Ingredients
Method
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper to prevent sticking.
- In a bowl, combine the sifted flour and cacao, ensuring there are no lumps.
- Add maple syrup and creamy peanut butter, stirring until the mixture turns crumbly.
- Gently fold in the dried raspberries and dark chocolate chips.
- Gradually stir in the milk until the batter reaches a thick consistency. If you encounter difficulty combining the batter, you may add a dash more milk, though I personally found it unnecessary.
- Now, using your hands, craft 8-9 cookie balls from the batter and place them on the prepared baking sheet. Want some seriously uniform cookies? Use a cookie scoop to measure out the cookies first.
- Gently press down on each ball to form disk shapes. To enhance the presentation, garnish the cookies with additional raspberries by gently pressing them into the dough. Optional though, but I love the additional sweetness and crunch it adds.
- Place the cookies on baking sheets and allow to chill in the fridge for 20-30 minutes. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Notes
- Although oats are naturally gluten-free, they are often processed alongside wheat products, leading to potential contamination. Certified GF oats are a secure option if you can tolerate oats.
- Chocolate chips - Good quality chocolate chips are a must! Chocolate chips, or chocolate chunks, use what you have! You can use no dairy or extra dark chocolate chips to make it vegan. Cocoa nibs are also a great vegan option if you can tolerate the bitterness. Alternatively, whatever chocolate chips or peanut butter chips you choose, they will taste great here.
- Classic peanut butter - Smooth and drippy peanut butter, with no added sugar. This recipe has not been tested with natural peanut butter yet and cookies may turn out to be drier and crumbly.
- Oat flour - Or you can also use coconut flour here which should yield similar results (although I haven't tested coconut flour with this exact recipe yet). You can either buy oat flour or DIY by finely grinding rolled oats with a food processor or blender.
- Freeze-dried-raspberries - Optional, but so worth it! Look for larger packets or buy in bulk online to get a discount. Or if you can, you can make freeze-dried raspberries at home with the right equipment. For a splurge, we love to have these for snacks when fresh berries are not available. Without berries, these cookies wouldn't be half as flavorful.
- FLAVOR & TEXTURE - These no-bake dark chocolate cookies with raspberries offer a delicious combination of rich and intense chocolate flavor with a burst of tangy raspberry notes. These cookies are pretty chewy but not as chewy as baked chocolate chip cookies.