Emma Dean’s vegan choc cookie recipe

By: Georgia Nelson

This vegan cookie recipe made using Pana Organic’s delicious vegan options offers an amazing little treat, perfect for the kid in all of us!

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Ingredients

½ cup solid coconut oil
1 ¼ cups coconut sugar
2 tsp vanilla paste
¼ cup plus 3 tsp coconut milk (nice & thick, usually from a can)
¼ cup homemade apple purée (recipe below or 100 per cent apple purée baby food also works)
2 cups plain gluten-free flour
⅔ cup Pana Organic 100 Per Cent Cacao Powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
⅔ cup Pana Organic Dark Chocolate Pieces
⅔ cup Pana Organic Caramel Chocolate Pieces
⅔ cup Pana Organic Mylk Chocolate Pieces
Apple Purée

4 medium large apples, peeled & cored then chopped roughly

1 tbsp maple syrup
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp apple-cider vinegar

To turn Pana Organic Quad Choc Cookies into ice-cream sandwiches, you’ll need:

Extra Pana pieces, to garnish

Flaked sea salt, to sprinkle (optional)

Pana Organic Salted Caramel Frozen Dessert

Pana Organic Hazelnut Chocolate Spread

Method

Preheat oven to 180ºC conventional.

Using a stand mixer or hand beater, cream the coconut oil, coconut sugar, vanilla paste and 3 tsp coconut milk together until creamy. This will take up to 10 mins. Scrape the sides down regularly to ensure all ingredients are well combined.

Once nice and creamy, add in the rest of the coconut milk (¼ cup).

Make the apple purée by adding chopped apples to saucepan with 1/3 cup water (more may be needed depending on the water content of the apples), maple syrup and cinnamon.

Cook over medium heat with the lid on but stirring occasionally, until apples are soft.

Purée with a stick blender then add in apple-cider vinegar.

Add ¼ cup of apple purée to coconut mix (reserve the remaining apple purée for another dessert). Beat well until nice and smooth.

In another bowl, combine the plain gluten-free flour, the Pana 100 Per Cent Cacao Powder, bicarb of soda and the salt. Use a whisk to stir together.

Add the dry ingredients into the coconut mixture and mix to combine. The mixture should be firm. If not, add a little more flour.

Sprinkle in the Pana Organic Pieces and fold to combine.

Using a tsp, scoop out approximately 30 spoonfuls and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Keep the balls rough (don’t smooth out with hands). Squash down with a fork.

Bake between 10-15 mins depending on how firm you like your cookies.

When done, remove from the oven. They will still be soft and you may need to squash them down a little more with a fork. To make them truly instagrammable, use extra Pana pieces and press into the top and the side of the cookies. Then sprinkle with a little flaked salt.

Cool on the tray for at least 15 mins.

To turn Pana Organic Quad Choc Cookies into ice-cream sandwiches, sandwich a scoop of Pana Organic Salted Caramel Frozen Dessert between two of your Pana Organic Quad Choc Cookies. Then dip in Pana Organic Hazelnut Chocolate Spread and enjoy.

Note: Cookies can be frozen

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