Almond Flour Chocolate Cookies – The Almond Eater

January 26, 2023

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Mushy and chewy Almond Flour Chocolate Cookies are the proper gluten free cookie! Made with butter, sugar, almond flour, and cocoa powder, this recipe is delicious, simple to make and so scrumptious.

Almond flour could be my gluten free flour of selection, and it is the star of the present in these Almond Flour Chocolate Cookies.

I figured since my almond flour chocolate cake is such successful, why not create an identical recipe however in cookie kind? Almond flour tends to create a light-weight and ethereal texture, versus different gluten free flours, which may sometimes trigger desserts to be dense.

My almond flour blueberry muffins and almond flour peanut butter cookies are two of my favourite almond flour recipes, so if you have not already, make sure to examine them out!

Recipe options

Tons of chocolate-y taste bursting all through these almond flour chocolate chip cookies.
Mushy and chewy texture, simply the way in which cookies must be.
Delectable gluten-free cookies that you will wish to make for anybody in your life who could also be following a gluten free eating regimen.

chocolate cookie with chocolate chips on parchment paper

Components

This checklist is to offer additional clarification on a couple of issues; the total ingredient checklist is beneath within the recipe card.

Butter – Common dairy butter or dairy-free butter works, and ensure it is at room temperature.

Sugar – A mixture of cane sugar (granulated sugar) and light-weight brown sugar works wonders on this recipe.

Egg – I have never examined this recipe with out an egg (aka utilizing a flax egg); Sometimes, gluten free baking is usually a bit tough, so I extremely suggest making these with an precise egg and never an egg substitute.

Vanilla extract – Crucial for nearly all cookie recipes!

Almond flour – Be certain to make use of almond flour, and never almond meal. Almond meal will work, however the total style and texture shall be barely completely different.

Cocoa powder – A must have for nearly all chocolate recipes.

Chocolate chips – I used semi-sweet, however darkish chocolate chips will work too.

Directions

Cream the butter and sugars. Begin by putting the softened butter into a big mixing bowl, then pour within the brown sugar and cane sugar. Use a stand mixer or hand mixer to cream them collectively, then add within the egg and vanilla and stir to mix.

Combine the dry elements. In a separate bowl, stir the almond flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt collectively.

Mix. Pour the dry elements into the moist and whisk to mix. Final, stir within the chocolate chips by hand with a wood spoon.

cocoa powder and flour in a bowl on the left and chocolate cookie dough in a bowl on the right

Roll into balls. Line a big baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat mat. Use your arms to roll the cookie dough into balls, spacing them about 2 inches aside so that they have room to unfold.

chocolate balls of cookie dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet

Bake the cookies. Place the baking sheet within the oven and bake the cookies for Sep 11 minutes. Instantly take away the baking sheet from the oven and drop it onto your stovetop a couple of instances to flatten the cookies out.

Depart the cookies on the baking sheet for a couple of minutes earlier than rigorously transferring them to a wire rack. Sprinkle with a bit flakey sea salt earlier than consuming (non-obligatory, however extremely suggest!).

Ideas and FAQs

To shortly soften butter: I by no means bear in mind to take the butter out of the fridge forward of time. As an alternative, place the stick of butter on a small plate and microwave it for about 15 seconds, till you may simply press your finger down into it.

Use a cookie scoop: Honestly, I do not personal a cookie scoop (I do know, I do know, who am I?), however in order for you the cookies to be even in dimension, a cookie scoop is the way in which to go. In any other case, utilizing your arms is okay.

Pan-banging approach: If you’d like a cookie with barely crunchy edges and a smooth center, that is the way in which to do it! (NOTE: since these cookies are gluten free, the feel will not be precisely the identical as conventional cookies). To do that, take away the baking sheet with the baked almond flour cookies from the oven and carry it 1-2 inches above your stovetop, then drop it onto the range. To this a couple of instances, which is able to flatten the cookies out.

Is there a option to make these cookies wholesome?

I imply… sort of? I did not develop these cookies with the intention of them being wholesome. However, if you wish to lighten them up a bit, strive utilizing coconut sugar as an alternative of cane/brown sugar, and use much less chocolate chips, which is able to cut back a number of the sweetness.

In case you’re on the lookout for a wholesome cookie recipe, strive my chocolate avocado cookies or my wholesome birthday cake cookies.

Do I’ve to make use of almond flour?

Sure! That is very necessary. Almond flour can’t be subbed for some other sort of flour, because it’s its personal distinctive properties and may be very completely different from all goal flour/coconut flour/oat flour/and so forth.

Can I make them vegan?

I would not! I exploit eggs in my almond flour recipes to make sure they bake correctly. You may be capable of get away with utilizing a flax egg, however I have never examined it myself.

Add-ins:

Walnuts
Pecans
Peppermint extract
A pinch of cinnamon
Sliced almonds
1-2 tablespoons of peanut butter (have not examined this however I am guessing it could work)

several chocolate cookies with chocolate chips on parchment paper

Storage

Room temperature: Retailer cookies in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days.

Freezer: Or, look ahead to them to chill, then place them in a freezer-safe bag for as much as 3 months.

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