Try something new...

I enjoy new things.
New clothes.
New restaurants.
New jobs.
New strange recipes!

I tried these out about 10 minutes ago: Dark Chocolate Avocado cookies...
I tweaked the recipe slightly - used a little less brown sugar, added chopped walnuts, reduced the amount of chocolate chips, added a pinch or two of salt..
They turned out quite tasty! I would definitely add more chocolate chips than I did (trying to be "good" isn't always yummy) - it's not an overly sweet or rich recipe due to the lack of butter, so they wouldn't hurt. They also don't TASTE like avocado. Its a quite mellow flavour and easy to play around with.

Dark Chocolate Avocado Cookies

Makes about 24 1 inch cookies. Adapted from Greatist

Ingredients:

1 cup mashed avocado - make sure it's ripe!

3/4 cup dark brown sugar

4 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cider vinegar

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour (or gluten free flour)
1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
 

3 - 4 tbsp semi-sweet chocolate chips (depending on how chocolaty you want em)

4 tbsp chopped walnuts

 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

"Cream" the avocado and sugar together in a food processor or by hand in a large mixing bowl using a spoon and fork. Blend until well incorporated. Make sure there are no large clumps - avocado wont melt like butter!
Add the vanilla and cider vinegar to the avocado and stir to combine.
In a medium mixing bowl, bring your dry ingredients together: Flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cocoa powder. Mix to combine.
Add the dry ingredients to the avocado and stir until smooth and well incorporated.
Stir in the final ingredients - chocolate chips and walnuts were my choice but feel free to use white chocolate chunks for a double chocolate variety, or add flax seeds and different nuts.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spoon out a tablespoon sized scoop of dough. The cookies do not flatten out, so make sure to press them down if you want a more "cookie-like" cookie. I like them messy!
Bake for 10 minutes and allow to cool before stuffing your face!

Enjoy!
K