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Simple BakeChocolate covered peanut butter cookies
Healthy Reese’s peanut butter cups. Peanut butter/ nut butter inside combined with dates covered in chocolate
Sammy CapozziIngredients
- 1/4 cup Almond flour
- 3/4 cup Peanut butter or almond butter
- 12-15 Dates
- Half a bag Chocolate chips
Instructions
- 1Heat up 2 cups of water in a pot. This is to soften the dates. In a heat resistant bowl pour the heated water on top of the dates. The water doesn’t need to be boiling btw!
- 2Depit the dates and place them in a food processor. Pulse until mushed up a bit.
- 3Scoop in the 3/4 nut butter of your choice. Pulse until somewhat combined.
- 4Add in the 1/4 cup almond flour. Pulse until combined. Batter will be somewhat crumbly and that’s okay.
- 5Pour batter into a bowl and mash down with a silicon spatula. This motion will further combine batter and shape into a ball.
- 6Once combined, use a table spoon to shape cookies. I place and shape on parchment paper. This makes a batch of 20 cookies. Once all shaped into balls I usually flatten them to make into bite sized cookies. Place in freezer to firm for about 15-20 min
- 7Melt the chocolate chips in a pan. I add a slice of butter so it’s a bit oily to dip cookies in.
- 8Take the firmed cookies out of freezer and dip into chocolate. Once done place in freezer again to harden. 10-15 min
- 9Take out and enjoy. I usually store in a Pyrex in the fridge!
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Room-temp butter matters
Soft, not melted — 20 minutes on the counter is usually enough.
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Underbake slightly
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Use parchment
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