I’ve been making a lot more recipes that call for almond flour lately. I’m trying to stay lower-carb and keep away from all the gluten free flours and all of their high carb, blood sugar raising, deliciousness. (Not that they’re not quite tasty and wonderful in many ways…. I’m just trying to cut back.)
Almond flour is a naturally gluten free (it’s just almonds) flour substitute. It’s not the near perfect GF flour replacement of King Arthur’s Measure for Measure or Cup4Cup. Almond Flour requires more fooling around and probably a better understanding of the whole chemistry/magic of baking. I haven’t quite mastered the chemical/magical understanding yet, so I just stick to the recipes that other’s have already created. Not that that’s foolproof either…. wow! There’s some really awful almond flour concoctions out there! Fortunately for all of us… this recipe isn’t one of the stinkers…. in fact, it’s pretty damn amazing.
One bit of warning: These aren’t your traditional flour based Chocolate Chip Cookies…. they’re Chocolate Chip Almond Cookies. They’re softer and chewier and have a slight almond (duh) flavor.
I discovered this recipe on the back of the Blue Diamond Almond Flour bag that I came across in CostCo a few weeks ago. I usually prefer King Arthur Almond Flour, but I figured the Blue Diamond was such a great price, I should give it a try. I’ve used it in several of my favorite almond flour recipes and its worked wonderfully.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg + 1 egg white
- 2½ cups Blue Diamond Almond Flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips or pieces
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat together butter, sugars and vanilla extract in a large bowl, and then mix in eggs.
- Stir in almond flour, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Drop tablespoons* of dough two inches apart onto baking sheets. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned on top and firm to the touch.
*we used this cookie scoop and flattened the cookies with the back of a fork since they don’t spread on their own.
