Increase your kid's vegetable intake with these sweet treats, these double choc-chip cookies have the hidden ingredient, kale!

Ingredients:

• 50g green curly kale leaves 
• 125g butter, softened
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cups plain flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• Pinch salt
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 300g dark chocolate, chopped

Follow these steps to make it:

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan-forced. Line 2 large baking trays with baking paper.

Step 2

Place kale in a food processor. Process until very finely chopped.

Step 3

Using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until pale and creamy. Add egg. Beat to combine.

Step 4

Sift flour, cocoa, salt and bicarbonate of soda over butter mixture. Stir until just combined. Add kale and 2/3 of the chocolate. Using hands, knead dough in the bowl until well combined.

Step 5

Using 1 tablespoon of mixture at a time, roll mixture into balls. Place balls, 5cm apart, on prepared trays. Using the heel of your hand, flatten balls slightly. Press remaining chocolate into tops of rounds.

Step 6

Bake, swapping trays after 8 minutes, for 12 minutes or until just firm. Stand on trays for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Serve.

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