This week’s farm-inspired recipe takes a sweet turn with a healthy twist. These thin chocolate wafer cookies are rich, fudgey, and deeply satisfying. You will never guess the star ingredient is flaxseed, a nod to one of the powerhouse supplements we feed our horses here at Nicura Ranch. Flaxseed is loaded with omega-3s and known for promoting glossy coats in horses—and equally lustrous hair in humans! These cookies are a delicious way to sneak in some extra nutrients while indulging your chocolate cravings. Bonus: they are gluten-free.

Healthy-as-a-Horse Chocolate Thins (with flaxseed)

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup almond flour
• 1/4 cup flax meal (ground flaxseeds)
• 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp sugar
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
• 3 Tbsp milk (dairy or nondairy)
• 2 Tbsp honey
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions:

• In a large bowl, combine almond flour, flax meal, cocoa, sugar, baking soda and salt. Stir well.
• In a separate bowl, stir together oil, milk, honey and vanilla.
• Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix well to form a dough.
• Chill dough 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 300. Grease baking sheet or line a baking sheet with a baking mat.
• Roll dough into 20-24 balls.
• Bake 12 min. The cookies will puff up, but thin out while cooling. Cool completely before removing from pan (chilling them can help with removing them from the pan).
• Store in a covered container 2 days at room temperature, or in the refrigerator for 2 weeks.

Pour a glass of milk and enjoy this yummy and healthy treat!