Niomi's Chocolate Almond Spiced Cookies!

I'm sure you are all familiar with Niomi Smart - British fashion, beauty and lifestyle blogger / vlogger. Naomi uploaded another amazing recipe yesterday to her YouTube channel and the cookies looked so great I had to try them! 

The result was amazing! The spices worked perfectly with the chocolate and almonds, not too overpowering but just the slight hint to give you warm, cosy and delicious cookies perfect for this time of year. So all credits go to Niomi for sharing this recipe. Here is my take on them. 

Just to let you know I did change a few things, I used Lindt milk chocolate as I prefer this over dark chocolate and I also used a bit more maple syrup than the recipe states because it just needed to be slightly sweeter. 

The recipe is as follows: 

Click here to see Niomi making them.

Makes 10-12 cookies. 15 minutes baking time. Allow 30 minutes altogether.

Ingredients

2 cups Ground Almonds

2 heaped tbsp Coconut Oil

4-5 Squares of Dark Chocolate or use Chocolate Chips

1 tbsp Agave Nectar (or 1.5 tbsp pure maple syrup)

1/2 Mashed Ripe Banana

1 tbsp Almond Butter

1 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 tsp Ground Ginger, Nutmeg and Pink Himalayan Salt

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1. Pre-heat oven to 170C.

2. Mash the ripe banana and chop the chocolate into chunks.

Tip - the banana will be easier to mash if it's ripe! It'll also taste better.

3. In a saucepan, heat the coconut oil on a low heat. When it is melted, add the syrup and all the spices and salt. Keep on a low heat and stir until ingredients are combined.

4. In a large mixing bowl, mix together the ground almonds and baking powder. Mix in the mashed banana, chocolate chunks and almond butter.

5. Now add the melted ingredients and stir it altogether until combined. All the ingredients should stick together until the bowl is clean.

6. Take a tablespoon amount of the mixture and place onto a tray with greaseproof paper. Press down to form a cookie.

7. Press the back of a fork onto each of the cookies and bake for 15 minutes.

8. Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool.

I hope you are all having a nice evening / morning / afternoon! 

Thanks for reading