hi I'm Michele from raw foods and today I will be making a delicious raw cacao cookie so cacao is the raw chocolate bean and it's super high in antioxidants it's one of the most amazing foods on this planet they actually used to use cacao beans as currency they're so valued and they're so good for your body and I don't know about you but I love chocolate but I will not eat processed chocolate so I've taken all these superfoods that are great for your body in all different ways and I put them in the food processor and I make a delicious cookie out of them so here I have some raw organic walnuts there's pie and omegas throwing them into the blender I have seven medjool dates I love the medjool dates they have such an amazing sweetness to them and this is what kind of binds the whole cookie together I'm going to use the cacao nibs which is what I was talking about before the raw chocolate but in its purest form I'm going to measure out about a cup I'm also going to add the powdered form of the cacao which is the cacao powder so they just take the cacao bean grind it up and it actually gives the cookie that extra velvety chocolatey taste to it I'm going to take same some raw organic vanilla bean powder so I love a little bit of vanilla flavor just a little pinch but a quarter of a teaspoon I'm gonna take some goji berries which are literally nature's way of reversing the aging process there's a hormone and goji berries that literally reverse the years so I love berries I'm gonna take a little bit of sea salt just a tiny pinch Himalayan sea salt just to balance out that sweet flavor and my sweetener of choice is maple syrup I love maple syrup and I'm gonna use about a tablespoon and blend it all together till you reach a really nice smooth consistency if you'd like a little chunkier leave it a little you know chopped up but I like it smooth to form some nice cookies with it so after that's all blended together you achieve a bit of a cookie dough consistency you can eat them just like this or you can throw them in the fridge throw them in the freezer I like telling them in the freezer because they get a little hard and they're really easy and accessible you can't ask for an easier more nutritious delicious raw cookie