January 2, 2011: Half-Baked Choc-Chip Cookies

first campaign at tortillas was fraught but ultimately successful.  Thanks to unopen to twitter tips as well as encouragement I felt game to invite v friends over for a dejeuner of soft tacos.  This fourth dimension I tried using a tortilla press, on loan from tortilla veteran cashew crack.

For dessert I'd been planning simply to offering fresh pineapple as well as kokosnoot H2O ice cream.  Michael was non impressed yesteryear the local pineapple stocks that morning time therefore nosotros gave them a girlfriend as well as almost cancelled dessert.  But what amongst me ever having a few recipe ideas stashed inward the dorsum of my mind, I sorted out a quick as well as slowly option earlier Michael had fifty-fifty returned from the shops.  We tried the master entirely-raw version of these cookies at a Tex Mex-themed potluck a brace of years ago.  photographed the recipe, which I went on to bookmark for time to come use.  

On this twenty-four hours I made a few substitutions to ensure these cookies were vegan, gluten-free, as well as used only ingredients I had inward my pantry.  This rendered them less raw but no less tasty.  I used to a greater extent than peanut butter as well as tahini than was sensible (perhaps I misread teaspoon for tablespoon?) therefore the mixture was a combat sloppy.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 half-hour inward the refrigerator earlier rolling, as well as and then to a greater extent than refrigerator storage later on sorted that out.  As a number they were immensely rich, amongst a fudgy texture as well as pleasing compaction from the cocoa nibs.

Half-baked choc-chip cookies
(adapted from a recipe shared yesteryear a variety stranger, photographed here)

1 loving cup macadamias
1 1/2 cups shredded kokosnoot
1/2 loving cup buckwheat flour
12 dates
1/2 teaspoon body of body of water salt
iii 1/2 tablespoons agave nectar
1 1/2 tablespoons tahini
two tablespoons peanut butter
1/3 loving cup cocoa nibs

In a nutrient processor, grind the macadamias, kokosnoot as well as buckwheat flour to a coarse powder. Add the dates as well as procedure in 1 trial to a greater extent than until they're evenly distributed throughout the mixture.  Next inward goes the salt, agave, tahini as well as peanut butter for to a greater extent than processing; y'all should straightaway accept a really moist dough.  Add the cocoa nibs as well as procedure really briefly, simply plenty to mix the nibs through.

Transfer the mixture to a bowl as well as refrigerate it for at to the lowest degree one-half an hr to draw of piece of job solid up.  Take near 2-3 teaspoons of dough at a fourth dimension as well as ringlet it into a ball, placing the balls on a tray.  Store the balls inward the refrigerator until serving time.