These paleo double chocolate cookies are tender, full of chocolate, and good for you! And as an added bonus, they are egg and dairy free too!
You may be wondering how any cookie could be called ‘good’ for you?! By using the most nutrient dense ingredients possible and using less sugar of course!
And if you can even sneak some lovely vegetables and extra fiber in too? Sure, why not?!
Meet the paleo double chocolate cookie ala Tessa style!
Cookies are a love affair of mine.
As a young girl, my mom would make delicious homemade treats, and cookies were always my favorite.
I became a veritable connoisseur of chocolate chip cookies especially (like my flourless chocolate chip cookies)! Yeah…..I have like EIGHT different varieties of those on this site, but who’s counting?!! I also have a gluten free and vegan double chocolate cookie too!
I quickly discovered that cookies COULD have nutritious add ins that made them more suitable for everyday eating than your standard everyday cookie recipe.
And the more I learned about sugar and its detrimental effects on our bodies (and our kids!), I started reducing and replacing THAT too! Thus the term “ala Tessa.” Food with benefits. It’s what I love to do!
Paleo double chocolate cookie ingredient notes:
- I like to use almond flour in my recipes because it has healthy fats, fiber, and some protein.
- Cassava flour is a newer flour, and if you haven’t tried it, you NEED to!! It is SO versatile and can easily be used all on it’s own, unlike other gluten free flours. It is NOT just the starch like tapioca, it is the WHOLE root, therefore it’s loaded with resistant starch. Why is that good? It feeds the GOOD bugs in your gut! It is NOT A LOW CARB FLOUR, but it is good for you and appropriate for people doing the AIP protocol, GAPS, Whole30, or paleo diets.
- Flax meal adds fiber and a dose of healthy fats too. It is also a great binder in egg free baking. I often like to add it to baked goods!
These paleo double chocolate cookies were created to make my chocoholics happy, but now you can enjoy them too!!
Additional paleo vegan recipes:
- Paleo Chocolate Avocado Cookies are also nut free! No eggs.
- My paleo vegan brownies are very allergy friendly, dense, and fudgy.
- One of my favorite combos: Paleo Nutella Cookies are made in your food processor.
- Hard to resist: Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
- I want to try these paleo chocolate crinkle cookies!
Can I make these keto chocolate cookies?
Yes!
My favorite low carb sweetener is a monkfruit erythritol combination.
I have found that by using more than one keto sweetener in a recipe, I can avoid the drawbacks or aftertaste of using just a single one.
In my experience, that becomes even more the case the more sweetener called for.
You could also try my keto orange cookies!
Simply replace the cassava flour with 2 tablespoon coconut flour. It may need up to 3 tablespoons depending on your pumpkin moisture.
Paleo Double Chocolate Cookies Recipe:
If you make this recipe, be sure to come back and leave a comment below!
Paleo Double Chocolate Chip Cookies - Vegan
Ingredients
- ½ cup pumpkin puree (I used a dry variety, sweet meat pumpkin). Or applesauce
- ½ cup palm sugar (may sub low carb sweetener)
- ¼ cup coconut oil melted (butter or ghee would work too)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup almond flour (you may need more if your pumpkin is wet)
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder lumps sifted
- 1/4 cup cassava flour (tapioca works too). Sub 2+ tablespoons coconut flour to keep keto
- 1/4 cup flax meal
- ½ cup chocolate chips use Lily's brand for keto
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment or a baking mat.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, oil, sugar, and vanilla.
- Continue with the baking soda and sea salt.
- Mix in the flours to form a stiff dough that is easy enough to handle and roll into a ball. If your pumpkin had more water in it, you may need to add some more flour (any) to achieve this.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Roll approximately 1½ tablespoons of dough into a smooth golf ball sized ball. Place on cookie sheet and press down gently to flatten. Larger cookies are certainly fine too, just cook longer!
- Bake for 10 minutes until just set and remove from oven. Cookies will be soft, but they firm up nicely well fully cooled.
Nutrition
Any of the links in my posts may be affiliate links. If you click on them and make a purchase, I might make a commission. Your support is much appreciated and pays for the cost of running this free resource!
Healthy, delicious and so good. My only problem is that I will need to make a big batch of these because they will be gone really quickly.
These look awesome! Pinning 🙂
The texture of these cookies look perfect! I could definitely go for a few right now!
You had me a double chocolate 🙂 I love that you added pumpkin to the mix too.
Double chocolate everything will go fast in my house ,especially cookies! Especially paleo !
I love that you put pumpkin in these. And no eggs! YUM!
I love these cookies!
I love chocolate and cookies are my favorite, too ! So delicious and moist. YUM !!
Oooh this is right up my alley! I always need a chocolate treat!Thank you for the recipe!
I love a paleo chocolate cookie! We’ve been digging them over at our house all week – tis the chocolate season, right!?
These are so delicious, love the pumpkin and flax! Secret ingredients indeed!
Looks great! When is the flax mixed in? With the liquids to sit and thicken? Or with the flours? Thanks!
“In a small bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, oil, sugar, and vanilla.
Continue with the baking soda and sea salt.
Finish with the almond, cocoa, and tapioca flours. The dough should be thick, stiff, and easy enough to handle and roll into balls. Add more flour if necessary to achieve this.
Mix in the chocolate chips.”
Thanks for catching that!! I will fix it promptly!! It goes with the dry ingredients!!
Be still my beating heart! These look so good! Bookmarking to make soon!
These look so good, I love chocolate so double chocolate is a major bonus!
Oh my – I am going to have to make these double chocolate chip cookies this weekend! Dairy-free, gluten-free and low in added sugar too… such a win!
Make the Meredith! They’re a yummy treat!!!
Keto friendly chocolate cookies! OMG be still my heart! I am trying these next week, I have been craving cookies!
Oh geez, of course I look at this recipe on Chocolate Day (other people know it as Valentine’s Day :-). Looks SO good and love the chunks of chocolate in them too! Must try… preferably in the next 30 minutes…
or perhaps your yummy IP cake i was checking out??!!
Looks so chocolatey and delicious! Did I say how much I love chocolate!
You had me at DOUBLE chocolate! Yes please! I’m all about all things chocolate. These cookies look so yummy!
Love that there are no eggs in this recipe!
Double chocolate… you’re speaking to my heart! Doesn’t get much better than this, and I love the nutritious/fibrous ingredients. I’d totally feel good having a few of these and I might just have to!
Omg these vegan cookies are to die!!!
Ahhhh Tessa I want to eat every single one!! So chocolatey!! And why haven’t I tried cassava flour before??
Cassava is a MUST try Christina!
So much yes to everything about this! I’ll take ALL the chocolate
You have packed lots of goodness into these cookies! It’s good to learn more about cassava flour. I have my first bag, but haven’t used it much yet.
You are in for a treat Cathy, it is AWESOME!!
I can’t believe those are grain free – they definitely look amazing! I can’t wait to try them!
They look delicious! Of course, anything double chocolate is going to be a winner with me… 😉
Chocolate is my kryptonite. Resistance is futile!
These look FUN and lovely! 🙂 Love the pumpkin in there and the stevia option!
I finally got me some Cassava Flour! Thanks for the recommendation! I’m in love! It’s so pliable and tasty!
I want to make these cookies like right.now. Is there anything I can substitute for the pumpkin puree? Thank you!
Applesauce or an egg should
Do it!!
Tessa,
I made these with an egg and they turned out great!! A friend said she can’t even tell they’re gluten-free. I had to stop myself from eating too many. 🙂 Thank you!
Izzah
Yep. Shouldn’t have come here. Now I’m CRAVING some sweets! Good thing this one is paleo AND vegan!
LOL! I kmow the feeling Tina!! I am trying NOT to do any sugar right now!
Yay for the pumpkin puree! These look divine!
Oh my Tessa, these look great! I ran out of cassava flour but as soon as I get some more these are definitely on my list!!
Sounds good Cassidy!! I keep cassava on hand all the time now, I love it!!
This recipe looks great! What kind of chocolate chips do you use? The ones you put in the zucchini chocolate cake were so good! I know you mentioned one time the trader joe chocolate so I am wondering if that is what you use for your recipes.
I believe I used either Enjoy Life Dark Morsels, ornthe ones at Winco, Guittard dark chocolate.