Chocolate, cashew & date cookies
Who would have thought you could get soft, tasty and satisfying cookies with no eggs or butter in them? By simply using a lot of but butter and good quality chocolate, you can obtain wonderful results! I went for cashew butter, which has a more neutral taste (than peanut or hazelnut butter for example), raw cashews, chocolate chips and pieces of dates. You can experiment by using raisins/cranberries instead of dates, raw/roasted nuts such as walnuts, almonds, pecans, macadamias, peanuts instead of cashews, etc.
Recipe inspired from La Cuisine de Bernard.
Ingredients
- 280g white flour
- 5g baking powder
- 180g brown sugar
- 125g good quality dark chocolate
- 30g neutral oil (e.g. canola, sunflower)
- 90g water
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 180g cashew butter
- 80g raw cashews, chopped small
- 80g chocolate chips
- 100g dates (deglet nour work best)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together flour + baking powder.
- Melt chocolate with oil in a bain-marie (double boiler)
- Add sugar, water and vanilla.
- Add cashew butter and mix well.
- Add the wet to the dry ingredients and mix well together.
- Add the chopped dates, cashews and chocolate chips and mix again.
- Take ~50g balls of dough and flatten them on a baking paper.
- Bake at 170°C for ~15 min (do not overcook! Those cookies are best soft and chewy).
- Take them out of the oven and let them cool down before handling them.