This recipe is a oldie because it’s one I posted in my notes section of my Facebook when my website was being a b*tch. But if you don’t have Facebook, which I think is dumb, or don’t check Facebook like me because Facebook is annoying, then you didn’t see this gem of a recipe. Cookies that are nut free, with gigantic chocolate chunks, mixed with vanilla beans is always a good choice. Try this recipe. It can be your Xmas cookie recipe to share with your friends that bad mouth paleo. Show them what’s up.
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Oldie but a Goodie: Giant Vanilla Bean Chocolate Chunk Cookies (nut-free)
- Yield: 7 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup sunflower seed butter (or nut butter)
- 1/3 cup raw honey
- 1 egg, whisked
- 1 vanilla bean stem, slit lengthwise, little baby beans removed with the edge of your knife
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1/2–1 cup Enjoy Life Mega Chocolate Chunks (or dark chocolate chips)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out a dollop of cookie mix and pour onto baking sheet. Space out so cookies do not form together when they bake (like mine did).
- Bake for 18-20 minutes, be careful not to overcook these.
- Let cool. Then eat up!
- My mix made 7 large cookies, but you could make them smaller!
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thank god. my house is being inundated with scads of Christmas confection sugar-bombs that are hard to resist despite how icky they make me feel later. now i’ll be able to sneak in a plate of these at family functions and have peace of mind (and everything else below it) haha 🙂
I am so eager to try this recipe; it looks like a good one! I like the chunks. By the way, a vanilla bean is a ‘pod’ and the tiny bits inside are the ‘seeds,’ just so you know.
I am such a cookie whore. For serious. I made a dozen almond flour cookies a week ago and they were gone in 16 hours. I even snuck out of bed in the morning to eat them before my husband woke up. Cookie. Whore.
Oh, me too! I can only make cookies as gifts for other people and I have to immediately pack them up in such a way that it will be horribly obvious if I were to try to steal “just one little one!”
Can we be friends? My name is Katie, and I am a cookie whore too. There. I said it.
Can we be friends? My name is Katie, and I am a cookie whore too. There. I said it. I am also a sunflower butter whore. Can I buy it in bulk?
I want to join this group! I’m hereby confessing my status as a cookie whore too.. Let’s bake together 😉
I, too, am a self-proclaimed cookie whore… pre-paleo I could polish off a bag of chips ahoy no problem. Why can’t they be a whole macronutrient in themselves??
I too am a confessed Cookie Whore. I too could eat a whole bag of Chips Ahoy, Oreos, Keebler, GAH! Haven’t had a cookie in sooo long, I am gluten intolerant. Will try this since I also a buy jars and jars of sunflower butter and happen to have two in my pantry, one in my fridge at home and one here at work. Also have some Enjoy Life Mini Choc Chips in my freezer screaming at me.
Omg…… I did the same thing. Seriously. I make almond flour cookies like every week. I could eat them for every meal.
This is going to sound stupid but what do you do with the vanilla bean pod?
you take it, use a sharp knife to slit it open lengthwise and then use the edge of your knife to scrap out the beans! not a stupid question at all!
Okay so you use the seeds in the recipie. Sorry, I have never used an actual vanilla bean before. I will have to try this
yes ma’am!
Ah, I thought you were using the actual pod. I was wondering what happens to that thing. 🙂
These look like real cookies!
Juli – No “flour” needed… ie almond flour? They look awesome and so simple to make. Will def be making these this weekend!
the ingredient list is so small. i dont know how you got 7 cookies out of this! i want to go buy nut butter just to see if this is even possible!! Pahaha
I think this will be one of my Saturday projects along with the maple bacon meatballs of yours. (Already have George’s banana bread and Health-bent’s brownie bites on the agenda for tomorrow’s snow day and I’ll have an extra set of hands Saturday.)
It appears the dough may spread a bit, maybe I’ll throw it in the fridge or freezer prior to baking to minimize spread, that always seemed to work with traditional cookies. Wish that worked for the spread that results from consumption of treats 😉
I know it’s not as good, but can I use vanilla extract (the real stuff) instead of vanilla bean seeds? They cost and arm & a leg to buy here in Hawaii.
hell yeah!! i just got lucky and my friend bought them for me! extract will be just fine!
I want to eat these cookies, like now!