If you are looking for a way to de-stress while also hitting the spot when it comes to a decadent treat, you have come to the right place. Introducing our Cacao Calm Cookies with your favorite Cacao Calm Plant-Based Collagen Support Drink Blend + ashwagandha. The best kept secret is that these cookies will also help your natural collagen production! They are low on sugar and packed with the best ingredients to honor your sweet tooth while giving you a collagen boost. Our plant-based collagen supports are packed in with plant botanicals. Want to know more? Keep reading to learn more about the ingredients and what makes our cacao calm blend so special.
So what makes them so good for you? Well with our Cacao Calm blend you get all our best ingredients like Biotin, Tremella Mushroom, and Bamboo Leaf Extract but you also get a dose of ashwagandha! Ashwagandha is a great adaptogenic herb and that has stress-relieving properties. Adaptogens are herbs that help our bodies respond to external stressors. They’re known for their health benefits, especially when ingested as a supplement, powder, or extract. Ashwagandha in particular has long been used to manage stress and ease anxiety and has been used for over 3,000 years as a staple in Ayurvedic medicine. Ashwagandha is a small shrub with yellow flowers that is native to India. The powder that is extracted from its roots and leaves have been shown to provide multiple health benefits.
Besides fighting stress, Ashwagandha has been shown to have some other incredible benefits to support your internal and external health.* Our Cacao Calm blend is a great drink blend to use at night or mid-day for some added distressing benefits!
Within our Cacao blend we also use Cacao instead of Cocoa, but what is the difference? Both cacao and cocoa come from the cacao plant (aka the mother of all chocolate) but it’s the way in which they are produced that drastically changes their compounds.
If you’re chocolate lovers like us (we recommend using our blend to make a healthy and collagen boosting hot cocoa this season), you have certainly noticed all the different types of chocolate out there, specifically cocoa and cacao. A little confused? We’re here to help! The short answer about what distinguishes them is that cacao is processed with low heat and cocoa is processed with high heat. This process makes cacao the purest and most nutrient-dense form of chocolate you can consume containing over 300 different compounds that are essential to our overall health and well-being.* This means you get some extra cacao benefits with out healthy hot cocoa recipes or adding a dash of it into your cookies!
We could go on for hours about cacao, but nonetheless here are our cacao calm cookies a staple for these cold months! If you want you can see exactly how we made these vegan collagen boosting cookies.
If you liked this recipe, check out some of our others that use our Cacao Calm Beauty Blend:
- Chocolate Superfood Beauty Energy Balls
- Calming Caffeine-Free Ashwagandha Cacao Latte
- Iced Honey Cacao Latte
- Pumpkin Cold Foam Cacao Latte
- Peanut Butter Hot Cocoa
