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Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love shopping at Whole Foods Market. My favorite isle is the baking isle. I can get herbs and spices, a variety of flours and sugars, chocolate, and nut butters all in the same isle. The Whole Foods Market in Nashville, Tennessee has in-store nut butter machines. You can pull the trigger, all by yourself, and watch the nuts get ground into nut butter right before your eyes. Yes, you can buy almond butter in a jar. However I especially like using the do-it-yourself machines. If my recipe calls for 1/2 a cup, all I have to grind out is 1/2 a cup. Speaking of recipes, I digress.
What You'll Need:
1 cup unbleached flour
3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup almond butter
1/2 cup Earth Balance
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
3 T non-dairy milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup non-dairy semi-sweet chocolate chips
How You'll Do It:
Preheat oven to 375º.
Combine almond butter, non-dairy milk, extracts, sugar, and Earth Balance in a medium bowl. Cream them together until smooth. In a large bowl, combine flours, baking powder, and salt. Then combine the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients with a large spoon or wooden spoon. Once your dough has formed, fold in the chocolate chips.
Spoon balls of dough onto a large baking sheet. (No greasing needed) Once you have filled up one, or two, baking sheets (depending on the size of your dough balls), place them in the oven for 10 minutes. Allow to cook for three minutes once they're done, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Why You'll Love It:
These cookies are too delicious not to love! I put two on a plate for myself to snack on and eventually lost track of how many times I got up for more. Almonds have more calcium than any other nut, which is one of many health benefits to almonds.
Jenn Blumberg
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Reader Comments (13)
I'm so glad you found me on Twitter so I could find your blog and make these awesome cookies (I just ate three in row!)...delicious!!
Hey, I'm so glad you liked it! I check out your post and yours came out beautifully. Just like you (I'm sure) I planned on having one or two, and then found myself just reaching for more!
Just discovered Earth Balance-will try these this weekend!
I love peanut butter, I love chocolate and I really love almond butter. I definitely must make these cookies!
They look delicious. Have you tried it with walnut butter or something like that before?
I haven't tried walnut butter or others before but I'm sure it would be tasty!
Ooooh, wow, these look and sound amazing! I love nut butters, I'm vegan, and we love choc. chip cookies! Thanks for sharing them! :)
These look absolutely wonderful! Any clue if I can substitute real butter for the Earth Balance on a 1-1 ratio?
Hey Jillian, I'd really only recommend going the cholesterol free route, but the recipe should work with a 1:1 ratio. Thanks for commenting!
anything with almond butter in it is wonderful!
Amen JoLynn!
think I could substitute 1/4 c peanut butter and 1/4c almond butter?
Shae, that should work just fine!