The Best Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cooking Steps
In a bowl, mix together your almond flour, baking soda, and sea salt. In a separate bowl mix together your melted coconut oil, vanilla extract, room temperature maple syrup, and room temperature egg. Incorporate your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients, then add your chocolate chips.
After everything is mixed, preheat your oven to 350F and refrigerate your batter for 30 minutes.
Once the 30 minutes are up and your oven is heated, line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and roll your dough into even balls-to whichever size you desire. I made mine pretty small.
Put them in the oven for about 5-7 minutes, then take them out and slightly flatten them with the back of a spatula. Put them back in the oven for about 5 more minutes, or until they look done. I like to take mine out RIGHT when I see just a hint of golden brown, which is one of the best baking tips that my aunt shared with me. If you do that, they won’t look done, but they are-and they’ll be soo soft and chewy. Even after they’ve cooled off!
Remove from the oven and set on the counter to cool.
(Recipe inspired by The Detoxinista)
Serves 5
10-12 min
This is a Non-Dairy Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sifted blanched almond flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted (melted, not softened)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 whole egg
- 1/2 cup Enjoy Life chocolate chips
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Can anyone shed some insight into the calories and or nutrition facts for a dish like this.
I just made these and my husband and son both agree they are the best Paleo cookies I have made to date. I now have a double batch in the oven to satisfy their love of them and a post-WOD treat for tomorrow’s xFit group. Thanks!!
Made these last night – AWESOME!
I can’t keep them up to my husband and son, they just love them
Just made them, they are great. 407 calories a serving though. Which is about 3 cookies per serving.
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These are awesome – thank you!!
Did no one else have an issue with sifting the Almond Flour? I have NOW brand Almond Flour (thought maybe I had Meal, but no, its definitely Flour that i have) and it took me 10 min just to sift 1/2c!! I gave up after the first 1/2c because I just did not have 20 more min to spend sifting the remainder.
Is it the brand I have?
Lauries31,
I think it may be your brand? Or possibly your storing methods? I use Bob’s RedMill for all of my natural baking flours, but I keep them in the freezer until I need them. They sift out perfectly fine for me.
Are the chocolate chips special that you suggested?
Wow when I saw this my first thought was are they really that good? Well they surpassed my expectiations and our children enjoyed them too. Thanks
We really enjoyed these! I used honey instead of maple syrup and they were delicious.
Great recipe!! Fast, easy, and delicious!!! Thank you do much!
Amazing! Just what I needed. Easy to make, perfect cookie. Thank you for the recipe.
I made these this evening, but found the batter a little runny for dough… it was more the consistency of cake batter. SO… I added a little coconut flour, to quickly absorb some of the moisture…. as a result the cookies were a great consistency, but maybe not as moist as the traditional way.
Great recipe overall… thanks for sharing!
Lauries31, it is probably the brand of almond flour you used. I made this recipe with my own almond flour that I grind with my Vitamix and then sift to make sure it’s very fine. I know a lot of people really like Honeyville, and I’ve never tried it, but I’m sure it would work great here. Another thing to make sure of is refrigerating the batter for about 30 minutes before you put the cookie dough in the oven because it helps the dough hold its shape. Hope that helps!
- Eleni aka The Baboo
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Can u use something instead of almond stuff nut aligy
I love this recipe! I am planning on making these for lunch box treats this year. I was wondering of they would freeze ok? I have a surgery coming up and would love to have some pre-made so that store bought cookies won’t end up in their lunch boxes!!!
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Amazing! I prefer them over the cookies I’ve made with flour in the past! I made them twice today… Once earlier to try them with a friend of mine and then made them again after dinner for my husband and daughters! Everyone loved them! I didn’t have almond flour on hand so I used almond meal and instead of syrup, I used honey. They were still fantastic. So easy to mix, and the moisture content makes them pretty much impossible to over cook. They didn’t get crunchy as they cooled, but stayed soft and were pleasantly chewy. This is officially my go to ‘junk food’. Thanks for posting!
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Could I use olive oil in this recipe?
I just made these cookies and they are pretty darn tasty!! These are the first paleo cookies I’ve made and I think they’re going to be tough to beat!
Wow, these were so easy to make and the end result was delicious!
WOW JUST MADE EM’ they are insanely delicious!!!
These are great- I’ve been craving cookies for weeks since switching to paleo, and finally decided to track a recipe down. These are gooey, delicious and coconut-ey- I might like them more than traditional chocolate chip cookies!
love these cookies! I didn’t flatten them out like the directions called for, and I made them bite size-delish for on the go snacking- found that I did have to put them in the fridge due to them being so soft
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loved them! loved the idea of flattening them. makes them look bigger too.. haha… i changed it up a bit and added only 1 cup of almond flour and 1/2 cup coconut flour. they turned out good, more cakey, but still a good cookie. i also try to reduce sugar wherever i can- so i only added 1/8 cup maple syrup and 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips (enjoy life) VERY GOOD! thanks!
Fantastic recipe! These cookies were a big hit with my family! Almost like an almond macaroon! I didn’t sift, just blended the dry ingredients. I chilled the dough in the freezer while the oven heated up then used a small ice cream scoop (1.5 tsp) to drop the dough on the parchment. Really nice golden brown after baking for 12 minutes. Didn’t press the dough down and the cookies were a bit rounder than the picture and looked great! I used a bit less than 1/3 cup honey and these were really sweet. Next time I will try a 1/4 cup honey. Thanks so much!!
This recipe lives up to its name and passed the test of non-paleo eaters, including a three year-old. I made this per the recipe except I used dark chocolate chips. Will double it next time. These are smaller sized cookies, so they go fast.
These are SUPER DELISH!!! My roommate & I recently went “Paleo” and I was very happy to discover a Paleo recipe for one of my favorite desserts. Maple syrup is extremely spendy though. I had to find a substitute for that at http://homecooking.about.com/od/condimentrecipes/r/blcon119.htm. I was more than satisfied with the flavor, however, we only got a dozen cookies out of this recipe (and that’s going small) so I will double next time. Also, we only had almond meal and they came out great considering the flour was not blanched.
I just made these cookies for the 3rd time. The first time came out amazing! the 2nd time, I had to add a little honey to make up for the lack of syrup since I was doubling the batch, and they didn’t come out as well. Too chewy and burned more easily. I had enough syrup this time so they came out as good as the first. I make them with unblanched almond meal (from Trader Joe’s) and they still come out great. Thanks for the recipe!!!
I use Red Mill Almond Meal (almond flour) and I did notice one thing for sure, to get the right consistency I needed about 2 1/2 cups of almond flour sifted. Made it so the batter started clumping up into one large ball which is what you should go for (not runny or too sticky).
Also, you can substitute the chocolate chips with any sort of dried fruit! We tried them with dried blueberries and they were a hit!
Besides that, These cookies are great! I made them for a camping trip I was going on because I knew I was about to crave something sweet. I brought the leftovers home and my sister ate them up quick then came and asked me to make some more!
These are the BEST paleo/primal cookies I have ever tasted! They are unbelievably fantastic! I prefer them over traditional cookies!
I’m not kidding. I was really blown away by this recipe!
Hey, just wanted to let everyone know, if you put these in muffin papers..they make excellent muffins, no need to change the recipe either!
I made these and they were gone in 3 days. What’s not to love about them! Super easy and this recipe makes them so irresistable! I’m making a double batch as we speak. Lol
I made these again today. What I ended up doing was making them like a double chocolate chip cookie. I added 1 tablespoon of unsweetened dark cocoa powder to my batter and mixed it in. If you have a bad sweet tooth try adding this like I did. They came out soooooo good!
I love these cookies but I find I have to cook them so much longer than the recipe calls for because even though they are golden on the top, they seem raw on the outside. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?
Believe the hype. They ARE that good. I used a standard-sized cookie scoop and got exactly 12 cookies. Even my picky non-paleo fam gobbled them up.
In love!!!! So good
Mine turned out cakey
I used honey because I didn’t have maple syrup. Could that have been the problem? They were good but I like a chewy cookie like the snicker doodle recipe on here. I made those and they were wonderful!
Perfection! I followed the recipe exactly (except I didn’t have parchment paper so I lightly greased the cookie sheet with coconut oil) and they spread out like regular cookies while baking. I cooked until they began to get golden around the edges. We now have wonderful cookies to leave out for Santa this year! Thanks!!
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i dont know what happened but the batter is too thin and well I falied at baking and followed the directions on here. Total failure at baking this. I dont understand what I did wrong? They were flatter than pancakes.
Ok….yeah…. These win hands down!
Seriously the best cookies I’ve had to date!!!!
I have been baking these for months now and can’t get enough of them. I strongly recommend adding 1 TBSP of Ghirardelli Natural Unsweetened Cocoa to the recipe to double the chocolate goodness.
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Yes, all this goodness is so true! I subbed apple sauce for all of the oil & the result was still fantastic – & fewer calories so you can eat more of ‘em – ha ha! I also subbed palm/coconut sugar for 1/2 of the maple syrup. If you’ve been doing Paleo for a little while you may find them too sweet so you could probably use less sweet. I got creative & added shredded coconut & raisins to a few w/good results. So versatile! Also I have never sifted the almond flour (I order in bulk from nuts.com – very reasonable) & have never put the batter in the fridge. Has anyone tried a cookie cake? If so please comment. Thanks & happy indulging!
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Finally! Amazing