Soft Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

These melt-in-your-mouth soft Chocolate Chip Coconut Flour Cookies are gluten free and paleo friendly, and you can make them keto/low carb.

Baking with Wholesome Replacements

I can barely imagine a world that doesn't include dessert. I don't think I want to try even.

While we eat healthy and 'clean' at least 80% of the time, that also includes sweets and treats. Maybe it’s because of my incurable sweet tooth or my passion for baking, but we have dessert in one form or another almost every day.

For that reason, I try to use wholesome real food ingredients even when it comes to desserts and baking. Most regular baking recipes rely heavily on white flour and refined white sugar.

Those are the two main ingredients that I try to replace with other less refined alternatives. In today’s coconut chocolate chip cookie recipe coconut flour and maple syrup take that place.

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How to Bake with Coconut Flour

You may have heard that coconut flour is temperamental and difficult to work with. After my first couple of tries at working with this healthier flour, I totally agreed with this statement.

That was over 5 years ago. But soon after my first couple of failed attempts, I had some great coconut flour baking success - first with these Coconut Flour Pumpkin Muffins and then a little later with these soft funfetti cookies.

Those cookies were the inspiration for today's chocolate chip cookies made with coconut flour. They also gave me the inspiration to try and figure out how to use seemingly finicky coconut flour.

I learned that coconut flour is hygroscopic - meaning that it absorbs an incredible amount of liquid, unlike any other flour I have ever worked with. That, in turn, made me realize that there is no use in taking a recipe that calls for regular wheat flour and replacing it with an equal amount of coconut flour.

The ratios of all the ingredients are just completely different. Instead, I looked at the few recipes that turned out well and created new, specific coconut flour recipes that adhered to similar ratios of little flour, plenty of eggs and also a good amount of fat.

How to Make Coconut Flour Cookies

The process of making these coconut flour cookies is very easy. You begin by preheating your oven to 350 F and lining a baking sheet with parchment paper. Alternatively, you may line your baking sheet with a silicone mat if you have that instead.

Next, you whisk the coconut flour with the baking soda and salt in a large baking bowl. The whisk helps ensure that the dry ingredients are evenly blended together. Afterward, you add the eggs, melted coconut oil, vanilla, and maple syrup to the dry ingredients, and stir the mixture until a smooth batter forms. You may wonder if the dough is too wet at this point, but rest assured that it will come together. This is because coconut flour absorbs a lot of fluid, so a few minutes on the counter should be sufficient to thicken the dough if it seems too wet at first. Finally, fold in the chocolate chips before shaping the cookies.

To shape the cookies, I either measure each cookie with a cookie scoop or 2 tablespoons before setting them a couple of inches apart on the baking sheet. Then, you can gently flatten them before baking them. I like to garnish the cookies with a few more chocolate chips at this point for good measure. The total bake time should only be 12 to 14 minutes. You will know they are done when they are golden on the bottoms and around the edges.

Once the cookies are baked, it is best to keep them on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring them to a rack to finish cooling. During the 10 minutes on the baking sheet, they will solidify, reducing the chance that you will break them.

How To Make Coconut Flour Cookies More Moist

These gluten free coconut flour cookies are super easy to make. They can be whipped up in just 1 bowl with a whisk or wooden spoon - no mixer required.

But there is one very important thing to do that can make or break this chocolate chip cookie recipe. It is how you measure the coconut flour. For example, you should use the dip and sweep method. This involves dipping your measuring cup into the coconut flour bag and sweeping off the top to level it. In this case, you are actually compressing the flour and ending up with way too much. Instead, spoon the coconut flour loosely into the measuring cup until full.

This is actually how you should measure any flour. However, because there is comparatively little flour used in this recipe and because of coconut flour's unique characteristics it is even more important here. If you use the dip and sweep method, you will end up with way too much flour (and not enough liquid), which can make cookies dry and crumbly instead of moist and soft.

Soft-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookie Texture

As I have mentioned a few times now, this coconut flour recipe produces a soft-baked type of cookie. There is nothing chewy or crunchy or crispy about them.

Instead, these soft and moist cookies melt on your tongue into sweet bliss. If you want a chewy coconut flour cookie, however, try this recipe instead.

The chocolate chips in this recipe can be replaced with any other add-in, like cacao nibs, raisins, nuts, seeds or you could leave them out altogether. Alternatively, try an alternative type of chocolate such as semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips instead. You could even incorporate chopped baker's chocolate for a chocolate chunk-type cookie.

Is coconut flour OK for ketogenic diet?

Coconut flour is a fantastic low carb alternative to wheat flour. Many of my coconut flour recipes call for a ½ cup of it, which has 32g carbs and 20g fiber divided over about 12 servings.

Looking at those nutrition facts, coconut flour is very suitable for keto and low carb eating. However, when baking with it, you will need to make an adjustment to the sweetener.

My favorite - maple syrup - is NOT suitable for keto diets. However, I like to recommend Lakanto's maple-flavoured monkfruit syrup which is sugar-free.

You can still make low carb chocolate chip cookies, but again, you will need to replace them with a sugar-free brand of chocolate chips like Lily's. Alternatively, you could leave them out for a plain coconut flour cookie.

How to store these low carb coconut flour chocolate chip cookies

Because these low carb coconut cookies are so moist, I recommend storing them for only one day at room temperature. Refrigerated in an airtight container, these coconut flour cookies will last at least 5 days.

Coconut Flour Recipes eCookbook

The other super popular coconut flour recipes on my blog are for muffins, mug cakes and pancakes. So much so that I decided to write a digital eCookbook in which I shared all my tips & tricks and best recipes for Coconut Flour Muffins, Pancakes & Mug Cakes. You can get the eBook HERE!

More amazing coconut flour recipes like this one:

• Keto Cheddar Biscuits
• Coconut Flour Waffles
• Coconut Flour Chocolate Muffins
• Gluten Free Chocolate Pie Crust
• Coconut Flour Oatmeal Cookies
• Coconut Flour Biscuits

Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These melt-in-your-mouth soft Chocolate Chip Coconut Flour Cookies are gluten free and paleo friendly, and you can make them keto/low carb.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Total Time 22 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12 cookies

Calories 136 kcal

Ingredients

 

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• ½ cup coconut flour loosely spoon the flour into a measuring cup - don't dip the measuring cup into the flour
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 pinch sea salt
• 2 large eggs
• ¼ cup coconut oil melted
• ¼ cup maple syrup or sugar-free liquid sweetener
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ⅓ cup dark chocolate chips, more for topping or sugar-free chocolate chips

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Instructions

 

• Preheat your oven to 350°F. Get a cookie sheet ready. I like to line mine with parchment or a silicone baking mat to keep the edges from browning too much - but it's optional.
• In a large bowl, whisk together coconut flour, baking soda, and salt. Add eggs, coconut oil, maple syrup, and vanilla extract. Stir vigorously until everything is combined.
• The cookie dough may seem too wet at first, but will come together as the coconut flour absorbs a lot of liquid.
• Finally, fold in the chocolate chips.
  
• Using two tablespoons or a small cookie scoop, form 12 dough heaps and drop onto the cookie sheet. Flatten the cookies (with fingers, spoon or bottom of a glass) and top with a few more chocolate chips.
• Bake for 12-14 minutes until golden. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool fully. Store in an airtight container for 3-5 days.

Notes

• When measuring coconut flour (or any flour) be sure not to dip the measuring cup into the flour container. This compresses the flour and you end up with too much (and dry cookies). Instead, loosely spoon the flour into the measuring cup.

KETO Adjustments:
To make this recipe keto or low carb compliant you need to make 2 small adjustments

• Use sugar-free liquid sweetener (I recommend Lakanto maple-flavoured monk fruit syrup)
• Use sugar-free chocolate chip, like stevia sweetened Lily's brand
• This changes the nutrition values per cookies to: 95 calories, 3.5g net carbs, 0.1g sugar

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Serving Size

 

1 cookies

Amount per Serving

Calories

136

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

9

g

14

%

Cholesterol

 

31

mg

10

%

Sodium

 

47

mg

2

%

Carbohydrates

 

12

g

4

%

Fiber

 

2.2

g

9

%

Sugar

 

7.8

g

9

%

Protein

 

2.8

g

6

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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