Don’t search any further for the Ultimate Soft and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies! This recipe is all you need from now on when you crave a classic chewy chocolately cookie, but without gluten, grains, dairy or soy. Go ahead and make a batch (or 3) and share the love!
We interrupt your regularly scheduled pumpkin puree party to bring you this very important recipe for the ultimate soft and chewy paleo chocolate chip cookies!
Don’t you even worry your little sugar pumpkin head off for a second though, I have more coming next week. But these cookies, they just had to say hello.
Now, I know there are a lot of “ultimate” grain free and paleo chocolate chip cookie recipes out there. I wouldn’t want the paleo police to catch me using the word unlawfully, so here’s my disclaimer: I’ve tried many paleo cookies recipes. They’ve all been pretty good, but, this is my favorite.
So yes, they are my ultimate and the children loved them as well. And let’s be real about who I’m baking for anyway – if three kids who still eat non-paleo cookies say these paleo cookies are the best, you trust them. Kids are extremely harsh food critics as many of you know.
Gosh I’m super defensive about these cookies today! What’s gotten into me? I need to chill out – cookies are meant to be fun and tasty and that’s really it.
In other news, I realized this morning while running that it was at this exact point in my training for Philly last year, that my knee started hurting. I just like to look for ways to jinx things that are going well for me – I can’t help myself.
Anyway, I did one of those superstitious things in my mind where you go “okay, so if I make it to the middle of next week with no pains, I’m good to go for the rest of training.”
As if life really works that way. I’ve been doing this with all sorts of things that scare me since I was 5 years old and I can’t quit it!
It’s comforting I guess, and even though it sounds negative it’s actually a way to relieve myself of anxiety. Because once I “pass the point” – that dividing line of time in my mind – I truly believe things will be okay.
And then even if they’re not, I wasn’t worrying about it, so I can deal with whatever comes on in a mildly neurotic fashion, which for me means I’m doing well.
Make sense? If not then you’re doing pretty well too, trust me 🙂 If you can relate, then maybe you should just scroll to the recipe and start making these cookies. They are a welcome distraction to all of life’s uncertainties. I promise you, they will not disappoint!
Ultimate Soft and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ultimate Soft and Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 egg room temp
- 1/2 cup smooth almond butter
- 2 tbsp coconut oil melted and cooled to almost room temp
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup blanched almond flour
- 3 Tbsp coconut flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp fine grain sea salt
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips or homemade paleo chocolate chunks*
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
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(You can mix the dough by hand, or use a stand mixer or other electric mixer.) Beat the almond butter, coconut oil, coconut sugar, maple, egg and vanilla together until smooth. In a separate bowl, combine the almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt.
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Mix the dry ingredients into the wet until a sticky dough forms. Add chocolate chips at the end and stir with spatula or spoon. You can chill the dough for up to 5 minutes if it's too sticky to scoop onto cookie sheet.
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Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop dough evenly onto parchment lined baking sheet to make 16-18 cookies. Cookies will spread a bit so leave room between each one.
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Bake for about 10-12 in the preheated oven, or until cookies are set (they won't really brown. If you want crispy/chewy cookies, you can bake up to 12-14 mins)
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Remove from oven and allow to sit on cookie sheet for 5 mins, then carefully transfer to wire racks to cool completely, using a wide spatula. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
*You can make homemade paleo chocolate chunks using this recipe.
Nutrition
Want More Paleo Cookie and Bar Recipes? Try One of These!
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Bars {Paleo}
Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies {Paleo}
Paleo and Vegan Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Triple Chocolate Paleo and Vegan Fudge Brownies
Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Blondies
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I will definitely be making these soon! I love paleo cookies because of the shorter ingredient list and I always have everything I need to make them. And I have the same thoughts about the training timeline! But my race is the same weekend as Philly so I am relating everything to what I was doing/how I was doing last year.
Yup, love the simplicity and how tasty they come out 🙂 Even though my race is earlier this year I’m still comparing everything, oy!
We love these! Sometimes we swap half the almond butter for peanut butter and omg! Even my non paleo friends love them! Thanks!
Stop jinkxing yourself and go and make me some cookies, fool.
Jinx, I know, it’s funny how I truly believe it can happen 🙂
Good job on the cookies and the picks lady! The lighting is great in these pics. Now I want to eat the 3 batches right now.
Thanks! It’s still a bit hit or miss with the lighting, this week’s rain has been killing me!
soft and chewy cookies are the best kind of cookies! 🙂
Oh yeah 🙂
Stop putting pressure on yourself that’s not warranted. You are in a different place emotionally, physically and overall life then when training for Philly. Give yourself and your MIND a break and relish in your being chosen and ability to run this race. You have two great races in your future–NYC and Boston–what an honor!!!! Cookies look awesome. It was just a major bday for my daughter and son so celebrating this weekend. I will be making these! Btw, been meaning to tell you my whole family loves your recipes so they definitely are majorly enjoyed and appreciated by grown up children. Never was able to throw things together so fast and easy and have them taste and look so good. The taco salad is a fav as well as the chicken salad! Your photography has become really pleasing and extremely photogenic. Have a great weekend and rest your mind.
Thanks Leslie 🙂 So glad everyone’s enjoying the recipes, that’s awesome to hear!!
If this is your favorite paleo recipe, they must be good! I love how your recipes usually have ingredients that I already have so like this one, I have no excuse not to try it! I wouldn’t call myself superstitious, but I’ll still find myself thinking into the sayings “bad things happen in three’s” and “when it rains it pours.”
I like the simple ingredients that are already in my house all the time 🙂
Knee pain is the worst. I hope that all goes well through the end of your training. I can not wait to try these cookies! I have been looking for a good substitute to the traditional version and these look like it!
Don’t want to jinx it but no pain yet, thanks 🙂 Hope you try these!
I need to get some almond flour, then I have everything to make these cookies. Soft cookies for sure, no time or patience for crispy or thin or hard cookies.
Thin cookies legit make me sad 😉
Soft cookies all the way! I am obsessed with your photos – I am legit craving one (or all) of these delicious cookies right now (9AM on a Friday)… I feel like this icky weather is totally going to make me want to bake some yummy treats in the next few days! Hope you have a fabulous weekend!
I’ve been working on the photos, kind of obsessing over them myself to up the game 🙂 And the bad weather totally has me baking a lot! Have a great weekend 🙂
These sound really good! Perfect to bake on a cold fall evening 🙂
Pretty perfect for any time! Thanks!
I hate to the bearer of bad news here but I have to tell you that I completely understand your mental tactic in the whole superstitious thing. I do that too, but I call myself a realist, just to avoid the pessimist label. 😉 I always go worst-case scenario in my head and then when things go well, then I’m happy and if everything goes to hell in a hand basket then well, I’m ready for it!
I also call myself a realist 🙂 The more realistic I can be, the less the bad stuff hurts me. Being positive all the time works against me!
Soft and chewy cookies have my heart. I don’t mind if they have a slightly crisp outer shell, but the inside needs to be soft and even cakey. And yes… I spend a lot of time thinking about the perfect cookie texture 😉
Agree, a crisp outside is great, haven’t mastered a paleo version of that though, there’s time I suppose 🙂
Horray for cookies!! And I play those silly games too! It’s crazy what we do to comfort ourselves! These cookies would have been a much better thing to be thinking of during that run 🙂 Certainly sharing this recipe, it looks amazing!
Thanks! And I think I’m distracting myself with tons of recipes to get my mind off of training!
Soft cookies are my favorite cookies, especially if there’s chocolate chips involved! I’m superstitious as well – I don’t like the numbers 6 or 13 and I’ve totally muttered Tony Tony, turn around under my breath whenever I lose something. I hope your knee stays healthy!
So far it feels fine, I think I’m just losing my mind a little early this training cycle 🙂 Lots of luck for tomorrow!
Chewy chewy and chocolate!!!! (Crispy is just wrong!) I always loved those chips a’hoy CHEWY chocolate chip cookies when they came out with them years ago…those were the bomb!
And I bet this weather isn’t helping the knee and joints much either, huh? :/
Yes, the chewy ones! I thought of those when I made these 🙂
These look so chewy and gooey and delicious! I was actually considering doing a Paleo month to figure out if any of my lingering stomach symptoms are due to dairy or other allergens, but I think it would be tough for me to give up autumn baked goods and it’s hard to be tree nut free and still Paleo. Maybe these cookies with coconut flour would work 🙂
Coconut flour is great once you figure out how to use it! I just tried cassava flour (from yuca root) and it seems like an awesome gluten free & nut free option! Excited to try more recipes with it.
These actually do look like the ultimate cookies!! I might have to try these. Lately I’ve gone off sweets but this recipe looks just scrumptious. Yay!
Yes I’m superstitious and so far I did the same thing to my body this time that I did last year. I never had issues training or running halfs so I’m seriously considering my reasons to marathon… I think if it were just me I’d run halfs. So that tells me I’m letting outside pressure get to me for no reason. I’d rather run forever then hang up my laces. Sorry rant over but I’m really happy to make these powerful discoveries:)
I’ve been doing a lot of sweets lately and I think it needs to come to an end! My kids would rather I not stop though 🙂 And I agree that outside pressure often gets us to do things that aren’t good for us – a lot of times without realizing. It’s hard to step back and figure out what’s actually good for US on the inside. I struggle with that sort of thing often.
I haven’t had a chocolate chip cookie in a reallyyy long time! I think I have…most of these ingredients hanging out somewhere in my boxes of stuff (I’m moving all over the place right now ._.). Can’t wait to try it out! They look super tasty!! 😀
Thanks! These are really simple once you get the ingredients in order 🙂
I”m a firm believer that food can prevent injury. Keep doing what your doing, recover well, nourish, and eat all the cookies! haha. YUM! Love the chewy texture
Thanks Lindsay! Gearing up mentally for 20 tomorrow 🙂
Would these work if I replaced the coconut sugar with coconut butter for sweetness?
You could use a different sweetener, perhaps honey, maple syrup, or maple sugar, but I don’t think coconut butter would add enough sweetness and it would create an odd texture too.
Howdy, can you use coconut palm sugar instead of the coconut sugar?
Yup those two are actually the same thing to my knowledge, so either would be fine!
I can completely relate to putting a time frame into the picture and being like “oh well if it’s fine by here then I’ll be ok”, and yes it is kind of comforting and an answer versus letting things be an unknown, I mean hello anxiety and wondering. On the cookie front, definitely soft baked for me! These look amazing. Thumbs up 🙂
Hello anxiety should be the tagline of my life 😉 I will credit you for it if it comes down to that! The cookies help 🙂
I need a bucket of these right now…still starving from my marathon yesterday! 🙂
Congrats again on the marathon!! Cookies like these really do help recovery 🙂
I like both soft and crispy…definitely a time an place for both!
I love these cookies. I actually found them on a different website and they’re my favorite go-to when I have a sweet tooth craving. My husband said he actually prefers these over other cookies I make. My kids love them too!
That’s great! What website did you see them on? So thrilled you guys like them 🙂
Thanks for posting this.Do you have any recommendations on how to make them crispy?
Good question – and I’m not sure at this point since I’ve only made paleo cookies that turn out chewy. I’ll have to work on it.
Needed a change from my regular cookie recipe and these HIT THE SPOT. Thank you!
So happy you liked them!
I JUST made the chewy chocolate chip cookies OMG! I am super impressed!
Ive tried other gluten free chocolate chip recipies and my girls would say they were O..KAY…these are thee best paleo chocolate chip cookie recipe, im not searching for a “better one” this is definatly the bomb! Yum and thanks for sharing!
Just made these and they are sooooo excellent (already have eaten half the pan lol)! Best paleo dessert I have made. They satisfy a sweet tooth craving, but don’t make you feel like you just gained 10 pounds after eating them!
I just stumbled upon this recipe yesterday for the first time and decided to give it a try. These cookies are SO good! Especially the first ones right from the oven. They are also very easy to make. I will definitely make them again.
So thrilled you liked them! a favorite for me for sure!
These were amazing. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I’ll never make “normal” chocolate chip cookies again.
Also, I didn’t have almond flour or coconut sugar, so I subbed in a cup of walnuts that I ground up in the food processor, and added a little extra maple syrup and they turned out fantastic.
These are our favorite chocolate chip cookies. I have no need to look for any other recipe. Thank you for posting these!
These are amazing! Thank you for this delicious recipe. These will be a staple in my house.
Happy to hear it!
This isn’t Paleo it is poison. Sugar of any kind is poison. Eating chocolate chip cookies and feeding it to your kids is really not the point.
My son made these and said they are wonderful and I am sure they are. I told him the same thing. The only thing humans do really well is cheat and get around reality.
Can’t remember if I reviewed these yet.
These cookies are amazing. I have an autoimmune and can’t eat grain so these cookies are such a treat for me. And everyone loves them even my super picky 2 year old.
Increíble!
Seriously the best paleo cookies we’ve made in years! Wish I would’ve found this recipe sooner. Thanks!!
Im not sure but i followed the instructions but they didn’t spread like the pics. Mine came out more like drop cookies didn’t have a scoop.
Hello! could you sub the maple syrup for honey?
Love, love, love the texture & flavor of this cookie! My 19 month old Grandson has allergies to dairy, eggs, peanuts & grains are becoming suspicious. I replaced the egg with 1 Tbl ground flax seed & 2 1/2 Tbl warm water. These cookies held their shape and were not crumbly. Crispy onthe outside, soft and chewy on the inside. Thank you!
Excellent! I made with swerve Brown sugar instead of coconut sugar and maple syrup. Came out great. Thank you for indulging my sweet tooth in a healthy way.
I made these for my family and everyone loved them! They were shocked to learn they were paleo cookies. Delicious! Definitely making again!
I just recently found this recipe and it has become a HUGE favorite, even among my friends who don’t care as much about eating healthy. These cookies are super chewy and just delicious!
sucked on ice
Love your recipes! Question: can I replace coconut sugar with monkfruit sugar?
Incredible, not exactly paleo for me because I only had milk chocolate chips on hand, but oh my god!!!!! These were incredible!
Ohh but sounds yummy! Thrilled you enjoyed them 🙂
The cookies are AMAZING.
These cookies are amazing!!!!!!!
These are, by far, the best paleo cookies I’ve ever made! The hardest part of staying paleo is my need for cookies! This had made it so much easier. I put mine in the freezer and they tasted amazing 😉 Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
Very good cookies. Easy to make, not too many ingredients. Will make again.
I doubled the recipe and made 18 large cookies, 16 minutes in the oven to achieve that perfectly chewy texture. This is my second time making them, and they are incredible. I took them to a gathering and non-gluten-free eaters LOVED them. They said it didn’t even taste healthy because they were so delicious haha. Highly recommend this recipe!
Excellent! Better than what we bought at a paleo bakery.
I am wondering what to use in place of the egg because I an allergic to them, and all dairy products and soy. Do you think pear baby food would work?
Best cookies !!! Thank you so much my family loves them !!!❤️❤️
I found them greasy tasting and texture. Possibly due to the egg being too cool which solidified the liquid coconut oil? I am going to try again with appropriate temperature egg but also cut the amount of oil and use unsweetened applesauce and will check back. I am cooking from your website at least one day a week and find it such an amazing resource for clean eating. Cheers
These are my go-to cookies to make for just about anything, and also to win people over to just how amazing grain free baking can taste! I always throw some fleur de sel on top for extra pizazz 🙂
I have been looking for a good paleo recipe for soft chocolate chip cookies and these are GREAT! I used tapioca instead of coconut flour and erythritol/monk fruit sweetener instead of coconut sugar and they turned out great. THANK YOU
I was about to make these but I just realized that the amount of chocolate is almost the amount of almond flour. And even while I plan to use a bar that was 90% dark chocolate I still think that is way too much sweetness, and I wonder if I only use 1/3 cup of that will mess up the recipe. Why do much chocolate? This is why I can’t understand store bought chocolate chip cookies or chocolate chip cookies made by someone else. My mother used to make them just for me with very few chocolate chips. Otherwise it’s just sickeningly sweet. Why not just eat a chocolate bar? I though the goal of paleo was to reduce sugars overall.
These are probably the most delicious cookies I have ever baked! So yummy!
This recipe is soooooo good! I altered a few things but I like my cookies with as little sugar as possible. I used 1/2 ghee 1/2coconut oil, 1/2 the sugar/sweetener(lakanto monk fruit sweetener instead of coconut sugar) and 1/2 the maple syrup and lilly’s chocolate chips. They are the best gf cookies around!
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So, I’d love to try these, but I am sugar-free (like any kind of sweetener that raises the glycemic index). I will use monk fruit to replace the coconut sugar (you have to use 1/2 as much due to the sweetness factor), but what can I do to replace the maple syrup since it’s a liquid? Could I just use more monk fruit? By the way, if you’ve never used it, it bakes and tastes just like sugar!
These are the best cookies! I found them when I first started the Paleo diet and was craving a treat. I make them about once a week now! I have tried different variations like using natural peanut butter, adding in cacao, or using unrefined coconut oil…but in my opinion, the original are the best! This recipe is a keeper!
The best paleo chocolate chip cookie I have found!
I cooked these the way it said, following all the instructions. Mine did not spread. Very frustrating. They tasted okay.
I must have done something wrong, but who knows 🤷🏻♀️
Sooo good
I am making these for someone who is allergic to vanilla extract. Do you think I could sub more maple syrup for the vanilla?
Could you also sub white sugar for coconut sugar 1:1?
Made these last night and they were AMAZING Michele! They reminded me of the chocolate chip cookies I used to get at the mall growing up. And if you can believe it, I ate these last night after going a YEAR without chocolate (sadly, I had developed a sensitivity for a while). Now that chocolate’s back on the menu, I will keep this recipe in heavy rotation. Thanks so much!
This were fantastic. I made these for some visitors who were grain and wheat free. My family was so impressed that they ask me to make them again even though we have not allergy restrictions. Great Great Great
These are the first chocolate chip cookies I’ve had in 9 months and they are absolutely delicious! What a treat! Anyone would love these treats! I will definitely make them again in the future.
Delicious!!!