More Baking - trying healthier options...

This first recipe comes from Niamh of Fairyland Cottage. It is for Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies. Her recipes is Vegan, mine not entirely so. You can find her version here.

Ingredients: 

3/4 cup buckwheat/wholemeal flour,

1/4 cup raw cacao/cocoa,

1/2 tsp baking soda/bicarbonate of soda,

pinch sea salt

2/3 cup coconut sugar,

1/4 cup coconut oil,

1 tsp vanilla extract,

1/3 cup almond milk/any milk,

2 tbsp molasses, black treacle/maple syrup,

1/2 cup cranberries or other dried fruit,

1/2 cup chopped 90% cacao/or good quality chocolate. I used fruit and nut.

Mix together the flour, cacao, bicarb and salt. Stir in the coconut sugar, chopped chocolate and dried fruit. Carefully melt the coconut oil, vanilla extract and molasses etc together. Pour into the dry mix, mix well, adding the milk as you go.

Now, using cocoa, which absorbs differently to cacoa, I found the mix a little sticky so added another tablespoon of buckwheat flour.

Roll into balls, place on the lined baking tray, flatten slightly and bake at 180C for 10 minutes. Again, using cocoa, I found I needed to bake for between 12 and 14 minutes.

Leave them on the tray, on a cold surface such as the draining board, until cold. Put them into a tin.

Oven: 180c for 10 minutes

Here are mine:

These will be a once a day indulgence with our afternoon cup of tea.