Quinoa Sweet Potato POW! Breakfast Cookies

May 24, 2011 by Leanne Vogel August 10, 2017

Fresh roasted sweet potatoes mixed with dark chocolate pieces and winter spices to fill your morning with the goodness of sweet potato pie.

Ingredients

•  1½ cup water
• ¾ cup raw quinoa

Dry

• 1 cup gluten-free flour mixture – I used this
• ¼ cup ground flax seed

Wet

• ½ cup cooked sweet potato
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• 2 tablespoons grape seed oil
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon sea salt

Add-ins

• ½ cup dairy-free chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Add quinoa and water to a saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, and simmer for 15 minutes. Once complete, remove from the stove, keep lid on and allow to sit for 15 minutes. Remove lid, transfer to a bowl and cool completely (so that it doesn’t melt the chocolate chips).
2. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat. Set aside.
3. Add all dry ingredients to a large bowl. Then, measure 1½ cups of the cooked quinoa and add to the dry ingredients. Stir to coat, until all quinoa granules are covered in the mixture. Set aside.
4. Add all wet ingredients to a small bowl and stir well, ensuring that the sweet potato is fully mashed.
5. Pour the wet mix into the dry mix and stir to combine.
6. Stir in chocolate chips.
7. One tablespoon at a time, scoop mixture onto prepared baking sheet, leaving a small space between each cookie. They will not spread out, so you can keep the cookies close. Lightly form each cookie, as you’d like them to come out. I flattened them slightly between my palms.
8. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, until cooked through and golden.
9. Remove from the oven, let cool on the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack and allowing them to cool for a couple of hours. Because cooked quinoa was used in this recipe, the longer you leave it to cool, the firmer it will become. Leave it be and it will transform!

Notes

To make grain-free: replace gluten-free mix with almond flour

Oil: you can use any type of oil you’d like in this recipe

To prepare the sweet potato: I added a whole (small) sweet potato to a 375F oven and roasted for 40 minutes. Removed from the oven and allowed to cool completely. Then I removed the skin and mashed.

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