peaceful cookie balls

today has really been all about improvisational ball cooking.

so boyfriend enters the living room, where i am sitting and exclaims, "i want some chocolate cookies!"  then he began repairing the bookshelf that collapsed and i decided that i should make him cookies since he was doing chores.  so i pulled some ingredients from around the kitchen and this is what i came up with: black and white almond cookie balls. prep + cook time: 30 minutes, yields 9 white cookies & 9 black cookies, ~1.22 carbs per cookie

ingredients:

1 cup almond flour
1 cup hazelnut flour
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
6 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp sugar free cocoa powder
1.25 cup + 1 tbsp granulated splenda

• preheat oven to 350F
• mix together flours and 1.25 cups of the splenda.  add butter, egg, and extracts and mix well until very oily dough forms
• form dough into balls ~ 1 inch in diameter and place on cookie sheet about an inch apart, though this doesn't really matter because they don't do anything like rise or spread or whatever.
• place balls in oven for ~6 minutes
• while balls are cooking, mix together cocoa and remaining splenda
• after the six minutes have passed, remove balls from the oven.  roll the tops of nine of the balls in the cocoa powder mixture and put back on the cookie sheet
• place balls back into the oven for four minutes, then turn heat up to 400F.  cook for another 4 minutes then remove from the oven.  cookies should have a sort of crisp outer shell but super soft core

these black and white cookies will make the world a better place.