Fudgy Flourless Black Bean Cookies
Updated: 21 Aug 2017
Ingredients
- 1 tin black beans approx 15 oz
- 56g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 egg at room temperature, beaten
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 100g granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking suda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 60g plain chocolate, melted and cooled briefly
- 30g cocoa powder
- 150g chocolate chips
Method
- Preheat your oven to 190c. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
- In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade, place the black beans, butter and egg and pulse until mostly smooth.
- Add teh vanilla, sugar, baking soda, salt and melted chocolate, and pulse again until smooth. The cookie dough at this point should be the consistency of hummus.
- Add the cocoa powder and pulse until the mixture is well-combined; the consistency will be more like fudge.
- Add most of the chocolate chips and mix by hand until the chips are evenly distributed throughout the cookie dough.
- Scoop portions of the dough about 2 tbsp each and place about 2 inches apart from one another on the prepared baking sheet. Using the back of a moistened spoon, spread each portion of cookie dough into a round about 1/2 inch thick. Sprinkle the top of each piece of dough with a few more chocoate chips.
- Place the baking sheet in the refrigerator to chill for about 10 minutes or until mostly firm to the touch.
- Place the baking hseet in the center of the preheated oven and bake until the cookies have taken on a crackled appearance andare mostly firm to the touch, about 18 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely on the baking sheet. They will be quite fragile when they are warm.