Nut Butter Cookies are taken to a whole new level of deliciousness with a drizzling of dark chocolate. So choose your favourite nut butter and give these a try!

If you would prefer another cookie option try the easy read version of Alexx Stuart’s Chocolate Chunk Cookies or Danielle Shine’s Healthy Anzac Cookies.

 

Ingredient Shopping for Nut Butter Cookies

Almond flour is ground blanched almonds and almond meal is ground whole almonds.

Cassava flour is made from drying and grinding the tuberous root of the cassava plant. It is naturally gluten, grain and nut-free. Because of its fine texture, light colour, and neutral taste, it is becoming a popular substitute for wheat flour, especially for baking. It can be purchased from health food stores and some supermarkets.

Tigernut flour is less starchy than cassava flour. A tigernut is not actually a nut but another tuberous vegetable. Again it can be purchased from health food stores and some supermarkets.

Oat flour is simply blended or processed rolled or traditional oats. I make my own if I need oat flour. I always start with organic oats to avoid the glyphosate (think zero and roundup) often used during the harvesting of non-organic grains.

If beginning a Paleo diet then use the cassava or tigernut flour and not the oat flour.

Nut butter can be a choice of peanut, almond, macadamia, cashew, or even tahini. Just be sure it has your chosen nut as the only ingredient. Some brands sneak in salt, sugar, and even vegetable oil. I used organic peanut butter for my cookies.

Look for dark chocolate that uses cocoa butter and not the cheap, nasty, and highly processed “vegetable oil”. Vegetable oil sounds healthy but is anything but healthy.

Also, choose dark chocolate with at least 75% cocoa. You end up with less sugar that way.

 

Cooking Tips for Nut Butter Cookies

Step 5 – To get your biscuits the same size, use a measuring tablespoon or a cookie scoop. A cookie scoop is like a small ice cream scoop like the one on the right.  I found mine so useful that I now have three different sizes. They are easily purchased online.

Step 7 – Cooling on the tray for 5 minutes helps the cookies firm up a little before moving them. Then using a cooling rack helps any residue steam to escape. This helps the cookies firm up better.

Step 9 – When drizzling the chocolate, use the empty, lined cookie tray underneath to catch any chocolate drips. This prevents less chocolate mess on the kitchen bench.