Does anyone else feel like a total cookie monster this month?! 🙋🏻 Why stop now?! I have one more cookielicious recipe for you that is absolutely a must-make! #sorrynotsorry
But seriously people. I took my favorite cookie recipe of all time and paleoized it and I’m so so SO over the moon about the results. With a name like Paleo Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies how in the world could they be anything other than the best?!
Answer: not possible because they are the best of the best. If you are the type of person who doesn’t understand it when someone says a dessert is “too chocolatey” {like seriously, what does that even mean?!} then these cookies are for you.
Let’s start by breaking down the name of these cookies:
Paleo: Yes it’s true. These cookies are grain-free, dairy-free, refined-sugar free and completely paleo…but they do not taste like it. At all. Like…not one bit.
Triple Chocolate: Three. Forms. Of. Chocolate. We have melted unsweetened chocolate, cocoa powder, AND chocolate chips. Because more chocolate is always {always} better than less chocolate.
Brownie: If you’ve been around my site for a while you know that I have a very strict definition of what a brownie is: fudgy, chocolatey, & insanely gooey. As well as what a brownie isn’t: cakey, fluffy {ugh} or overly sweet. These cookies are brownies in every sense of the word, except for their round, cookie-like appearance. Strange.
Cookies: Again, cakey fluffy round circles of fluff do not qualify for the title of COOKIE. A cookie must be doughy and chewy…which these delicious little bites of heaven absolutely are.
Now that we’ve broken down these Paleo Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies, let’s chat about how to make them. Most of the instructions are pretty straightforward. However, there is one step in the process that is absolutely paramount….
You must chill the dough for at least 2 hours (or overnight) before baking! The dough will be hardened to the point where you need to use a metal spoon or scoop to form it into nice little balls. I highly recommend coating your hands in coconut oil before rolling, because it gets pretty messy folks.
Also, do not let the dough get warm. If your oven isn’t preheated before you’re finished rolling {or the first tray is still in the oven}, place your tray of cookie dough balls in the refrigerator until you are ready to bake them.
A note on substitutions:
I implore you to pretty please make these Paleo Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies exactly as written! The mixture of cocoa butter and coconut oil is key! The high melting point of cocoa butter and the low melting point of coconut oil join forces to make the perfect substitute for butter in these beauties! This recipe is easily doubled to make a larger batch to feed a crowd!
One more thing…the cookie will be as good as the ingredients you use. Choosing the highest quality chocolate and cocoa powder will ensure the absolute best result!
These Paleo Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies come to you as part of the Recipe Redux this month! The challenge was to healthify a recipe from a cookbook and make it your own…however, for as long as I can remember I have used food blogs and other online resources to find recipes…not cookbooks! So I chose to give this recipe a complete paleo makeover and boy am I glad that I did.
A little known fact about yours truly: in my other life {i.e. before I had babies} Ritch and I used to take pictures of recipes we made from Allrecipes.com and submit them to their photo contests! Whenever we’d win, I’d show my favorite Chemistry students {2nd period you know who you are} our victory. They didn’t care {like at all lol} but we had tons of fun! These little husband-wife culinary adventures led to JoyFoodSunshine being born nearly a decade later! Aww! If you scroll through the pics of these cookies you will find a shot from me (SavedByGrace) from my former, pre-kids life! 😉
Ingredients
- ¾ cup unsweetened chocolate,* chopped
- 2 TBS coconut oil
- 1 TBS cocoa butter, grated
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- ¼ cup [pure maple syruphttp://amzn.to/2i4pv0p]
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- ¼ cup almond flour
- 2 TBS unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Extra sea salt for sprinkling (optional)
Instructions
- In a saucepan over medium heat, or in a microwave safe bowl, melt unsweetened chocolate, coconut oil and cocoa butter together until smooth.
- Once smooth, set aside to cool.
- In a small bowl, combine almond flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Once the chocolate mixture is cooled (to just over room temperature), add coconut sugar, maple syrup and vanilla and stir to combine.
- Add egg and mix until just incorporated.
- Add the dry ingredients to your wet mixture and stir until combined {and there are no lumps}.
- Fold in cup chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
- Place dough in an airtight container and chill for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
- Remove dough from the refrigerator and immediately roll chilled dough into 1-inch balls.**
- Place on parchment lined cookie sheets about 2” apart.***
- Bake for 9 to 10 minutes until the cookies look just set.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Eat them warm or store them in an airtight container until you’re ready!
Notes
*You can use any kind of dark or unsweetened chocolate here depending on how dark you like your cookies. **Rolling the dough is a very messy process! I coat my hands in coconut oil before I begin rolling. I use an ice cream scooper or metal spoon to scoop th dough into 1" portions. ***It is imperative that you do not let the dough get warm! If the oven isn’t preheated by the time you have filled a cookie sheet, place it in the refrigerator until the oven is ready.
Well, that’s all she wrote folks! I really {like really really} hope you try these cookies! They might just be my most favorite creation of 2016!!
In other news, I am going to be taking a recipe-posting break until after New Year’s to enjoy the Christmas season with my family! I look forward to coming back with lots of healthy recipes to get us all back on track in January! <3
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So right! Nothing can ever be too chocolaty for me! The more the merrier!!
AMEN Rebecca!
Mmmm chocolate. I’m not sure I could refuse chocolate ever, but I’m a bazillion times happier when I find seriously good tasting recipes that are dairy free!!! wohoooo!!!Definitely on the must make list
Raw cocoa butter is my new dairy-free baking obsession! It’s the perfect fat to use!!!!
Seriously – a brownie in cookie form? Gimme! I haven’t been making many cookies this season but these babies are totally on the list!
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Oh no! you need some cookies in your life!
I can not get enough chocolate in my life. I have a batch of my chocolate sea salt cookies in the fridge right now ready to cook. These are going to have to be next. Brownies are one of life’s greatest pleasures… in cookie form, I’m sure it’s even more amazing.
Brownies are the best! And I couldn’t agree more, never ever too much chocolate !
These look insane!! Totally making some in the super near future.
Triple chocolate cookies! Oh my, these are definitely a delicious sweet treat that I need to make soon!
Ok, these look like heaven!! Love anything chocolate, but make it triple and I’m so in! Love that you used almond flour!
These look amazing! And your photos are beautiful 🙂
I love how we all can be a resource for each other, versus cookbooks. I trust my food blog friends more! Haha. And yes, cookie monster is my house. GASP! make him leave. After I eat these of course
Haha, we’ve been total cookie monsters this month! Between my recent birthday and holiday parties, I’ve definitely been enjoying my share of sweet treats. When available, I always choose chocolate so these beauties are right up my alley!
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Wow yes you totally mastered this recipe. It looks amazing! Where would I get cocoa butter?
I order it on Amazon (if you click on the blue link it’ll take you to a good option)! You can usually find it at a store like Whole Foods too! 🙂
i’m not much of a chocolate person but i diee for brownies!! these look SO impressive!!
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These have always been some of my favorite cookies, thanks so much for sharing. Now to mix up a batch, scoop onto cookie sheets, refrigerate and bake. Lazy, ain’t I?
You will LOVE these! Seriously I was floored with these cookies and had a very hard time sharing! 😉
These are really lovely. I can’t eat eggs which makes paleo an interesting enterprise to say the least so I replaced it with a gelatin egg. Whilst rooting around in the pantry for all the chocolate supplies I found a forlorn and mostly empty jar of espresso powder. Oh yeah, I added the almost 1/2 tsp that was in the jar and meant to add some almond extract but got distracted.
These are so incredibly flavorful and would make the perfect base to add some mint or cherry extract, maybe some cranberries, almonds, macadamia nuts or coconut? OK first chopped macadamia nuts and cacao butter? My brain hurts.
You absolutely hit this one out of the park.
Great cookies! I used an egg replacer and added some espresso powder (because it was there and I could – I’m kinda like that).
I’m thinking this recipe could be the start of all things wonderful; think macadamia nuts and chopped cacao butter, mint, cherry, almond or orange extract, coconut, cranberries, cherries – the mind boggles.
You absolutely hit a home run with these they could not be better in any way, shape or form.
Thank you.
I love triple chocolate cookies recipe.Looks like it is delicious.I’m sure adding cocoa butter will enhance the taste of it.Will try this for sure.