Snack

This is my slightly-healthier adaptation of the Aro Cafe (Wellington, New Zealand) recipe for vegan chocolate cookies. Even though slightly heathier, these are still pretty decadent and should be considered an occasional treat unless you're very active.These amazing chocolate cookies with chunks of apricot, almonds and chocolate, can be made by those of us living in New Zealand, where many 'special vegan' ingredients are not available. NZ cup and spoon measures are used. Splenda is OK with me - if you object to Splenda, substitute your preferred granular sweetner and adjust calories accordingly.If you don't put the chocolate topping and fig on, it's about 50 calories less per cookie (about 260 cals/cookie). You could make twice as many small cookies if you want fewer calories - just make sure you chop the chocolate, almonds and apricots finely, divide into pieces weighing about 37g before baking, and watch carefully that they don't burn towards the end of the cooking time. Half-size cookies come in at about 155 cals/cookie iced or 130 cals/cookie uniced.