I found the recipe for the cookies I mentioned in my Valentine's Day Meal post. These were so yummy! Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride says if you no longer have digestive issues, cocoa is okay so here is the recipe I came up with for cookies. No baking soda [affiliate link]! 🙂

I used an organic cacao powder and these were so tasty.

Chocolate Heart Cookies

• 4 cups blanched almond flour [affiliate link]
• 1/2 cup honey [affiliate link]
• 1/2 cup cacao powder (or cocoa powder [affiliate link])
• 1 egg
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla [affiliate link]
• 1/2 t. salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened

Mix dry ingredients together. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients. Scramble egg and mix together the wet ingredients.

Form into a log, place in the freezer for two hours. The dough was a little sticky so I buttered some plastic wrap and formed into a log and put it in the freezer for a while to harden up so I could work with it and cut out shapes with the cookie cutters. You could probably get by dropping these by the teaspoonful as well.

Slice 1/4 inch thick. Use two different sized heart shaped cookie cutters to make heart shaped cookies. As you can see, there is a frame around the cookie, this is achieved by cutting out two large hearts, and then cut out a smaller heart from one of the large hearts. Gently place the “frame” onto the large heart.

Bake at 350° 8 to 10 minutes until firm to the touch.

Peanut Butter [affiliate link] Frosting

• 1 cup natural peanut butter, smooth or chunky, stirred thoroughly before measuring
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup butter, barely softened

Mix the honey, peanut butter and butter together. I placed the frosting into a ziploc bag and squished the frosting into the cookies.

You don't have to form these into hearts to make them taste good. 🙂

This recipe was included at Fat Tuesday.

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