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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Just tried these! Amaaaaaaazing. I used almond butter instead. I also didn’t have vanilla beans but used a tablespoon of vanilla extract. Really good!!, I am always trying paleo “treat” recipes and the texture is always wrong. these are perfect! Oh, one last thing – only cooked mine for about 15 min’s before they started to burn – got them out of the oven just in time.
Yum, thanks! 🙂 Will take these to my Crossfit pals!
OH.MY.F-ING.GOSH!! WOW! These are ahhhhmazing!! Thank you thank you thank you!! Santa will be very happy with us tonight 😉
Wait…whaaattt? These are PALEO!? I’m exploring this diet option to help control my PCOS and all it’s flippin’ ridiculous symptoms. Yours is the first blog I’ve seen that actually shows good-looking, VARIED food!
So, I can eat cookies, eh? I’m one step closer to “in”!
Lauren,
I also have PCOS and have found by cutting out refined sugar and flour help. But it is difficult to do with all the convenience foods out there filled with these two ingredients. I think I might give the Paleo diet a chance. Blogs like this make it easier!
Lauren and Tammy, I also have PCOS. I went Paleo a few days before Christmas and it has changed my life. I feel like my quality of life has improved so dramatically. I hope you do try the Paleo diet. It’s really amazing how good it will make you feel.
Santa ate all of these cookies last night, left us crumbs. In his defense, they are totally awesome, and I hid another batch in my cookie jar.
Could you use almond butter instead if you don’t care if they’re nut free?
absolutely!!
Any suggestions for making these egg free???
banana or flax seed i’m guessing!
Did you try either egg free option?
I made them both ways for the kids (and me) in the last two weeks. Gotta say, I far preferred them with an over ripe banana than with an egg.
Wow. That just blew my mind. I don’t cook or bake, so I have started trying some of these yummy recipes – starting with the Treats section and only the really easy things! Ha! Swapping an egg for a banana is CRAZY. I’m gonna do that right now. Yum. Thanks!!
What about swapping natural applesauce for the egg? I have done that in the past with other recipes.
Could you perhaps use homemade coconut butter?
coconut butter wouldn’t work the same as nut butter or sun butter
I just made these without the vanilla bean and with freshly food-processed almond butter and they are to die for! Thanks Juli!
The sunbutter looks great but am trying to drop some pounds. Is there an alternative or just skip them for now 🙂
skip for now 🙂
That’s a depressing answer. Haha!!
I made these recipes last night as a quick refuel for my bf when he came in from a day of being knocked on his ass (aka a judo workshop) and they were gone by the time he left this morning for day two of being knocked on his ass! I just made another batch, this one adding in 2 teaspoons of cocoa and swapping the vanilla bean for a teaspoon of mint extract. Oh, and I make my own butters, so for this one I used half and half almonds and pecans, with 1/3 cup of agave syrup. Predicting they’ll be gone by tomorrow morning again, and it’s just me eating them this time. 😀