Monster Cookies

by lisa | 4 April 2013 09:51

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I am on vacation from work this week. My husband is out of town, I already did my workout, the sky is grey (again) and I am bored. I could do something constructive like laundry or cleaning, but where’s the fun in that? Do you eat out of boredom? 

I bake out of boredom, which then, of course, leads to eating. So, to cure my boredom today, I baked. It took most of my afternoon. I planned out a recipe, shopped for ingredients, baked, took pictures and then promptly took my end result over to a friend so I wouldn’t eat them all. Boredom solved!

So what did I bake? Well, I intended to make scones. Here is a look at my scribbled ideas for how I would make them.

I envisioned a thick, chunky scone. That is not what I got. They spread a lot more than I anticipated and were moister than scones. I ended up with Monster Cookies. Some baking failures are not failures at all 🙂 I will tinker around with the recipe and see if I can come up with scones, but in the meantime, I have a yummy new cookie recipe. Monster cookies for the Cookie Monster in all of us.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of almond flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 Tablespoons cold butter
• 1 egg
• 2 Tablespoons honey
• 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 50 grams (1/2 bar) dark chocolate, chopped
• 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1/4 cup raisins

How to do it

1. Mix your dry ingredients (almond flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon) together in a mixing bowl.
   

   Dry ingredients

2. Add in the cold butter. Mix it in with your hands until the butter and flour mixture is like sand (no big chunks of butter).
   

   See? No big butter chunks

3. Whisk together the wet ingredients (egg, honey, vinegar and vanilla) in a small bowl.
   

   Wet ingredients

4. Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
5. Dump in the chocolate, nuts and raisins and stir.
   

   Tasty additions

6. Chill dough in the fridge for 15 minutes.
7. At this point, I still thought I was making scones. I separated my dough into two parts. I formed each half into a round (the dough was sticky, but if you wet your hands it doesn’t stick).
   

   I cut each round into 4

8. I cut each round into 4 for a total of 8.
9. To make normal cookies, just drop the dough by rounded tablespoons onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
   

   Ready for the oven

10. Bake in a pre-heated 350 F (175 C) oven for 20 minutes. Watch carefully…it might be more like 15 minutes for normal sized cookies. This made 8 monster cookies, but would probably make 16-20 normal cookies.

I was sad when I didn’t end up with scones. I was happy again when I tasted them 🙂 I put a dollop of whipped coconut cream on top of my monster cookie and devoured it.

Source URL: https://swisspaleo.ch/monster-cookies/

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