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Looking for the perfect Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies? These are soft, chewy, chocolate-y, and simply delicious. They are easy to make and are sure to be a hit in your home! You won’t be able to tell that they are gluten-free, grain-free, and paleo-friendly!
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookie RecipeA warm chocolate chip cookie dipped in milk (or in my house, almond milk) just feels like home. The smell of cookies baking in your house is heavenly! These Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies are a treat, and one that is nutrient-dense with almond flour as it’s base and SO SO delicious.
What’s in them?
- almond flour
- coconut flour
- baking soda
- fine sea salt
- grass-fed butter, at room temperature or coconut oil
- egg
- honey
- vanilla extract
- paleo chocolate chips
- coarse sea salt, optional
Want to make it extra special?
I like to sprinkle the cookies with a coarse flaky sea salt before baking, because sea salt and chocolate are the ultimate combo in cookies! And Mike LOVES these straight from the freezer! You can store them so you’ll always have a little treat on hand when you are having a craving!
If you like this cookie recipe, check out these others:
- Gluten Free Cut Out Cookies
- Easy Maple Meringue Cookies (Paleo & Refined Sugar Free)
- Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cookies (With Maple Glaze)
- Double Chocolate Chunk Macadamia Nut Cookies
Check out these recipes featuring chocolate chips:
- Paleo Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips
- Peanut Butter, Banana, Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal
- Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins
- Chocolate Chip Coconut Macaroons [VIDEO]
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup blanched almond flour
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 4 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon grass-fed butter at room temperature (sub coconut oil for fully dairy-free)
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips or chocolate chunks
- Optional: Sprinkle with coarse sea salt
Instructions
- Position oven rack to the middle of your oven and preheat oven to 350°F. The middle rack will ensure even baking.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl combine almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In a small mixing bowl combine egg, honey, butter, and vanilla.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix well.
- Drop tablespoons of dough on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes (for soft, slightly undercooked cookies- my favorite!) or 12 minutes (for fully cooked cookies).
- Let cool and serve (perhaps with a glass of almond milk)!
Notes
- Using grass-fed butter is my preferred method for delicious copy-cat Tollhouse style cookies, but you can use coconut oil if you are dairy-free.
- Yields: 14 medium size cookies
- Images updated in March, 2017.
Hey! have to make these for a dinner party tonight and i’m out of coconut flour and well, its not available in the market atm … can i use desiccated/shredded coconut? or substitute for anything? if yes, does the amount of liquid reduce? please please reply soon!
thanks! x
Oh no, sorry for the delay. Guess I’m too late. What did you end up going with? Best, Lexi
Oh I didn’t make them! But I still want to. However, no coconut flour still in the market :'(
Help me with a substitute? Please?
You can try subbing additional almond flour.
I’m excited to make these, my son said he really wanted chocolate chip cookies on our trip and I’m trying to make cleaning up our eating not too difficult in the little ones. I have almond flour/meal from whole foods, do I need to do something to make it blanched? Can I mill shredded coconut to make coconut flour? Thank you for all your wonderful recipes 🙂
These cookies are AMAZING! Even my non-paleo husband agrees. I subbed one tablespoon of maple syrup for the honey and the chocolate/maple syrup combo is to die for. Thank you!
These are THE BEST paleo cookie I’ve ever made! Not an understatement! Everyone gobbled the first batch up so fast that the second time I doubled the recipe. When I doubled, I used half coconut oil, half ghee, and cut the honey down to about 4 tablespoons total. I just finished up the 21dsd so that seemed sweet enough for me! Many thanks for this amazing recipe!
Is the coconut oil measurement when melted ? how do you melt your coconut oil
Thanks for this amazing recipe! I have made them so many times already it’s ridiculous. They’re the most requested treat recipe in this house. 🙂
Today I am home for a snow day and about to make these cookies! I’ve been wanting to make them for a while and now I finally have found a free moment 🙂 Thinking of pairing my cookies with some almond milk ice cream for a chip-wich indulgence after dinner! Thanks, Lexi!
Hi Lexi if I use butter in this cookies just wanted to know did you melt the butter or just get it soft thanks so much.Kelly
Hi Kelly! We used softened butter! Enjoy if you make them!!
Can I sub coconut flour for anything else ?
great healthy cookie recipe!
These were awesome! Thanks!
Did anyone else’s come out quite dry tasting? I had problems with the mix blending together well, but I thought the stickiness was due to my coconut oil not being completely melted when I added it. Also, during the instructions, it never mentions adding in the chocolate chips so I almost forgot to and ended up pushing them in one by one into the dough already on the tray.
Hi Shelley, I’ve never had that, actually quite the opposite, I always find them very moist. Make sure to melt your coconut oil or it hardens when mixed with other ingredients. I will adjust and put in the chocolate chips- thank you!
These are AMAZING! I was able to get 15 cookies from 1 batch. I didn’t have honey so I substituted with baking stevia. I also refrigerated the dough for 15 minutes before baking so they could hold their shape better. I don’t think I’ll be making traditional cookies any time soon. Thanks!!!
New to Paleo, tried these and even my teenager liked them. Nice treat fresh out of the oven in very windy Walla Walla, Wasington!!
Second time making these on this cold, snowy evening in Toronto and they are perfect! Thanks for the great recipes Lexi!
So happy you like them Kaitlin! Stay warm 🙂
Mine were YUMMY but turned out flatter then a pancake. Tips?
Weird Mollie! Did you add the baking soda?
Just made these and they were delicious, but mine are very flat compared to the photo here. Oh well, they still tasted great!!
Hi there, thanks for posting this recipe. I was just wondering how many cookies did you end up with? I’m just trying to work out the calories for each. Thanks heaps
Hi there! I ended up with 12 medium-sized cookies 🙂
These were amazing. I used rice malt syrup instead of honey and also 85% dark chocolate. I also blanched by own almond and made almond meal. Perfect, guilt free treat.
SO glad that you loved them!!
These were awesome! I had to use cacao nibs and pecans because I was out of chocolate chips, but they were still great! Guilt free treat for sure 🙂