Paleo Brownie Cookies

Recipes courtesy of Heather at Home To Heather Blog

These are delicious and super easy to make. I've gained a few pounds after weaning Daniel and have been back on a relatively strict low carb diet but these were my one bit of carbs and sugar this entire week.  They also only have coconut flour instead of almond flour which is significantly cheaper.

Paleo Brownie Cookies

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Prep time

5 mins

Cook time

15 mins

Total time

20 mins

Serves: 10

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup coconut flour
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• 1 ripe banana
• 2 eggs
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ cup honey
• ⅓ cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 350F
2. In a large bowl stir coconut flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt together with a fork, breaking up any lumps.
3. In a medium bowl, mash the banana, add the eggs, honey and vanilla and stir well with a fork.
4. Add the wet ingredients into the dry and stir well until incorporated. Add the chocolate chips.
5. Drop batter by tablespoons onto a cookie sheet prepared with parchment paper.
6. Bake 12-15 min until bottoms of cookies have slightly browned.

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*Update 

I have calculated the nutritional information for the recipe using Spark People. Take this with a grain of salt but here's the lowdown. Definitely still a treat if you're watching carbs. 

Nutrition Facts

8 Servings

Amount Per Serving

• Calories 144.0
• Total Fat 5.2 g
• Saturated Fat 2.7 g
• Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3 g
• Monounsaturated Fat 0.6 g
• Cholesterol 46.5 mg
• Sodium 22.5 mg
• Potassium 117.6 mg
• Total Carbohydrate 24.9 g
• Dietary Fiber 4.0 g
• Sugars 17.2 g
• Protein 3.0 g