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This recipe for paleo chocolate chip cookies is my favorite! The cookies are soft, thick, chewy and it’s hard to tell at all that they are paleo.
I love chocolate chips and could eat them every day! There is nothing better than a chocolate chip cookie warm from the oven. So, I decided to try to make a recipe for the healthiest paleo chocolate chip cookies.
This is now my favorite chocolate chip cookies recipe! These cookies are easy to make and come out soo good!
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies – Made with Almond Flour
These paleo chocolate chip cookies are made with almond flour. Making them a much healthier version of the sweet dessert. Almond flour is fantastic for making recipes and the recipes come out very similar to those made with typical flour.
This recipe is also gluten free, grain free, egg free and dairy free. If you want the cookies to be dairy free, just make sure you use dairy free chocolate chips. Most grocery stores carry dairy free chocolate chips.
I couldn’t believe how great they came out with no eggs! After recently finding out that I am most likely allergic to eggs, this is one of the few recipes that I don’t have to add in a substitute for the eggs.
These paleo chocolate chip cookies can also be vegan! You can use either raw honey or substitute it for a mashed banana.
Benefits of Baking with Almond Flour
I try to make most of the desserts I eat with either coconut flour or almond flour. I love baking with coconut flour for a lot of desserts, like paleo cupcakes and even paleo sandwich bread. But, I do like to switch it up a bit and bake with almond flour too.
Almond flour is very nutritious and much healthier than baking with convention white flour. It is made from grinding whole almonds without the skin.
White flour is refined and does not contain all the great nutrients almond flour does. White flour can also spike your blood sugar levels and be harder to digest.
Almond is so much healthier as it contains a good amount of fiber, protein and is low in carbohydrates so it won’t spike your blood sugar levels.
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/4 cups ground almond flour
- 1/4 cup raw honey or 1/4 cup mashed banana
- 1/8 cup coconut oil
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Stir well.
- Use a spoon to scoop the batter and drop dough in tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto a cookie sheet.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.
Nutrition
The banana and chocolate chips gave it the perfect sweetness. Nice balance, great recipe. Definitely needs to be washed down with some almond milk 🙂
So glad you liked it 🙂
Thank you for this recipe. It is so simple yet so delicious. I love it!
So glad you like it!
How many cookies does this recipe make? Thanks!
Depending on the size, about 10-15.
Hi Lori
Can you freeze these.
Absolutely! I freeze them all the time.
Lori,
Thank you for this great recipe. I made these cookies twice and I used different almond flower both times. The first one was Bob’s Red Mill – the flower is very fine and they came out good but not as crunchy or chunky as they came out the second time with almond flower from Trader Joe’s. However I would like to try it again with my own almond (blending almonds into flower consistency, I do have a Vitamix). These cookies are amazing and I love the that they are so healthy.. I’m curious though about which almond flower you used and also if I make my own almond flower do you recommend I soak the almonds overnight or just blend then dry? Should they be with or without their skin? Thank you Lori!
So glad you liked them! Thanks for sharing your results. I use Bob’s Red Mill too. I haven’t tried making my own almond flour. But, if I did, I would soak them overnight in a bowl of water. Then the next morning have them dry and blend them.
I would like to make multiple batches of these cookies for a picnic. Do you know if they freeze well because I would like to make them in advance. Thanks!
I haven’t tried freezing them, but that should definitely work!
Hooked on these cookies. I always have a batch made
Yay! Glad you like them!
These are amazing! Especially right out of the oven! I can never manage to make a recipe without subs, so I did a banana/honey combo for the sweetener, subbed bacon grease for the coconut oil, threw in roughly a tsp of vanilla extract and mixed all the liquids up on the plate where I mashed the banana before combining it with all the dry. I can’t wait to make these into ice cream sandwiches with some paleo Chunky Monkey Ice Cream!
Oh my that sounds good!!
What tastes better? Using honey or banana?
I prefer the honey, but they’re both delicious!
I used coconut flour instead of almond flour/meal and they wouldn’t hold together 🙁 It still tasted alright but can anyone tell me why they broke apart, I did everything else on the recipe!
For most recipes coconut flour and almond flour can’t be substituted for one another. Coconut flour is a heavier flour and usually you need to cut the amount of flour down, maybe to half?
I LOVE these cookies. I am insulin resistant so I am following low carb….not Paleo. I substituted Butter for the Coconut Oil…….I do use coconut oil but I was out so I used butter. Also, I substituted sugar free honey for the honey. They turned out beautiful. By far the best low carb chocolate chip cookie recipe I have tried……..This one is a keeper…..Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed them!
i just made these cookies with olive oil and did the breakdown of nutrition information. for me, this batch made 22 small cookies. that being said, here is my breakdown:
71.8 calories
5.3 g fat
0 cholesterol
27.5 mg sodium
6.1 carbs
4.4 g sugar
1.4 g protein
i’m gonna go ahead and say this is a winner in the cookie department! although the texture is much different than “real” chocolate chip cookies, this is a great alternative and great fix to your sweets craving. my cookies were small so they only needed about 8 minutes in the oven with 2-3 minutes to cool then were transferred to a wire rack.
thanks for the recipe!
Thanks for sharing the nutritional information. Glad you enjoyed the recipe.
How many cookies does this make?
About 10-15. I made mine pretty small.
I added 1 tsp vanilla extract and used maple syup instead of honey and carob chips instead of chocolate…and they turned out great!!!!
Great! So glad you enjoyed them!
These cookies are incredibly delicious! Has anyone tried making them with olive oil instead of coconut oil, and if so, do they taste as good?
Glad you enjoyed them! Let us know if you try the substitution.
Surely I can’t be the only one who could not get this batter to stick together?!? The choc chips slide ride out and it was very hard to form a cookie shape. What am I doing wrong?!? Thanks 🙂
Hmm..did you make any substitutions in the recipe?
Making these right now! The recipe really is missing vanilla. I also added some coconut flakes and used grassfed butter. The batter is delicious so hoping they turn out! I can’t eat eggs or wheat so it’s nice to bake something I can eat.
Hi. Looks good. Just wondering what you use as an egg substitute in othe recipies. I have the same problem with egg allergy ( along with the dairy, wheat, etc.)
These tasted great! BUT came out looking nothing like the picture. They were completely flat and had a soft chewy toffee like texture. Also beware of the calories. The whole batch is 1540 cals and 113 grams of fat. So if it makes a dozen that’s about 129 cals and almost 10 grams of fat per cookie. Almond flour is just ground almonds so the flour alone per 1/4 cup is 14 g of fat and 160 cals. … Love the flavor but will look for ways to cut the calories a bit. Perhaps by mixing it with a lighter gluten free flour and less coconut oil as the almond flour has oil in it already that comes thru during baking.
Id be more worried about the sugar content than the fat. Unless your still in the dark about how the body process fats vs sugars. FAT DOES NOT MAKE YOU FAT !!! SUGARS AND OTHER CARBS MAKE PEOPLE FAT !
Oh no. I’m VERY aware of how sugar is processed in the body. I spent months training on the disease state, endocrinology system, drug treatments and all the comorbidities that result from diabetes. And I promise you sugar AND fat (separately and together) can make you fat. All excess calories are stored as such. And adipose cells or fat cells actually inhibit the body’s ability to properly utilize insulin. Excess sugar is infact poison to our bodies but sorry, you can’t just have tons of low carb high fat and not expect it to affect your health.
Hi, I tend to agree with you about the fat, but that is just my opinion. I don’t want to get into a debate here about whether or not fat causes fat or sugar causes fat, lol. I have high cholesterol, and my doctor told me to cut down on both fat and carbs (my total glucose number is a little high, but my A1C is very low, so I’m not pre-diabetic, but I just need to cut down on the carbs a bit).
Anyway, has anyone tried the recipe using a very mild tasting olive oil instead of the coconut oil? If so, how did the recipe turn out? Also, if I used a gluten free baking mix (to cut down on the calories & fat), will that change the taste a lot?
Sorry for the numerous questions. I’m not on a paleo diet, just trying to eat much healthier.
You should be able to substitute any other oil for the coconut oil 🙂
Right on Paul 🙂
Just made these cookies, and they are sooooo good! Baking time was about double, but very worth it!
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These look delicious. I’m going to make them tomorrow. Can I use date paste in place of honey/banana? Thank you! 🙂
I just made these and they came out sooo yummy! I used date paste instead of honey and added an egg. LOVE!
That sounds like a great substitution! Let us know how they come out 🙂
How many calories per cookie? They look wonderful. Want one right now.
Hi Tracy, I’m not sure of the calorie count, but you could plug in the recipe ingredients into a online calculator to find out.
These look amazing! Can I substitute coconut flour instead and will it come out the same? Just trying to cut down on some of the calories 🙂
You can definitely substitute coconut flour, however, coconut flour is a heavier flour so you would need less of it compared to the almond flour, maybe a 1/4 of a cup less? There may be a conversion calculator you can find online.
I used coconut flour and didn’t use less the mix is very dry. I am still trying to fix it as i type this 🙂
Hope it turned out good!
Can I ask how everyone mixed in the bowl? I was mixing it with a whisk and all the ingredient was stuck inside the whisk. Making it now but the Dagoba chocolate chips were big and they didn’t mix in there so I had to put them on top instead of mixing them in the ingredients.
Yoli
I usually just use a spoon to stir it up! Hope you like the recipe!
These cookies are fantastic. My family loves them! My kids (5&7) said they were the best cookies they have ever had. I did find that they seemed to stay together better when I Formed the cookies by hand, other than that I followed the recipe exactly. I’m so happy that I found a recipe that is free of all the garbage that regular cookies have but tastes equally as good if not better. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Shanna, thanks for sharing how they came out. So glad your family likes them, they really are delicious!
Would almond meal work? I have the kind from trader joes.
Hi Katie, almond meal should work just fine. The flour I use is labeled “almond meal/flour”.
These are the best cookies EVER!!!! I actually like them better than the regular chocolate chip cookies. I add nuts to them also…macadamia or cashew are yummy. I’ve made them 3 times now. I use the coconut oil…be sure to melt it first.
I’m so glad you liked them! It’s my favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies too! That’s a great idea to add nuts, I’ll have to try that soon. Thanks for sharing how they came out.
Everyone is asking for the recipe now. Thank you so much!!!
These paleo chocolate chip cookies look so good! I can’t wait to make these. After switching my kids to a paleo diet the one thing they miss the most is good cookie recipes. I love that this paleo chocolate chip cookies recipe doesn’t have eggs or dairy, something I think my kids have a sensitivity to.
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