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:
Kim says
I made these exactly to the recipe and man, are they good! My littlest, who sticks her nose up at most foods I make, loved these and I had to shoo her off after 2 cookies or there wouldn’t be any left. ;) Thanks for this awesome recipe!
Vlad says
I’ve never been into baking stuff, though since I went primal I started cooking and found it fun. So I decided to try this recipe and it came out really good! Honestly I was surprised. Even my mom said it was tasty.
Thanks!
Carla says
I’ve made the cookies a few times now since this was posted and I find that 1 tablespoon of honey is enough.
Beth @ Running on Cloud Nine says
Made these – tasty! Will cut back on salt next time. Thanks for sharing. Will you be coming out with a Paleo cookbook?
Shawnna says
I used maple syrup instead of honey and we all loved them! I doubled the recipe and got 24 cookies.
Katerina says
The best cookies ever even for people with non gf diets. I cannot get enough of them I make them at least twice a week. They melt in your mouth and they are soooo easy to make. Thank you for one more great recipe Elana.
Leslie H. says
These cookies are soooooo yummy!!! Chocolate chip cookies are my downfall and when I fall off the “no grains” wagon – I run straight to the gluten filled Nestle cookie recipe and wallow in my foggy thoughts about my “wheat belly”. Eating grain free has helped me to feel better and have more energy. Thank you for giving me a “safe” chocolate chip cookie to run to! BTW, the only change I made was using coconut oil rather than palm oil as that was all I had – and they turned out perfectly! And I think I’m a bit of a cookie snob… ;)
sheri says
Am thanking you for this simple, delicious recipe, as I wipe the cookie crumbs off my face. I doubled the recipe, added coconut oil in place of the shortening, added a few chopped walnuts, and it made 50 perfect little tablespoon-sized morsels of yumminess. My 6 children have kindly left just 2 on the pan -one for me and one for dad- so I’d say they are a hit :)
Thank you for sharing your wonderful recipes. I am baking my way through your almond flour cookbook and enjoying every delicious moment!
Ashley says
AMAZING! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I bragged about these to everyone at my gym all week (but did not share any). :-) I’ll have to make another batch later for sharing. I used coconut oil, since that’s what I had, and they were so incredibly perfect.
Sarah D says
These are great cookies.
Even though on numerous occasions I have followed your recipes they never make the quantity you have said.
For instance how can only 2 cups of almond flour possibly make 30 cookies?
I did use a proper kitchen measuring tablespoon and it only made 18!
Anyway apart from that gripe they are very good and I like your recipes.