ALL TIME FAVOURITE SUNFLOWER SEED COOKIES

In the mood for cookies?

Good. I have some here for you. Coincidence? I think not. Do you want these cookies to be delicious and nutritious? Even better. The final question: are you into crunchy sunflower seeds and dark chocolate? Well, that’s perfect because we found the recipe for you! These sunflower seed cookies are high up on my favourite-baked-goodie list (I really do have such a list) and you will soon understand why. They are vegan thanks to the flax-egg and also glutenfree due to the almond flour. I LOVE these cookies so much that I bake them all the time and I can never get enough. Taste for yourselves and I predict that once you’re chewing this cookietastic goodness, you will put them on that list too!

Servings: 12 - 14 cookies 

Total time: 30 min

For the cookies

Ingredients

1 cup sunflower seeds

⅓ cup maple syrup or honey

⅓ cup almond flour (coconut flour works too)

¼ cup coconut oil, melted

1 flax egg (1 tbsp flax seeds and 2 tbsp water)

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

add ins

½ cup 85% dark chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C on fan mode and line a baking tray with baking paper. 

2. In a small pan, heat the coconut oil just until it is melting. 

3. Take a blender or food processor and blend the flaxseeds together with the water on high.

4. Add the sunflower seeds, raw honey, coconut oil, almond flour, baking soda and cinnamon and blend for a few seconds, until all ingredients are well combined. You are looking for a still chunky texture and do not want the batter to turn ultra smooth – roughly broken up sunflower seed cookies are key to success!

5. Lastly, gently stir in the dark chocolate chips until all is well-combined. 

6. With a spoon, place the batter on the baking tray one cookie at a time. One heaped tablespoon makes one cookie, folks! There is no need to make their shapes look cookie-perfect, they can be a little uneven.

7. Put these little fellas in the oven and bake them for 10-12 minutes or until they turn golden brown, the chocolate has melted and they look so tempting that you cannot possibly wait any longer! Bon Appétit, cookie fanatics.