These cookies were truly a gift from the universe. Three seemingly unrelated events had to happen before these bad boys were beheld unto us:
- I accidentally ordered 6 bags of Squirrel’s Salted Caramel pecans on Amazon. I then not-so-accidentally decided to keep all six bags (I am completely and utterly incapable of Amazoning. The youths make it look so easy. It’s not.)
- Frontier Co-op’s Maple Extract went on sale at our local grocery store; FINALLY giving me an excuse to purchase it.
- On Episode 5 of Season 4 of the Great British Baking Show, one of the bakers made a Maple Pecan Pinwheel.
These pinwheels lit a fire in me n C. One that led to a fierce and immediate need for a maple pecan dessert. Blind with desire, I grasped at all things maple and delicious in our uninspiring but functional kitchen. At the time, I didn’t appreciate the serendipitous contents of our cupboards. In retrospect, it may have saved C and I from a complete and utter Great British Baking Show breakdown (if you know, YOU KNOW).
All I remember from this tumultuous night was almond flour flying and maple syrup flowing. It’s not until the timer went off on our toaster oven (you know we mean business when we use our toaster oven instead of our toasted oven) that my memory focused.
I opened that tiny red oven door and the smell of maple syrup filled our apartment. Angels sang. There was a glowing light. Perfect little cookies shone before our eyes.
We ate the entire first batch that night.
C begs me to make these cookies. All. The. Time. And I’m more than happy to comply. You know that I love adding high quality calories to my diet in a controlled fashion using high quality cookies. And these little guys come in at only 60 calories per cookie, allowing me to enjoy them multiple times throughout the day. The only bad thing about these cookies, is that they seem to magically disappear from our fridge. Perhaps the cookie monster is real after all? Or perhaps I have a C monster…
So, from the universe, to me, to you, Salted Maple Pecan cookies.
Maple Pecan Sea Salt Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 1/8 cup coconut flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup almond butter
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1/8 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp maple extract
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 oz pecans (chopped)
- coarse sea salt (for topping)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line baking sheet.
- Combine all dry ingredients in bowl. Add wet ingredients and beat well with stand or hand mixer.
- Fold in pecans.
- Place cookies (~1 tbsp of dough) on sheet. The cookies don’t spread much, so pat down the balls of dough with your hand to desired width. I like to top my cookies with a pecan 🙂 sprinkle cookies with sea salt.
- Bake for about 11 minutes or until cookies turn a golden brown.