The lure of forbidden fruit is hard to resist. Isn’t it funny how much more we want things when, for whatever reason, we can’t have them? As a child, I was allergic to chocolate, which as a result made chocolate the most desirable flavor on earth. These Flourless Chocolate Cookies would have been irresistible for me!
Whenever I ate chocolate, I would break out in itchy hives. It was very uncomfortable, but that didn’t stop me from sneaking a chocolate cookie, candy bar, or drink at every opportunity.
At some point, I simultaneously out grew the allergy and my driving need for chocolate. I like chocolate now, but I don’t love it.
My dear friend and long ago college roommate has always been an avid chocolate consumer. However, the year that she gave up chocolate for lent, her craving for chocolate became so great, we had to peel her off the store front windows of Godiva and Fanny May. She longed for the withheld confection.
This Sunday night is the first night of Passover, the 8 day holiday commemorating the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt. Jews who observe the dietary traditions of Passover, abstain from eating grains (and anything made from those grains or any byproducts of those grains) and leavening.
As a consequence, many people go into a frenzy of flour-free baking. Even people who rarely eat dessert, cookies, or cakes, suddenly feel compelled to make and/or eat all kinds of goodies.
I have always been one of those frenzied Passover bakers. Not a surprise, as we have already established my tendency to crave anything I am told I can’t have.
Some Passover desserts are made with special Passover ingredients, so are often only prepared during the holiday. Other recipes have regular ingredients and can a be eaten year round.
Though these Flourless Chocolate Cookies do qualify as kosher for Passover, they are delicious and should be baked by everyone all year long. They are so rich and chocolaty, you will never notice the lack of flour.
These fudgy cookies get their crunch from a generous helping of mint chocolate candies. I used mint chocolate lentils, but mint M&M’s would work great. If you aren’t a mint fan, you could even substitute plain m and m’s.
More flourless cookie recipes
Flourless Peanut Butter S’mores Cookies
Flourless Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate Coconut Whoopie Pies
Leaving out the flour makes these cookies super chocolaty and chewy. Add mint candies for a special flavor combination. As an added bonus, Flourless Chocolate Cookies are Passover and gluten free friendly!
Flourless Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- ¼ cup potato starch corn starch for non- Passover baking
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder optional
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate bars broken into chunks
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup mint chocolate candies
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together potato starch, baking powder (if using), and salt.
- Combine chocolate and oil in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 1 minute to melt. Remove from microwave and stir until all of the chocolate is melted and smooth. Set aside to cool.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar and vanilla.
- Add the melted chocolate very slowly to the egg mixture, stirring continually to combine.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix until incorporated.
- Fold in the mint chocolate candies.
- Chill the dough until it is firm enough to scoop into balls, 2 hours to overnight.
- When ready to bake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Scoop tablespoon sized balls of dough and place 2” apart on prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for 12 minutes. Do not over bake or your cookies will lose their fudgy chew.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to wire cooling racks.
- When cookies are completely cool, store in airtight containers or zip lock bags at room temperature for at least one week.
Notes
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grandbabycakes
These cookies look really delish! I love the flourless touch. They look like quite the treat!
themondaybox
Thanks, Jocelyn! The flourless recipe makes them Passover friendly (because flour isn’t eaten during Passover) and also gives them a fudgy consistency that is delicious year round. 🙂
zerrin
These look amazing! Love the chocolate mint candies inside! Their wrinkled texture is perfect too!
themondaybox
Thank you, Zerrin! They are great cookies in flavor and texture. Though I know that cookies seem to be most popular in the US, I would love to learn some Turkish cookie recipes. Do you plan to share any?
Reeni
What decadent cookies! They look super fudgy and so pretty with those pastel candies in them! Very festive.
themondaybox
Thanks, Reeni! These are fudgy cookies and I think they would be festive for any day of the week!
BruCrew Life
I really don’t know what I would do if I found out I was allergic to chocolate…other than cry! These cookies look so decadent and fudgey!!!! And I love the candies in them!
themondaybox
The cookies really are fudgy, Jocelyn, and the crunch of the candy is delicious mixed in with the fudginess! I am glad you won’t have to cry over these. 🙂
Jess @ On Sugar Mountain
We celebrate Easter, not passover, BUT my nana is allergic to gluten so these cookies would be perfect for her! Great recipe Wendy! 😀
themondaybox
Honestly, Jess, they would be great for everyone at your Easter celebration. Find out which Easter candy is gluten free and pop it into the recipe for crunch. Its the crunch that I think is more important then the mint, though both would be ideal. Let me know if your nana likes them!
cookiemonstercooking
Oh my gosh, I don’t know what I would do if I was allergic to chocolate!! These look so fudgy and awesome of course : ) And mint always pairs so well with chocolate. I may have to make these for my sister for Easter – she would love them!
themondaybox
I think if you were allergic to chocolate, Ashley, you would spend a lot of time craving chocolate! Luckily, you can just enjoy it with out any consequences. 🙂 If you end up making them, please let me know how your sister likes them! Happy Easter.
Barbara Schieving
They look so fudgy and delicious.
themondaybox
They really are surprisingly fudgy and delicious, Barbara!
Angela
Those look fantastic! My husband is allergic to chocolate and so I try to minimize how much I bake with it, and I think that does make me crave it more.
themondaybox
Thanks, Angela! I do understand about the craving. Luckily, there are a lot of delicious things to bake without chocolate (cookie butter/Biscoff butter is my current addiction) but if its chocolate you crave, nothing but chocolate will do. 🙂
Monica
I’ve been thinking chocolate & mint and seems like a lot of people are too! I love it and as a chocoholic, I love these cookies! Alice Medrich knows chocolate so I’m sure this is awesome. They don’t look flourless at all and the sound of fudgy chocolate cookies with crunchy mint chocolates inside is a definite winner!
themondaybox
Thanks, Monica! Alice Medrich is definitely a reliable chocolate resource! I’m not always a chocolate mint person but the mint here makes the cookies.
bakerbynature
Chocolate and mint are just ahhhhhhhhmazing together!
themondaybox
I agree ,Ashley. I made these cookies without the mint and they were good but with the mint they are amazing!
gottagetbaked
Lol it sounds like your desire for chocolate arose from wanting something you couldn’t have. I’m glad you outgrew the allergy (if I couldn’t eat chocolate, I don’t think I’d have much of a will to live). These cookies are flourless?! They look so thick, chewy and perfect!
themondaybox
You are right, Nancy. I think the only reason I craved chocolate was that I wasn’t supposed to be eating it. 🙂 These cookies surprised me also the first time I made them. We think that flourless means flat but as long as you chill this dough, the cookies are thick and chewy and perfect!
Jenn
I can’t believe these are flourless – they look so fluffy!
themondaybox
I think chilling the dough keeps them from going flat, Jenn. They are fudgy rather than fluffy with a crunch from the chocolate mints.
Suzie
These sound and look terrific! I could eat them any time of year 🙂 If there was a food, such as seafood, that I was allergic to I think I would cry! I can’t imagine having a food allergy and craving it, that would be tough!
themondaybox
Thanks, Suzie! That’s exactly what happened to my daughter. Her favorite foods were shell fish. Then she suddenly developed a nasty allergy to shell fish and now we have to make up imitation dishes to meet the craving. I do believe there were some tears involved. 🙂
Mrs. DeYarmond
So nice !! Well I’m looking for any Passover recipes and this is so welcomed ! Well I’ll post a perfect Passover chocolate cake that I baked every year on the blog. Stay tuned :). Hag sameakh !!
themondaybox
Thanks, Sarah! These are some good cookies to add to your Passover baking. They are a favorite at my house. I am looking forward to your Passover chocolate cake! Hag sameach!
New sweets on the blog
They look delicious and what a clever idea to put crunchy candies in them!
themondaybox
Thanks, Ada. 🙂 I really like the combination of the soft fudgy cookie with the crunch of the candy!