My favorite Cocoa Cookie

For the last year I have been working on a personal baking project a cooking that tastes like a cup of cocoa, not too sweet, a little salty and intense chocolate flavor.  After a lot of research and a numerous experiments, here are the results:

• Set the oven for 350 degrees
• In a mixing bowl put:

1 egg
1/4 cup of a stout beer (I use Guinness)
3/4 cup of olive oil
4 tbsp. cocoa
3/4 cup of sugar (I prefer unrefined sugar, demerara has a slight molasses flavor)
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp cinnamon

• Blend thoroughly.
• Mix in:

1 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp crème of tartar
2 cups of flour (use any combination of the following to 2 cups)
regular flour
almond flour
oat flour
coconut flour

• I find the best flavor and healthiest is with the following:

1 cup almond
1 cup oat

• Coconut is sweeter, and a high in triglycerides.
• Oat flour takes more time to set.

• Mix thoroughly, depending on the humidity, temperature and mix of flour, you make need to add up to an additional 1/4 cup of flour.
• Let set for 10 minutes.
• On your cookie sheet:
• Roll out to about a 2" diameter cylinder. 
• Cut the roll in half with a sharp knife, repeating until you 
• have discs 1/2" to 3/4" thick.  
• Place the discs about 1 inch apart on your cookie sheet (you may have as many as 48 disks).

You can add a filling if you want:

• Make a depression in the center of each cookie.  Spoon a heaping teaspoon of the filling into the center of the cookie.
• Bake for 9 to 11 minutes.

Fillings:

• Take a 1 qt pot
• Add dried or fresh fruit
• Add tincture (see below)
• Add 3 tbsp. of lemon juice
• Add 1/4 tsp of salt

Fruit and tincture mixtures:

• Cherry and Cinnamon (add cinnamon with the cherries)
• Apricot and Rosemary (tincture required)
• Plum and Anise (tincture required)

To make tincture:

• Take a small pot (1 pt)
• Heat about 1 cup of water
• Add spice
• Leave on the heat, steeping for 10 to 20 minutes (usually 1 tsp. of the spice will suffice).
• Using filter paper or a wire strainer, pour the tincture into the pot with fruit.
• Add additional water to float the fruit.
• Heat until the fruit is thoroughly rehydrated or, in the case of plums, they fall completely apart when you stir them.  Reduce (let the water evaporate under low heat) until the fluid is a bit thicker.

Enjoy!