Chocolate and Beetroot Cookies

This is a great and unusual alternative to chocolate chip cookies – chocolate cookies with beetroot. Believe it or not the beetroot goes beautifully with dark chocolate and is a healthy substitute for butter or margarine.

Chocolate and Orange Cookies

Ingredients:

100g dark organic chocolate, chopped into little pieces
100g dried oranges, cut into little pieces (you can use dried papaya, apricot or any other dried fruit you like)
300g stoneground wholemeal flour (or half wholemeal & half soya flour)
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp sea salt
150g soya margarine
40g dark brown muscovado sugar
1 organic free range egg
4 tbsp of [...]