I keep a loose sort of blog schedule — every Friday, I list out potential post ideas for the following week and most of the time, I don’t follow the schedule at all because I’m always way too unrealistic and wait to create my post the day before. I’m pretty much a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of gal. On rare occasions, I will list the same topic over and over, carrying it through several weeks without making it happen even though it’s completely doable. These avocado chocolate cookies are an example of that.
I’ve been wanting to make these cookies for months. I love avocados. I love cookies. I especially love healthier options for sweets. I have all the ingredients for this recipe at all times (avocados, coconut sugar, egg, cocoa, chocolate chunks, baking soda and water). Seemed like a sure winner, yet I couldn’t muster the energy to make them.
Part of it was because I knew it would be yet another challenging photography project. Here’s what I mean:
I tried all sorts of things to make them look less cow-pat-esque, but what can I say?
Just as I thought, the recipe was so quick and easy, and within half an hour, I had 18 cookies cooling on my rack. Having had success with avocado chocolate frosting before, I assumed I would adore these. They’re not bad, but some tweaks are in order. I wasn’t sure how much 50grams of chocolate chips would be (I don’t have a scale) so I tossed in a 1/2 cup. Should have added more. Also, my avocados weren’t totally ripe, and this was an issue. There’s a distinct guacamole aftertaste, which, for an avocado aficionado, isn’t such a problem, but it’s definitely weird in a cookie. So super ripe avocados are necessary.
The recipe does state that these taste better cold and after chilling overnight in the fridge, so I’ll test that out tomorrow morn. I just had my second cookie, and you know, they’re growing on me. Guac-cookies they may be and a little odd, but they’re palatable. I like that the batch I made doesn’t use any flour, and coconut sugar is supposed to be a decent sugar alternative, but out of curiosity I might try this recipe next – this one sounds promising! I’m still trying to cut back on sugar, but sometimes chocolate is mandatory, don’t you think?
Oh, I might have to try these! we’re eating mostly paleo and those are all things I can have. 🙂
K LOVES these cookies, she can’t get enough of them. It’s nice because I feel like they’re really not that bad for her!
I went to an avocado party once where we had to each bring a dish featuring avocados. I made avocado popsicles that I found via Pinterest. Don’t do it. Someone made chocolate avocado pudding and that was good.
Ha, avocado popsicles sound like they might have had some potential – sorry to hear that it didn’t work out! 🙂
I’m so happy you tried the recipe. It was great reading the feed back!
The recipe is great! After chilling it overnight the aftertaste is virtually gone and we’re loving them!