These chocolate chip cookies are not only delicious, but also vegan friendly, gluten free, grain free, and naturally sweetened with coconut sugar!
Kicking off the holiday cookie season with one of my faves—chocolate chip cookies! And these aren’t just your average chocolate chip cookies. They’re both wholesome and delicious, made free of grains, gluten, dairy, eggs, and refined sugar.
Yet they’re just as scrumptious as their gluten and dairy filled counterpart!
You can hoard these babies all to yourself (hey, you’ll get no judgement from me! 😉) or you can share them by layering the ingredients in a pretty jar and gifting them to your family and friends so they can make a fresh batch for themselves! Easy “Cookie in a Jar” tutorial link below!
Vegan Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
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These chocolate chip cookies are not only delicious, but also vegan friendly, gluten free, grain free, and naturally sweetened with coconut sugar! Scroll down for a "cookie in a jar" tutorial to give these delicious cookies as gifts!
Author: Joscelyn Abreu
Recipe type: cookies, gluten free, vegan
Serves: 10-12 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups (230g) finely ground almond flour
- ⅔ cup (90g) coconut sugar
(I like using golden coconut sugar
)
- 2 tablespoons (17.5g) arrowroot starch
or tapioca flour
- ½ teaspoon (3g) baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon (1.5g) of salt
- ¼ cup (60ml) water
- 2 tablespoons (30ml) melted coconut oil
or butter
- 1 cup (5–6 oz) chopped chocolate or chocolate chips (I use dark or semi-sweet chocolate)
(I like using 
)
or tapioca flour
or butterInstructions
- Preheat oven to 375ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Combine dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl—almond flour, coconut sugar, arrowroot, baking soda, and salt. Stir in melted coconut oil and water and stir just until combined. Fold in chocolate chips. If mixture is too dry, add another tablespoon or two of water, just until mixture holds together. Should be the consistency of thick cookie dough.
- Scoop cookies out by the heaping tablespoon (or ¼ cup for large cookies) onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes or just until cookies are golden brown. Remove and let cool fully before handling or they may break apart.
Give these cookies as gifts with this ‘gift in a jar’ how-to!
Vegan and Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies in a Jar
Thank you for this recipe! My son has an egg allergy and my husband is gluten free, and it’s been impossible to find a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe that doesn’t have a ton of weird ingredients that I don’t have. I had all of these items and they turned out so well! Big hit in our house!
Hi Melissa, I’m so happy you and your family enjoyed these! Thanks for taking the time to leave a review! My hubby loves that these are made with almond flour and I’m actually working on a recipe for an egg/dairy/gluten-free chocolate chip cookie made with a cup for cup gf flour blend. They taste just like the classic chocolate chip cookies, so I hope you get a chance to try them once I finish the recipe. It should be posted in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, check out these chocolate chip cookie bars that are egg free with gf option and are SO good! I made them with leftover Halloween candy, but you can use chocolate chips instead.
I just saw the cookie bar recipe, yum!! Will definitely be trying that. I’ll keep an eye out for your new choc chip cookie recipe!
Hello! Wonderful recipe. Could I replace the almond flour and tapioca flour with all-purpose flour?
Hi Rumeysa, unfortunately that won’t work. Almond flour is much more moist and oily than ap flour, so you would need much more oil and liquid and the ratio would be totally off. I do have this spelt chocolate chip cookie which you could substitute with ap flour, since they’re more similar. Recipe here: https://www.wifemamafoodie.com/vegan-chocolate-chip-spelt-cookies/
Let me know how it turns out for you if you give it a try!