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Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This healthier flourless chocolate chip cookie recipe is quick and easy to make, full of great flavor, and naturally (both) gluten-free and vegan.

Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies (Vegan + Gluten-Free)

For all of you who have requested a gluten-free or vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe over the years, I have good news for you today.

This chocolate chip recipe is both!

These CCCs are super quick and easy to make in just one bowl (no mixer required). They are made with almond flour (which you can either buy store-bought or make yourself), making them naturally gluten-free. They can also be made with a flax egg or a regular egg, depending on whether you would like to make the cookies vegan. The recipe also contains impressively minimal oil and sweeteners. But I’m telling you, these easy chocolate chip cookies are just as chocolatey, sweet, and satisfying as ever!

And the credit for them goes entirely to my good friends, Jeanine and Jack, of the blog Love & Lemons. This recipe was one of the very first that I made from their hot-off-the-press new cookbook, Love & Lemons Everyday (affiliate link). But judging by the zillion or so dog-eared pages in my book, it clearly won’t be the last. You guys, this book is such a gem.  It’s full of Jeanine’s trademark beautiful, healthy, and legit-simple recipes, that are sure to bring some fresh inspiration to anyone’s kitchen. But I especially love this book because it is so dang helpful.  Each chapter is chock-full of useful cooking and meal-planning tips, from exactly how to roast or grill each vegetable from A-Z, to how to use “scrap parts”, to how to pickle various veggies, to how to freeze herbs and quinoa, to fun variations for scrambled eggs and fruit crumbles and 5-ingredient salad dressings and so much more. This book is a wealth of cooking information and inspiration, and bonus, it’s beautiful design will look great on any countertop or coffee table. I wholeheartedly recommend that you check it out!

And of course, make these chocolate chip cookies stat. ♡

Love and Lemons Everyday Cookbook

Gluten Free + Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients:

To make this gluten-free (and, if you would like, vegan) chocolate chip cookie recipe, you will need:

  • Egg (or flax egg): I tested out batches both ways and both were delicious! Feel free to use a regular egg. Or if you would like to make these cookies vegan, make a flax egg by whisking together 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed and 3 tablespoons water.
  • Coconut oil: Softened but not melted.
  • Sugar: Jeanine recommends either coconut sugar or packed brown sugar.
  • Almond butter: Or natural peanut butter would also work.
  • Vanilla extract, baking soda, sea salt: Because…cookies.
  • Almond flour: You can either buy store-bought almond flour, or blitz a bunch of blanched almonds in a food processor until they’re light and powdery to make your own.
  • Semisweet chocolate chips: If making these cookies vegan, be sure to use dairy-free chocolate chips.
  • Flaky sea salt: The recipe says this is optional, but I think it’s essential. ;)

Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies:

To make these gluten-free chocolate chip cookies, simply…

  1. Whisk the wet ingredients and sugar together. Egg, oil, sugar, almond butter, and vanilla.
  2. Add the dry ingredients. Almond flour, baking soda and salt. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
  3. Form the dough balls. Jeanine made this recipe with a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop (which would create dough balls that need to bake for 10-13 minutes). But I only own a large 3-tablespoon cookie scoop, so I used that instead (which need to bake for about 11-14 minutes). Once you make the dough balls, be sure to press and flatten them down a bit with your fingers so that they cook evenly. My dough balls were about 1/2-inch thick. Then I also pressed a few extra chocolate chips on top of each dough ball, and sprinkled each with a pinch of flaky sea salt.
  4. Bake. Then just pop them in the oven and bake until the edges just start to brown. Remove and let them cool on the pan for 5 minutes, then cool a bit more on a wire rack, and then…
  5. Enjoy! My experience with almond-flour-based cookies is that they’re always best hot outta the oven. But that said, if you have leftovers, you can store them in an airtight container for up to 4 days or freeze for up to 4 months.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Possible Variations:

Want to mix things up with this flourless chocolate chip cookie recipe? Feel free to…

  • Add nuts: Feel free to add in a small handful of chopped nuts (such as pecans, almonds, peanuts, etc.) if you would like.
  • Use different chocolate chips: Dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips or M&Ms would also be delicious here.
  • Use different sugar: If you’re in a pinch and only have white granulated sugar on hand, that will also work in these cookies.

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Notes:

If you also happen to be on the lookout for a killer soft and chewy classic chocolate chip cookies recipe, this one has always been my go-to. But if you are looking for a healthier alternative, I highly recommend giving this GF/vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe a try! It’s definitely a bit more dense and less sweet than traditional CCC’s. But it’s full of great flavor, made with healthier ingredients, and guaranteed to satisfy that sweet tooth. ;)

Congrats on the new book, Jeanine and Jack! And happy baking, everyone!

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Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies (Gluten-Free + Vegan)

Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies

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  • Prep Time: 13 minutes
  • Cook Time: 12 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 12 cookies 1x

Description

This healthier flourless chocolate chip cookie recipe is quick and easy to make, full of great flavor, and naturally (both) gluten-free and vegan.


Ingredients

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  • 1 egg or 1 flax egg*
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil, softened but not melted
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar or packed brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup almond butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups (192 gramsalmond flour*
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • flaky sea salt, for sprinkling (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, add the egg (or flax egg), coconut oil, sugar, almond butter and vanilla.  Whisk until well combined.  Add the almond flour and sprinkle the baking soda and salt evenly over the mixture.  Use a spatula or wooden spoon to stir until well combined, adding 1 to 2 tablespoons water is the mixture is too dry.  Fold in the chocolate chips.
  3. Use a 3-tablespoon* cookie scoop to scoop the dough onto the baking sheet.  Press each ball down slightly and sprinkle with flaky sea salt, if using.  Bake for 11-14 minutes, or until the edges are just starting to brown.
  4. Cool on the pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
  5. When the cookies are completely cool, they can be stored in an airtight container for up to 4 days or frozen for up to 4 months.

Notes

*Flax Egg: To make 1 flax egg, whisk together 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed and 3 tablespoons water until combined.  Let thicken for 5 minutes.  Then continue on with the recipe.

*Almond Flour: You can either purchase store-bought almond flour.  Or just blitz blanched almonds for 1-2 minutes in the food processor until they are light and crumbly, to make your own almond flour.

*Dough Ball Size: Jeanine wrote the recipe using a medium (2-tablespoon) cookie scoop, in which case the dough balls would need to bake for 10-13 minutes and would yield 16 cookies.  I only own a large (3-tablespoon) cookie scoop, which requires that the dough bakes slightly longer and yields about 12 cookies.

Recipe used with permission (and slightly edited) from Love & Lemons Everyday: More Than 100 Bright, Plant-Forward Recipes For Every Meal by Jeanine Donofrio and Jack Mathews.

Easy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

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19 comments on “Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies”

  1. Where do you get all of these gorgeous white with black rimmed serving pieces? I need them! And the cookies too :)

  2. My wife makes these and they have rocketed up to my either number 1 or number 1a favorite cookie. The salt just makes them taste so good. [insert multiple applause emojis]






  3. Do you think I could make these with coconut flour?

  4. What size is a cup or quantity in grams of a cup of ingredient

  5. These look so good! Do you think they could be made with something different besides almond butter – like peanut butter?

  6. It really Doesn’t make sense to call this flourless, when you use almond flour.

  7. Can you use a sugar substitute such as Stevia instead of coconut sugar or brown sugar?

  8. So delicious. Thank you for a great recipe. I used a cashew butter instead almond. Yummy ??






  9. Could you make these with sorghum flour?

  10. I’m going to try these today! I’m always looking for good recipes for my son and husband who are gluten free. Thanks for the recipe! :)






  11. I can’t wait to try this one. I think my dad would gonna love this too!

  12. OMG! I just baked these, and it came out so good! Not that sweet than I expected because of all the sugar in it. Well I halved the recipe, and I admit it, I already ate 4 cookies (it yielded 7 large cookies for me) ;) I used chopped walnuts and hersheys dark chocolate bar.

    I have another recipe for flourless chocolate cookies, but it used melted chocolate, whipped to stiff peaks egg whites, and granulated sugar. But I dont think I’ll use that again, yours is so much easier and yummier :))

    Thnak you so much <3

  13. Just made these with mixed nut butter in place of almond butter. They are so yum. I love them!






  14. I love how the recipe calls for almond flour and almond butter. This is going to be one delicious cookie!






  15. Hiiii,

    So, I know my rating seems low. But these really did come out super great, the only issues were the dough only made 6! And they weren’t particularly big cookies… Perhaps that was my fault.

    I did adapt it slightly and use peanut butter instead as that was what I had in the cupboard, I opted for a sweeter peanut butter and less refined sugar, as I couldnt find coconut sugar anywhere.

    They cracked quite a big in the oven and I wondered if perhaps I needed to make them slightly wetter, but then, of course, there’s the risk of them spreading too much and I hoped for chunky cookies.

    Either way, this is a fab recipe, and the recipient of the cookies was very pleased!

    Thanks!






  16. Delicious cookies!!! Made with egg replacers, dark chocolate chips and peanut butter!! Yummy!!!