Chocolate Cookies with Hazelnuts

Chocolate Cookies with crispy pieces of hazelnuts and taste of chocolate will be a great snack for any occasion. These Chocolate Cookies with Hazelnuts are much healthier, because they are lactose-free, white refined sugar-free, and wheat flour-free. Enjoy them still warm from the oven with your afternoon tea or coffee.

Cookies are such a popular and easy sweet snack, consisting of the ingredients you almost always have at home. 5 ingredients and 30 minutes of your time and you will have healthy, delicious, and soft Chocolate Cookies with crispy hazelnut pieces.

These delicious cookies are:

• Lactose-free
• Chocolatey
• Dairy-free
• Chocolatey
• Nutty
• Crispy
• Refined white sugar-free

Tips for making these cookies:

• To combine the dough use your hands – knead, press, and combine it well.
• However, if the dough seems too sticky or dry, add a little more flour or plant-based milk or melted coconut oil.
• Sprinkle your hands with flour to avoid the dough sticking to your palms while making round cookie balls.
• You can decorate cookies with hazelnut pieces, seeds, berries, or chocolate chips.

Check out these other cookie recipes:

• EASY AND HEALTHY COCONUT COOKIES (MACAROONS)
• VEGAN CRUNCHY COOKIES WITH CHOCOLATE
• RASPBERRY SANDWICH COOKIES WITH CHOCOLATE
• ALMOND COOKIES (SUGAR-FREE AND VEGAN)

TIME: 15 minutes preparing, 15 minutes baking | SERVINGS: 15

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 50g cocoa
• 190g mixed oat and rice flour (you can use only oat flour as well)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 40g melted coconut oil
• 100g coconut sugar
• 60g chopped hazelnuts

Ingredients:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C degrees and line a baking paper over the pan.
2. Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl – flour, cocoa, baking powder.
3. In a separate bowl add eggs, melted coconut oil, and sugar. I used a hand mixer to combine well, you can also use a spoon as well.
4. Add the wet ingredients and stir slowly. You can use your hands to better combine, mix until you get a thick dough. If the dough seems too sticky or dry, add a little more flour or coconut oil, plant based milk or water.
5. Mix chopped hazelnuts into the dough.
6. Sprinkle your hands with flour to avoid the dough sticking to your palms and make round balls.
7. Place the cookie balls on the prepared baking pan lined with baking paper.
8. Take a fork and a glass of water, fold the fork into the water and gently press the balls. You can also do it with the palm of your hand.
9. Bake the cookies for 12 – 15 minutes at 180C.

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