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!