Chickpea Flour Cacao Nib Cookies

Besides spelt, buckwheat and quinoa flour, this higher-in-protein garbanzo bean/chickpea flour (1/4 cup is about 7g protein) is also one of the alternative "flour-bases" I have recently used in these healthy muffins and bakes.

I actually prefer baking muffins to cookies, because one or two muffins can fill me up as post workout-snacks (two cookies can't! ).

Muffins another day, let us make Chickpea Cookies today.



Professional and expert bakers are precise and particular about taste and textures of cookies but I am no professional or expert. The main purpose of me making cookies (muffins and other bakes alike) is just to satisfy uncalled-for cravings. Thus, texture becomes of secondary importance (note that baking soda, baking powder or any other kind of raising agents are usually omitted in my recipes - that is why my muffins are never going to rise and fluff up as beautifully as store-bought; BUT that is what I prefer). Besides, I have no preference for soft-chewy cookies vs crunchy-crisp cookies, as long as the cookies taste good.

If you follow my muffins and bakes, notice that the baking ingredients and process are always kept simple, basic and (hopefully) healthy. For example, coconut oil is used instead of butter; banana is used in place of sugar as natural "sweetener".


Chickpea Flour Cacao Nib Cookies
makes about 8 thin cookies

Ingredients:
3/4 cups chickpea flour  (Bob's Red Mill); 1/4cup ~ 7 g protein 
1-2 tbsp water, adjust accordingly (Note: 1tbsp first when mixing, add more as required, to form desired dough)
1 tbsp flax + 3 tbsp water (as egg replacement)
2 tsp coconut oil
1/4 cup soaked raisins
2 tsp cacao nibs (Navitas Organics) or chocolate chips

Directions: Mix all the ingredients and form a cookie dough. Preheat oven 350F.  Form round balls of about 1.5 inch diameter from the dough and place them on baking parchment. Then press the balls flat into thin round cookies. Bake cookies 350F for about 25-30 mins, till cookie edges start to crisp and turn golden brown.

Tag: chickpea cookies, garbanzo bean cookies

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