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Recipe: Raw Chocolate Cookies

Adam Hodges | December 1, 2012

If you love chocolate (and who doesn’t?) but don’t like the way you feel after eating those butter, flour and brown sugar laden chocolate chip cookies, here’s a healthy alternative. This recipe keeps it simple and raw, turning raisins and walnuts into an amazing chocolate-y treat. The raw walnuts in the recipe provide an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, the raw raisins provide the sweetness, and the cocoa powder provides, well, the chocolate. These treats are packed with energy and taste. No oven is needed; just a food processor. One batch makes a dozen heart healthy raw cookies.

Raw walnuts

Ingredients

1 cup raisins
¾ cup raw walnuts
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Dash of sea salt

Instructions

Combine ingredients together in a food processor. Blend until everything sticks together into a thick “dough.” Roll into 12 balls about an inch in diameter. Flatten the balls onto parchment paper. Place in the freezer for a half hour to firm before serving. Keep refrigerated.

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Filed Under: Nutrition & Hydration Tagged With: Eating, Recipes

About Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges is a mountain endurance athlete and coach with credentials from the United Endurance Sports Coaching Academy (UESCA), USA Triathlon (USAT), and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He currently coaches runners, ultrarunners, and triathletes, and has also coached high school cross country/track and masters swimming. As a USAT All-American triathlete during the 1990s, he competed in the ITU World Triathlon Championships, the ITU World Duathlon Championships, and the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a masters runner, he won a series title in the XTERRA SoCal Trail Run Series. His current pursuits include mountain running, ultrarunning, skimo, and cross-country skiing. Check out his training plans and courses to help you prepare for your next adventure.

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