Those of you who know me a little know that I'm totally horrified by the fact that some people seem to think that the gluten free diet is a good way to lose weight. It's not, it's a diet that helps people get their health back. That doesn't mean that I'm opposed to living healthy either. Those that know me well know I've struggled with my weight for a period of my life and the only way I got back to a healthy weight was by cutting down portions, eating healthier (read loads of veggies, fruits, rice, wholemeal bread and such and above all no more processed packaged foods) and exercising way more (riding my bike to work every day). So I get people wanting to live healthy. I just don't believe that the gluten free diet is going to do you any favours. Because gluten aren't your enemy unless you have celiac disease. Sugar, fat & such are. But if you don't eat unhealthy stuff all day, every day, it's ok to indulge yourself every once in a while. And that's what I've done by making these cookies. Cookies that I'll serve to my kids and some of my colleagues tomorrow because I think they deserve a bit of indulgence. And I may just have one myself. ;-)
This recipe makes about 20 huge cookies.
Ingredients:
- 250 grams (9 oz) of full fat butter
- 250 grams (9 oz) of light caster sugar
- 250 grams (9 oz) of (sticky) rice flour
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 teaspoons of xanthan gum
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda or cream of tartar
- 0.5 a teaspoon of iodised salt
- the scraped seeds of a vanilla bean
- 100 grams (3.5 oz) of white chocolate
- 100 grams (3.5 oz) of dark chocolate
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees centigrade or 350 degrees fahrenheit.
- I bought to bars of chocolate and bashed them to smithereens with my meat hammer (make sure you have some big chunks left in there too for good measure).
- Put all the ingredients in a big bowl and mix them until you have above mentioned crunchy velvety dough with tons of chocolate.
- I rolled out the dough (on a gluten free, clean surface) till it was about 0.5 cm (almost 0.25 of an inch) thick and punched out round cookies with cookie cutter with a diameter of 7 cm (2.5 inch). I put them on a baking tray (make sure you leave a lot of space in between) and put them in the oven for about 10-12 minutes.
- Leave to cool & then impress your friends, family, colleagues (or yourself) with them as you serve them with a cup of coffee.
