Raw Vegan Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
10Piggies, thankyou for all of your lovely emails, Facebook and Twitter messages, and comments about our "Pride and Prejudice" marathon movie night. It is nice to know there are so many fellow Jane Austen fans out there! Seeing as I couldn't zap you all to our event (believe me, I would have if I could have) I will share the remaining two recipes on our delectable raw vegan menu. Today I am sharing the raw vegan mint chocolate chip cookies, and next week I will post the raw vegan sun dried tomato kale chips! I will attach a piggy disclaimer about both of these recipes before continuing: these little morsels of heaven are extremely morish! They are hard to quit eating, and will kick even the most disciplined foodie into an over indulgent coma.
But for those of you bold foodies who are happy to indulge in chocolate piggy heaven, I will continue. The best thing about these raw vegan chocolate chip cookies? They are super easy and take 5 minutes to prepare in your food processor. The worst thing about these raw vegan chocolate chip cookies? They can take up to two days to dehydrate! I know! PIGGY TORTURE! But if you are prepared to be patient, your discipline will be rewarded! The one saving grace for impatient piggies? You can eat the raw cookie dough! HA!
Well, at least that is what Olivia, Tara and I did while we were waiting for them to be finished! LOL! Committed piggies indeed. I asked the question last week, "Does life get any better than Jane Austen, my favourite peeps and raw vegan food?" Let me add a caveat and say that chocolate must be included. Even if it is the raw vegan variety! You might remember from the raw vegan lasagne post that I bumped into one of my reader's (Maddy) partners at the Whole Foods in Studio City. Brian was kindly sharing his raw foodie knowledge and warning me about the dangers of indulging in too much cacao as he was sliding my overly large bag of raw cacao powder and raw cacao nibs over the scanner at checkout. I told him that I only consumed excessive amounts of cacao during very special occasions, and if a night with Mr Darcy didn't qualify, then I didn't know what did!
I will admit to my fellow piggies now, what I was too embarrassed to admit to Brian then, that, in my humble piggy opinion, there is never a wrong time to indulge in a little bit of raw vegan chocolate. Honestly, you can't go wrong with these raw chocolate chip cookies. If you are a very strict raw foodist and have a problem with peppermint essence, these cookies taste delicious without it. I just like the extra note it adds to the palate as the raw chocolate slides down my throat. Which is needed when I am drooling over Mr Darcy! If you don't have a dehydrator, you can still enjoy these cookies. Just preheat your oven to 300 F, place the cookies in, close the oven door, and then turn off the oven and allow to cool. This yields a chocolate chip cookie with a similar texture to the dehydrator and takes a lot less time. They just won't be "raw".
My Darcy or no Mr Darcy, dehydrator or no dehydrator -- make a date with these raw vegan mint chocolate chip cookies and you will not be disappointed. They (along with Mr Darcy) are to die for!
Raw Vegan Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 3 cups raw almond meal
- 1 cup raw cacao powder
- 1/4 cup raw cacao nibs
- 3/4 cup raw agave nectar depending on preference
- 3 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tsp natural alcohol-free peppermint essence
- 1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt
- Place all of the ingredients in your food processor and pulse until well combined. The mixture should form a ball.
- Take this ball and roll it out to about a 1/4 inch on parchment paper.
- Now cut out even small circles. I used the top of a shot glass.
- Place these circles on dehydrator sheets and slowly warm at 115 degrees for 48 hours.
- Store in a sealed container in the fridge for about 3 to 4 weeks.
Piggy Cooking Tips
Neatly cutting brownies and slices
Cutting the perfect square pieces of brownies and slices and getting them to look perfect without breaks and crumbs can be challenging. A quick easy way to “slice slices” is to use a plastic knife that glides through and doesn’t collect the crumbs.
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Piggy Grunts!
Add Your GruntI am so glad you all enjoyed these cookies! They are so yummy and so easy :)
Haven’t even put them in the dehydrator and already in LOVE with them. Me and my two kids had a finger full before we rolled them out , both of my kids were so happy. Our new favorite cookie! :)
LOL! Oh Jenny, I LOVE that!
ENJOY. Those cookies are SOOO good!
Happy Holidays :)
These were amazing! They taste like Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies! Even my mom who does not understand my vegan, raw, and gluten free lifestyle thought they were great! For anyone who doesn’t use like to use agave, (like me), you can substitute coconut nectar and it still tastes amazing!