Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cookies

Courtesy of www.health-bent.com

Yield: Six 2½ inch cookies + scraps

Ingredients

• 1 (7 oz) package Unsweetened Let’s Do Organic Creamed Coconut*
• 1/3 cup coconut sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup chocolate chips

Method

1. In a small sauce pot, combine creamed coconut, sugar, vanilla and salt over medium heat. Whisk until the sugar has dissolved and the creamed coconut has melted, about 3 minutes or so. The mixture may seem a little bit sandy.
2. Get out an 8×8 baking dish. Dump the melted coconut/sugar mixture into the pan. Let it cool a bit, and then use your hands to press the mixture flat into the dish. The dough will only take up about 3/4 of the baking dish. Scatter the chocolate chips on top and press them into the dough with your hands.
3. Place in the refrigerator to cool and then use a cookie cutter, or a knife, to cut into desired shapes.

*I like to use this in lieu of coconut butter out of a jar because the package has some magic ratio perfectly measured out (see pic below). Just using coconut butter straight out of a jar may turn things into a crumbly mess.

Enjoy your paleo chocolate chip cookie dough cookies!