Eggless quinoa Nutella cookies are soft, dense and healthy cookies. Healthy snack for anytime of the day.
Eggless quinoa Nutella cookies are prepared with quinoa flour and wheat flour. Quinoa cookies are unique from regular cookies both in taste and shape. Quinoa lends a nutty and an earthy flavor to the cookies, which is an acquired taste and the cookies look mini cakes. Regardless of the shape, cookies are surely addictive once you acquire the earthly nutty flavor of quinoa.
Few weeks Mireille shared Nutella quinoa cookies with our blogging group and we all loved them. I had some leftover quinoa flour after baking salted chocolate chip quinoa cookies which was nearing the sell by date. To use up the flour, baked these cookies when one of my nephews was in town, who also loved the cookies.
How to prepare Quinoa Cookies?
Preparation of cookies is as easy as any other cookies.
- Mix together the dry ingredients.
- Beat together brown sugar and butter, then add wet ingredients; Nutella, applesauce and vanilla extract.
- Mix in the dry ingredients.
- Shape the cookies and bake.
Where can I get Quinoa Flour?
Quinoa flour is available in any supermarket and if your local store does not carry the flour, check any big supermarket or a healthy store. If you can’t source it, just make it at home.
How to make Quinoa Flour?
Yes, you can make quinoa flour at home. I usually buy the flour and it is expensive! A good alternative is making it at home, though I have not made it at home. Lightly toast quinoa, cool and grind to a fine powder. Sieve the flour and store in an airtight container. I used leftover quinoa flour for today's Quinoa Nutella cookies.
Eggless Nutella Quinoa Cookies Recipe
Eggless Nutella Quinoa Cookies
Equipment
- 2 mixing bowls
- Handheld electric mixer
- Large cookie sheet
- Oven
Ingredients
- ¼ cup or ½ stick Butter softened or microwave for 20 seconds
- 97.5 grams or ¾ cup Whole Wheat Flour (I used atta/chapati flour)
- 94.5 grams or ¾ cup Quinoa Flour
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ⅛ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
- 75 grams or ⅜ cups firmly packed Brown Sugar
- ¼ cup Nutella
- ⅓ cup Apple Sauce
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Spray a large cookie sheet with cooking spray and keep aside.
- In a bowl, mix together the flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Take another large bowl, beat together butter and brown sugar until creamy.
- Add Nutella, applesauce and vanilla extract and beat well.
- Add flour mixture and beat until the flour is just incorporated.
- Using a table spoon or an ice cream scoop, scoop out dough and place it on the cookie sheet. If using an ice-cream scoop, take about ½ a scoop per cookie. Check notes.
- Dampen fingers and lightly shape and flatten the cookies.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes until cookies are set. I baked for 15 minutes.
- Cool the cookies completely on the cookie sheet and store in an airtight container.
Notes
- Size of the cookies - The cookies in the picture are slightly bigger than the actually size of cookies. For the first 4 cookies I used ¾ of a scoop and for the rest I used ½ a scoop. Smaller cookies looked more appetizing than the bigger ones. I would say ½ a scoop would yield 16 cookies and using ¾ of scoop per cookie would yield about 10 cookies.
- Temperatures - Temperature of ovens vary from oven to oven. Check cookies after 10 minutes and continue to bake if needed.
Nutrition
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themadscientistskitchen says
Like Pradnya even I had forgotten about the plates. Thse cookies look awesome. Do I grind quinoa to get the flour?
MySpicyKitchen says
Archana, I used quinoa flour but you can try grinding it.
Gayathri Kumar says
We don't get quinoa or quinoa flour here. So I could never try this. Between the cookies look so rustic and such a nutritious way to make cookies...
s says
Good to the see the exact measurements in grams too, the cookies are awesome. Yet to get my hand on quinoa.
Chef Mireille says
Glad u liked them and those colorful plates r so cute
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
That is a lovely cookie! I remember bookmarking this from Mir's blog as well, but never got around to try it.
Priya Srinivasan says
Cookies look scrumptious usha!! Nutella must be adding a nice taste to the cookies!!!
Srivalli says
Though I don't have quinoa, will bookmark it..looks fantastic Usha..
saras says
These Looks INCREDIBLE! I would surely try them out
Padma Rekha says
I still have to try my hand on quinoa. Healthy recipe but like that addition of nutella
srividhya says
Great cookies. One quick question. I tried pumpkin cookies using quinoa flour. But there was slight bitter taste in the cookie and I had to add more sweet. Did you had similar problem or is it just my flour.
MySpicyKitchen says
Srividhya, I did not find the cookies bitter. Quinoa flour does have a unique, nutty taste but I did not find it bitter.
PJ says
Yum that you added Nutella to the cookies.Healthy and tasty!
Kalyani says
thats a super precise recipe, Usha :-)) guess I need to sharpen my math and measuring skills :-)))
But those cookies look delish !
priya says
Love baking with quinoa,, been a while i baked with quinoa, love that nutella touch here..
veena krishnakumar says
This looks healthy.Must have tasted delicious!!
Sowmya says
surely a healthy cookie.. have never tried quinoa in bakes.. this is a must try
Nalini says
This is one such nice idea to include Quinoa,cookies look delicious and colorful plates..
Harini says
I am sure I can sneak in quinoa in these cookies and no one at home will realize it..shh...
Suma Gandlur says
I am the one who loves quinoa at home and would try it sometime. BTW are they dense?
MySpicyKitchen says
Suma, yes these cookies are dense.
Rajani says
Those cookies were wonderful! I am also planing to bake these as soon as I buy some quinoa.
Pavani says
I loved Mir's quinoa cookies a lot and thank you for reminding me of those 🙂 Those colorful plates are perfect in this pic 🙂
Varada says
Quinoa experiments did not go down well in my house. These cookies are indeed very healthy. I like the chunky shape a lot.
pradnya says
i forgot about these plates completely...i now know what to use, this idea of using quinoa is great for cookies....lovely pick
Vaishali Sabnani says
wow those are truly healthy, like the idea of nutella, must be giving such a nice flavor, super!!