Paleo Eats Chocolate Chip Cookies (2024)

These amazing chocolate chip cookies are a gluten-free, grain-free and dairy-free version of this family favorite comfort food!

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The Paleo Eatscookbook gives yousome of your old favorite comfort foods reborn as paleo - like the easy chocolate chip cookie recipe shared below. These homemade cookies use almond flour in place of regular flour and are sweetened with dates.

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Ingredients you'll need

This recipe keeps things simple to allow the wholesome ingredients to shine.Best of all, you can feel good about indulging because they are naturally sweetened and made with real food.

• whole dates
• superfine almond flour
• unsweetened shredded coconut
• egg
• maple syrup
• sea salt
• vanilla extract
• cinnamon
• gluten-free, dairy-freechocolate chips

How to make them

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a food processor, pulse dates for 30 seconds to break them up. Add almond flour, coconut, egg, maple syrup, salt, vanilla, and cinnamon. Pulse for 1 minute to combine.
3. Remove the lid and stir in the chocolate chips by hand.
4. Scoop a large spoonful of dough and shape it into a 2-inch ball. Place on prepared baking sheet. Use a cup to gently flatten the ball to ½ inch thickness. Repeat with the remaining dough.
5. Bake until golden brown, for about 10-12 minutes. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.

How to store

For best results, allow the cookies to cool completely on the baking sheet before enjoying or storing them. To save some for later, gently transfer the cooled cookies to an airtight container.

They can be stored at room temperature for up to 5 days (if they last that long!). Be sure to seal them tightly so they stay fresh.

Paleo Eats

Transitioning to a paleo-friendly diet can be intimidating. You may wind up buying newingredients that you have never even heard of before, let alone used - some of which can bepretty darn expensive.

Enter Kelly Bejelly’s cookbook, Paleo Eats: 111 Comforting Gluten-Free, Grain-Free and Dairy-Free Recipes for the Foodie in You. Paleo Eatsis more than your average paleo diet cookbook. Kellyknows firsthand how tough going paleo canseem at first, especially when bringing your family along.

To help you navigate thesewaters and smoothly transition your family to this diet, Kelly has included a few specialsections in Paleo Eats, including how to go paleo without breaking the bank, find the freshest, “cleanest” veggies, work with new-to-you paleo ingredients, and recreate your own family-favorite recipes.

You'll love dishes like Sweet and SourMeatballs, Southern Fried Chicken, Lamb Gyro Burgers, Cherry Toaster Pastries, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls - and, of course, these Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Recipe and photo reprinted with permission from Paleo Eats: 111 Comforting Gluten-Free, Grain-Free and Dairy-Free Recipes for the Foodie in You by Kelly Bejelly (Victory Belt Publishing Inc.). I received a complimentary review copy of this book.

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