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 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!