Time to think of gifts – Gluten-free Chocolate and Cinnamon Cookies
Certain years it is a pleasure, others a chore that just has to be done. What I’m talking about? Christmas gifts of course! Soon it is time to think about what to give to whom and, not to forget, to figure out what is on your own list of wishes. Nowadays I prefer to receive edible things or gift cards to good causes (like this one or this one for example) instead of things I don’t need or really desire (with the exception of the gifts my children give me, through the years I have received the most unexpected things but they are small treasures to me). Our house is filled with things that float around and I don’t want to add to it anymore, just detract. That is why I think food gifts are great and especially if you made them yourself.
Cookies are usually a good gift and it is even better if you can share them with people who have issues with gluten. These chocolate and cinnamon cookies have been tested on my family who are not at all gluten sensitive, I even had the request to make more and soon, please. I am a fan of baking with chickpea flour and make my children eat whatever it is because it is close to impossible to make them eat a chickpea in its natural state but in this way they eat and enjoy it! Sometimes I don’t even tell them when I sneak in the things they don’t want to eat in another guise but this time I did and strangely enough, the enthusiasm for the cookies didn’t subside. It is a dry cookie this, and a little hard too, a nibble cookie I’d call it but not so hard that it gives you problems.
Gluten-free Chocolate and Cinnamon Cookies
ca 30 but that depends on how large you make them
100 g/3,5 oz chickpea flour
100 g/3,5 oz corn starch
100 g/3,5 oz sugar
5-6 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
100 g/3,5 oz butter, lightly salted and room temperature
1 egg
Pine-nuts or any other kind of nut for decoration
Stir sugar and butter in a bowl until smooth, then add the egg and mix well
Sift chickpea flour, corn starch, cocoa powder and cinnamon together and then add it all to the bowl. Mix well, if it is too dry, add a teaspoon or two with tepid water.
Make a roll of the dough, if you have the time, you can leave it to rest for 30 minutes in the fridge, if not cut the roll into slices about 1 cm/ 0,4 inch thick. Put the cookies on a greased baking sheet and push two pine nuts into each one of them.
Bake in a pre-heated oven (175°C/350°F) for 10-12 minutes or until they look ready.
This looks like a perfect cookie! And I love that they are easy to make, simply cutting slices of a log. Thank you for sharing the recipe, Ilva!
and thank you for still reading Lucullian!
Yes I share your sentiments – not 100% but mostly. ;o) I love foodie gifts that come from the heart and we spend a few hours in the kitchen making cookies, cakes and jams to give away. Love these!
Food gifts are always appreciated aren’t they?
Nice to see your blog up again!
Cookies are the best gift ever – I’d love to receive a box of these
And I a box of cookies from you!
Delicious and a chocolaty way to use my chickpea flour! Pretty pretty!
xxoo
Hi Ilva I thinkit might of worked … love the post and such a great pressie.:-)
It works Anne! Yay!
Beautiful cookies, love that these are gluten free!
Thanks Laura!
What a perfect idea! I always give holiday cookies to family friends and this should be a great way to do it. Thanks!
Thank you!
Ummm… chocolate and cinnamon, these have my name on them Ilva! Look nice for dipping in tea or hot chocolate. This time of year so enjoy making baked and canned items and giving them away all packaged up. As always, beautiful photos
Cinnamon and chocolate is such a great combination, especially now when Christmas is closing in. Thank you for stopping by!
Ilva – Somehow, after reading your blog regularly for several years, I drifted away for a year or two. Just checked in again today, and wanted to say how much I missed you and your food and photos! Thanks so much for still being here!
Thank you Larry, this is one of the finest comments I ever had!
I love nibble cookies! I’m wondering if one could make the egg free chocolate cake above gluten free also? I know you’ve got an excellent recipe for brownies based on chick pea flour, so why not.
The one item that I don’t know how to fit in my CV is that I’ve once made an egg free chocolate cake (I lost the recipe but it was a standard one off the internet and it used soy flour instead of egg) for the world’s most well-known animal liberation / animal rights philosophers!
(we hosted a seminar with them when I was a PhD student)