Flourless chocolate-walnut cookies
Ingredients
- 2-1/2 cups walnuts halves (280 g)
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder unsweetened (60 g)
- 3/4 cup agave syrup
- 1/4 tsp sea salt (omit for low-sodium diets)
- 4 tbsp flax seeds (ground)
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F/180C/gas mark 4.
- Cut parchment paper
to fit two cookie sheets.
- Grind flax seeds in the blender to a fine meal and add to your mixing bowl.
- Add the agave syrup and stir.
- Working ½ C. at a time, add the walnuts and some of the cocoa powder to a blender or food processor. Pulse until you have a fine meal, then add to the mixing bowl. Put the last ½ C. of walnuts in a heavy-duty plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the mixing bowl, and mix until all is incorporated.
- Using a 1 T. measure, place on a cookie sheet, with about 2 inches between them. Take a piece of waxed paper and flatten each round. These will only spread a little.Bake for 12 minutes.
- Set the cookie sheet on a wire rack
and let cool completely before moving with a thin metal spatula
.
- Store in an airtight container up to a week.
Notes
Per cookie:
- 106 calories
- 7 g fat
- 1 g saturated fat
- 0 g monounsaturated fat
- 0 g polyunsaturated fat
- 0 g trans fat
- 0 g cholesterol
- 24 mg sodium (1 mg sodium with salt omitted)
- 104 mg potassium
- 10 g carbohydrate
- 2 g fiber
- 7 g sugars
- 2 g protein
- 3 Weight Watchers Points Plus