When we first started paleo when I was 14, the food requirements weren’t too hard. Grain-free, legume-free, refined sugar-free. Now, things are a little more complicated. It seems like everyone is allergic to dairy, and so many people can’t have eggs, these restrictions being in my own family. I have at least one paleo chocolate cookies recipe, but I decided to up the ante and create a recipe that almost everyone can eat!
If you are strict AIP, you could probably sub out the cocoa for some carob and perhaps a pinch of cinnamon.
But no allergy-free recipe would be worth making if it wasn’t delicious! These paleo chocolate cookies are cakey and and chewy and sweet and chocolate-y; my family gobbled them up! Which is funny because they hate sweet potatoes but the main ingredient is sweet potato flour.
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Shared at Allergy-Free Wednesday, Fat Tuesday, Gluten-Free Wednesday
- coconut oil – 2/3 cup, softened
- honey – 1/2 cup
- unsweetened applesauce – 1/4 cup
- pure vanilla extract – 1/2 teaspoon
- tapioca starch – 1/4 cup
- sweet potato flour – 1 cup
- unsweetened cocoa powder – 1/2 cup
- salt – pinch
- baking soda – 1/4 teaspoon
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a large cookie sheet with some coconut oil.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the coconut oil and honey. Stir in the applesauce.
- Mix in the sweet potato and tapioca flours.
- Add the cocoa, salt, and baking soda and mix well. Drop by the heaping tablespoonful onto the cookie sheet and flatten out a bit.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Allow to cool mostly before removing from the pan; they are a bit fragile at first.
Hi Heather,
This sound absolutely wonderful Thanks for sharing. Pinned.
Oh yum! These look so tasty! I love that they are also so healthy and I can easily feed them to my kiddo without feeling guilty for giving him loads of sugar.
Pinning 🙂