Sharon Palmer
About the author: Sharon Palmer, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian™, is an award-winning food and nutrition expert, journalist, and editor. She is author of The Plant-Powered Diet: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Health, Beginning Today (The Experiment, 2012) and Plant-Powered for Life: Eat Your Way to Lasting Health with 52 Simple Steps & 125 Delicious Recipes (The Experiment, 2014). Sharon also is editor of Environmental Nutrition, nutrition editor of Today’s Dietitian, blogger for The Plant-Powered Blog, and publisher of her monthly The Plant-Powered Newsletter. Living in the chaparral hills overlooking Los Angeles with her husband and two sons, Sharon enjoys visiting her local farmers market, gardening, and cooking for friends and family.
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