“Chocolate” Chip Cookies

Hands-on time: 10 minutes; Total time: 25 minutes.

Makes 24 cookies.

INGREDIENTS:
◦ 3 cups blanched almond flour
◦ 1 tsp. baking soda
◦ 1 tsp. coarse salt
◦ 2 eggs
◦ 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
◦ 1 tsp. vanilla extract
◦ 1/2 cup coconut oil, unrefined
◦ 1.5 cups carob chips or 72% dark chocolate chips
◦ OPTIONAL: coconut milk, as an accompaniment

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a medium-sized mixing bowl combine dry ingredients.
3. In a small mixing bowl beat eggs, maple syrup and vanilla extract with a hand mixer.
4. Pour wet ingredients into dry and beat with hand mixer until combined.
5. Melt coconut oil, pour into batter and continue to blend until combined.
6. Stir in chocolate chips.
7. On a parchment-lined baking sheet, drop balls of cookie dough, about a tablespoon in size.
8. Bake for 15 minutes.
9. Let cool and serve.
OPTIONAL: serve with coconut milk.

*Excerpted from “Make it Paleo: Over 200 Grain Free Recipes For Any Occasion” by Bill Stanley & Hayley Mason