Thin Mint Copycats- Paleo!

        Yes! Chocolate mint cookies that are healthy and paleo!! I have made my homemade recipe twice in one week and still can't get enough of these cookies. Since I live gluten free, there are no more Girl Scout Thin Mints-(filled with hfcs, caramel color, artificial flavors, and..wheat)- for me!
  If you do not know what the paleo diet is, here is a good link- The paleo diet.

          Paleo Thin Mint Copy Cat Recipe 
             Cookie Ingredients:
                 3 cups almond flour
                 1/4 cup coconut flour
                 1/4 + 1/8 cup cocoa powder
                 1/2 cup honey
                 1 egg
                 1/3 tsp baking soda
                 1 1/2 tsp peppermint extract

              Coating:
                     1/3 cup honey
                     6 oz unsweetened chocolate
                     2 tsp peppermint extract
                     1 tbs coconut oil

           1. Mix all the cookie ingredients together.
           2. freeze the dough for an hour, so you can form it later.
           3.Use a  flour dusted cup to cut out the cookies.
           4. Cook them on a greased pan in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 350F or until done ( It depends on the size of the cookie)
           5. Place the cookie in the freezer until the coating is finished.
           6. Mix all the coating ingredient together on the stove. (Melt on low so the coating deos not harden.
           7.Coat the cookies and freeze until ready to eat!

      Note: Keep them in the freezer so that the coating does not melt.  Yields 50 small cookies.
         
         

     
         
           
   
             

Honey Taffy

     

 I was wanting to make a delicious candy that was yummy with out the corn starch and all the "bad stuff". Finally, I found out that I could make honey taffy. It tastes similar to the tooth breaking, almost always in your kids Halloween basket candy, only healthier! So for the recipe:

    Chocolate Mint Taffy:
1/2 cup honey
1/8 tsp peppermint flavoring
                                                                   1/8 cup gluten free chocolate chips

        1.Mix the honey and peppermint flavoring in a pot and start to boil until it reaches around 290 degrees Fahrenheit. 
       2. Pour the boiling mixture in a pan to cool off. *Be very careful as the honey peppermint mixture will be hot*
       3.Immediately after step 2, mix in the gluten free chocolate chips. 
      4. After the mixture cools off (about 10 minutes) oil your hands with olive oil (to prevent sticking) and start stretching the taffy until it gets a few shades lighter. 
      5. Twist the taffy into a desired shape and cut the candy into bite-sized pieces, with clean scissors.
      6. Wrap the individual pieces into wax paper and store the yummy candies in the fridge! 

      You can also leave out the  chocolate chips if you want mint honey taffy. 

               ~Enjoy!