Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
With a soft, butter-like inside and crispy gold-brown edges, these almond butter chocolate chip cookies are the absolute very best. Made with natural ingredients like almond flour, coconut oil, and nut butter, they're a healthier twist on the classic. Loaded with a generous sprinkle of chocolate chips of course, they’re bound to be a crowd favorite.
Servings: 10 cookies
Calories: 322kcal
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup coconut oil melted, then cooled
- ⅓ cup almond butter
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup arrowroot flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ - 1 cup chocolate chips use ½ cup if you’d like just a sprinkle of chocolate chips and 1 cup for a more chocolatey cookie
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. In a bowl, mix together the egg, coconut oil, almond butter, maple syrup, and vanilla until well combined.
- Add the almond flour, arrowroot starch, baking powder & soda, and salt. Fold to combine until no flour clumps remain.
- Stir the chocolate chips into the batter and mix well.
- Chill dough for 10 minutes while oven finished preheating and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or grease with oil.
- Using an ice cream scoop or large spoon, roll the dough into balls then flatten the tops to make a disk-like shape, place on baking sheet, and bake for 8 - 10 minutes until the edges begin to brown.
- Let cookies cool before transferring to a cooling rack and enjoy!
Nutrition
Calories: 322kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 169mg | Potassium: 88mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 24IU | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 1mg