Wholewheat Chocolate Chip Cookie Hearts – wholegrain, no refined sugar, one bowl and super simple. Quite delicious too. ♥ cookies? Then these are for you! Chocolate on V Day does make things special, throw in a heart or two, and you have super yum cookie hearts!
This was more an idea than a recipe to begin with. If you have a favourite cookie recipe, bake it into hearts like this, top the hot cookies with chocolate, then scatter over some cocoa nibs. Maybe pipe a lattice heart with melted chocolate to add some magic!
There’s not much more than a bowl and a whisk you need for this recipe. I just used the stand mixer since I was making some dough for flatbreads, else it would have been a quick mix of dry ingredients, then everything added to the bowl and mixed.
If you’d like to use my recipe, it’s below. The , is wholegrain with no refined sugar, and quite yum! You could swap the chia seed egg with an egg if you like, add more chocolate chips, perhaps some nuts too. If you don’t have dessert molds like these, perhaps bake this as a tray bake and stamp hearts out with cookie cutters? Do the stamping while the bake is still warm to get neat edges, else you might get crumbs!
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Wholewheat Chocolate Chip Cookie Hearts
Equipment
- Stand Mixer or Large bowl and whisk
- Oven
- Heart molds
Ingredients
- 150 g wholewheat flour aata
- 100 g brown sugar
- 1 tbsp instant coffee
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 85 g clarified butter/ghee room temperature
- 1 chia seed egg {1 tbsp chia seeds + 3 tbsp water} {OR 1 egg}
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 50 g dark chocolate chips
- 1 tbsp thick yogurt {if required}
To top
- 25 g dark chocolate chips for topping
- 2 tbsp Cocoa nibs to scatter on top
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160C. Line a cookie sheet with parchment.
- Place the first 5 ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer {or a large bowl} and stir to mix on low speed.
- Add the remaining ingredients, except yogurt, and stir until a cookie dough comes together. Add the yogurt of the dough looks slightly dry.
- Push into heart shaped molds and bake for 20-25 minutes until firm.
- Immediately top hot baked hearts with chocolate chips, leave for 5 minutes until melted, then spread them over the top.
- Scatter over with cocoa nibs, and allow to cool completely.