Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Avo-nana Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

83 calories per cookie. I repeat. 83 calories per cookie! Chocolaty, fudgey cookies... How can you go wrong?!



Ingredients:
1 ripe avocado (100g)
1 ripe banana (100 g)
1/4 C egg whites
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp honey
1/2 C dark chocolate cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
4 tbsp dark chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

In a food processor, blend together the avocado, banana, vanilla and honey. Puree until smooth.

Next, add the cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Blend until all the dry ingredients are incorporated with the wet.

Last, add your chocolate chips and manually stir them in. (Trust me, if you try to pulse them, you'll just spray your batter all over the food processing bowl...)

Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper. Spoon out 9 cookies worth onto the sheet and bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.

Once they've been out of the oven for 5 minutes or so, and had a chance to cool, I find that your best bet of getting them off the baking lining all in one piece is to pop them (baking sheet included) in the freezer for about 5-10 minutes - this will harden them up, and allow you to peel the cookies off the paper.

I'd suggest storing them in the fridge for safe keeping! Plus, who knows, you may just inhale them all if they're staring at you on the counter for too long... ;)