The best paleo chocolate chip cookies around! This recipe is "melt in your mouth" soft and so delicious!
When someone starts eating gluten free or paleo, there are certain recipes you just can't live without! Chocolate chip cookies are certainly one of those recipes!
When I'm feeling lazy (especially on a snow day!), I also like to make this skillet cookie, which is also paleo and gluten free!
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Ingredients Needed for Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
The ingredients here may seem odd if you're new to eating paleo, but if you're a seasoned paleo baker, nothing new here! In fact if that's the case, you probably have everything on hand.
- Eggs
- Almond Butter
- Coconut Oil
- Maple Syrup
- Vanilla Extract
- Coconut Sugar
- Cassava Flour
- Coconut Flour
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Chocolate Chips
See recipe card for quantities.
Instructions to Make This Recipe
Start with the dry and wet ingredients in separate bowls, and mix them thoroughly. Then you'll add them together and mix them together.
Next, mix the dough into golf ball sized balls, and place them on a parchment lined sheet.
Note: Scroll down to the top tip for a faster method for this step!
Finally, bake the cookies! Put the tray in the pre-heated oven and bake the cookies for approximately 12 minutes.
Hint: Let the cookies stay on the tray for 5 minutes after they're removed from the oven. Cassava cookies need time to set, or else they will fall apart!
How are these Chocolate Chip Cookies Paleo?
Paleo means the food has no gluten, grains, dairy, legumes, and a few other items.
Many chocolate chips contain soy (legume), dairy, cane sugar (not paleo), and sometimes more non-paleo items.
That's why it's so important to buy the correct chocolate chips! See below for options.
There is also no wheat based flour here, that's why we use cassava!
We also use coconut sugar and maple syrup rather than cane sugar. These two sweeteners are lower on the glycemic index and won't spike your blood sugar as badly.
Chocolate Chip Options
To keep these paleo (or at least as close to it as you're comfortable), you can't use your run of the mill chocolate chips. Try some of these below instead:
- It can be tricky to find paleo chocolate chips. I personally don't worry too much about it and use chocolate chips from Enjoy Life. They do have cane sugar, but they have no dairy and no soy, the latter being of upmost importance for me personally.
- You can also these from Hu Kitchen, as they are truly paleo.
- Lily's Chocolate Chips are another clean paleo option!
Substitutions
- These are of course chocolate chip flavored, but you can swap them out for white chocolate chips or butterscotch chips!
- If you'd like to make these egg free and vegan, you can use a flax or chia egg, or use an egg replacer.
Equipment Needed
There are two pieces of equipment I highly recommend for this recipe.
An immersion blender is SO helpful for mixing the wet ingredients! You can mix them by hands of course, but using an immersion blender makes incorporating the almond butter so much easier.
The second piece I recommend is a silicone spatula. I find it so easy to mix the wet and dry ingredients together. You want to be careful not to overmix it (see below), and the rubber spatula helps mix it perfectly.
Storage
Be sure to store the finished paleo cookies in an air tight container! Once they're cooled, don't let them sit out all day or else they will get stale.
You can also put them in a bowl or plate and seal completely with saran wrap or bees wrap.
Top tip
Don't overmix the dough! If you keep mixing and mixing, the cookies will be hard. Mix until the ingredients are just incorporated them form into balls right away.
Also, a super easy way to get the cookie dough into uniform cookies is to use an ice cream scoop instead of rolling the dough into balls!
This not only makes them uniform for even cooking, but you get to keep your hands clean as well.
It also makes the process go faster!
The Best Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
- 1 cookie tray
- Parchment Paper
- mixing beater
- 1 large mixing bowl
- 1 medium mixing bowl
- 1 mixing spoon or rubber spatula
Ingredients
- 1 egg at room temperature
- ½ cup almond butter smooth or creamy, not chunky
- 2 Tbsp. coconut oil melted, but not hot
- ¼ cup maple syrup if kept in the fridge, let it come to room temperature first
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup coconut sugar
- 1 cup cassava flour
- 3 Tbsp. coconut flour
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ¾ cup chocolate chips see above for paleo options
Instructions
- Line a large cookie tray with parchment and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Using a hand beater, mix together all of the wet ingredients plus the coconut sugar until just mixed and smooth.
- Mix together the dry ingredients in a small bowl (not including the chocolate chips), then gently mix them into the wet ingredients until just mixed. Be careful not to over mix.
- Slowly fold in the chocolate chips.
- By hand, form the dough into medium sized cookie balls, around 15 total. Place them on the parchment lined tray. You may have to bake in batches or use two trays to fit them all.
- Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Allow them to cool on the tray for at least five minutes or else they will fall apart if removed too soon. Enjoy!
Did you make this recipe? Let me know in the comments below!
Please note that this recipe has been adapted from this recipe by Paleo Running Momma. I much prefer the texture when using cassava flour, they're so much softer this way!
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Nia says
These look so delicious and I love how they look softer as cookies. Such a great treat and thanks for the tip about the immersion blender. 🙂
Rachel Rivera says
You're most welcome! I love how the immersion blender makes the ingredients creamy and the final product so perfect! Hope you love them!
Tyler says
I’m definitely going to take a chance and try this recipe. Thank you so much for this, so helpful!!
Rachel Rivera says
I hope you love them! They're really so yummy, and not, "good for paleo", but actually quite good!
The Sisters Who Voyage says
Wow, These look great, and ill have to try making them! Chocolate chip cookies but better for you ☺️
Rachel Rivera says
Exactly! A healthy spin on an old classic! Enjoy them!
Scott Harrison Rees says
Looks amazing! I don't usually do gluten free but I accidentally brought some bread of that variety by accident last time I went shopping and.... not bad! It's great knowing that there are some cookie options out there. Chocolate chip, too! Yum.
Rachel Rivera says
Gluten free items have come a long way! Some recipes can be a bit rough, but these paleo and gluten free cookies are simply perfect!
Donna says
I tried these and they are amazing! Thank you!
Rachel Rivera says
Aww thank you so much! So glad you loved them, and they're so much healthier too!
Anna says
What a great recipe!
Rachel Rivera says
Thanks so much for trying these cookies! Glad you enjoyed them 🙂
simplyjolayne says
Hmmm, I bet the neighbors love the smell of these cookies.
Rachel Rivera says
Oh yes, and my co-workers too! haha
Fransic verso says
These look so good. And it's one of my favorite snacks I eat during work when I feel hungry lol. Thank you for sharing!
Rachel Rivera says
haha oh yes, chocolate chip cookies make a fantastic snack! Hope you enjoy them!
Elaine says
I am definitely going to try this recipe. I love chocolate chip cookies and this seems so much healthier.
Rachel Rivera says
I hope you love them, they are definitely healthier than most chocolate chip cookies! No wheat flour or soy in these paleo cookies!
Farukh says
These look healthy and delicious. Would try this weekend.
Rachel Rivera says
Thanks so much! Hope you enjoy them, let me know how they come out!
Paulette says
Oooh, looks so good! I recently tried the Enjoy Life brand chocolate chip cookies and they weren’t as good as their other flavors (and I don’t think they’re even paleo?) so I’m curious to try these! I even have all the ingredients, yay!
Rachel Rivera says
Right the Enjoy Life ones are not paleo, lucky tho that these are! Enjoy!