Healthy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies (Gluten-Free)

These are the best Paleo chocolate chip cookies made with almond flour! This will be your new favorite healthy paleo chocolate chip cookie recipe. Your whole family will love these cookies and won’t even know that they sugar free, grain-free, gluten free, and dairy free.

Why This Recipe Is So Good:

• These thick, bite-sized healthy chocolate chip cookies have a crispy texture on the outside with a chewy chocolatey inside.
• These cookies are a healthy version of your favorite childhood chocolate chip cookies. You won’t even know they are made with clean ingredients, and you won’t feel guilty about eating. Even my teenage brother loved them!
• This chocolate chip cookie recipe is grain-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, gluten-free, and low carb.
• So easy to make! You don’t need a mixer, just a spoon and a bowl. Prep time is only 10 minutes!

Why Almond Flour?

Almond flour is a great substitute for processed, refined white flour and whole wheat flour. Get them out of your pantry and order this healthier flour.

Almond flour is:

• very nutritious, much more so than wheat and white flour.
• better for your blood sugar than wheat flour
• gluten-free (I highly recommend staying away from gluten, even if you don’t have celiac disease or wheat intolerance.)
• lower carb
• rich in vitamin E, and magnesium

The best chocolate chip cookies = high quality ingredients

Wet ingredients:

• coconut oil– Use virgin coconut oil. I use the Thrive Market brand.
• an egg (pasture-raised is the best!)
• vanilla extract– I use simply organic vanilla extract. Yes, it is expensive. But if you want a high quality vanilla extract, you have to spend the money.
• maple syrup– (I use Coombs Family Farms Organic Maple Syrup).
• creamy almond butter– (the runnier the almond butter, the better). Look for almond butter with oil at the top and no added sugar.

Dry ingredients:

• almond flour– I used Bob’s Red Mill Super-Fine Almond Flour. Make sure to get almond flour, not almond meal.
• baking powder– You want aluminum-free baking powder. I used Pamela’s Baking Powder
• dark chocolate chips– Look for dairy-free, 85% dark chocolate chips. I used Pascha Organic 85% Bitter Sweet Dark Chocolate Chips.

Directions

These chewy chocolate chip cookies are easy to make and healthy! They use date paste as a natural sweetener, are dairy free, and use almond flour instead of processed and refined white/wheat flour.

Step 1: Mix Wet Ingredients

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Grab a medium-large mixing bowl and whisk together an egg, vanilla extract, and date paste (or maple syrup).
• Add the almond butter and cooled coconut oil to the bowl and whisk again with the other wet ingredients.

Step 2: Mix Dry Ingredients

In the same bowl, mix together almond flour, baking powder, and chocolate chips. Mix until dough forms.

Note: Do not pack almond flour into measuring cup.

Step 3: Roll Dough

Roll dough into 1-inch balls using your hands, or a cookie scooper. Place cookie dough balls onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until cookies are a golden brown color. The darker the cookie gets, the crispier it will be.

Let cookies cool for 5-10 minutes before serving.

Tips and Variations

• For vegan chocolate chip cookies: simply use a flax egg instead of a real egg.
• Make sure to use creamy almond butter that is runny.
• The temperature of the coconut oil will affect the cookies. Make sure the coconut oil is softened, and not melted. If it accidentally melts, place it in the fridge until it is softened again.
• I do not recommend omitting or subbing the almond flour for another flour, unless you have a nut allergy.
• To substitute for almond butter, use any other drippy nut butter. Cashew butter may work well.
• If you have a nut allergy, you can substitute it with other paleo flours. Check out this link on how to cook with other paleo flours.

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