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:
Sarah says
I need to use honey b/c we are on the GAPS diet….any ideas?
Karen says
Just wondering if anyone substitute the honey with stevia or another natural sweetner (I’m allergic to honey)- go figure!
THANK YOU Elana for sharing this chocolate chip cookie recipe – can’t wait to try it!
Annie says
I made them, :D they are mighty fine!
I used homemade almond flour though (complete almonds ground in robot)
I used Coconut butter, such a decadent taste
and 100% chocolate…
all in all tasty and nutritious!
thanks for the cookie recipe!
Laura says
Did anyone else’s cookies turn out too baking soda-y? If anyone experimented with less please let me know your results. Thanks!
Emily says
I absolutely love your recipes – always a hit with my family! My food processor isn’t cooperating with me…can I use my stand mixer instead?
Laura says
I used my pastry knife, a fork and my hands to form the dough. They turned out well.
Cindy says
Thank you, Elana for yet another yummy recipe. We always have a treat from your blog sitting around. I am going to try using coconut oil instead of the palm shortening and coconut palm sugar instead of honey. My husband eats grain-free and sugar-free so honey is not allowed in our treats and he will occasionally eat the 76% dark chocolate, but that’s more for my sweet-tooth.
Liz says
I’m going to make these with coconut oil as soon as I am home – they look fab.
demi says
stupid question everyone but i will make it.when you mean food processor..is it the one that we mix for breads or the mixer where we chop stuff??can i stir them in with a spoon or sth??thanks and sorry for my fool question
Angelfeathers says
Demi, it’ll mean the machine that chops. But yes, since nothing actually needs chopping, you should be able to make this sort of thing equally well stirring it in a bowl with a spoon. Just make sure the bowl’s big enough, or you’ll end up with the mixture everywhere (voice of experience speaking)! :-)
demi says
thank you!!i always confuse the mixers with blenders but i guess stiring them is good too!!haha.thanks
Janet D. says
I just used an 8 cup mixing bowl and a wooden spoon and they turned out great! I should say what was left to bake after several of my boys and husband tested out the cookie dough!
susan says
one can’t really go wrong with almonds and chocolate (and honey)! I am with ya, sista, on the teenager + the tween. Sounds like you and I may need a weekend, Spa getaway!
Tracy says
Thank you so much for this recipe,Elana. My own path to wellness has taken from gluten free to paleo. I so appreciate your new recipes that are paleo.