The Best Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
My family loves Chocolate Chip Cookies, but we are gluten free and try to be sugar free as well. I do not want my children to feel like they are missing out on yummy food especially special desserts so I love to make these cookies for them. We all love them! It is one of my most requested recipes.
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I was making these the other day and wanted to share the recipe with you even though this isn't a recipe to make while you are camping. I do love to make these prior to a camping trip and then take them along for the car ride and trip.
These will not stay around long. These are a favorite for our family.
No one can tell the difference if we don't tell them that there is
no refined sugar in them and that they are gluten free.
The Best Gluten Free
Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1 cup butter, peanut butter, almond butter, or regular butter (at room temperature) - many times I make these with just butter
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter (at room temperature) (I use Kerry Gold butter)
- 1 cup honey (I use raw) or maple syrup
- 2 eggs (I like these 12 carton egg protectors to protect the eggs while traveling or 18 carton)
- 1/4 cup milk, almond milk, or coconut milk (*omit if using all butter as it may be too soft and will cook flat)
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 3 cups regular oats (not quick oats)
- 1 cup gluten free flour (I get this normally at Costco)(depending on the time of year I may have to add a little more flour. It should have the consistency of regular chocolate chip cookie dough so add a little more if needed.)
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips or I usually just put them in until I think they look like enough. (I love Lily's Chocolate Chips as they have no sugar in them but still taste good. I like that they are little too so they spread out throughout the cookies. I also like Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips, they do have some sugar but are dairy free. I like using a mixture of the normal, mini, and chunks in the cookies.)
- optional - 1/4 cup chia seeds
- optional - nuts - pecans, walnuts
Cream together butters and honey with a mixer. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Mix in chia seeds and nuts if using them (optional). Add oats, gluten free flour and almond flour, mix well. Mix in baking soda. Mix in Chocolate Chips.
Spoon onto a cookie sheet. Bake around 10 minutes or until lightly done at 350 degrees. Let sit on the cookie sheet for a few minutes until they are set and cooled slightly. Transfer to a cooking rack and cool or eat right away. Enjoy!
- I usually make a double batch when I make them and freeze some of the dough for the future, or make all of the cookies and freeze some. The the dough and the cooked cookies freeze nicely.
- In order to cut down on preparation time the week before we leave on a trip, I often make these a fews weeks before and then freeze them and just pull them out of the freezer the day we leave.
So yummy and a nice fililng snack while driving to your camping spot and while camping!
- Crack the eggs for you into a bowl (my 4, 6, 7 and 10 year old can all do this).
- Measure the ingredients and/or pour them in (if older can measure it)
- add butter to the bowl
Let Them Help
- Mix the wet ingredients and then dry ingredients together with a whisk or spoon or turn on the mixer. Littler ones can do this, but my older ones like this too!
- Spoon dough onto the cookie sheet.
- Older ones can transfer cookies to cooling rack.
- Everyone all ages will enjoy eating them
- Note: Children under 1 year old should not eat these as they have honey in them.
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We are not a gluten free family but I made these and they are honestly the best cookies out there. We now make them all the time and my entire family devours them. I never thought I would like a cookie more then a plain chocolate chip cookie until I tried these. I highly recommend making these! And you have so much less guilt when eating them!