Gluten free lactation cookies
These gluten-free lactation cookies are mouth watering and delicious. I have adapted one of my favourite double chocolate cookie recipes into a lactation friendly version. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do.
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 Electric mixer
- 1 Measuring Cup
- 1 Wooden spoon
- 1 Baking paper
- 1 Baking tray
Ingredients
- 125 grams Butter
- 2/3 cup Coconut sugar
- 1/4 cup Cacao powder
- 1/4 cup Desiccated coconut
- 1/3 cup Almond flour
- 2/3 cup Gluten free flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 Egg
- 250 grams Dark chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Prepare a tray with baking paper.
- Cream sugar and butter together with electric beaters.
- Add eggs to sugar and butter and use electric beaters to mix.
- Add flours, baking powder, cacao powder and coconut and mix through with electric beaters for 15 seconds.
- Stir in dark chocolate with wooden spoon.
- Use a spoon or your hand to roll dough into small balls and place on baking paper about 2-3cm apart on baking tray.
- Bake for 12 minutes and serve cooled.
Notes
- Ensure the butter is softened to blend well with the sugar.
- I love using coconut sugar, but you can also use another type of brown sugar or rapadura sugar. The amount needed may differ. If you want to use brown sugar, I would reduce the amount needed for the recipe by about 1/8 cup.
- The original recipe had tapioca and coconut flour in it, rather than gluten free and almond flour. You can always swap the flours around, depending on preference. I love using almond flour, as it makes the cookies moist.
- Since my girls are allergic to eggs, if I were to make this recipe for them, I would swap the egg for 1/4 cup greek yoghurt and 1/2 tsp more of baking powder.
- You can always use chocolate chips for this recipe, but I find that using chocolate chunks make it more flavoursome.
- The cookies come out nice and soft. If you prefer harder cookies, you can always refrigerate the batter for 2 or more hours to make the dough harder.
- This recipe yields about 16 cookies. You could roll the dough into smaller balls and make more if you so desire.