You know how much I love creating almond flour recipes, especially cookies! This new cookie recipe is a combination of two of my previous recipes. It’s very similar to my almond flour shortbread, except I added some baking powder to make the cookies fluffier and chocolate chips like in my almond flour chocolate cookies. The result is fantastic, a soft, chewy center with crispy edges and bites of chocolate in the middle.
Why You Will Love These Cookies
Just 5 ingredients Gluten-free Grain-free High in healthy fats Easy to make low-carb
Ingredients and Substitutions
The full recipe measurement are below in the recipe card, but here are some of my tips and tricks if you need ingredients swaps.
Maple Syrup or any liquid sweetener you love. My expert tip is to use a liquid sweetener you love because the flavor will be very potent in the cookies. I love combining maple and almonds. It goes well together. Some other healthy refined sugar-free sweeteners that work great for these cookies are agave syrup, coconut nectar, or sugar-free fiber syrup for a keto-friendly option. Melted Coconut Oil – You can also use peanut butter, melted vegan butter, tahini, or almond butter instead. My tip here is to use cooled coconut oil. Make sure you cool the melted coconut oil at room temperature for 10 minutes before adding the dry ingredients. This prevents the chocolate chips from melting when you stir them into the cookie dough Ultra-Fine Almond Flour – I use ultra-fine almond flour, also known as blanched almond flour. It doesn’t have the grainy and gritty texture of an almond meal, and it makes almond cookies much tastier and lighter in color. The recipe will work with an almond meal if it’s all you have at home. Learn how to measure alternative flours accurately. Baking Powder—This gives a slightly fluffy texture to the cookie. Make sure you pick a gluten-free baking powder if you need it. Salt is optional. I don’t add any salt in my cookie dough because I prefer to sprinkle sea salt flakes on the baked cookies at the end. Vanilla Extract is optional; it adds a lovely vanilla flavor to the cookie dough. Dark Chocolate Chips – You can use large chocolate chips or a combination of chunks and mini chocolate chips to give different textures to the almond cookies.
Add-Ons
You can use this almond flour cookie recipe to create a range of different cookie flavors. You can swap the dark chocolate chips for:
Half macadamia nuts and half vegan white chocolate chips. Cranberries and chocolate chips White chocolate chips Nuts like chopped pecans or walnuts and dried raisins. Oatmeal raisins: use 1/4 cup of rolled oats and 1/4 cup of dried raisins.
Making The Cookie Dough
The recipe comes together in 2 minutes.
Storage Instructions
These almond flour chocolate chip cookies store very well in an airtight box at room temperature for up to 4 days. You can freeze these cookies for up to 3 months in zip-lock bags and thaw them at room temperature the day before eating.
More Almond Flour Cookie Recipes
Below I listed more almond flour cookie recipes for you to try:
