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Soft and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies

A super easy and amazingly delicious recipe for rich, Soft and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies!  These addicting cookies are gluten and grain free, dairy free, paleo, and sure to become your favorite go-to healthy cookie recipe.

Soft and chewy Paleo chocolate chip cranberry cookiesI used to have mixed feelings about paleo “treat” recipes, because cookies are cookies no matter what type of grain or nut flour they’re made of, don’t you think?

If it looks like a cookie and tastes like one too, it’s probably a cookie.  I thought people would kid themselves into believing that “paleo” treats are somehow more virtuous than the good old fashioned Betty Crocker style chocolate chip variety.  Cookies don’t come with or without virtue though, right?

Soft and Chewy Paleo chocolate chip cranberry cookiesBut what about those chewy butter toffee ones that came in a pack of two in the school cafeteria. God I loved those!  Anyone else remember them?  Where the heck are they now?  Can I make them Paleo? Hmmm…

Anyway, I think once you start getting into “good” “bad” “healthy” “not healthy” with food you run into trouble.

Trouble I want nothing to do with – for myself or my kids.

Soft and chewy Paleo chocolate chip cranberry cookies

It’s more about having delicious options that won’t leave you sick or in pain.   Luckily, it turns out that cookies made without grains, dairy, or soy can be JUST as delicious as the “real” deal!  (Not kidding)

Soft and chewy Paleo chocolate chip cranberry cookiesAnd, while I wouldn’t eat these in place of eggs, veggies, meats and other whole foods, not so surprisingly, they work really well if you’re trying to replace a traditional cookie with something a bit more system-friendly.

Soft and chewy Paleo chocolate chip cranberry cookies

I also love making these for my kids, since they have a good deal of fat from coconut oil and nut flour, and fat in general is one thing my kids don’t embrace quite as passionately as I do.  It’s a total win-win!  They happen to be super easy to throw together too.  Now let’s start baking!

Soft and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies

Gluten free, grain free and Paleo soft and chewy chocolate chip cranberry cookies

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies {Paleo}

An easy recipe for Chewy Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies that's Paleo, dairy free, gluten free, grain free, and amazingly delicious!
Author: Michele
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Course: Treat
Cuisine: Paleo
Servings: 16 cookies
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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk the egg with the coconut oil, vanilla, and coconut sugar until smooth.

  3. In a separate medium bowl, combine the almond flour, baking soda and salt and mix to incorporate all ingredients.

  4. Slowly stir the dry ingredients into the egg/sugar mixture until fully combined and the mixture is the consistency of a dough (it will be sticky)
  5. Stir the chocolate chips and cranberries into the dough.
  6. If the dough is too sticky to roll into balls, chill first in the freezer for 10 minutes.
  7. Form dough into 16 balls and flatten into cookie shape (they'll expand but won't flatten in the oven) and arrange on the parchment lined cookie sheet
  8. Bake in the preheated oven 10 minutes or until set and just beginning to brown - be careful not to overbake.
  9. Remove from oven, allow cookies to sit 2-5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
  10. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

*If omitting the cranberries, use 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips

Nutrition

Calories: 146kcal
Fat: 10g
Saturated fat: 5g
Cholesterol: 10mg
Sodium: 55mg
Potassium: 39mg
Carbohydrates: 11g
Fiber: 1g
Sugar: 6g
Protein: 3g
Vitamin A: 0.3%
Calcium: 4.1%
Iron: 3%

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Soft and chewy paleo chocolate chip cranberry cookies that you won't believe are healthy! Grain free, dairy free, Paleo and very easy to make

 

What’s your hands down favorite cookie?  Yeah that’s a tough one.  Might have to go with those old butter toffee ones but not sure they count since I haven’t had one in over 20 years.  A really good and chewy, homemade chocolate chunk cookie might just have to take the win on this!

Want more Paleo cookie recipes?  Try one of these!

Ultimate Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies

Big Soft Paleo Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Paleo Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chewy Chocolate Almond Butter Sandwich Cookies

Awesome Paleo cookies around the web:

Thick and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies

Best Paleo & Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Michele

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  1. I bought the Enjoy Life chocolate chips yesterday and thought of you because I think we talked about them. I need them for Thanksgiving simply because my fam is kosher so the parve part of the nondairy chips is essential! I remember those cookies- the yellow wrapper? The chocolate chip cookies, in the pack of two, were in the brown wrapper? I believe they still exist in school. My school used to sell the warm Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. Three for one dollar. No wonder I was chubby!

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    • Yes the yellow wrapper! I loved those but didn’t like the chocolate chip. My kid’s elementary school gets food from local restaurants so maybe that’s why I haven’t seen them. I think the enjoy life taste like normal chocolate chips, just pricey ones 🙂

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  3. How can you make me choose a cookie!? Thats just mean!! It can be an everything cookie, basically a bowl of candy stuck together with some cookie dough 😛 These sound wonderful!

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    • That’s too funny! Sounds like the Sundae’s I made at my job in high school – every candy/cookie/brownie topping they had surrounding a scoop of ice cream. Sounds delicious 🙂

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    • I do like the way paleo cookies have a high fat content and so don’t give me an energy crash, even aside from all the digestive stuff. Fresh out of the oven anything is the best!

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  5. I love the cranberry + chocolate combo so I’ll have to try these out! My favorite cookie is probably the classic peanut butter cookies with the hershey kiss on top — never gets old 😉 I agree with you – a cookie is a cookie, paleo or not, but it’s good to have a grain free/dairy free version if it helps your insides not feel so out of whack.

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  6. I love cranberry and chocolate together. And cherry and chocolate. White chocolate is a nice switch up too, haha, so just put me a little nugget of chocolate lovin in there and I’m good!

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  7. Loved those cafeteria “crap” cookies in the wrapper. Use to sneak and buy them bec my parents back then were health nuts! Guess I was destined to be a food screw up! Funny, my mom did huge bakery shops each week and boy did I indulge. She was of the belief if it was made in a bakery, it used wholesome ingeredients. Yeah right! I ate muffins and danish galore. I am not a sweet eater anymore at all. Crave good fats, but I make these paleo treats with fruit and my adult children and their significant others love them. Nice for the holiday to have a cranberry cookie and who doesn’t like something with the addition of chocolate. Your muffins were a big hit also.

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  8. These look delicious! My all time favorite cookie are the black and white cookies. I can’t tell you the last time I had one though. When I was little I would always share them with my mom. She eats the chocolate side and I eat the vanilla.

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  11. Agree with you on the whole cookie is a cookie thing. I think having treats in the diet is important otherwise I would go off the deep end and overeat them. I’m better off having them regularly. I’ve also learned that using coconut oil and nut flours, my body likes the fat of those much better and my stomach doesn’t get crazy bloated by not using regular flour.

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    • I purchased it in my local shoprite so I would think it’s in most grocery stores, if the store has a “natural” baking section which most do. I find it to be like dark brown sugar, not too coconut-y.

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  14. These look awesome! I love the clean ingredients– I’ve never had luck making Almond Meal Cookies chewy, so looking forward to trying these.

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  16. While I can’t say that I follow this diet… I find it quite interesting. I’m always looking to try new stuff. Especially with ingredients that I’ve never had before. I’ve never eaten coconut sugar. Does it taste like coconut?

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    • Coconut sugar is sort of more like dark brown sugar, in my opinion. I don’t find the flavor to be incredibly coconut-y, although, it’s hard to tell because I eat a lot of coconut so I might just be used to it! Something to try!

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  18. I’m definitely with you on not being willing to label food as good or bad. Food is food. We need to nourish our body, but we also need it to soothe our soul — and I don’t see any harm as long as it makes us feel good. As for what my favourite cookie is… that’s definitely a tough one, but I’m going to have to go with the classic chocolate chip oatmeal.

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  19. These look fabulous and so delicious! I’m trying these for sure. Honestly I was never a huge cookie or cake person, oatmeal raisin was one I liked but I always preferred baking more than eating my goodies. I was aware of my tummy issue with white flour from a young age but it never kept me from loving to create baked treats for others. Recipes like yours are so exciting! I can bake and eat too

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    • I love baking too, and I DID like to eat the stuff I baked as well. It’s nice to be able to bake things that you can eat without feeling like garbage 🙂 Hope you enjoy them!

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  20. Chewy and Chocolate? I’m sold! I try not to make too many paleo treats often but every once in awhile they happen 🙂 A few might have actually happened today in preparation for our Friendsgiving tomorrow!

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  23. These look delicious! Who doesn’t love cookies?! Michelle, I would LOVE to share your recipe with my followers. Would you mind if I share this for a round up of delicious healthier Thanksgiving dessert options over on my fitness blog? I’d love to use a picture with your permission and of course link people over to your site 🙂 Thanks!
    riseupandgofitness.com/thighs-and-tris-before-pies-day1

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  24. WOW! I enjoy following a paleo diet and cooking paleo, but usually leave the baking to someone else. I wanted to bake some cookies as a thank you and stumbled on this recipe. I’ve never been disappointed in one of your recipes so I decided to try it out. I doubled the batch and did some with just chocolate chips and some with chips and walnuts. These cookies were incredibly easy to make and are the best chocolate chips cookies I’ve ever had! The recipients of the cookies raved as well 🙂 Thank you for another excellent recipe!

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  25. Wow! These cookies are amazingly delicious. That said, the “dough” was not only sticky but quite oily – I did put them in the freezer which helped, but I live in Florida and my kitchen always feels warm even with the a/c set at 78 (where my Brit husband likes it). The cookies were still a bit oily after baking. And I only got 12 from the recipe so I guess I made them too big, but that’s ok because I won’t be (too) tempted to eat the whole batch! 😋

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