Hazelnut Meal Cookies

These Hazelnut Meal Cookies with chia and cocao nibs are refined sugar free, dairy free and each one is 6 grams of protein.

Course Snack

Cuisine Australian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings cookies

Calories 248kcal

Author Kim

7 large Medjool Dates seeds removed
2 cups Hazelnut meal
1 ½ cups Spelt Flour
½ cup Cacao nibs
½ cup Chia Seeds
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt
2 teaspoon Vanilla Bean extract
1 medium Egg
¼ cup Water
1 tablespoon Granulated sweetener, that measures like sugar [I use stevia] (See note 1)
¼ cup Coconut oil melted

Soak the dates in boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain the excess water.
Make a date paste: Blitz dates in your food processor to make a paste. (If you don’t have a food processor, see note 2)
Add the dry ingredients, followed by the wet ingredients to the food processor. Blitz for a couple minutes until all combined. You might need to stop and start it a few times and get a spoon into the mixture to loosen it up so that it mixes everything together evenly.
Once mixture has come together into a cookie dough, remove from food processor into a new clean bowl.
Prepare cookie trays/sheets by lining with baking paper or silicone baking mats.
Spoon out the cookie dough with a dessert spoon and roll between your hands to form a golf ball sized ball. (Note if your hands get sticky, wash and dry thoroughly, then star rolling again)
Once all the dough has been rolled, you should have about 20 balls.
Use the back of a fork to gently press down to flatten slightly. If, after a couple, the fork begins to stick to the dough, wash it under water to remove excess dough and dry the fork and begin pressing down the balls again.
Once all balls have been pressed, bake in a fan oven at 160 degrees C /325 degrees F for 18 minutes
Let cookies cool in the baking tray once you remove them from the oven. Once cooled, place on a wire rack to come to room temperature.
Store cookies in an air tight container at room temperature for 3 to 4 days.

Date paste without a food processor. Use a mortar and pestle if you have one, or soak the dates for extra time in the hot water, drain, and mash with a fork.
The cookie dough can be made in a large mixing bowl with spoon if you don’t have a food processor. It will just take a little longer to mix all the ingredients together and of course it will be more work.
Using 1 tablespoon of granulated sweetener that measures like sugar creates a good level of sweetness for my palette ie: not too sweet. If you generally like your cookies a little on the sweeter side, add an extra tablespoon of granulated sweetener.