New year, new recipes! Also, new ingredients. I've been researching the impact the foods we eat have on our bodies (due to a recent cancer diagnosis of a close family friend) and was recommended Anticancer: A New Way of Life by Dr David Servan-Schreiber. With this in mind, I raided Wholefoods and found a lovely sweet alternative to sugar. And here's the good news - it works perfectly with vanilla! Sorry for the lack of photo, they disappeared too fast, the guys at work couldn't tell that they didn't have the normal naughties in! I'm a complete agave convert.
Ingredients:
1 cup agave syrup
1 cup butter (room temperature)
2 tsp LittlePod vanilla extract
1 egg
3 cups wholewheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup cocoa nibs
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375F. Mix syrup, vanilla and egg in large bowl. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt and nibs to make a stiff dough. On a greased baking tray, dollop teaspoons of the mixture, leaving about 2inches between each cookie. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes, or until a golden brown. Cool on a wire rack and keep in a tin to keep them fresh.
