A versatile no bake chocolate sandwich cookie recipe - high in iron, protein and fiber - that can be used to make 16 halves, or 8 sandwich cookies. I fill mine with coconut cream, but you can also try filling with a jam or nut butter.
Make the date paste and coconut cream filling ahead of time and refrigerate.
To make 1 cup of date paste, soak overnight or for 1 hour in hot water your dates. Then drain them, pit them, blend them in a high speed blender with about ½ cup of water or less.
Whether you need the entire ½ cup depends on how moist your dates are. I normally start by adding about ¼ cup of water to the dates, blend until that is creamy, and add the rest if the paste is still chunky.
To blend up coconut whipped cream, scoop out the solid portion of the chilled-overnight can of full fat coconut milk, and blend that with 2 teaspoon maple syrup and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Reserve the left over milk in the can for smoothies or other recipes. Refrigerate the cream, covered, until the cookies are ready to be filled.
Make Cookies
Add 1 cup of date paste into your 2-cup measuring cup or a bowl.
Add in the coconut flour and cacao powder, and stir up with a spoon until all is combined. You should have a malleable batter.
Roll the batter with your hands into balls about 1 to ½ inch thick and press into the circles of the mold, or just press onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet for less regular circles.
Freeze about 1 hour or more.
Coat Cookies in Chocolate
Melt ½ cup chocolate chips in the microwave in your glass measuring cup at about 60 seconds, and stir in 2 teaspoon of coconut oil. Then remove the cookies from the mold (or cookie sheet), and dip them with a fork into your measuring cup filled with melted chocolate, then set them on a rack (sitting on parchment paper to catch drips) to drip dry. I set them in the freezer for about 15 min after that to ensure a good set.
Fill the Cookies with Cream
To make your sandwich cookies, plop a teaspoon or more of coconut cream on one cookies, and sandwich it with the other. I would make sandwiches when you are ready to eat them as they are a bit hard to hold with a pillowy whipped cream center..good luck! I hope you enjoy my healthy sandwich cookies.
Notes
Nutrition facts are per chocolate-coated cookie half, and without the coconut cream filling.