Who doesn't like chocolate cookies? There will be someone who doesn't like them, I'm not saying no, but in most homes they tend to disappear quickly. These, little resemble the commercial ones but they are still some oatmeal and cocoa cookies with very rich chocolate chips.
The interesting thing about these cookies is that they do not have added sugar. The sweetness is achieved by adding date paste to the dough, or what is the same, hydrated dates first and crushed later. It is what will take you the longest, the rest will be sewing and singing, I assure you!
These cookies are a wonderful proposal for give us a sweet treat occasionally. They could be prepared without chocolate chips, just adding cocoa to the dough, but once we were at home we didn't want to give up anything. And you? Do you think to prepare them?
The recipe
- 130 g. of dates
- 1 egg L
- 100 g. butter, softened
- 24 g. pure cocoa
- 100 g. oatmeal
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- A handful of chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
- Soak the dates in warm water for 15 minutes and then grind them slightly drained to get the date paste.
- Then beat the egg with the butter until you get a creamy dough.
- Then add the date cream and beat again until incorporated.
- To finish preparing the dough we add the flour, cocoa and yeast and mix with a spatula or with your hands until you get a manageable dough.
- We preheat the oven to 200ºC and we line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Now, we shape the cookies Taking small portions of dough and forming small balls with them that we will place with a certain separation in the tray.
- Once they are all formed, we place in each of them a chocolate chips large or several small ones that we will sink slightly,
- We bake them for 20 minutes. at 180ºC and then let them cool on a wire rack.
- Once cold we enjoy the oatmeal and cocoa cookies with chocolate chips.
They must be delicious, I am definitely going to make them, but I would like to ask you a question, could I substitute the butter for k totally laits??? I imagine that the result would not be the same crispy….
Thank you so much
All the best
If you are already used to sweets with oatmeal, you will like them. Butter plays an important role. In any case, you could try to replace it with oil -I have not tried it- but you would be in the same situation.