Black and White Cookies
Today was a big day --I taught the first in a series of cooking classes that I will be offering quarterly.
The theme of this class was Valentine's Day --we made the Cranberry Apricot Truffles that I have previously posted on this site, a new experimental flavor of truffles (to be revealed someday soon) and the black and white cookie recipe below, of course using heart cookie cutters, given our theme.
The class was held in the spiffy little commercial kitchen at my children's school in Boulder. It seemed as though fun and learning were had by all, as well as too much taste testing. We had to sample everything many times to try out all of the different versions and all were stuffed by the end. Alas, my poor taste testers.
2 ½ cups blanched almond flour
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
¼ cup agave nectar
½ cup grapeseed oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup dark chocolate chips 73% cacao
- In a large bowl, combine almond flour and salt
- In a smaller bowl, combine grapeseed oil, agave and vanilla
- Stir wet ingredients into dry
- Chill dough in freezer for 30 minutes
- Between 2 pieces of parchment paper
, roll out dough 1/4 to 1/8 inch thick
- Using a 2 inch cookie cutter or the top of a 2 inch wide jelly jar, cut out cookies
- Bake at 350° on a parchment
- Cool for ½ hour
- In a small saucepan, melt chocolate over very low heat, stirring continuously
- Remove saucepan from heat and one by one, dip cookies into chocolate
- Set cookies to cool on a parchment
- Serve
These vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free cookies are simple to make and super fun for children to roll out and cut into different shapes. The chocolate dipping part of the recipe is also a captivating activity for the little ones.
Posted on February 9, 2008 in desserts by Elana
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Elana, thank you for a wonderful cooking class today. My husband said that the truffles we made in class are the best he ever had !
Anina-
I'm so glad that you were at the class! It was great to finally get to meet you in person after all of our correspondence.
Thanks for all of your great ideas! I made the heart cookies with rasberry jam last night and they were delicious.
Elana
Hi Elana, I love the cookies and crackers we made. I've ordered almond flour. I made the cookies and crackers again, but neither recipe has baking soda listed and my body remembers putting baking soda in the cookies, or at least one of the recipes. When I made them, they didn't seem to be like we made them quite. Baking soda? How much? In the crackers too?
Cedar
Hi Cedar,
I double checked and there is no baking soda in either of these recipes. Maybe it's the oven temp --I would buy an oven thermometer at Peppercorn or McGuckins, they aren't that expensive and are worth the investment. Glad to hear that you are baking these days!
Elana
these look so adorable! i've never baked with any of those ingredients but when I get my next paycheck, I'm heading out to the whole foods and buying them so I can try these babies out
My son has been Dx with Rosacea. I am attempting to find foods for him. Any thing you can help me with will be great. I live in Arvada and would love to come to a cooking class. I work as a nurse so my schedule is weeks in advance. Please let me know when the next class is so I and my son can attend. Thanks Michelle Ellis 303-437-5629
Elana,
Just found your website, and recipes look great. I too have lots of foods allergies (gluten, soy, tomatoes, carrots, preservatives, etc.) and have to make everything from scratch.
I noticed that you use a lot of almond flour in your baked goods. As almond flour is very expensive, can you experiment/recommend substitutions (or combinations of almond with other gluten-free flours) that are more cost-effective?
Thank you.
Suzanne -- I use almond flour and coconut flour for my recipes as they are highly nutritious and also easy to work with.
For more information please see my FAQ's.
I love your website! I have not baked with almond flour yet, but am excited to try out your recipe for black and white cookies. I've been searching for great gf cookie recipes for my annual holiday cookie exchange -yep, I'm already thinking about the holidays.
Pauline,
Glad you found us. I'm thinking about the holidays too and lots of fun fall/winter baking projects.
Thanks for stopping by!
Elana
These are so wonderful! You don't feel like you are missing a thing even though they are gluten-free. THANK YOU!!!!
Jennifer,
Thank you so much for your sweet comment. I really appreciate it and am glad you are enjoying the cookies.
Elana
Hi Elana,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and recipes. I looked at several and the only thing for me that is holding me back from trying some of them is the almond flour. My daughter (3 1/2) is severely allergic to nuts, peanuts, eggs, oats, wheat, milk. She, however, loves cookies and I would love to make some of your black and white for her. Is there an ideal substitution for the almond that I can use that will have similar results?
Thanks again. Be well
Miriam
Hiya,
I am looking for a gluten & refined sugar free cookie recipe that can be rolled out and cut with cookie cutters for x-mas. Would this recipe work? Also, can agave nectar be used to make a basic cookie frosting (like the basic powered sugar and milk)?
Can I substitue Stevia for agave? How do I do it?
Thanks.
There's a great discussion started over at the forums on this very topic :-)
http://www.elanaspantry.com/forums/topic/substitute-stevia-for-agave-nectar
just made these, just ate 3 even though the chocolate hasn't yet hardened...
They are awesome! They almost taste buttery, and the texture is perfect =)
You are a very talented woman, thank you for sharing your recipes with us for free!
hugs,
Melissa
I made the chocolate bark for friends last night. I substituted whole almonds for the pecans - they were unbelievable! like I imagine crack to be!! They loved it - I had to send some home with them or I would have eaten it all by midnight!
Thanks Elana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!