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Chocolate Chip Cookies {using brown sugar}

March 10, 2011 by Erica 17 Comments

Bite of chocolate chip cookie (almond meal)

Almond meal gets a bad rap sometimes, possibly because it doesn’t work well in recipes where you want a finer, lighter result. But it does work well in some recipes, and I’ve been experimenting to find out where it does work.

chocolate chip cookies with almond meal

Here’s a batch of chocolate chip cookies using almond meal that delivers a crunchy sugar-based cookie. This recipe reminds me of the chocolate chip cookies I’ve made with whole wheat flour and brown sugar. It has a crunchy, grainy texture, along with the deep sweet flavor that brown sugar provides. I’m using an unrefined brown sugar called Demerara, so if you’re going to venture out with sugar, I recommend you use a high quality, unrefined brown sugar. It probably works well with other sugars, but I haven’t tried them yet. If you glance at my other cookie recipes, you’ll gather that I prefer honey and maple syrup for sweetening things. And of course, agave nectar is interchangeable with honey in almost all recipes.

One advantage to using almond meal is that you can whip up flour at a moment’s notice without needing blanched almonds. If you have organic almonds, even better because it’s really hard to find organic blanched almond flour, and it’s even more expensive than regular blanched almond flour.

I use almond meal from Trader Joe’s with this recipe just for convenience, but feel free to use any source for almond meal. For more on sources for almond flour and almond meal, see Baking with Almond Flour. And here are more cookies using almond flour.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients (makes about 24 cookies)

  • 2 1/2 cups of almond meal
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
  • 8 tablespoons of unsalted butter, melted (or 1/2 cup of coconut oil or vegetable shortening, melted)
  • 1/3 cup of Demarara (or other unrefined brown sugar)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon of vanilla
  • 1 cup of chocolate chips

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl and blend with a spoon.
  3. Add the wet ingredients and blend it well with a spoon.
  4. Drop about a tablespoon of batter in each cookie spot on the cookie sheets. Space them about 1 inch apart. Press them down to flatten into a cookie (they don’t spread when baking)
  5. Bake for 15 minutes, or until they are starting to brown around the edges.
  6. If you want them crunchier, leave them in the oven at 200 degrees F for about 20 minutes, or in a dehydrator on a fairly low temperature for about 2 hours.
  7. Cool and enjoy. Store in a sealed container.

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Filed Under: Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten-Free, Lactose Free, Paleo, Snacks Tagged With: almond flour, chocolate

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  1. Kimberly

    January 31, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Hello!

    These cookies were a total success !

    @ Lanie : Made them with COCONUT SUGAR and COCONUT oil… MMMM!

    @ Erica: I’ve just descovered your website and I’m in heaven ever since AND my family also!!!

    Thank you sooo much for all you share!

    Reply
    • Erica

      January 31, 2013 at 6:33 pm

      You’re welcome! So good to hear 🙂

      Reply
  2. Lanie

    October 22, 2012 at 10:31 am

    Can you use coconut sugar instead? I have candida.

    Reply
  3. Dina

    January 9, 2012 at 10:30 am

    I tried these cookies they are great, and smell awsome. As you said it is like the wheat regular cookies. It was successful for me. i used cocnut oil and it smell delicious.
    Thanks alot, you made baking SCD easy for me.

    Reply
    • Erica

      January 9, 2012 at 11:40 am

      Thanks! So glad they worked for you 🙂

      Reply
  4. Yvonne

    November 8, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    Thanks for the awesome recipe! The batter was disconcertingly greasy so I lost my confidence and stopped adding the clarified butter at 6 Tbsp… they still turned out wonderful! I think this recipe would make an amazing pie crust!

    Reply
    • Erica

      November 8, 2011 at 9:32 pm

      I bet it would make a great pie crust 🙂

      Reply
  5. Tarrah

    March 15, 2011 at 10:20 am

    I didn’t have chocolate chips so I used raisins …my kiddos were crazy for these! Thanks for the super yummy and healthy idea!

    Reply
    • Erica

      March 15, 2011 at 10:49 am

      Nice. I get they tasted a bit like oatmeal cookies.

      Reply
      • Tarrah

        March 15, 2011 at 7:52 pm

        Yep, just like oatmeal… only better I thought! Even my Hubby was asking for more! Thanks again!

        Reply
  6. Lisa @ Sweet as Sugar Cookies

    March 12, 2011 at 2:34 am

    That almond meal must really give your cookies a neat flavor. I have a sweet treat linky party going on at my blog and I’d like to invite you to stop by and link your cookies up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/03/sweets-for-saturday-8.html

    Reply
  7. Michelle

    March 11, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    Can’t wait to try. My family has gone crazy over your breakfast cookies. I made a triple batch using dried cranberries, sliced almonds and macadamian nuts. Where do you find dried cranberries that are juice sweetened?
    Thanks for all your wonderful recipes. They always satisfy our sweet teeth!

    Reply
    • Erica

      March 11, 2011 at 6:02 pm

      I’m eating them daily as well – they’re kind of addictive and easy to grab. I get the juice sweetened dried cranberries from my local PCC (a healthy market in the Seattle area), but I know the Eden brand sells them as well: http://astore.amazon.com/comfybelly-20/detail/B001GVIRD4.

      Reply
  8. Katie @ Nourishing Flourishing

    March 10, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    Always love seeing your beautiful photos : )

    Reply
    • Erica

      March 10, 2011 at 10:15 pm

      Thanks Katie. I was just thinking about Pea soup too!

      Reply
  9. Jennifer and Jaclyn @ sketch-free vegan

    March 10, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    These look awesome! And the ingredients are so natural. Crunchy cookies are the best 🙂

    Reply
    • Erica

      March 10, 2011 at 10:16 pm

      Thanks. Love your recipes!!

      Reply

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1 cup 8 ounces
1 teaspoon 5 ml
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