This Chocolate Avocado Cookies post was sponsored by the Hass Avocado Board as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own.
These Chocolate Avocado Cookies are rich, fudgy & melt in your mouth! Avocados are substituted for oil making the cookies a healthier, vitamin packed treat. You’ll never know they’re made with avocados! Gluten Free + Low Calorie {with a Paleo option}
I’m excited to share these Chocolate Avocado Cookies with you! Before we jump into the recipe, I have a confession. Avocados are not my favorite food. I love a good guacamole, avocado pudding, avocado brownie or avocado smoothie bowl, but sliced avocados I don’t love which is why I’m always looking for creative ways to sneak them into my diet.
Between my Hashimoto’s, teaching 3 spins classes a week and training like a rockstar in the gym, inflammation is no joke. I’m constantly trying to keep it under control. Avocados are a good anti-inflammatory food (1), high in vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients (disease preventing).
They’re naturally high in monounsaturated fat (good fat) making them an excellent substitute for saturated fat. Most people don’t know that avocados are a fruit, and they have less than one gram of sugar per 1-ounce. The least amount of sugar per any other fruit.
That’s why I love baking with avocados! They’re make a great healthy fat substitute in recipes that traditionally have unhealthy oils, and you get to control the sugar content.
They make baked goods oh so creamy and delicious! Even better, avocados are flavorless so you won’t know they’re there! Perfect for getting unhealthy eaters to eat healthier, and these Chocolate Avocado Cookies are guaranteed to please any unhealthy eater.
Rich, fudgy, creamy… they melt in your mouth with every bite. Great as a nutrient dense snack or even for breakfast (<-yes for breakfast!). I love crumbling a Chocolate Avocado Cookie over my Greek yogurt for a protein packed snack. It’s just enough to satisfy my sweet tooth while getting anti-inflammatory benefits.
This week I’m starting a 6 week bootcamp with a personal trainer so guaranteed there will be a batch of these goodies in my freezer to help me stay on track with my nutrition and eating while I test the limits of my fitness.
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- 1 medium ripe avocado ~3/4 cup
- ½ cup Gluten Free oat flour*
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- ⅛ tsp. sea salt
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place the avocado, maple syrup, vanilla extract and egg in a food processor or blender. Blend on high 3 minutes until avocado is fully broken down.
- Add salt, cocoa powder, baking soda and oat flour. Process until fully blended.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, place 2 scoops on the prepared baking sheet to form a cookie. Spread it out a bit to make a cookies as they will not spread in the oven.
- Bake at 350 F for 8 minutes.
- Remove from the oven, cool 5 minutes on the pan. Transfer to a wire baking cooling rack.
- Eat immediately or store in refrigerator 1 week or in freezer up to 1 month.
What I Used For The Recipe
Source:
(1) Kim, O., Murakami, A., Takahashi, D., Nakamura, Y., Torikai, K., Kim, H., & Ohigashi, H. (2000). An avocado constituent, persenone A, suppresses expression of inducible forms of nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase in macrophages, and hydrogen peroxide generation in mouse skin. Bioscience, Biotechnology, & Biochemistry, 64, 2504-2507.
Avocados make the perfect base for almost anything! I have yet to venture into avocado with chocolate..but this looks like a good recipe to start with!
You really need to try!
These look amazing. Almost like snackwells, but without, well, all of the chemicals…
Snackwells! OMG I haven’t thought about those in ages.
These look so good! I have yet to try baking with avocado or using it in a smoothie and I need to get on that!
Oh you need to try lady. It’s so easy and good!
LOOK AT HOW PRETTY YOUR NAILS ARE! I swear I get my nails done just so they look good in the photos lol now if only I would stop biting my cuticles!
I can’t believe of everything in this post, you notice the nails. Haha you totally got me hooked!
Yum, I love how easily avocados blend in and hide in desserts. I made a avocado chocolate pudding pie once and no one in my family had any idea it had an avocado base.
Avocado pudding is amazing! Love the idea of a pie.
I need to try these cookies they look amazing thank you for sharing the recipe
You’re welcome!
Um, WHAT! With avocados? These sound amazing! Sharing these on my next round ups post 😀
Thanks for the love girl!
Ok, so mine totally don’t look like the picture. I used almond flour and they turned out sort of cakey and dry. They also spread during cooking! :-/ definitely delicious! 🙂
I would expect that to happen with almond flour. You would have to use different quantities than the original recipe calls for as almond flour’s much denser. I wouldn’t expect them to look like the recipe because you used different ingredients. Glad they were still tasty though!
Can make my own oats flour by super blending instant dry oats into a flour-like base?
Using regular oats will probably work. I’m not sure about instant.