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Gluten Free Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies {Recipe}

Cookies, Passover

I can’t take credit for this recipe, I didn’t develop it, but I did discover its awesomeness and want to share it with the world. This recipe comes from the back of a bag of almond flour sold at Trader Joes. The honest truth is that I don’t even buy their almond flour-I get mine at Costco, and I love it. I make these cookies on Passover for a friend and her family who can’t eat gluten and honestly, these are as delicious as a regular chocolate chip cookie. I usually need to hide them from my family so they won’t get eaten! These cookies freeze really well are gluten free, and perfect for Passover!

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Gluten Free Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
  • ½ cup margarine
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 egg + 1 egg white
  • 2½ cups almond flour
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachement mix the margarine and the sugars.
  3. Add the vanilla extract and eggs.
  4. Add the almond flour, baking soda, and salt and stir to combine.
  5. Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
  6. Bake on parchment lined baking sheet for about 10 minutes until the edges turn toasty brown. Cool completely before transferring.

More Passover Dessert Recipes:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Banana Muffins
Brownie Brittle
Double Chocolate Nut Cookies
Funfetti Macaroons
Funfetti Cookies
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies {Recipe}

Cookies, Passover

I must have developed this recipe about 2 years ago, so I figured it was about time I log back in here to my trusty old blog and share it here. I know you have heard me complain about baking for Passover before, but that is a thing of the past! I have so many amazing Passover dessert recipes at this point that I named myself the queen of Passover baking.

Anyway…here’s what happened with this recipe, and it’s what usually happens when I’m developing a new recipe. I saw a bunch of chocolate crinkle recipes floating around for Passover and I wanted to try one. I got bored of my flourless double chocolate nut cookies and decided to try something new. Needless to say, the very popular recipe I tried was basically a fail. So I figured I should try to come up with my own. If you remember a few years ago I added vanilla pudding mix to chocolate chip cookies and I came up with the best Passover chocolate chip cookies of all time! So I wondered if I could use powdered chocolate pudding mix to make this recipe work. And it did. I did it. We did it. Guys, I present you with flourless, gluten free, Passover, gooey, decadent, chocolate crinkle cookies. And they freeze well. And you don’t need a mixer to make them. And the dough freezes well in case you need fresh cookies at a moments notice. Enjoy!

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Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
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Serves: 6.5 dozen
 
Ingredients
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups potato starch
  • 1 cup dutch cocoa
  • 1 pkg. powdered chocolate pudding
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • powdered and granulated sugar for coating cookies
  • Mix
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, mix the oil, with the sugar.
  2. Add the eggs one at a time and mix until incorporated.
  3. Add in the potato starch, cocoa, powdered chocolate pudding mix, baking powder, vanilla and salt. stir until all combined.
  4. Chill the cookie dough (fridge or freezer) until firm enough to handle.
  5. Once the cookies are ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  6. Stir together equal parts confectioners and granulated sugar (about ½ cup each).
  7. Scoop the cookies using a small scoop (about 2 tsp. size) and roll in the sugars.
  8. Place dough on parchment lined baking sheet and bake until the cookies have spread and look set, about 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool completely before transferring.

More Passover dessert recipes:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Banana Muffins
Brownie Brittle
Double Chocolate Nut Cookies
Funfetti Macaroons
Funfetti Cookies
Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Honey Bear Blondies {Recipe}

Bars & Squares

Honey Bear Blondies | Lil Miss Cakes
It is traditional to bake with honey at the start of the Jewish New Year-it’s a wish for a Sweet New Year. I personally love honey cake and bake this one from Smitten Kitchen every year. My recipe for honey cookies is also insanely popular during this season. I also have a recipe for honey sugar cookies that are perfect for cutting out cookie shapes, apple honey crumb muffins that are moist, sweet, and delicious, as well as honey whoopie pies for the more adventurous baker. But not everybody loves the taste of honey in their desserts. For those people I present you with honey bear blondies. I call them “honey bear” because everybody knows about the plastic bears that honey comes in. Blondies, or blonde brownies are basically brownies without chocolate in the batter. I have a recipe for blondies I shared a few years ago. It makes soft, cake like chocolate chip cookie squares and it’s delicious. The addition of honey in this recipe makes super fudgy, thick, dense cookie squares with the slightest hint of honey flavor. I found 2 similar recipes for honey blondies: one from Martha Stewart, and the other from the Ovenly cookbook that is floating around the internet and used those to come up with this recipe. My recipe is dairy free, quick, and easy. All the ingredients are easy to find, I’m sure you have everything you need right in your pantry already!

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Honey Bear Blondies {Recipe}
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Serves: 16
 
Ingredients
  • ½ cup oil
  • ⅓ cup honey
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1¼ cup flour
  • 1½ tsp. kosher salt
  • ⅔ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Line an 8x8 inch square baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  3. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the oil, honey, brown sugar, and vanilla. Mix until it comes together and smooth.
  4. Add in the egg and mix.
  5. Add in the flour and salt and mix until combined.
  6. Stir in the chocolate chips.
  7. Spread into the baking pan.
  8. Bake for about 30 minutes until lightly browned.
  9. Allow to cool before cutting into 2x2 inch squares.