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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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 !!!❤️❤️