Would you like a cookie?
Or would you prefer a brownie?
These double chocolate chip cookies are a must-try for chocolate lovers!
By the way:
No one should ever make you choose between brownies or cookies.
That is just cruel.
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Chocolate Cookies
- 1/2 cup spelt flour (or ww pastry or white flour. You can use Arrowhead Mills’ gf mix if you add a little extra liquid so the dough is less crumbly.) (70g)
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder (20g)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt (just under level)
- 1/4 plus 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup xylitol or sugar (45g)
- 1 NuNaturals stevia packet, or 1 tbsp extra sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 5Â tbsp vegetable or coconut oil (50g)
- If needed: 1-2 tbsp milk of choice or more oil
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (50-65g) (Technically, you can omit… but the recipe is so much better if you don’t! Mini chips are ideal; if you must use regular-sized, I recommend chopping them up to be smaller so you get chocolate in every bite.)
- optional: a few drops of pure almond extract, for a fun flavor variation
In a mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients and stir very well. In a separate bowl, mix all liquid ingredients. Now pour wet into dry, stir to combine fully, transfer the dough to a big plastic bag, and smush into one big ball while still inside the bag. Remove from bag and make mini balls, place on a greased cookie sheet, then fridge at least 30 minutes, or freeze 15 minutes. (If you want crispy healthy cookies, you can skip this step and bake immediately.) Preheat oven to 325 F, then bake 10 minutes. They will look underdone when they come out, but that is ok. Just be sure to let them cool at least another 10 minutes before trying to pick the cookies up. (If you want flatter cookies than the ones in the photos, you can flatten them before or after they go in the oven.) Makes 14-17 cookies. For soft cookies, store in a lidded plastic container; for crispy cookies, store in a glass container.
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What is your favorite holiday cookie?
Mine is probably chocolate-chip. I’m boring! But I also used to really like these mini pecan tarts my grandmother made, with a buttery cream-cheese crust. At some point I want to create a healthy and vegan cookie from that recipe. Also: thanks for all the unusual cookie suggestions the other day. I’m still trying to decide which idea to play around with first. The cream puff suggestion seems to be winning at the moment, even though it’s not a cookie!
Link of the Day:
….No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
One of my favorite cookie recipes ever… Happy National Cookie Day!!
just made them followed the recipe to the T and now waiting to they cool to try they look so yummy!!!!!
Great recipe! I love my cookies 🙂 Unfortunately I’m celiac so I have to bake everything gluten-free.
I have to get all my snacks from a Bakery in town that does gluten-free snacks. They have amazing chocolate chip cookies though! I suggest anyone near Toronto check them out! Terra Cotta Cookies.
Happy Baking!
Aiden
I made this with oat flour and it worked perfectly. I added a pinch of tapioca starch and prob about an extra tablespoon of almond milk. I eyeballed it so not sure on the exact amount of extra milk. Just go slowly and stir until the consistency looks right. For the sugar, I used all palm sugar. The cookies turned out to be GF deliciousness! The cookies are delicate, but no too crumbly. So good! Thanks, Katie!
I made these yummy cookies..I used GF flour, they were a little gritty a little crumbly
definitely chocolatey…I used coconut oil, would you recommend a little more flour or
more liquid. thanks.
I’ve made these, like, six times in the past two months. That’s how good they are.
Once, I put peppermint extract into the chocolate chips, and another time I put the cookie dough into a pan and made them into actual brownies.
So. Good.
Thank you!!!!
Just made these and they are amazing, but make 2 batches because it is a lot of work for a few cookies. I skipped the plastic bag part and they turned out just fine.
This may be a stupid question- but do you melt the coconut oil first? Because I just tried making this recipe and with solid coconut oil it was extremely crumbly…I ended up microwaving the whole thing to get it all to come together properly. They were delicious though- and I added homemade chocolate chips, too! Thanks for the recipe!
I made these today for the first time and I just wanted to say they are delicious! My two year old loves them as well :), but he likes all of your recipes. They came out perfect and looking just like yours. It was my first time using spelt flour in a cookie. Definitely will make these again. Oh, and I did something sinful ;), I threw one into a healthy shamrock shake-AMAZING! Ha. Thank you again!
aww lol 🙂
I started making these a few days ago, and they are SO SO SO good!!! My family requests me to make a batch almost every night now!!! Everyone who tries them says they taste like CiCi’s brownies (a pizza buffet chain in the northeast that has these AMAZING tasting brownies). My class who hates eating healthy (think sophomore boys), even request me to make them!
I’ve tried some chocolate cookies before that I didn’t at all like and for a while I thought that nothing could ever beat brownies in terms of ‘chocolate-y godness’ but this recipe has changed my mind. How on earth can people eat those store-bought crunchy and crumbly chocolate cookies (that taste nothing like chocolate at all)? These are awesomely chocolatey and gooey, fresh still crunchy on the outside but not too much. They are the perfect symbiosis between a brownie and a soft chocolate cookie 🙂 I put them in a plastic container because I prefer cookies that aren’t crunchy.
These are delicious!