These delicious chocolate cookies use wholemeal spelt flour for a healthy twist. Spelt is an ancient grain packed with fibre and nutrients, which also adds a nutty flavour to these wonderful refined-sugar free treats
We also use maple syrup instead of regular sugar since it’s less processed and therefore contains more nutrients.
Notes:
- We buy our spelt flour from our local large supermarket but you should also be able to find it in a health food store, too.
- It’s important to make sure that the cookie dough is cool to touch before you add in the chocolate chunks in step 2, otherwise the chocolate will melt.
- You can add other nuts, seeds and dried fruit into the cookie dough mix if you like.
- Once cool, store these cookies in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
Spelt Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 160 g wholemeal spelt flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- salt
- 6 tbsp maple syrup
- 5 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 80 g 70% dark chocolate
- 1 small handful of white sesame seeds
Method
- In a large mixing bowl combine the spelt flour, cinnamon, baking powder and cocoa powder with a pinch of salt.
- Then add the maple syrup, melted coconut oil, olive oil and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients and stir until a cookie dough has formed. Next, roughly chop the chocolate into small pieces and stir two thirds of it into the cookie dough and leave the rest for later.
- Transfer the cookie dough to the fridge to chill for 30 minutes. Towards the end of the 30 minutes, preheat the oven to 180°C fan / 400°F fan and line a large baking tray with baking paper.
- Once the cookie dough has chilled, divide it into 9 and roll each piece into a ball. Next, shape each ball into a cookie shape that’s 5cm (2”) wide and place it on the lined baking tray.
- Using the leftover chocolate, push a few pieces into the top of each cookie. Then sprinkle sesame seeds over all of them and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Once out of the oven, sprinkle the cookies with a pinch of salt.