Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut-Butter Pretzel Cookies

by Arielle J on December 11, 2014

Have the end-of-the-year blues?
Get your friends, family and coworkers excited to end the year with a bang with
these healthy, gluten-free sweet treats.

Making them is super fun and easy!

The trick to making them is the right pan.
I used this pretzel pan, one of my
favorite cookie recipes and topped it with
some coarse himalayan salt and pretzel bits
and a few drizzles of dark chocolate and white chocolate
to make them look fun and festive.

I’ve been wrapping them up as gifts and giving them
out to my friends all week in these treat bags wrapped in a bow with twine!

Perfect way to end the year on a sweet (and healthy) note!

Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut-Butter Pretzel Cookies
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups Coconut Flour
3/4 cup cacao powder
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup olive oil
1 cup Coconut Palm Sugar
1 tsp. sea salt
1/4 cup coconut water
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 organic eggs
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Toppings:
3 tbsp. coarse pink himalayan salt
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
2 tbs. organic peanut butter
1 cup mini spelt pretzels, crushed

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the coconut flour, cacao and baking soda and set aside
3. In another bowl, combine the coconut oil, olive oil and coconut palm sugar and mix well. Add sea salt, coconut water, vanilla extract, and eggs and whisk well
5. Slowly mix both mixtures together.
6. Stir in the chocolate chips
7. Pat dough into pretzel pan
8. Bake until cookies are golden brown approximately 15 to 17 minutes
9. Remove from oven, and let cool
10. Transfer to parchment paper or plate to prepare toppings
11. For a chocolate drizzle topping: in a small sauce pan,
heat up some chocolate and stir so it doesnt thicken. Dip a spatula
or a fork into the chocolate and whip your hand back and forth over the
pretzel making thin drizzles. Add some drops of peanut butter and sprinkle
with pink salt crystals and crushed pretzels (I crushed them in a plastic baggie.)
Voila!

Makes approx 12-15 pretzels