Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are pecan cookies with a delicious chocolate filling. Easy to make, gluten free, grain free and refined sugar free.
Recipe
Pecan Cookie Chocolate Filled Sandwich
Ingredients
Pecan Cookie:
- 1 cup pecans
- 4 tablespoons coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon arrowroot powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ tablespoons raw honey, or maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream, or full fat coconut milk
- 5 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch fine himalayan salt
Chocolate Filling:
- 5 tablespoons cacao butter
- 7 tablespoons raw cacao powder
- 4 tablespoons raw honey, or maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
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Instructions
Pecan Cookie:
- Preheat the oven to 325°F, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- In a food processor, pulse the coconut flour and pecans until it turns to a flour-like consistency.
- Pulse in baking soda, arrowroot powder and salt.
- Then pulse in the wet ingredients - honey, heavy cream, coconut oil and vanilla extract.
- Roll dough into a ball and press between 2 sheets of parchment paper to ⅛-inch thickness.
- Cut dough using a round cookie cutter, then place cookies onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until the edges start to turn brown.
- Let cool completely on a wire rack before filing each cookie with chocolate.
Chocolate Filling:
- Melt the cacao butter in a bowl over simmering water (double boiler).
- Mix in the cacao powder, honey and vanilla extract until all combined and smooth.
- Add about 1 tablespoon of chocolate in between 2 cookies and press down to spread the chocolate around.
Notes
Store in the fridge.
Nutrition per serving
Calories: 241.4kcalProtein: 2.1gFat: 21.4gSaturated Fat: 11gSugar: 10.2gFiber: 3.1gCarbohydrates: 14.9gNet Carbs: 11.8g
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