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.
I 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?
But 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.
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)
And, 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.
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
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies {Paleo}
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup unrefined coconut oil melted, or unsalted butter (if dairy is okay), melted
- 1/3 cup organic coconut sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp of fine grain sea salt
- 1/2 cup Enjoy Life dark chocolate chips - or your favorite dark chocolate chips *
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries *Optional
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
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In a large bowl, whisk the egg with the coconut oil, vanilla, and coconut sugar until smooth.
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In a separate medium bowl, combine the almond flour, baking soda and salt and mix to incorporate all ingredients.
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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)
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Stir the chocolate chips and cranberries into the dough.
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If the dough is too sticky to roll into balls, chill first in the freezer for 10 minutes.
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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
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Bake in the preheated oven 10 minutes or until set and just beginning to brown - be careful not to overbake.
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Remove from oven, allow cookies to sit 2-5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
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Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
*If omitting the cranberries, use 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips
Nutrition
What I Used to Make My Soft and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies:
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
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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!
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 🙂
Yum! Chocolate cookies win for me too! Happy marathon weekend!
Thanks Nicole!
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!
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 🙂
I love a good fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookie, but I have actually really liked baking paleo cookies too! These look perfect and I will definitely be making them soon!
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!
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.
I used to do those with a pb cup instead of hershey kiss. No paleo version of that one yet! My kids still ask for them.
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!
When I was a kid I loved white chocolate because it was so rare! Haven’t had it in forever. Might go well with cranberries.
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.
It really does change! I’ll always have good memories of those butter crunch cookies though!
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.
You must be from around me then! Black and white cookies would definitely be on my list. And I only ate the white side 🙂
Mine favorite is Chocolate Chip cookies! These look great. Will have to give them a try. Is there anything I could substitute for Arrowroot Powder do you think? Happy Friday!
Maybe tapioca starch, or, you could omit it completely and they would probably be fine, possibly a bit more dense.
Those sound amazing–may have to try them for our annual cookie exchange run!
Hope you do 🙂