Chocolate Mint Cookies

Cookie Dough:

1/4 C. Coconut flour

1/4 C. Cocoa powder

1/4 C. Butter (softened)

2-3 Tbsp. Truvia

1 tsp. Vanilla

Mix all the ingredients together, dough will be stiff. Roll into 15, one inch balls, place on an un-greased cookie sheet, flatten to about 1/8 in. thick, and 1-1/2 inches across. Bake at 325 for 6-8 minutes, or till they're puffy and a tad brown around the edges. Let them cool completely before removing them from the pan, or else they will crumble...I haven't tweaked with this recipe enough to know how to keep them from being crumbly! These are suppose to be kind of crispy cookies...

After making them, and putting them in the fridge, because of the creamy filling, I have decided that these taste better, and are less crumbly, after they sit a little, and are cold! 

Creamy Mint Filling:

3 Tbsp. Truvia

1/4 C. Butter (softened)

3 oz. Cream Cheese

1-2 tsp. Peppermint Flavor

Grind the Truvia in a coffee grinder till it's powdered, mix with butter and cream cheese till thoroughly mixed and smooth. Spread a good thick layer between cookies. Makes about 7 sandwich cookies, with one leftover for taste testing :) 

THM Chocolate Cake

THM Chocolate Cake

3/4 c. coconut oil

6oz cream cheese

1/3 c. Heavy cream

3/4 c. cocoa

4 eggs

1/2-2/3 c. Truvia (depending on how sweet you like things)

2 tsp. vanilla

1  1/2 tsp. rum flavor (optional)

1/3 c. coconut flour

1  1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. glucomannan 

Melt coconut oil with cream cheese and cream, add cocoa, whisk together. 

Beat eggs with truvia, vanilla and rum, beat in chocolate mixture. Mix together coconut flour, baking powder and glucomannan, sprinkle over wet ingredients while whisking the whole time, to prevent lumps, until thoroughly mixed. Pour into a greased 10in. cake pan. 

 Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. 

Icing: 1 recipe of chocolate nut slab (THM pg. 372) 

3oz cream cheese

2-3 tbsp heavy cream (until consistency you want)

Extra sprinkle of truvia (optional)

Melt together the cream and cream cheese with truvia, add chocolate slab, let it all melt, stirring the whole time, whisk until smooth, spread over cake! 

When I made my chocolate slab, I ground the truvia with some coffee beans, so it has a slight mocha flavor. I used slivered almonds in my slab.