Chocolate Orange Cookies
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Recipe type: Cookies, Snacks, Dessert, Gluten Free, Vegan Option
Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups nuts of choice (I used almonds and pecans)
  • 1 cup Medjool dates, about 12
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1 egg or flax egg
  • 3 tbsp cocoa powder
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • 1½ tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice
  • Chocolate chips and/or baking melts, optional
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with a silicon baking mat or parchment paper.
  2. In your food processor, add in nuts and pulse until it resembles a coarse meal.
  3. Add in baking soda and pulse 1-2 more times.
  4. Add in dates, vanilla, egg, cocoa powder, orange zest, and orange juice. Pulse until a cookie dough forms.
  5. Stir in chocolate chips if desired.
  6. Using a cookie scoop, scoop cookies onto lined baking tray. Add on dark chocolate baking melts on top of each cookie, if desired.
  7. Bake for 12 minutes.
Recipe by Radiant Rachels at https://radiantrachels.com/gluten-free-chocolate-orange-cookies/