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Raw Oreos

Prep Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour
Course: Dessert
Keyword: Cookies, Healthy, raw

Ingredients

Cookie-

  • 1/2 cup Medjool dates about 6-7, pitted and soaked for 1 hour
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/4 tsp Madagascar bourbon vanilla
  • 1/2 cup raw cacao powder*
  • 1/2 cup almond flour or meal
  • 1/2 cup cashew meal
  • 1/2 tsp pink Himalayan sea salt
  • pinch of cayenne powder

Filling-

  • 1/4 cup coconut butter
  • 2 TB coconut oil
  • 1/2 tsp Madagascar bourbon vanilla
  • 1 TB agave nectar**

Instructions

  • Drain your dates after they have been soaked for at least one hour. Mix dates, water, and vanilla until very well combined in either a food processor or blender. In a small bowl combine cacao powder, almond flour, cashew meal, salt, and cayenne and add to date mixture in processor/blender. Mix until fully combined. Transfer dough to a countertop and kneed into a ball, using more almond flour if necessary. Roll between two layers of parchment paper into a 1/4 inch thickness, then place in fridge for half an hour. While dough is in the fridge, make your filling.
  • To make filling, warm coconut butter in microwave for 10 seconds until slightly softened. In a small bowl, combine with coconut oil and mix using a long fork. Add in vanilla and agave nectar, and mix well using fork again and then switch to small spatula to try and remove clumps. It should look like a thick cream cheese frosting. If smaller lumps remain, that's totally fine!
  • Cut cookies into rounds using a 2 inch cookie cutter. Fill with about 1-2 teaspoons of coconut butter filling and lightly press between two cookies. Store in fridge for up to 5 days and let thaw to room temperature for half an hour before serving.

Notes

*If you aren't worried about being strictly raw and don't have raw cacao powder, don't worry! Just use regular cocoa powder, it works just as well.
**You can also use any other refined sugar-free sweeteners such as maple syrup or honey. Just a reminder--if you do use honey the recipe is no longer vegan.