Yes, chocolate chip quinoa cookies!
When I was 5 years old, I earned the nickname Cookie Monster from my grandfather, after he caught me repeatedly sneaking chocolate chip cookies from the dining room table.
I wasn’t tall enough to actually see the table…
But that doesn’t mean I didn’t know what was up there!
Fast forward 20+ years.
Although I am older (and taller!) now… I still have a certain turquoise-blue reputation to uphold. 😉
Bring on the quinoa chocolate chip cookies! These chocolate chip quinoa cookies are a fun and creative change of pace if you’re used to white-flour chocolate chip cookies. Try them if you feel adventurous – they are absolutely delicious!
Chocolate Chip Quinoa Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup minus 1 tbsp quinoa flour (52g)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 packed tbsp brown sugar or coconut sugar (22g)
- 2 tbsp white sugar or xylitol (20g)
- 2-4 tbsp chocolate chips, optional
- up to 2 tbsp milk of choice, as needed
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp vegetable or coconut oil (15g)
Instructions
Quinoa Cookies Recipe: (Makes 6-8 quinoa cookies, so feel free to double the recipe!) Preheat oven to 310 F, and lightly grease a cookie tray. In a mixing bowl, stir together all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together all liquid ingredients (starting with 1 tbsp milk of choice). Pour wet into dry to form a dough, then add the extra milk of choice if needed. If dough becomes a little too gooey, just freeze 20 minutes or until firm enough to shape into balls. Shape balls, then flatten if a flat cookie is desired. (I did not flatten the ones in the photos.) Bake 8-9 minutes in the middle rack. (As it states on my Recipe Troubleshooting page, you should always bake in the middle rack with my recipes, unless otherwise stated.) The cookies should look undercooked when you take them out, which is completely okay: they will continue cooking as they cool. Don’t try to remove them from the tray for another 15-20 minutes.
Questions of the Day:
Did you watch Sesame Street as a kid? And did you have a favorite character?
Given our shared love of chocolate-chip cookies and the color blue, it should come as no surprise that Cookie Monster was my favorite. (Still is!) I also secretly liked Oscar the Grouch because I believed him to be misunderstood. The poor guy probably just needed a cookie…
LINK OF THE DAY:
Definitely watched Sesame Street and my favorite character was The Count! May explain the brief goth phase I had in my early 20’s …
Is it weird how I get satisfaction betting against myself that you’re going to be the first commentor on each new recipe? Thank thee for giving me a game to play.
Lol, I suddenly feel like I am an evil villain.
Mwahahaha.
Well, I’m forever and always a goth, so I guess I’M the villain?! Or I guess at least I’m supposed to be.
How villain-y of you to steal it from me.
High five from a fellow cookie monster! I love how soft and chewy these little puffs of chocolate heaven look.
Sesame Street was a big part of my pre-K years…Bert & Ernie were my favorites, I thought they were hilarious!
The cookies look delicious, time to start searching for quinoa flour…
Awesome! I love quinoa and chocolate, so combining them into a cookie would be so cool! I just got done making coconut chocolate chip cookies 🙂
These look divine! Do they taste like most other baked goods where you use quinoa flour though?
Oscar the Grouch is my favourite Sesame Street character, he’s just so adorably grumpy! 😀 x
Also, in Norway we had our own Norwegian verion of Sesame Street called “Sesam Stasjon” (Sesame Station :P), and it had two main human characters and three (later four) puppets 😀 Loved it! Oh, and they would also add the little sketches with the Cookie Monster and some other counting games as well 🙂 Good times!
I’ve never actually baked with quinoa flour before this, so I can’t really say.
I think I watched Sesame Street, but not at an age where I really remember too much about it. Nowadays Elmo is probably my favorite but I have no idea which I liked best as a kid!
My mom wouldn’t let my sister and I watch Sesame Street when we were little—she later said it was “too manic.” Somehow Woody Allen and Mel Brooks movies were okay though.
These cookies look delicious. Definitely trying them.
I bake often with gluten free flour and have learned to shake down the flour to the desired measure – I know this is the complete opposite of baking with regular flour. Do you shake down your gluten free flours or measure the usual way ie avoiding shaking down. Thanks!
I don’t really know what you mean by “shaking down” but I measure them as any other flour… Also I highly recommend a food scale for most accurate measuring of any flour in general. Takes the guesswork out!
Yay!!! A chocolate chip quinoa cookie! I’ve been on the search for one for so long !!! 😀 Can’t wait to try these 😀
Hi Katie! I love your recipes! I just want to confirm that this one bakes at 310, and not 350 (or 300). I bought a lot of quinoa flour recently and will make good use of it with these cookies. Thanks!
yes
Too funny!
I liked Grover but I think Snuffeluffagus was my absolute favorite! He never got enough screen time for my satisfaction.
I’m going to have to give these cookies a try- they look yummy and healthy!
What would happen if you use while quinoa?
*whole quinoa
Sorry I have not tried.
You can make quinoa flour out of whole quinoa…. Google can probably tell you how 🙂
Ahh, Katie (or should I say Cookie Monster?!)! You have officially made me super excited to run out to the store (in this NYC snow) and buy some quinoa flour! These look too yummy. Now the real question is… can you do the cookie monster voice? 😉
Haha I have never tried!
P.S. If you ever make a trip up to DC, definitely let me know!
These look deliciously dense and amazing! I’ll definitely be making these this week. Yum!
Thanks for sharing this recipe! I love dessert recipes that are small servings, so there are only a few leftovers in the house. And of course that it is already GF (and not something I need to sub in GF stuff for) is great!
these look awesome! I can’t wait to try some!