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:
Rebecca says
I don’t have a food processor. Can I use a blender instead?
Andrea says
I used a blender and it worked wonderfully. I also subbed coconut oil and it turned out fantastic
Kandace says
I subbed out honey for maple syrup and shortening for butter. My kids loved them!
Nicole C says
I am obsessed with these cookies! My whole family enjoys them too. Kids age 5 and 3. I love how the recipes only calls for 2 Tablespoons of honey and it is so simple to make. I substituted the palm shortening for lard and it turned out great! I seriously cannot wait to make these again.
Kristi says
Can coconut oil be substituted for vegan shortening?
Barbara Lepley says
I recently found out I’m allergic to yeast, dairy, coffee, tomatoes and black pepper. Would the Paleo diet work for me?
Jennifer says
This is similar to the recipe Elana gave to the almond flour folks – but using grapeseed oil instead of shortening. I’ve also used lite olive oil (the kind meant for baking) with great success. Seriously, they taste like the normal chocolate chip cookies ala tollhouse … only better. Everyone loves them!
Jennifer says
First, I would like to say thank you to Elana’s Pantry. I have a little girl with a gluten and grain intolerance, and most recently, dairy. I have had a tough time adjusting to a new way of cooking and eating. Elana, your “pantry” has been so informative and helpful in our journey to bring our little one into better health.
I would also like to respond to Zosia’s question…should you choose to, you can speak with your doctor about having an Assay done. It’s a blood test that specifically looks for your sensitivity to, all grains individually. The doc can also test for “leaky gut” which may be an indicator that you are not tolerating dairy-even if you do not have any symptoms of dairy intolerance. Best of luck to you.
Cynthia says
I used hazelnut flour and agave. Yum!
Donna Kottmer-Tyson says
Just wondering if coconut oil could be used instead of vegan palm oil?
Karen says
any suggestions on a substitute for the honey???