Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies
I discovered Guittard extra dark chocolate chips, which are dairy free. Ingredients are chocolate liquor, sugar, soya lecithin and vanilla and that's it. They are only 63% chocolate (not the 85% recommended by the Wheat Belly diet), and 8 grams carbohydrates for a 40 gram serving (all of which is sugar), so if you can't do that, just substitute sugar free chocolate, loosely chopped.
2 C almond flour
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking soda (not powder)
1/3 C grapeseed oil (if you don't have any, regular cooking oil should be fine)
1/3 C swerve or other sweetener
1 t vanilla
zest and juice from 1 orange
1/3 C chocolate chips (see above for options here)
Mix almond flour, salt and baking soda. Add sweetener, grapeseed oil and vanilla and mix well. Grate the zest from the outside of the orange and add that, then juice the orange and add the juice as well. Mix until dough consistency. The nice thing about this is there are no raw eggs, so you can taste the dough and see if you need more sweetener - I think you shouldn't though, this was plenty sweet.
I think this should have made a dozen cookies, but I ended up with 14 - 2 extra :)
Roll into balls (or use a cookie scoop like I did, I love those things), and bake on a parchment lined sheet at 350 for 7-10 minutes or until the edges start to brown. Let cool for 10 minutes.
Even after cooling these weren't exactly a cookie consistency, a little more gooey than I expect cookies to be, but they were so good I ate way more than I should have and will definitely be making them again.
With 14 cookies like I ended up with and using the dark chocolate chips, each cookie is 162 calories, 7 grams of carbohydrates and 2 grams fiber (not counting the Swerve/erythritol/sweetener). If you use sugar free chocolate, chopped into chocolate chip sized bits - 160 calories, 6 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams fiber. In either case, these are a splurge so you shouldn't eat the whole pan, but trust me, you'll be tempted to.
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