Ahhhh.... love. Having two little girls is like Valentine's Day all year long. The smell of their hair after a lavender shampoo, snuggling on the couch, hiding under their floral patterned quilt, I love you notes, and a million kisses a day. Still, with Valentine's coming soon, there's even more hearts and red paper projects in my house than usual. Yesterday we made these simple but sweet, heart shaped cookies with only a few ingredients. The part I love best is that they use the wet almond meal left over after straining almond milk, so there's no waste. It's a great way to use the leftover almond meal, and save money. For this recipe, (and the one in the comments) you don't even have to dry it.
Chocolate Heart Shaped Cookies:
Add to bowl:
1 beaten egg
1 tbs vanilla extract
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup honey
wet almond meal left over after straining almond milk (equal to 1 cup dry almonds)
(click to watch almond milk video)
Mix ingredients.
Using a teaspoon, drop into heart shapes on unbleached parchment paper.
Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes.
Makes about 8 cookies.
11 comments:
We are lucky to be home with our special Valentines everyday, aren't we?
We don't have almond meal but the cookies look yummy. We are home early from a homeschooling outing so I think I will surprise the kids with a yummy gluten free dessert. Everything sounds good...maybe it is the cold weather.
Yes we are :-)
We are having another fine spring day here. It cracks me up. It's hot and I'm baking, then it will be cold and I'll make ice cream. I'm out of sync :-) hahaha
Hi. Ruth from Elena's pantry here. I'm looking for recipes that use the almond meal left over from making almond milk. Do you have a "click" just for those? (If not, I'll search.) And, I don't see where it says how *much* almond meal to use????
THANKS!!
Ruth
Hi Ruth!
This is the only recipe for almond meal leftover after making almond milk on my website. I can tell you that I doI make another cookie just like this one with only two differences. You can use 1/4 cup of brown rice flour in place of cocoa powder, then add a half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Throw in some chopped nuts or dairy-free chocolate chips, like Enjoy Life, and bake them at 375 for about 25 minutes.
If you click on the words "almond milk" in the post, it will link you to that recipe. It's 1 cup of almonds that have been blended into almond milk and strained.
Thanks for your questions!
:-) Kelly
Kelly,
Thanks!! I'm always trying to figure out ways to use my almond-milk-leavings!!
I dehydrate and freeze some of my almond-meal, and blend about 1/2 cup with Honeyville's blanched almond flour and an extra egg in Elena's bread recipe, because I hate to waste, but I still end up throwing out so much.
I'll definitely be trying this out.
Cheers
Ruth (dairy, wheat, soy, corn allergies)
Such a lovely post, Kelly. With a 21-year old son, I do miss those things. But, he still ends all his phone conversations with "Love you. Bye." and I reply, "Love you, too. Bye." and we do the kiss and hug thing when see each other, so that helps. :-)
Terrific recipe! I love recipes with just a few ingredients. You'll have us all making nut milk soon. ;-)
xo,
Shirley
Ahhh, cute!
Thanks Shirley!
I made almost the same cookies for v-day minus the egg and sub. almonds for walnuts. They were raw so I did not cook them!
I just found your blog and can tell it will be one I check out regularly.
Thanks Daniela! Did you dehydrate them? Are they on your blog? I'd love to check them out!
Cheers, Kelly
Hi
I was wondering if I would be able to use soy milk and almond meal as separate items for this recipe? my partner is gluten free and drinks soy milk.
Thanks.
Hi!
Do you mean dry almond meal, that you wet with soy milk? I think that would work. I've always done these with wet almond meal, left over from straining almond milk, so I'm not sure. Let us know how it goes :-)
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