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:
heather mayer says
SO good! I used regular butter, and pink himalayan sea salt and they came out perfectly! The kids ( 4 & 6) totally approve!
Linda says
These look wonderfully simple. Have you any other gf/df dessert ideas to share? Thank you for the inspiration!
Tracy Gale says
I use the non dairy, no gluten chocolate chips and use some cinnamon and sometimes some nutmeg to spice it up a bit. I also use coconut oil. Great recipe!
Ailie says
My absolute favorite thing to do with these cookies, now hold your breath here, is to add bacon drippings. I cook my (pasture raised & organic) bacon extra crispy in the oven (@300) and drain off the fat every 15 minutes for 45min-hour. I add the drippings instead of butter or oil, then I chop up a piece of crispy bacon, add it to my chocolate chips, and… Oh my god. Best EVER! x
Emilie says
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I am a french woman and I have discovered your blog through a french blog (I dont’remember which one) while I was looking for a gluten free bread recipe…
Since then I have tested several of your wonderful receipe ( sesam crackers, nut carckers, bread, pumkin muffin, Karot kugel and so many others) ! Each time it is a full sucess, it is always very easy to cook and so tasty! So this time, eating my primal cookie I have to thank you!
I am addicted! :)
Lexi says
These cookies are so so amazing. Use bobs red mills almond flour for moist cookies. These are better than regular chocolate chip cookies. I cannot keep my family away from them! My 5 year old is begging me to make them for her school Halloween party!
MamaCassi says
Just looked up this recipe again for a frame for some lemon cookies i was craving!
everything the same (used coconut oil for shortening) and added zest from 2 organic lemons to the cookies. added one egg (we love eggs in everything) and other than that stuck to the recipe w/out chocolate chips.
used some lemon juice frosting i had made for a practice (gluten-free) wedding cake i’m making, and made lemon sandwich cookies.
i froze 4! pretty proud of that!
lemon, my new favorite baking flavor!
Mari Ann says
I’ve been using Lakanto (purchase through body ecology) sugar substitute in everything. Tastes great made from monk fruit. I try to stay away from all honey, maple syrup etc.., since it still has sugar grams in it. Don’t understand how that’s paleo! Dates maybe. I’ll let you know how they turn out!
Linda says
These are fabulous! I’m going to make them when my super-critical-don’t-make-my-baked-goods-healthy college son comes home. I am pretty sure they will pass his judgement! Thanks for all your wonderful recipes.
Marcia says
We are a small family going grain-free due to my Type II diabetes. I decided to try these cookies for a get-together; wanted something a little special and out of our ordinary diet. They are just great!
BTW, I used Enjoy Life chocolate chips.