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Chocolate Beetroot Gluten Free Soft Cookies

Yields16 ServingsPrep Time10 minsCook Time30 minsTotal Time40 mins

Amazing gluten-free chocolate soft cookies with beetroot that are easy to bake them and everybody will love them! You won't realize that you’re eating beets!Amazing gluten-free chocolate soft cookies with beetroot that are easy to bake them and everybody will love them! You won't realize that you’re eating beets!

 1 cup beetroot (peeled, cooked and then pureed)
 1 egg
 ½ cup icing sugar (see tips for replacement and quantity)
 100 g butter
 1 tsp vanilla extract
 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
 250 g gluten-free self-rising flour (see tips for replacement)
 ¼ tsp sea salt
 ½ tsp baking soda
 200 g grated or flaked gluten-free chocolate couverture
1

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.

2

Grate/chop/flake the chocolate couverture if you can’t find graded or flaked. Also you can use a small food processor. Leave it aside.

3

Pure the beetroots that have already been boiled and cooled, with a small food processor.

4

Add the egg and beat a little more.

5

Lightly melt the butter (do not let it burn) 5. I melted it in the microwave for about 40 seconds.

6

Add the melted butter, flour, cocoa and vanilla into the food processor and mix them.

7

Pour this mix in a bowl and sift slowly into the bowl the gluten free flour, the baking soda, and the salt.Pour this mix in a bowl and sift slowly into the bowl the gluten free flour, the baking soda, and the salt.

8

Mix them until all ingredients are combined well.

9

Finally, add the grated chocolate couverture and mix with a spoon or a spatula.

10

Spread a sheet of greaseproof paper on a baking tray.

11

With the help of two spoons, form 16 portions/balls from the dough.

12

Place them not to close on the baking tray, pressing them lightly on top to give a relative shape to the soft cookies.

13

Don't worry if their shape isn't perfect, they will take the shape as they baking.

14

Bake at 180°C/350°F for about 30 minutes . But if you make the soft cookies smaller, you will also reduce the baking time.

15

Leave the soft cookies in the oven for another 5 minutes with the door open and then put them on a rack to cool down well before eating them.

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