Recipe: Chocolate Heart Cookies with Peanut Butter Frosting
Cook time
Total time
Author: Starlene Stewart from GAPS Diet Journey
Serves: 18
Ingredients
4 cups blanched almond flour
½ cup honey
½ cup cacao powder (or cocoa powder)
1 egg
1 Tablespoon vanilla
½ t. salt
¾ cup butter, softened (divided use)
1 cup natural peanut butter, smooth or chunky, stirred thoroughly before measuring
¼ cup honey
Instructions
Mix dry ingredients together. Cut ½ cup 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 ¼ 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 Frosting: Mix the honey, peanut butter and remaining ¼ cup butter together. I placed the frosting into a ziploc bag and squeezed the frosting into the cookies.
Recipe by GAPS Diet Journey at https://gapsdietjourney.com/2011/03/recipe-chocolate-heart-cookies-with-peanut-butter-frosting/