So I came to the realization that, I now have my own food blog, and a gazillion recipes of meals I’ve created, but I don’t really have any baking recipes that I’ve 100 % created myself. When I worked in restaurants, I never really had the chance to bake, as there was always a dedicated baker or pâtissier. Well, now that I have an audience of sorts (I hope there’s more than just my husband), I figured I’d better devise my own cookie recipe, at the very least. Cookies have to be the easiest form of baking. You can’t really wreck them, and even if they don’t turn out right, you can probably still eat the dough, or make cookie crumb crusts or something of that ilk.
So last night, I decided to tackle chocolate almond cookies, as I’ve so named them, because I have a lot of almond meal from making almond milk, and I need to do something with it. Want not, waste not!
In my “professional” opinion, I do believe that they could be better, but they are still delicious! If anything, I would add a big swirl of peanut butter (or almond butter) to the the batter before making the balls, and they would taste just like Reese’s Peanut butter cups. I will update this post later, after I’ve tried batch #2. But, so far, here is the recipe:
My first cookie recipe!
Chocolate Almond Cookies, Take 1!
3/4 cup Butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup almond meal
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1. Cream sugar and butter in medium sized bowl. Add egg and vanilla, beat well.
2. Stir in Almond meal and flour, mix well. Add Cocoa powder, salt and baking powder.
3. Roll dough into 1 1/2″ sized balls and flatten out on greased or parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Space 3 inches apart.
4. Bake in 325°F oven for 15 minutes. Cool completely before eating.
These look so pretty and delicious!
Chocolate and almonds = 2 of my favorite things! These look great!
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Thanks! I made my own almond meal and wanted a great cookie recipe to try with it. I added cinnamon for an extra zip and they turned out awesome! What a great addition to my Christmas baking supply
Sounds great! Thanks for the feedback Parul!
Thank you for the recipe Chocolate Almond Cookies. This is the latest dish menu for me.
The cookies look great. Thanks for the recipe.
I just found your blog through a search for chocolate almond cookies. They are currently in the oven but the mixture sure tastes great as my young daughter can attest to. Now I’mm off to check out all your other recipes!
I hope you love them Nicole, they are one of my faves! Great sweet and salty combo!
Love, love, love your recipe. I tweaked it for my tastes and blogged about it today 🙂
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These are awesome! I made a keto-friendly version of these using stevia in place of the sugar and flax meal in place of the flour. De-lish! Definitely making them again.
I just made these because I was CRAVING CHOCOLATE! I’ve been on a paleo diet for about 2 weeks so I used only almond meal and increased it to 1 1/2 cups. The dough was very soft and since it did not have any wheat flour in it, it did not rise any. But they are delicious little flat cookies that satisfied my craving. And my kids and husband like them too!
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