Matcha chocolate chip cookies

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Matcha chocolate chip cookies made with almond flour

Prep time: 10 minute
Cook time: 25 minute
Serves: 10-14 cookies

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• 1 and 3/4 cup of almond flour

• 1/2 cup of arrowroot flour

• 1/2 tsp of baking powder

• 1/2 tsp of baking soda

• 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips (1/2 cup if you prefer sweeter. We typically use 1/4 of a cup)

• 2 scoops of Matcha collagen keto latte or 2.5 tbsp of matcha powder

Wet Ingredients:

• 1/8 cup of coconut oil (use 1/4 cup if you like the cookie to be less crispy)

• 1 egg

• 2 tsp apple cider vinegar / rice vinegar

• 1 tbsp of maple syrup

Cooking Tools:

• Baking sheet

• Oven

Directions :

1. Preheat the oven to 325F.

2. Mix all the dry ingredients together. Then mix all the wet ingredients together.

3. Combine the dry and wet ingredients and mix them together by hand.

4. Form into 10-12 cookie balls.

5. Bake at 325F for 13 minutes.

Cooking Tip:

• You can replace a portion of the almond flour with other flours such as buckwheat for a different nutritional profile.

Stay healthy with Annie:

Use mini chocolate chips if you want to reduce the sugar (by using 1/4 of a cup of chips) but still get plenty of sweet bits in every bite. We do this for ourselves, and also for our friends who wanted to reduce the amount of sugar given to their kids.

Nutritious and Delicious:

Hard to imagine a dessert having health benefits, but I think this one manages to strike a good balance!

The original recipe for the chocolate chip cookie was a labor of love from my husband who, after my celiac diagnosis and me being told to cut sugar and eliminate refined sugars from my diet, came up with this recipe to feed my sweet tooth while still keeping me healthy.

With 1/4 cup of semisweet chocolate chips, each cookie is about 2-2.5 grams of sugar, each. Which means if I accidentally ate all the cookies in one sitting, I’m still within the daily recommended limit for refined sugars. (Thankfully we share, so I never eat all the cookies by myself in one sitting - just half lol)

Using almond flour also provide fiber to slow the sugar absorption from our body, so it doesn’t spike our blood sugar all at once while providing antioxidant Vitamin E. Matcha also provides an additional dose of antioxidants and by using the matcha collagen powder, helps maintain healthy skin, hair, and joints.