Ingredients
1 cup creamy peanut butter (I used almond butter)
2/3 cup coconut sugar (For Candida Cleanse people- You can also use xylitol)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
Pinch of salt, omit if your peanut butter is salted
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 large egg
1/2 cup (plus extra for topping) dark chocolate chips (I used Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Chips)
Instructions (I added in my modifications)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a medium sized bowl, beat together the peanut (almond butter) butter, coconut sugar, and vanilla extract. (Do not heat up the almond or peanut butter at all)
In a separate bowl, combine the cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda.
Stir together and then beat in with the other ingredients.
Beat in the egg until just combined and then stir in the chocolate chips.
Form balls of dough and press 3 to 4 chocolate chips into the top if desired. Press the cookies down so they aren't puffed up. (I just made them into brownies and added the batter to a baking pain greased with coconut oil.)
Bake for 6-8 minutes (Mine took exactly 6 minutes, but my oven runs a bit hotter). Watch them carefully because they go from perfectly baked to burned quickly especially with the coconut sugar. (The brownies baked for about 8 minutes-- but keep checking to make sure they don't burn like she said.)
These cookies are crumbly while they are hot. Let them cool completely or enjoy some deliciously hot, but crumbly cookies right out of the oven. (She wasn't lying. They are super crumbly out of the oven and even 1 hour of cooling later. But I couldn't resist! After they cooled overnight they weren't crumbly at all.)
