Delicious grain-free chocolate chip cookies with almond flour and hazelnuts. Easy to make and some of the best gluten-free cookies I’ve tried!
These cookies use a few very innocent ingredients (almonds, sunflower/coconut oil, maple syrup, hazelnuts and dark vegan chocolate) to create a classic cookie texture and delicious taste.
They’re naturally vegan, gluten-free and paleo but everyone will enjoy them!
Chocolate chip cookies are amazing in their own right, but adding a few chopped hazelnuts makes them even better, I reckon.
You can’t go wrong with pairing hazelnuts and chocolate, plus it adds a nice crunchy texture to these chewy cookies.
Paleo Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield:
15
Prep Time:
15 minutes
Cook Time:
10 minutes
Total Time:
25 minutes
Paleo, vegan cookies with a chewy texture. Delicious!
Ingredients
- 200 g / 2 cups ground almonds, almond flour
- A pinch of salt
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 60 ml / ¼ cup olive oil or coconut oil
- 60 ml / ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 50 g / ¼ cup chopped roasted hazelnuts
- 50 g / ¼ cup vegan dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170c / 340f and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Stir together the ground almonds, salt and bicarb in a large mixing bowl.
- Mix in the sunflower oil, maple syrup and vanilla. Stir until it creates a dough.
- Gently fold in the hazelnuts and chocolate chips.
- Use a rounded tablespoon (or small ice cream scoop) to make cookie mounds on the baking sheet. You should get approximately 15 cookies. Gently flatten them with your palm.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes, turning half way to ensure even browning.
- Leave to cool completely before serving as they will be quite soft and gooey straight out of the oven. I like to keep them in the fridge for an hour or so to firm up. Enjoy!
Janine says
Cookie fail for me : ( Next time I would try less oil as they were really oily and hard to form into shape. When I took them out to turn them after 5 mins they had already burned on the outside but fell apart when I tried to lift them off the tray.
Janine says
I have to update this. Even though it was a fail they still tasted really great – we ate the lot in one sitting!
ｒｉｋａ＠ｖｍ says
You put a whole new spin on baking! These cookies look divine! Your usage of ground almonds and roasted hazelnuts are just beyond amazing!
Kelly - Life Made Sweeter says
Your cookies always leave me smitten :) I love the combination of almonds and hazelnuts in here! Definitely wish I had a few of these right now!
Vicky says
Very Nice indeed! I have a similar recipe which we all love so these must be delicious too!
Kate - Gluten Free Alchemist says
Choc-chip cookies are always yum! Love that these use coconut oil, ground almonds and maple syrup. I imagine they have a real depth of flavour…
Ala says
This is an awesome bunch of ingredients here, lady! I’m so smitten with this clean-eating idea. Cheers to GF and wonderful!
Bethan says
These look ace! Personally I would chuck in a few pistachios….
Bethan, Audacity of Food
Aimee says
Yum! that would be great too :-)
Tamzin says
Now these are my kind of biscuit! They look so yummy definitely putting these on the to make list x
Aimee says
Thanks Tamzin, hope you get to make them – I know you’d love them :-) x
Jessica Edmunds says
I love the sound of these, I don’t follow a health specific diet but I am trying to change my lifestyle and would still like to enjoy sweet treats, bookmarked now thanks lovely xx
Aimee says
Let me know if you give them a try, happy new year Jessica! x
Shashi @ runninsrilankan says
OOh – love that these are made with ground hazelnuts and almonds!
Aimee says
I love baking with ground almonds :-)