These gluten-free and vegan Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Teff Cookies make for healthier, nutritionally packed cookie with the beloved nutella flavor!
Over this last year, teff has quickly become one of my favorite flours to play with. It's tiny grains have a melt-in-your-mouth effect that I think is truly unique. Slightly nutty in flavor, I have found it is versatile in its uses and oh-so-good when paired with chocolate.
With the commencement of holiday baking (how is it December right now?), I wanted to create something worthy of the season but on the healthier side of things.
Immediately my thoughts went to teff flour. This teeny tiny grain packs a nutritional punch that can't help but make you feel good for using it.
Enter hazelnuts and chocolate. You're feeling even better now, right? My teff almond butter cookies recipe is one of the most popular on the site and one of my favorites as well.
By whipping up some homemade roasted hazelnut butter, sweetening them with maple syrup, and wrapping the finished cookies in chocolate and more hazelnuts, those little teff cookie gems were transformed.
Big thanks to Gabriel at The Dinner Special for having me on the podcast this week! If you'd like to hear more about my story and journey to becoming gluten-free, check it out!
Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Teff Cookies (Gluten-Free, Vegan)
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups raw hazelnuts
- 1½ cups teff flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup melted coconut oil
- 1 ¼ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup dairy-free chocolate chips I use Enjoy Life
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Set aside a ¼ cup of the hazelnuts and place the remaining 2 cups on the cookie sheet and roast in oven for 10-15 minutes. While the hazelnuts are still warm, place them inside a clean dish towel and rub them together so that the skins fall away. Not all the skins will remove and that's okay, get as much of the skins off as you can and place hazelnuts in the bowl of a food processor. Process the hazelnuts, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides of bowl, until they are smooth and creamy, about 4 to 5 minutes. This should yield about 1 cup hazelnut butter.
- Turn the oven temperature down to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In a medium bowl, combine teff flour and salt. Add 1 cup hazelnut butter, maple syrup, coconut oil (make sure it is no longer hot), and vanilla extract. Stir with a rubber spatula until well combined.
- Using a small spoon to scoop dough, roll cookie dough into small balls and place on cookie sheet. Due to the variances in oil in the hazelnut butter, if your cookies dough is very gelatinous, add 1 to 2 tablespoons more teff. With a fork, flatten balls about halfway down.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes. Overbaking will result in a dry cookie. Remove from oven and allow to sit on cookie sheet for a couple minutes, then transfer to cool on a wire rack.
- While the cookies are baking, chop the reserved ¼ cup hazelnuts. Once the cookies have completely cooled, place the chocolate chips in a small microwave safe bowl and heat in 30 second intervals until completely melted. Using a spoon, cover half of each cookie with melted chocolate and place on a piece of parchment paper. Sprinkle with chopped hazelnuts. Allow chocolate to cool and harden before storing in an airtight container.
Notes
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June @ How to Philosophize with Cake
Those cookies look so rich and delicious! You can't go wrong with chocolate + hazelnut :) Love your photos too, so drool-worthy!
Tessa
You are so right - hard to go wrong with chocolate and hazelnut! :) Thank you so much, June. Have a great weekend!
Abby @ The Frosted Vegan
Oh goodness, I have all the ingredients for these, so I think they are going to be in my weekend plans! I've had a bag of teff flour hanging out in my cabinets for a while (from making your brownies!) and I need to use it, so this is the perfect excuse :) Happy weekend friend!
Tessa
Oh yay! I hope you like them. I think they also double as a fabulous breakfast cookie. ;) They are full of protein, so why not, right? Have a great weekend, lady! xo.
Kelsey @ Appeasing a Food Geek
Teff flour = yes. Hazelnuts = double yes. Chocolate galore! = yes, yes, yes! These look delicious, and I can't wait to try them out Tessa! xoxo
Tessa
Chocolate galore is key! ;) Thanks so much, Kelsey! xo.
Becca @ Two Places at Once
I've never baked with teff flour before. Now that you've posted this recipe, I'll have to try it!
Tessa
It is definitely a unique flour but I really do love it - hope you do too! Thank you, Becca!
Gwen @ Delightful Adventures
I'll be buying some teff flour this week :)
Tessa
Yay, Gwen! <3 Hope you are doing well! xo.
Medha @ Whisk & Shout
Lovely photos! These cookies look absolutely delicious :) Pinned!
Tessa
Thank you, Medha!! Enjoy your weekend! xo.
Amanda Paa
i made your teff almond butter cookies last week and they were delicious! i'm so glad you posted another recipe with this might little grain. and homemade hazelnut butter.... be still my heart. chocolate dipped, they look so beautiful. happy december, girl! xo
Tessa
Oh, I'm so glad you liked them!! That just made my day. :) Homemade hazelnut butter indeed - I've been wondering why I had not made it for myself before. Hope you've been having a fun weekend! xo.
Christine // my natural kitchen
These look fantastic! I haven't started my baking yet (haha I feel behind on this one? my colleague just finished 8 dozen cookies - eek!) but these sound like the perfect way to kick it off. I have a major soft spot for nut and chocolate combinations. Hazelnut, teff and chocolate would be delightful! LOVE THIS! xoxo
Tessa
8 dozen cookies!! That would make me feel behind too. Haha! I think you are doing a-okay! I could have some kind of nut and chocolate combination every day. Thank you so much, Christine! xo.
Rakhee@boxofspice
What a good looking cookie! If you've ever been to my blog you'll see that I LOVE hazelnuts. Combine it with chocolate and I will love you forever! (thats a promise!) Gorgeous cookies! Send me some?? Please?
Tessa
Oh, thank you Rakhee!! I can't wait to check out your hazelnut recipes. Hazelnut recipe exchange?? ;)