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Triple Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies
February 8, 2016 by Laura 11 Comments
Triple Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies are 100% whole grain, gluten free, thick, chewy and delicious. They are also simple and fast to whip up as long as you have buckwheat flour on hand! Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to the items I am discussing.
I have had some sort of weird blogger’s block lately, so I apologize for my infrequent posting. These chocolate buckwheat cookies are just the treat to pull me out of it though–they are so good!
And wouldn’t you know, I earned the enmity of my children by baking them for John’s class, so we had to say goodbye to them. And fair warning, the recipe does not make a ton of cookies (it…
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