Chocolate peppermint candy cane cookies (gluten, grain, dairy and egg free)
Healthy chocolate peppermint cookies that are paleo and vegan friendly. These cookies are addicting and the perfect partner to a peppermint mocha or peppermint hot chocolate. Made from just a few ingredients including candy canes.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 17 minutes
- Yield: 14 cookies 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup hazelnut flour (2oz)
- 1/2 cup tigernut flour (2 oz)
- 1/4 cup raw cacao powder (1 oz)
- 3 tablespoons monk fruit (or any sugar)
- 1/4 cup coconut oil. semi solid (2 oz)
- 1 flax gel (1 tbsp flax meal mixed with 6 tbsp water) or 1 egg
- 3 crushed candy canes
- 8 drops of peppermint essential oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Take 1 tablespoon flax meal with 3 tablespoons water to make a flax gel, let sit for 10 minutes.
- Place all your dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together.
- *we make our own hazelnut flour by grinding whole hazelnuts into flour
- Next add in the coconut oil, flax gel (or egg) and peppermint.
- Mix together.
- Stir in crushed candy canes.
- Batter will be slightly thick.
- Scoop cookies onto cookie tray lined with parchment paper or silicone sheet.
- Press cookies down to flatten as this batter does not really spread.
- Flatten cookies to your desired thickness.
- Bake cookies for 12-15 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool on cookie tray for a few minutes before removing to cooling rack to continue cooling.