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Itsy Bitsy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Source of Recipe

Brenda-Lee Olson


Recipe Introduction

Original Recipe by Heidi Swanson

List of Ingredients

5 ounces CF semi-sweet chocolate bar (like Barry Callabut or ELF)
1 cup GF flour (gf flour mixes filed under flour mixes)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled GF oat flakes (try buckwheat or quinoa as well)
1/2 cup walnuts, very, very finely chopped (by hand)
1/2 cup coconut oil, at room temperature
scant 1 cup natural cane sugar (or brown sugar)
scant 1 tablespoon organic unsulphured molasses (blackstrap)
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup large-grain sugar (for ex: turbinado)

Administrative Note: Some who are extremely sensitive may still react to the gf oats.


Recipe

Preheat your oven to 350F degrees, racks in top and bottom third.

Line a couple baking sheets with parchment paper.

Finely chop the chocolate into 1/8-inch pieces, more like shavings really.

Try to avoid big lumps and chunks, which make flattening out the cookie dough later more difficult.

In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, oats, walnuts, and shaved chocolate.

Set aside.

Using a mixer (or by hand) cream the coconut butter until fluffy.

Beat in the sugar and mix until it is also light and fluffy.

Scrape down the sides of the bowl once or twice.

Beat in the molasses, then the egg, mixing until both are well incorporated, scrape down the sides of the bowl once or twice.

Beat in the vanilla.

Add the flour mix and stir by hand until the ingredients barely come together into a uniform dough.

For tiny, barely bite-sized, scoop out the dough in exact, level teaspoons.

Next, tear those pieces of dough in two before rolling each 1/2 teaspoon of dough into a ball shape.

Place two inches apart on your prepared baking sheets.

Gently flatten each dough ball into a thin, round patty with two fingers and then sprinkle the top of each cookie with a pinch of large-grain sugar.

Bake for 7 minutes or until cookies are golden and
fragrant.

Remove from oven, and cool on a wire rack.

Makes about 12 dozen tiny, bite-sized cookies.