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- Course: Dessert
- Skill Level: Moderate
- Cost: Moderate
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Can be made ahead of time.
Raw Chocolate Chip Cookies
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It is sometimes best to make these in large batches. By the time they are fully dehydrated, someone may have already eaten most of them! One of the great challenges in preparing raw foods is the search to replace some very popular foods. Chocolate chips are one such example. Fortunately, a very talented chef I have worked with, Kristen Reyes, discovered this method.
Yield :
22-24
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
- 2½ cups fine cashew flour
- 1¾ cups oat flour
- ½ cup raw cacao powder
- ¼ cup water
- ¾ cup maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1½ teaspoons sea salt
- 1 cup + a few extra Raw Chocolate Chips (see following recipe)
For the Raw Chocolate Chips (makes 2 cups):
- 1¾ cups cashews, soaked 1-2 hours
- 1 cup maple syrup
- 1 cup raw cacao powder
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
Directions
To Make the Chocolate Chips:
Place all ingredients in Vita-Mix and blend until smooth. Place in piping bag and pipe chocolate chips onto Teflex sheet. Dehydrate overnight at 118 degrees. Keep in refrigerator in a sealed container until ready to use.
To Make the Cookies:
Mix all ingredients except chocolate chips in a medium-sized bowl by hand. Stir in 1 cup chocolate chips. Form into 3-inch cookies and press a few extra chocolate chips into the top of each cookie. Dehydrate (see Notes) on screens overnight at 118 degrees.
Notes
Much is said about the dehydrator in this and other raw food cookbooks. You can certainly live without it: use an oven at the lowest setting with its door propped open, or go back to nature and lay your foods in the sun. But the truth is, dehydrators are inexpensive and easy to use, and fulfill a very important role in creative raw food recipes. Excalibur seems to be the most common and most useful at the moment.
© 2008 Matthew Kenney
Note from Cookstr's Editors
Nutritional information is based on 24 servings.
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving (% daily value)
177kcal (9%)
97mg (4%)
24g
2g
8g (13%)
0g
2g (8%)
4g
2g
0mg (0%)
11g
5g
79mg
227mg
0mcg RAE (0%)
0mg (0%)
27mg (3%)
2mg (12%)
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