Description
An amazing low carb low sugar cookie that has a wonderful rich minty chocolate flavor! It is also an S if following Trim Healthy Mama.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups of almond meal (I used almond meal because I get it cheaper at Trader Joe’s than almond flour)
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of unsalted butter (two sticks)
- 1/2 cup of cocoa powder
- 1– 4 oz bar of 85% Dark Chocolate (chopped or Lily’s Dark Chocolate Stevia sweetened chips)
- 1/3 cup plus 2 tbsps. of THM Sweet Blend (if you do not have this you can use 1/2 to 2/3 cup Truvia or Erythritol or Xylitol)
- 2 tsp peppermint extract
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp of salt (really brings out the flavors)
Instructions
- Cream butter, sweetener, and extracts together.
- Add eggs.
- Mix well.
- Mix together the almond flour, cocoa powder, salt & baking soda.
- Slowly add dry ingredients to mixer.
- Chop up the dark chocolate bar in chunks.
- Add to the cookie batter.
- Mix.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Put 2 tbsps. of batter onto a cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes. (the longer they cool the firmer they become but these are soft cookies not crunchy)