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:
monica says
Hi Elana,
We added a 1/2 cup of Coconut flour and 3/4 cup of unsweetened coconut milk and 1 egg. We omitted the honey and stevia. We used coconut sugar instead. This yielded a Bakers Dozen.
Annie says
Best. cookies. ever.
Jackson says
I just made these with some substitutions/tweaks, for the second time.
The first time I used coconut oil… it was unrefined, so it made the whole thing taste like coconut. Not bad by any means, but it was more “coconut cookie” than “chocolate chip cookie.” They also crumbled a lot. Still tasty, though.
The second time I used butter and added some slivered almonds. I didn’t like the texture of the dough, and remembered them being crumbly, so I added about half an egg white. These are absolutely delicious and I have to fight not to eat the whole batch at once.
Jill says
Is coconut oil the same volume solid as it is melted? I used that for the palm oil and the dough was really oily.
sarah says
this is a great recipe! i add an egg, reduce the honey to 1 T, and use ghee instead of palm oil, and the texture is wonderful. they stand up and are puffy and moist instead of spreading out to be crunchy.
Berit says
Hello from Germany,
for all you metric bakers or non-americans out there, I just made these as follows:
– 200 gr almond flour (that should be simply ground almonds in Germany)
– pinch of salt
– big pinch of baking powder
– 3-4 heaped tablespoons organic coconut oil or 55 gr (I used Manako from amazon.de)
– 1 table spoon honey
– 1 sachet vanilla sugar
– ca 100 gr chocolate chunks
As you may see I am definitly not your most accurate baker, and rather go by feel and what experience told me tastes good. In my opinion, if you use vanilla sugar, you could leave out the honey. If you use vanilla extract just add it in again. However, as I find almonds and coconut oil in general to be sweetish I guess you could leave both out altogether. As for the coconut oil, I just used 4 tablespoons, but you can start with 3 and see how the dough comes together. Also, I simply used my hands to make the dough.
Tiana says
I made these yesterday for the 4th of July, and everybody RAVED about how good they were! Nobody even missed the gluten! I subbed organic butter for the shortening and used Enjoy life brand mini chocolate chips!!! Supper yummy and melt in your mouth goodness! I will definitely be making these again, and I’ve already shared this recipe with 3 people! Thank you for this awesome recipe! You Rock!
p.s. I also made your cauliflower “potato” salad….and everyone gobbled that up as well!
Thank you for making me feel not left out on the holidays!
Jennifer Hughes says
I am sooo glad that I found your blog and now own 2 of your cookbooks, as well. My daughter was diagnosed with Celiac when she was 4 yrs old after a long road and many doctors. We found that the gluten free diet was not enough for her recovery and on our own, we decided to go “paleo” and follow the grain free diet and we also cut out dairy. Since then she has been doing great! Thank you for all your wonderful recipes. It brings a tear to my eye everytime our daughter lights up while eating a special treat that she can actually have. :)
Debbie Carr says
Ok, just made this recipe. BUT I accidentally purchased Honeyville natural almond flour, has the skin ground into it. I used half natural and half blanched to hopefully get a good cookie. Man….they just don’t do justice to this cookie. I have made both her choc chip recipes before successfully. The batter was sooooo flippin dry I had to add water. So, if you like fiber in your teeth and a dry cookie use the natural. I have to toss $25 worth of this flour away! Luckily I have another blanched in the freezer. I was going to bring the cookies to a new neighbor. NOT. Will have to make them again tomorrow.
Peace and Pie,
Debbie
Alexandra says
these look really yummy, I think I will try them as soon as I muster up the motivation to get my booty in the kitchen and bake something! ;-)