I’ve been on a gluten free diet for over 25 years. During that time, I’ve developed the best recipe for Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almond Flour you’ll ever find.
Best Recipe for Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almond Flour
I live with a family of cookie monsters, so if you need a recipe for healthy cookies, you’ve come to the right place.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipes that are Gluten Free
Like everything I prepare, this Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe is gluten free, and it’s also my husband’s favorite!
Whenever I make a batch, he grabs one and asks, “is this the cookies recipe with butter?” Yes, it is! Butter gives these healthy cookies a rich creamy flavor with the perfect mouthfeel. that’s why my family craves, Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almond Flour when I’m baking.
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almond Flour
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup salted butter, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine almond flour, salt, and baking soda
- Pulse in butter, vanilla, and maple syrup until dough forms
- Remove blade from processor and stir in chocolate chips by hand
- Scoop dough one tablespoon at a time onto two parchment paper lined baking sheets
- Bake at 350°F for 7-10 minutes
- Cool for 15 minutes (do not handle prior or cookies will break)
- Serve
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe Simple
Of course, delicious food is a must. But easy recipes are a close second.
Cookie Recipes That are Easy
Made with 5 ingredients (plus salt and baking soda) the dough for these simple chocolate chip cookies can be thrown together in under 10 minutes. Almond flower for Gluten Free baking is such an underrated weapon in your pantry.
Recipe for Healthy Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
After delicious and easy comes nutritious, but your family will never know these are anything but melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
Why the obsession with healthy gluten free cookies? Read on!
Diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 1990s
I began focusing on gluten free recipes in the 1990s.
Unfortunately, the gluten free diet was not enough to heal my gut. I took things a step further, eliminating rice, quinoa, potatoes, and corn which helped give me some relief from digestive issues and multiple sclerosis symptoms.
The Grain Free Diet
At that point, I went on a strict grain-free diet.
I became even more committed to this way of life when my son was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2001.
Diet restrictions for a little one are super tough, so I made it my mission to create delicious healthy treats for my 3 year old kiddo –he’s now 24 years old!
My easy recipes for dessert were created for him, and they are all gluten-free, grain-free, and lower carb.
What Is the Paleo Diet?
Decades ago, before it was called the paleo diet, we simply referred to the way we eat as grain free and healthy.
Keto Diet and Intermittent Fasting
My eating plan has continued to evolve over the years. Paleo friendly potatoes and rice make me incredibly ill, and I thrive with a higher level of healthy fat, so I moved over to the keto diet.
I also find intermittent fasting now and then helps to control my inflammation levels.
Biochemical Individuals
We’re all bio-chemical individuals and need to listen to our bodies. To put it simply, I eat food that makes me feel good, and it just so happens all of that food is grain-free. So are my cookie recipes!
Cookie Recipes Healthy
My easy homemade cookies recipes take dessert to the next level because they’re filled with a variety of wholesome ingredients.
And in my healthy cookies with chocolate chips, I use the best organic dark chocolate to keep blood sugar levels stable.
Healthy Gluten Free Cookies with Almond Flour
What else goes into keeping this treat wholesome? Making cookies with almond flour instead of high glycemic white flour!
Healthiest Cookie Recipes
So, while at one time the term “healthy cookies” may have seemed like an oxymoron, that is no longer the case.
My gluten free cookies with almond flour are fabulous because they’re:
- Low Carb
- High Protein
- Nutrient Dense
- Gluten Free
- Full of Fiber
Recipe for Gluten-Free Cookies with Almond Flour
Using this vitamin rich base in my cookie recipes means baking with fewer ingredients while upping the flavor.
I also focus on using small amounts of natural sweeteners to keep my cookie monsters healthy.
Gluten-Free Recipes for Cookies
Here are my favorite gluten free recipes for cookies. I hope you love them as much as we do!
Recipe for Snickerdoodles Cookies
My mouth is watering just thinking about Snickerdoodles warm out of the oven.
This low carb, gluten free confection is made with a base of almond flour and sweetened with honey.
Bonus –antioxidant rich cinnamon helps control glucose levels, and this recipe is egg free and dairy free!
Cookies Recipe Peanut Butter
Creamy Peanut Butter Cookies made with honey and vanilla that are ready to devour in 15 minutes? Yes, please.
My classic vegan cookies with peanut butter will have the whole family begging for another batch.
Nice and crisp around the edges, yet deliciously soft on the inside, you’d never know this is one of the healthiest cookie recipes around!
Cookies with Chocolate Recipe
Rich, creamy dark chocolate and pecans are found in every scrumptious bite of my Chocolate Decadence Cookies.
This recipe for simple cookies is the ideal celiac friendly indulgence, with almond flour, maple syrup, vanilla, and a double dose of chocolate in the batter that’s ready quicker than the oven can heat up.
Part of a heart-healthy diet, dark chocolate is flavanol-rich in disease-fighting antioxidants.
Cookie Recipes Tollhouse
Growing up, I came home every day after school and baked cookies.
In fact, I loved baking so much that by the time I was in high school, I used the Tollhouse Cookie Recipe to make batch after batch of treats. I sold these homemade goodies during my breaks from teaching tennis lessons at the local tennis club.
I loved that wonderful Tollhouse cookie recipe, but it did not love me back, so I created my own healthy version.
Healthiest Cookie Recipes
With only 7 ingredients, my Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almond Flour are easier to make than Toll House cookies and just as good! Now my special recipe is yours too!
This recipe for Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almond Flour is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared it in 2015.
Persimmon Puddin says
Here are some tips/modifications I make:
1) it’s important to let the butter become room temp naturally…don’t nuke it to make it soft. This may help with those experiencing excessive cookie spreading.
2) After I mix all the ingredients, I pop the bowl into the fridge for 15 minutes or so. Letting the butter chill up again makes them easier to handle (and may also help with controlling the over-spread while banking).
3) I add chopped walnuts and I normally add more chocolate chips than the recipe calls for. I do not alter the rest of the ingredients or amounts at all.
4) Once I let them cool as Elena instructs, I put them on a plate or container, wax paper between layers and let them stay in the fridge overnight. The next day they are just as crunchy as the real thing.
LOVE THESE!!!
Jen says
Can this recipe be made into a cookie cake with the same results? If so, what would the baking time be?
Glenda says
Would almond meal make the cookies fall apart?
Cindy says
To say that my family LOVES your recipes would be an understatement! I am the only WFGF member :-)
Just made these with my 14 year old dauaghter. They tast yummy, however, came out very thin and very flat.
Thoughts?
Thanks!
Elana says
Hi Cindy, what brand of almond flour did you use? That might be the issue :-)
Cindy says
So happy to hear from you. My kids and husband can’t wait for me to make them again. Mew all devoured the flat ones!
I used Honeyville Blanched Almond Flour. Always keep it in the fridge. I Wonder… Do all ingredients need to be room temperature? I used maple syrup out of the fridge too.
Did I tell you you ROCK?
Cindy says
The recipe said butter at room temperature. I did use room temperature butter…
Elana says
Hi Cindy! That might be it. I use my almond flour at room temperature. Try that and let me know if it works. I want this recipe to work perfectly for you :-)
Donna says
Mine also come out very flat. I thought it may be that my baking soda was old. New baking soda did not help. They are still VERY GOOD! But, they are more like crackers than cookies. I use the Red Mill Almond flour. I have also used the Hodgson Mill flour which is not as fined ground with the same results, yummy but flat.
Elana says
Hi Donna, unfortunately some brands of almond flour don’t work in my recipes resulting in a flat cookie (Bob’s Red Mill is one of the brands that doesn’t work). For more information on this please check out my Almond Flour page:
https://elanaspantry.com/ingredients/almond-flour/
Elana
Kari Vanhoozer says
I had the same problem. My cookies bake flat if I use cold butter or cold almond flour. They bake perfectly if all my ingredients are room temperature.
Danielle says
Hello, I’d love to try this recipe but I can’t have a lot of sugar, so I need to substitute the maple syrup as I’m currently living in England and can’t find a sugar free maple syrup. Could I use honey? I think it’s a more natural sugar.
Malia says
I have made this recipe twice now and both times they melted into a big flat cookie. Elana help please! What am I doing wrong? I use blanched almond flour, grass fed butter, pure grade B maple syrup, pure vanilla extract, this is getting too expensive to experiment again and again. They taste absolutely delicious, but I would love it if they looked like your picture! Thank you for all of your amazing recipes!
Elana says
Hi Malia, happy to help you trouble shoot this. What brand of almond flour are you using?
Malia says
Hi Elana,
I use Honeyville blanched almond flour.
Thanks!
Malia
Elana says
Malia, it sounds like you have all of the right ingredients down to the brand! I make these cookies every week and this has not ever happened with mine. I confess, I’m not sure what else to recommend! So sorry!
Malia says
I have been meaning to post this for a while. I had to try this recipe again because they taste so good! This time I did not level the cups of flour and left them heaping. I thought the extra flour would give more body to the batter. I also made it and stuck it in the fridge overnight. The next day I scooped them onto the cookie sheet and baked them, voila! No more flat cookies! Only problem is we gobble them up too fast!! Thanks again Elana!
Julie says
Hi Elena or whoever does moderate these recipes for her. Just wanted to let y’all know the Vanilla Extract she recommends on all sizes has been discontinued. What other Brand is recommended????
Elana says
Hi Julie, I would recommend checking amazon.com, or other sites until iHerb gets this product back in stock :-)
Megan says
I love your recipes and need to whip something up for last minute. Going to try these with hazelnut flour because I ran out of almond and ghee because I can’t do casein but prefer the health benefits of ghee over shortening. Hope them turn out!
Nicole says
Could the maple syrup be replaced with raw honey?
QueenJellyBean says
Typically I do not use raw honey in recipes that are baked because the heat from the oven negates the benefits of raw. The honey when consumed in a baked cookie is no longer raw. Just one consideration, but I havent tried substituting honey for the maple syrup.
Sarah says
Your chocolate chips cookies look so good! They are healthy, tasty and gluten-free, what more can I ask for!