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.
📖 Recipe
Paleo Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
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!
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 :-)