Best Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Are you ready for the chewiest, salty sweet, delicious gluten free chocolate chip cookies? These little guys come straight to you from our dear friends Jeanine and Jack of Love and Lemons and their new book Love and Lemons Everyday. They’re made all from whole food ingredients, are downright delicious, and made dirtying only one bowl. Oh and did we mention they’re naturally gluten-free chocolate chip cookies too? Everyone can enjoy these babies. Keep reading for the gluten free cookies recipe (which just so happens to be vegan, too)! Another great chocolate chip cookie? Go to Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies.

About the book: Love & Lemons Everyday

Jeanine and Jack at Love & Lemons are known for their beautiful, veggie-filled recipes and stunning design aesthetic. Their first book Love & Lemons was a huge hit, and this second book Love and Lemons Everyday is impossibly even more beautiful and delicious! The pages are like reading a beautifully curated magazine, and each recipe sounds more delectable than the next. The book is 100% vegan and vegetarian, which fits well our mostly plant based diet. For veggie-lovers like ourselves, we could not recommend this cookbook more wholeheartedly! This gluten free chocolate chip cookies recipe is a perfect example of the recipes in the book: it’s naturally vegan and gluten-free using whole foods and it tastes FANTASTIC. Lucky for us, we get to be real life friends with Jack and Jeanine: they live close by in Chicago, and they’re a perfect stopping point for us on drives up to see my family in Minnesota. Larson has developed a huge thing for Jack, so he talks about Jack and Jeanine quite a bit these days! We’re absolutely thrilled to see this incredible duo launch Love and Lemons Everyday today! Get it! Grab a copy of Love and Lemons Everyday.

How to make gluten free chocolate chip cookies

Alright: let’s talk gluten free chocolate chip cookies! Contrary to popular belief, dairy, all purpose flour, and eggs are not required to make a kickin cookie recipe. This recipe features almond flour: a flour made of finely ground almonds. Because it has no gluten it’s quite dense, but it makes for perfectly chewy vegan and gluten free chocolate chip cookies. What else makes for vegan gluten free cookies? Here Jeanine uses a combination of coconut oil and almond butter for the fat instead of butter. And for the egg to hold it all together? A flax egg. If you eat vegan on the regular, you’ll know what a flax egg is already. If not, see the section below. Whisk together the dough for these cookies, add in the chocolate chips, and they’re ready to bake. What results are vegan gluten free chocolate chip cookies that are super chewy, salty sweet, and perfectly delicious. They’re a bit on the smaller side, which is perfect for our family since we love small-ish sweet treats to keep the serving size moderate. These cookies are so wholesome and tasty, they’re perfect for an activity to make with kiddos! They’re one of top vegan recipes for kids. (Want more with almond flour? We’ve got 10 easy almond flour recipes for you to try.)

What is a flax egg?

A flax egg is a trick used in vegan desserts to function as a binder like an egg would. Instead of using an egg, ground flax seed is used instead. To make a flax egg, place 1 tablespoon ground flax seed in a bowl and whisk it together with 2 ½ tablespoons of water. Let it sit for 5 minutes, and it will gel up and thicken into the consistency of–you guessed it–an egg white! Then you can use it in vegan dessert recipes. It doesn’t always substitute perfectly in recipes if you’re trying to vegan-ize them, so you’ll have to play with this concept based on the recipe. But of course it works perfectly in this vegan cookies recipe! We found flax seed at our local grocery store: we then used our high speed blender to grind the seeds. You could also use an old coffee grinder to do something like this (using an older one is helpful so you don’t have to clean it when you go to make coffee!).

More vegan and gluten free dessert recipes

And that’s it: how to make gluten free chocolate chip cookies! We hope you enjoy these: let us know in the comments below. If you’re looking for more vegan and gluten free dessert recipes outside of these cookies, here are a few of our favorites:

Amazing Gluten Free Brownies Gluten Free Apple Crisp Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bliss Bites Strawberry Sorbet Vegan Ice Cream Gluten Free Desserts Vegan Desserts Gluten Free Dairy-Free Recipes