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<\/p>\nI bet you can’t guess what secret ingredient we’re using in these cookies! It starts with a K and rhymes with Yale. If that doesn’t give it away, it’s also pictured above and mentioned in the title.<\/p>\n
Yes, these cookies are made with KALE. Kale (the nutrient-packed superfood) and chocolate (my primary reason for waking up each morning) all wrapped up into a moist cookie? This, my friends, is the stuff of dreams.<\/p>\n
Even though we’re adding 1\/2 cup of kale right into these cookies, you’ll never know it’s there. By blending it along with some applesauce, the taste totally disappears. For a “healthy” cookie, these guys are super moist, fudgy, and delicious. Eating your veggies just doesn’t get much easier than this…<\/p>\n
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Makes about 9 cookies<\/strong><\/p>\n Preheat the oven to 330\u00ba F.<\/strong><\/p>\n Make a “flax egg” (my standard egg replacement in baking) by combining 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed with 2 tablespoons water. Set aside for 5 minutes to form a gel.<\/p>\n In a large mixing bowl, sift all the dry ingredients together (flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt). Sifting is important here to give the batter the right consistency.<\/p>\n In a blender, combine about 1\/2 cup loosely chopped kale with 1\/2 cup apple sauce, 3 tablespoons of non-dairy milk, and 2 tablespoons of maple syrup until completely pureed like a green smoothie. Add this to a separate mixing bowl along with the other wet ingredients: Sucanat (or coconut sugar, or any other type of natural sugar), softened coconut oil, that flax egg, and 2 tablespoons of non-dairy milk. Whisk this for a full minute or two until all the ingredients are incorporated.<\/p>\n Slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir gently with a wooden spoon until mostly combined, but do not over mix. A few lumps are preferred to over mixing the batter and creating rubbery cookies.<\/p>\n Spoon this batter into cookie-sized rounds and flatted them onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. This batter is much more sticky, almost like brownie batter, and it will take a bit of coaxing to get them into the right shape. Then, bake for about 12-14 minutes at 330\u00ba F until cooked thoroughly.<\/p>\n If you want to throw in a few non-dairy chocolate chips, you won’t get any complaints for that. Also, I did something weird with the cookies pictured… I added 1\/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper into the dry ingredients and made Spicy Kale Chocolate Cookies<\/em>. If you’re into that kind of thing, this extra spicy kick at the end is incredible.<\/p>\n I bet you can’t guess what secret ingredient we’re using in these cookies! It starts with a K and rhymes with Yale. If that doesn’t give it away, it’s also… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[19,21,16,32,30],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nIngredients:<\/h4>\n
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