Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
(from fearama’s recipe box)
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Serves 25 people
Categories: Dessert, Gluten-Free
Ingredients
- 1 cup GF buckwheat or brown rice flour
- 1/2 cup white rice flour
- 1/2 cup sorghum flour
- 1/2 cup tapioca starch
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup organic white sugar
- 3/4 cup organic light brown sugar
- Whisk dry ingredients together in a bowl.
- In a separate bowl combine:
- 2/3 to 3/4 cup Spectrum Naturals Organic Shortening
- 2 tablespoons molasses or raw agave nectar
- 7 to 10 tablespoons chocolate hemp milk or rice milk, as needed
- 1 teaspoon bourbon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon organic peppermint extract
- 1 tablespoon Ener-G Egg Replacer for 2 eggs, whisked with 1/4 cup warm water (or 2 free-range organic eggs, beaten)
Directions
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Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir well to combine. The dough should be sturdy, not too sticky.
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If the dough is too stiff, add chocolate soy, hemp or rice milk one tablespoon at a time to soften. If by chance the dough is too wet, add a tablespoon of rice flour, as needed, until it sets up better.
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Add a heaping 1/2 cup dairy-free chocolate chips.
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Stir to combine and form the dough into a mound. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and chill for one hour. Go Twitter.
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Preheat oven to 350ºF. Get your baking sheets ready. I like to use parchment or a silicone mat liner.
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Form the dough into 24 balls and place them on baking sheets 2-3 inches apart. Press down on the balls VERY slightly.
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Bake for about 15 to 18 minutes until the cookies are firm to a light touch, and cracked a bit. Bake less, for smaller or thinner cookies, of course. The cookies will yield to touch but not be sloppy-soft.
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Cool a few minutes before using a thin spatula to remove them from the baking pan to cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
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Wrap by twos in foil, bag, and freeze.
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Yields about 24-30 cookies.