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Cinnamon Cocoa Cookies

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Cinnamon Cocoa Cookies

This is one of my early cookie recipes. It's based off of one of my early popular grain-free recipes, cinnamon cookies, and they're both egg-free as well. You can easily make it plant-based by using coconut oil or cacao butter instead of butter.

I recommend you use the best cocoa you can find (and afford). Good cocoa makes a recipe makes a recipe and cookie so much better. For a variation, I also add chocolate chips to a few of the cookies. I think shaved chocolate would work well too. I debated about adding more cocoa to the cookies but I didn't want them to taste too bitter. They probably could stand a bit more cocoa though, if you're game. And also top with some finishing salt.

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Cinnamon Cocoa Cookies

Servings: 22 cookies
Calories: 100kcal

Ingredients

  • ½ cup honey or maple syrup
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter or coconut oil or cacao butter
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder unsweetened
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 cups blanched almond flour

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 275℉.
  • Melt the butter.
  • Combine the butter with all the other ingredients in a mixing bowl and blend the ingredients until well combined.
  • With a spoon or your fingers, create balls of dough, about an inch or so in diameter, and place them on a buttered baking sheet (or a baking mat on a baking sheet).
  • Press each cookie to flatten it using either the palm of your hand or the back of a fork or knife.
  • Bake for 15 minutes.
  • Turn the cookies over and lower the temperature of the oven to 175℉.
  • Bake the cookies for another 10 minutes. For a crunchier cookie, leave them in the oven at 175℉ for another 15 minutes or so, or after turning off the oven you can let them sit in there for another few minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 100kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 5mg | Sodium: 19mg | Potassium: 12mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 64IU | Vitamin C: 0.04mg | Calcium: 27mg | Iron: 0.5mg

 

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  1. Krista says

    These are amazing! For some reason, the cinnamon/cocao mix never appealed to me, but your recipes are so wonderful and I was looking for something new so I tried them. So glad I did, they are now my favorite!

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  2. Andrea says

    these are in the oven now! i just bought a bag of honeyville almond flour..i was so excited to bake with it and this seemed like the perfect recipe!

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  3. Simone says

    I can't have almond flour (nuts), can I use buckweat flour or what other flour could I substitute?

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  4. Jill says

    I have to say that I love your blog more than I can tell you. I have made so many of your recipes and I love them all. These cookies are my obsession. I add 1/2 cup of sunflower seed butter and put them in the freezer instead of cooking them. I can't tell you how good they are! Thank you again!

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    • Erica says

      thanks! wow, never thought to do that. Nice change-up to sunflower seed butter.

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  6. Amanda says

    >From the looks of these, these remind me of chocolate chip cookies. How would you make a simple chocolate chip version of these?

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  7. lucy says

    Hi-just had to tell you I made these last night and so surpringly good-they remind me of snickerdoodles. My BF who is Gluten FULL, loved them. Thanks!

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  8. Susan says

    I had the sticky flour problem too and overcame it by refrigerating the dough before making them into balls and pressing them. Dark chocolate cocoa makes these really rich!

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  9. Kasey Ann says

    Just made these cookies! They are delish and very chocolaty! Using only 1/2 a cup of honey wasn't enough to keep the flour sticking for me so I ended up using a little bit more. This however gave me the leeway to add more cocoa and chocolate chips. I'll definitely be making this again!

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  10. BARB says

    wHAT NO EGGS AT ALL? i DIDN'T REALIZE YOU COULD BAKE WITHOUT ANY EGGS IN A RECIPE.

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  11. Susan says

    Thanks so much. I'm delighted you did this!!
    I'm making them right away..

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  12. Hänni says

    Woah! These look really really good. I'm going to make this tonight. Another great recipe, Erica!

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