Chocolate Pecan Dreams

Chocolate Pecan Dreams are a light and delectable cookie, elegant enough to be served at the most posh event yet simple and fun to make with the kids for a Sunday afternoon treat. Really good with the filling or without. Make them for gluten free guests tonight, a good celiac support.

An excellent accompaniment to a dish of ice cream. Makes about 1 dozen cookies.

Place in a separate bowl and blend thoroughly then set aside
1/2 (scant) cup Astoria Mills Fine Flour Mix #3
3 tablespoons cocoa
1/8th teaspoon Xanthan gum
Dash salt,
dash cinnamon
10 pecan halves or about ½ cup.
Grind pecans in a coffee grinder to make a fine powder. (It helps to add a bit of the above flour mixture as you grind)

In an electric Mixer bowl beat until very thick and light lemon colored
3 eggs
3/4 cup sugar (start beating the eggs adding a little sugar at a time)
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar (sugar which has been stored with a vanilla bean in it optonal)

Gently fold the dry mixture into the beaten eggs until blended. Drop tablespoonfuls of batter onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. The batter is a thin consistency, it won’t spread much more than the size of the cookie batter on the sheet. Each cookie should be about an inch and a half across approximately. You can also pour the batter into a piping bag and gently pipe cookie rounds onto the parchment paper.

Bake in a 350 F Oven for 5 minutes. (cookies are starting to brown at edges) Remove from oven and let cool until they lift easily off the parchment paper.

Filling:

Melt about ½ cup pure bittersweet chocolate and place in a piping bag.
Melt about ¼ cup white chocolate and place in a piping bag.

Pipe dark chocolate onto the bottom of cookie, place another cookie on top. Bottoms together so that chocolate is in the middle. Place each cookie on a tray. Drizzle with a little white chocolate. Let chocolate set. Store in a tightly closed container.

If you are going to be entertaining someone on a gluten free diet.

These Chocolate Pecan Dream Cookies are so easy to make with only a few ingredients. Please make sure your guests can tollerate nuts, (or replace nuts with double the cocoa and you can use either cornstarch or arrowroot flour in exchange for the Astoria Mills Fine Flour Mix #3 although the mix makes them just a bit better and adds an element of nutrition with our proprietary Enrichment formula. 

Also make sure you don't have any gluten containing items such as wheat, barley, oats, etc. where they can contaminate the cookies. Best to make them in a thoroughly clean area. Use parchment paper to line the cookie sheet.

Do you know someone who is on a gluten free diet, want a gift idea, why not buy some Astoria Mills Mixes!