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 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!