Paleo chocolate chip cookies that are gluten, grain and dairy free but taste just like the real thing! Just a small amount of easy ingredients and you can be eating these in minutes!
It’s been a week.
Like one of those that despite your best intentions, all you can eat think of is chocolate, dessert, pasta, cheese… Basically, all the bad stuff.
I blame the stupid weather which, according to weather.com, was supposed to be sunny and 60s every day when I checked on Sunday and then somehow ended up a cloudy, drizzly mess for 3 of those days.
My cousin just graduated with a degree in meteorology and took his first job which is accompanied by a disgustingly low salary. I now understand why. I’m convinced they all just sit around throwing darts at a selection of weather patterns and pick whichever one they hit for the forecast. (Chris- I’m kidding)
This is why I hate winter. It makes me crave bad things.
And before someone gets all sassy in the comments, no, I’m not calling cheese and pasta inherently bad, but when you crave copious amounts of each every day because it looks like armageddon outside, it’s not the healthiest choice.
I can usually hold myself off for the first half of the day but that 2-3pm blah time gets me.
Every. Single. Time.
It’s about the time I want a nap, lose all motivation to work and want to eat every single piece of chocolate and/or carby goodness in my house. This doesn’t happen in the summer.
Reason #345987456 why we should’ve never moved back to NY from Florida.
So since we have approximately 6 more months of this craptastic weather coming our way, I decided I needed a go to 2-3pm fix.
Requirements:
- Chocolate
- Tastes legit
- I can eat like 5 of them without feeling bad.
Let’s expand upon #2 for a second – when I say “tastes legit” I mean I don’t want some “health-ified” or “high protein-ified” version of a classic that uses prunes or dates or protein powder. Although, I’m kinda making fun of myself when I say that because these raw brownie bites fit that description but are SO delicious at the same time.
Guys- there’s some crazy ass shit out there in the form of “recipes” for stuff like that.
I just so happened to have picked about 5 of them for recent breakfasts. Wednesday’s ended up in a batter explosion and a black waffle with great flavor but the texture of an air puff. Um, wtf? Do people not taste their creations before posting for the world?
I digress.
I’m giving myself an A on this assignment.
These paleo chocolate chip cookies have chocolate chunks, legit chocolate chip cookie flavor and most importantly for me when it comes to a chocolate chip cookie, they have the soft gooey chocolate center. Soft batch cookies are where it’s at. Life’s too short for crispy, hard cookies, at least when it comes to chocolate chip.
Somehow they’re also miraculously dairy-free, grain-free and paleo.
Holla.
Also, I somehow only ate 3 straight out of the oven. So make that an A+ on this cookie assignment.
If you want to take these paleo chocolate chip cookies to the next level, check out these paleo bacon chocolate chip cookies!
Same recipe just with the addition of some crispy crumbled bacon to the batter for that delicious salty sweet combination.
Love these paleo chocolate chip cookies?
Try these other paleo cookie recipes like this Paleo Salted Chocolate Chip Cookie Skillet <– so gooey and insanely delicious!, these Paleo Blueberry Thumbprints or these Paleo Blueberry Chocolate Macaroons.
And for something chocolaty but not in cookie form, paleo chocolate mousse never disappoints.
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond meal
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil, *update: make sure to measure oil after melting so that you’re not inadvertently using too much. This can cause cookies to flatten
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon almond milk
- 1/4 cup chopped dark chocolate pieces Enjoy Life chocolate chips are a great option.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
- Whisk together wet ingredients in a small bowl.
- Add wet to dry and mix together.
- Fill a tablespoon measure with batter and press down to form a half-circle. Tap batter out onto baking sheet and lightly press down in the center. *Optional – freeze cookies on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before baking. This helps keep them from spreading.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes until bottoms just start to turn brown.
- Remove from oven and let cool 3-5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. They will be soft when removed from oven but firm up in a couple of minutes.
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These look so chocolately and wonderful! I love the combo of almond meal with chocolate! Making these for sure.
wow. i think you need to give up running and paleo and take a yoga class or something to CHILL OUT. How much more negative can you get? The language chat makes it tough to share this with my 12 year old daughter, and let’s see,…..”bad stuff, stupid weather, hate winter, carbs are bad, armageddon, craptastic weather, ….”
I like your website and i think your recipes are really good. Your write up today just passed on your negative feelings in general to everyone who read them. What is the point when you’re trying to send out a feel good recipe?
Haha, I think you might need the yoga class if you’re so uptight to not recognize the humor/sarcasm in my “negativity”.
Some people don’t understand humor and get their panties in a bunch when they read things that are meant to be fun. Not everything should be Martha Stewart (who also has a wild side if you’ve ever heard her as a guest on Howard Stern). I loved the post and the humor with which it was written. Too much is serious these days and too many people get offended by stuff.
And I’m making these tomorrow. I am using a bar of 100% cacao, melted with a little butter and sweetened with maple syrup then rehardened in the fridge overnight. I can’t have any cane sugar. :(
Thanks so much for the recipe.
Wow — huge thanks to Jodi for her idea on dealing with the chocolate! GAPS diet here, no sugar allowed except raw honey, feeling VERY bereft … you just made my evening!!
Jodi – I am the same with no cane sugar — about how much butter and syrup did you add?
Really? Then don’t show her this post! She’s probably heard worse than that in school! How come you didn’t mention where she said, “… crazy ass shit out there…” If you raised her right, she’ll know what to do. I’m guessing she doesn’t get to watch The Simpsons!
I have made this recipe a handful of times now. I use agave instead of honey and put a scoop of my protein powder in them (I have a super hard time getting my daily needs in through food alone). They’re awesome! And Beverly…you’re a nutcase. Kids grow up with a better head on their shoulders when they aren’t cottled in to oblivion like I am sure, sadly, your child is.
dear b_hunt,
thank you for your personal accusations. Why would you call me a nutcase? why would you feel it necessary to put down my child? You really hurt my feelings with your reply. I’m so sorry I ever posted my reply to the person who created this website, and seem to have attracted personal accusations from her readers. You don’t know my child, or me or my family or how we raise her. I wish you well and hope that you somehow feel better by writing what you did. I did not feel better when i wrote my comments originally and wish I had never written them. Thank you for reminding me of that.
Oh, and if being a nutcase makes me somehow different than you, then perhaps I’ll take pride in being a nut.
Hope that taught you not to be rude to other people’s posts. Like somehow it’s ok to be rude to the blogger (who is, as are all of us, a person) yet you get offended when people defend said blogger?
I also totally agree – your kid’s 12 years old…censor what she reads if you’re concerned about the negativity affecting her.
I’m in GA, so I will gladly take your NY weather!! :) We never ever have what you would call a real Winter.
I give you a A+++++ for this recipe too! :)
Chocolate fixes so many things! These cookies look great!
Sounds like we’ve both been in a cool-weather funk. I hear you on the recipe front, too—the world already has enough subpar recipes. These cookies look mighty tasty. I really need to get my hands on some almond flour.
Those cookies look delish! Have to try them :) And I know how you feel about the weather – in Denmark it almost always rains!
I hear you! I’m fully dressed (socks included) when I work from home now, it’s too cold! But your recipe gives me an idea for a quick 16 mins break.
I just made these – delicious!!!
I want to try one of these – they look so thick and wonderful!
Winter…I cannot even deal with it. Although people think SoCal is always nice, it’s not. But it’s alot nicer than MN or Chicago where I grew up, but still, if I could never have to put on long pants or remove my flip flops, that’d be great!
ugh, i hate weeks like that. but chocolate cures so many woes, and i love that you made these healthy!