Chaga Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’ve been a pastry chef for thirty years and a forager for three, and I decided to combine my love of desserts and foraging after hearing an interview with the mycologist Paul Stamets. The challenge is how to get the medicinal compounds found in fungi into desserts without compromising on the taste. I’ve often wondered about how to reuse chaga grinds, and so I experimented with this cookie recipe, which called for ground almonds. I simply substituted the almonds with the chaga grinds, and i