Chocolate Chip Cookies

Prep Time: 15 minutes                          Cook Time: 5-6 minutes                           Add to MyFitnessPal

Hi all, the cookbook is coming along nicely, I'm hoping to have the Kickstarter up and running by the end of January. Unfortunately all that work on the cookbook has meant significant delays on the blog. Fortunately, today I have something grand for you, something several of you have asked for. Chocolate chip cookies.

 

YUM! SO GOOD!

Now, before you sink your pearly whites into these, set yourself a daily limit ahead of time - I find it hard not to overindulge and thus don't make them often.

Ingredients:
Almond flour, fine - 2 cups
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt, fine - 1/4 tsp
Coconut oil softened but solid - 2 Tbsp
Stevia - 1 tsp (or 1/2 finely ground dry stevia leaf)
Egg, large - 1
Vanilla extract - 2 Tbsp
Chocolate Chips, dark/semisweet - 1/2 cup
Protein Powder - Optional, sub for 1/2 cup of almond flour

Preparation:
Preheat your oven to 375F and prepare your mise en place.

In a large mixing bowl use a fork to cut the stevia into the coconut oil.

Before

After

Once a uniform paste with no chunks is formed, mix in the remaining ingredients, making sure to eliminate all lumps before adding the chocolate chips.

YUM! - But be patient

Use a tablespoon to scoop rounded tablespoon-sized balls of dough onto a parchment or silicone lined baking sheet - you'll end up with roughly 28 cookies from one recipe (30 if you add the protein powder for extra protein. CAUTION: Do not go above 1/4 of your total flour as protein powder or your cookies will not be cookie like at all. I recommend omitting the protein all together, cookies shouldn't be a protein source anyhow.)

27 delightful balls of joy - I ate number 28

Place the sheet into the oven on the center rack and bake for 5-6 minutes until just barely beginning to brown. The cookies will still look nearly raw, but don't trust your eyes here, trust the timer. If you see hints of browning, you are DONE, go no further.

Almost left these in too long

Now the tricky part. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet until completely cooled to room temperature. You can always reheat them later, but if you remove them now the texture will be wrong and the cookies will crumble to nothing.

Enjoy! I highly recommend with a short glass of milk.

Nutrition (per cookie, 1/28 of recipe with protein powder omitted)
Calories: 77
Fat: 6 g
Carbs: 5 g
Protein: 3 g
Sodium: 46 g

You can halve the chocolate chips to decrease carb if you need, but I find its worth it in this instance to cut carbs elsewhere in my diet.