Primal Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with high protein almond flour and naturally sweetened with honey. This incredible grain-free cookie is made with just 7 ingredients and will knock your socks off! No one will know this is a healthy cookie recipe!
There are so many forms of the grain-free diet. Primal. Paleo. Specific Carbohydrate Diet. GAPS. Call it what you want. I began the grain-free diet in 2001. I have adhered to it religiously ever since. When I began, I followed the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. And ever since then, I’ve been strictly grain-free. This is not a fad for me. It’s a way of life. When I started the grain-free diet, people thought the gluten-free diet was freakish.
Now there are so many of us on paleo diets. We’re gluten-free. We’re grain-free. We’re definitely not freaks. Now we’re merely a bit ahead of the curve. It wasn’t always like that.
The almond flour cookie recipe that I share with you today for a paleo chocolate chip cookie reminds me of the way I used to bake a decade ago. When I used honey quite often in my recipes. Call them what you want. Argue with what they’re called. It’s all semantics anyway. And I promise you. I won’t argue back. I just want you to enjoy the cookies.
Primal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ cup palm shortening
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Combine almond flour, salt, and baking soda in a food processor
- Pulse in shortening, honey, and vanilla until dough forms
- Remove blade from processor and stir in chocolate chunks by hand
- Scoop dough one level tablespoon at a time onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet
- Press balls of dough down gently
- Bake at 350°F for 6-8 minutes
- Cool for 15 minutes (do not handle prior or cookies will break)
- Serve
If you want to make changes to this paleo cookie recipe, please do. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your substitutions and alterations turn out. I can’t do the testing for you. I’ve got two boys, and they keep me real busy. And they like to eat cookies that I bake from scratch. These cookies. Gluten-free cookies. Easy chocolate chip cookies. It just seems that all is right in the world when young men sit at the table eating cookies. So go ahead, enjoy the cookies!
What changes and substitutions will you make to these cookies to custom tailor them to your special diet needs? How do you think they’ll turn out?
Here are some of my other easy paleo cookie recipes:
Planetpj says
These cookies are so good! I can’t stop eating them :). FYI, I substituted butter for the shortening. Yum!
Dawn Riccardi Morris says
I want you to know that since I found out I was severely intolerant of eggs last year, this is one of the only cookie recipes I use anymore! It’s nice to be able to eat a chocolate cookie once in a while. Thank you.
My daughter and I adopted different degrees of the grain free lifestyle when she was diagnosed with a serious digestive illness a little over 5 years ago. After being on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet for just about 3 weeks, most of her symptoms had vanished! We too have transitioned to a more Paleo like lifestyle since then.
People who haven’t lived with severe food sensitivities have no idea that the gluten free and grain free lifestyles are not fads. They don’t realize it’s a much healthier way to eat because they haven’t witnessed the benefits with their own eyes. With the popularity of Paleo, though, many people are figuring it all out, one bite at a time.
Thank you so much for making our lives just a little bit sweeter!
Lacey says
I subbed coconut oil (same amount) and was worried because the raw dough seemed SO oily.. I also used a dark chocolate almond/sea salt bar for the chips (broke it up and pulsed it in food processor to combine). They turned out perfect. I would consider cutting back on the oil next time by a tablespoon, but who knows, I could have lost count;) great, simple recipe.
Irene says
Hi, these were fantastic! & I sub’ the honey for 1tbs agave and used coconut oil instead of the shortening :) thx for sharing!
Helene Lopes says
I would like to incorporate flax meal into cookies for the grand babies. How do I add or subtract the other ingredients?
The Food Coach says
Just made these last night. I substituted the plam oil for some grass-fed butter. I used 85% chocolate too. I have to say, wow. Just what I needed. I’m a paleo girl and coach and these are perfect little snacks with the cold Colorado weather we’ve been getting! Thank you Elana!!
Laura says
These are wonderful cookies.
Last year the recipe called for 2 teaspoons of soda, now it is 1/2 teaspoon. Does it matter? (I got the recipe again to print for a friend.)
Using a tablespoon to measure, I do get about 30 cookies, using 2 teaspoons soda.
Kris says
I feel like a traitor (I love Elana’s recipes!) but I tinkered a bit with this recipe because I really like the texture of baked goods when coconut and almond flours are mixed, as opposed to using just one of the flours as this recipe specified. The results were amazing so I will share my alterations:
2 cups almond flour Minus 3 Tablespoons
1 1/2 Tablespoons coconut flour
3 Tablespoons honey (instead of 2)
1/4 cup coconut oil at room temp (i.e. solid)
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
All other ingredients, mixing methods and cooking temp remained the same. I formed the dough into one tablespoon round balls, flattening slightly. They baked for 8-10 mins. The neighborhood kids totally destroyed these, as did the husbands!
Noah says
Made these and they were great! I added toasted Cocoa Nibs and they were amazing. Crunchy like a nut but with the flavor of bittersweet chocolate.
Dianela says
i made half the recipe, using coconut oil, in about 4 minutes. they took 6 mins to bake. had me a batch of deliciou guilt free cookes in 10 minutes flat. they came out soft vs crispy… which was fine with me.
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