Almond Cookie Dough Bites

First of all, these cookies alone are super delicious!  Almond cookie dough bites are insanely delicious!  I recently gave birth to my third child, Cameran Jean, three weeks ago.  So, I am currently on my postpartum journey of trying to lose this dang baby weight!  I am not trying to rush the process so I'm taking it day by day and I do know this is not something that will happen over night and I'm okay with that!  I am 36 years old, also, so I know that the weight isn't going to just fall off like it did with my first child.

Ingredients you will need

So, it took me a few trials to figure out how to cook with almond flour.  The consistency isn't as thick as a dessert made with white or wheat flour would be.  After some experimenting I had to add a little bit of coconut flour to these cookies to thicken then up a bit.  Otherwise, they kept coming out flatter than a pancake.  This is what you need to make the almond cookies.

1. 1½ cups almond flour
2. 3 tbsp coconut flour
3. ¼ tsp baking soda
4. ¼ tsp kosher salt
5. 3 tbsp melted coconut oil
6. ¼ cup pure maple syrup
7. ¼ cup plain greek yogurt

How to make the cookies

Step 1 - preheat your oven to 350° and line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside. 

Step 2 - In a small bowl, whisk together the almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt.  In a separate bowl, stir together coconut oil, pure maple syrup, and plain greek yogurt. 

Step 3 - Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and combine until a dough forms.  Drop spoonfuls of the dough onto the prepared baking pan and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. 

Step 4 - Remove from oven and let cool completely on a cooling rack.

How to make the cookie dough

This healthy cookie dough recipe is super easy to make!  The ingredients you will need are 1 ½ cups of chickpeas, drained and rinsed, ¼ cup light brown sugar, ¼ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 2 tsp pure vanilla extract, ¹⁄8 tsp baking soda, ¼ cup natural peanut butter, and ½ cup of dark chocolate chips.  To make the dough you will add the chickpeas, brown sugar, almond milk, vanilla extract, and baking soda to a blender.  Blend until smooth, then add the peanut butter and blend again!  Last, mix in the chocolate chips.  You are more than welcome to eat this deliciousness right away, but I like to put it in the fridge for about an hour. If you are in need  of a good blender I've linked the one I have under my favorites. 

Now, to put it all together

Now, for the best part about these past 2 recipes, we put them together!  After I made the almond cookies and they completely cooled I lined a tupperware container with parchment paper and placed the cooled almond cookies onto the parchment paper.  I stuck the tupperware into the freezer and froze the almond cookies.  This took about 1 hour.

Next, I took the tupperware out of the freezer and took the cookie dough out of the fridge and assembled them.  Using a knife I scooped out the cookie dough and smeared it onto the bottom side of a almond cookie, then took a second almond cookie and placed it on top, making a sandwich! 

I followed these steps until all the cookies were used.  Then, you can either eat them right there or if you want to save them and eat one a day, like I do 😉 I placed them back on the tupperware lined with parchment paper and kept them in the fridge.