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Chocolate Molasses Thumbprint Cookies

December 5, 2017 Lydia Buschenfeldt

These cook­ies are inspired by a desire to com­bine my par­ents’ favorite hol­i­day cook­ies – a soft-baked molasses cook­ie for my dad, and a sea salt dark choco­late thumbprint for my mom. Chewy on the out­side and full of choco­latey good­ness on the inside, these cook­ies are sure to delight your hol­i­day taste­buds, with­out weigh­ing you down with refined sug­ar and flour.

Chocolate Molasses thumbprint cookies

Free from Gluten, Grains, Dairy, Soy, and Peanuts

Ingredients

  • 1 egg and 1 egg yolk
  • ⅔ cup smooth almond but­ter
  • 2 Tbsp. + 1 tsp., sep­a­rat­ed, organ­ic coconut oil
  • ¼ cup molasses
  • ¼ cup coconut sug­ar
  • 1 tsp. vanil­la extract
  • ⅔ cup coconut flour
  • 1 tsp. bak­ing soda
  • 1 tsp. ground cin­na­mon
  • 1 tsp. ground gin­ger
  • ¼ tsp. all­spice
  • 2 pinch­es, sep­a­rat­ed sea salt
  • ½ cup Enjoy Life dark choco­late chips

Instructions

  1. Pre­heat oven to 350 ℉ and line 2 large bak­ing sheets with parch­ment paper or sil­pats
  2. In a stand mix­er (or large bowl with an elec­tric mix­er) com­bine the egg, egg yolk, almond but­ter and 2 Tbsp. coconut oil.
  3. Add the molasses, coconut sug­ar and vanil­la and mix until smooth.
  4. In a sep­a­rate bowl, com­bine the coconut flour, bak­ing soda, 1 pinch salt, cin­na­mon, gin­ger and all­spice.
  5. Add the dry mix­ture to the wet ingre­di­ents until ful­ly com­bined and sticky.
  6. Chill dough in the refrig­er­a­tor for 15–20 min­utes to thick­en.
  7. Use a round­ed spoon to scoop the dough into ping-pong ball size mounds, then gen­tly press your thumb into the cen­ter and slight­ly flat­ten the sides so there is a well in the mid­dle of the cook­ie.
  8. Bake for 8–10 min­utes until tops crack (do NOT over­bake). Imme­di­ate­ly after remov­ing the cook­ie sheets from the oven, rein­force the well in the cen­ter of the cook­ies (a spoon works well) and move to a cool­ing rack to cool com­plete­ly.
  9. When cook­ies are com­plete­ly cool, melt the dark choco­late with 1 tsp. coconut oil on a very low set­ting on the stove, stir­ring con­stant­ly. When all lumps are smoothed out and the choco­late is shiny, remove from heat and care­ful­ly spoon into the wells of the cooled cook­ies.
  10.  After choco­late has cooled slight­ly, sprin­kle the remain­ing pinch of sea salt over the cook­ies and allow to cool com­plete­ly (a trip to the fridge can help speed up this process!)
  11. Enjoy! Store any left­overs in the refrig­er­a­tor for 1 week or the freez­er for 2–3 months

Hap­py Hol­i­days!

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I’d say Lydia Buschen­feldt has changed my life, but that wouldn’t be exact­ly true. What she does is even more pow­er­ful. Any­one can tell some­one else what changes they ‘need’ to make to live a health­i­er life. It takes some­one spe­cial to enable and empow­er you to change your own life. Lydia is that some­one spe­cial. Dur­ing every ses­sion, at every twist and turn and bump in the road, Lydia meets me where I am with an incred­i­ble amount of knowl­edge and patience, and helps me iden­ti­fy one or two steps for­ward to accom­plish the goals I have for myself. She knows that each jour­ney is dif­fer­ent, and cus­tomizes our ses­sions so our dis­cus­sions are tai­lored toward what I need in that moment to help me build the health, future and hap­pi­ness that I deserve.
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