Sweet Coconut Cookie Snacks
Yo, LOVE is in the freaking AIR! It’s Valentine’s Day (or thereabouts) and I made treats / used it as an excuse to be a little extra (remember when I sprinkled the lemonade???). For✌🏼Day this year, I made homemade cereal (yes, you read that correctly), homemade peanut butter cups (because I have issued a blanket moratorium on seed oils in my house), and these adorable four ingredient cookie snacks that are kind of like those samosa Girl Scout cookies. Now before you go off on a V Day tangent, I would like to stress that these cookie snacks are my new go-to, Valentine’s Day aside. They are the perfect dessert. I mean perfect.✨ And they are super easy to make. If you have kids, I ultra recommend these as a dessert option. There is zero sugar as they are sweetened with dates.
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Now, on the homemade cereal side, I forget about once every three years that I do not enjoy self-torture and make the cutest homemade cereal, a la Molly Yeh (champion of all things cute and sprinkles). Is it worth it? Probably not. Do I forget this periodically? Absolutely I do. This year it made for great mailing gifts but, man, is it a lot of work. Hundreds of hand-cut, 1/4 inch hazelnut cookies. In the words of Charlie Brown, good grief.
what you need
(this makes 6-8 cookies)
1 1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut <– these words matter
1 cup (~8) pitted, soft Medjool dates
1 tablespoon smooth almond butter
1 cup semisweet or dark chocolate chips + 1 tablespoon coconut oil
(optional) 1 tablespoon honey
how to make it
- In the oven, toast the coconut shreds for ~5 minutes on 350, or until beautifully golden brown.
- Use the food processor to process the dates until they are in smaller chunks. Add in the coconut and the honey, if using, and mix until a grainy “dough” forms. Using your hands, form 6-8 little discs, ~1/2 inch high, with the dough. Use a chopstick to poke a hole through the middle.
- Plop the discs in the freezer. Yes, plop.
- On the stove, melt the chocolate and coconut oil in a small saucepan or small double boiler (truth: I totally set a bowl on top of a pot with water in it.)
- Once the chocolate is melted, remove cookies from freezer and dip the underside of each cookie in the chocolate, returning it to the plate with the chocolate side up.
- Return to freezer for ~30 minutes or until chocolate hardens completely.
P.S. The homemade cereal contains: homemade hazelnut cookies, tiny amaretto meringues, toasted coconut flakes, mini chocolate chips, and dried tart cherries.
