It’s been a crazy week so I’m pretty excited for Friday to be here. Isaac and I had plans or appointments every night after work this week – it was all fun stuff but I’ve had little time to blog so that’s why you haven’t heard from me in a few days.
Last night I had some free time so I managed to get in a good workout after getting off work (HIIT on the bike and incline walking on the treadmill) and baked a batch of cookies after dinner. These cookies aren’t any old cookies either. They’re actually for a CrossFit party.
Here’s a little background info: Tina convinced me to try CrossFit. Isaac and I bought an Amazon Local deal for 12 CrossFit sessions at CrossFit Full Circle and we’ve been trying it out of the past couple weeks. They’re hosting a Grand Opening party tonight from 6:00PM – Midnight. It’s open to the public so if you feel like checking at a CrossFit party, you should come. See the full details here.
Anyhow, in the invite, it said the party was pot-luck style and that we could bring something if we’d like. It didn’t mention anything about the items needing to be paleo, but I know how the CrossFit peeps roll so I figured I would try my hand at making a paleo friendly cookie. (Just as an FYI – strict Paleo diet followers eat fish, grass-fed pasture raised meats, vegetables, fruit, fungi, roots, and nuts, and stay away from grains, legumes, dairy products, refined sugar and processed oils.) Since there are no grain-based flours allowed (not even quinoa flour), baking can be quite the task…
I looked up a bunch of different recipes online and finally decided to use this one as my guide. I followed the recipe pretty much exactly using these seven ingredients:
- almond flour
- baking soda
- sea salt
- coconut manna instead of the oil
- vanilla
- raw honey
- chocolate chips
The manna is a bit thicker than oil so my dough turned out a little on the crumbly side, but once I started using my hands to roll the dough into balls, they stuck together and I was able to form them into little cookie bites.
They’re for the party, but of course I had to taste one last night for quality control. <– Had to be done.
I’ll be honest, I was pretty surprised at the flavor when I tasted it because I thought the almond flour was going to make the cookies taste dry. Alas, it was moist, sweet and delicious. They are quite dense so the texture is a little different than a regular chocolate chip cookie, but they’re still cookie-like and work great for curing a late night sweet tooth. I think the chocolate chips help!
In addition I like the smaller size. Since they’re based primarily of fat (almonds and coconut), they’re pretty filling and you only need one or two to feel satisfied. I don’t know about you, but fats are really good at making me feel full.
So if you’re following the paleo diet or interested in trying out a paleo friendly baking recipe – you know, if you have a CrossFit party to attend or something. 
I would highly recommend this Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. The recipe was super easy to whip up and I would definitely make them again.
Have you ever tried an paleo/primal baking recipes? What did you think of them?
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I am still so curious to try out a Paleo recipe. I still have your berry crisp book marked to make soon! Hope all is well girl!
YUM! These look amazing – can’t wait to try a bite tonight!
I love grain-free/paleo recipes since I try to stay away from most grains. Baking can definitely get tricky though – I learn something new every time I whip up a paleo recipe.
These look great! Do you think I could coconut oil instead of the manna?
Definitely!
Haha I haven’t really looked into much paleo stuff (I read Matt @ No Meat Athlete’s thoughts on the overall diet, coming from a vegetarian perspective) and I decided it wasn’t for me
That said, I do think there are some great healthy recipes!! This one sounds good!!
I wish you could come to the meet up tomorrow! We will miss you!
Yum! These look great!
Chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorite baked goods to “paleo-i-fy!” I’ve tried a bunch of different recipes, and even made some up myself. My latest was a coconut flour chocolate chip cookie sweetened with dates (instead of maple syrup or honey). They were pretty darn good! I have a ton of Paleo baked good recipes over on Frisky lemon if you’re interested…;)
I actually saw your recipe and was going to try it but didn’t have coconut flour on hand. Next time…
I’ve been trying out a lot of Paleo dishes for the crock pot. It makes cooking SO EASY!
Where do you find “paleo-friendly” chocolate chips? I would love to try this recipe!
I’m not an expert, but the recipe said that they needed to be at least 63 percent cocoa.
I’ve been seeing so many recipes with almond flour now…I can’t sue it because of people in my family being allergic to nuts lol but these look really good!
Those sound really good! I haven’t tried to make anything paleo, but I did pick up almond flour a few weeks ago so I’m definitely curious to try.
I had the same bag of almond flour sitting in my pantry for months. I was happy to find this recipe so I could put it to good use.
The cookies look great, I love experimenting with almond and other non-grain flours!
LOVEEEE paleo cookies
all ova my instagram. I’m so glad we’re both loving CrossFit. Potlucks with people from your Box are the literal best.
I tried a Paleo blueberry muffin last week. It was moist, like your cookies were, which I found surprising. I ground my own almonds for the recipe, which meant there were little almond chunks at times, but it added to the deliciousness.
I’m vegetarian, but the Paleo diet seems like a healthy meat-eaters diet.
I’m pescatarian and I feel the same way. I think eating paleo would be a real challenge as a vegetarian.
I saw the invite to the Crossfit Full Circle Party last night. How was it? I did crossfit Thursday afternoon (Fundamentals #3) and couldn’t do a pull-up to save my life. It’s my goal to do an unassisted pull-up sometime in the near future. The cookies sound like they turned out great!
I was wondering if you were going to be there. It was really fun – lots of tasty food and good people. Doing an unassisted pull up in one of my goals too – it’s so hard.
Thanks for sharing this with all of us, I want to try and get into eating Paleo, and knowing that recipes like this are out there, will help a lot!
They look great! Every time I bake with almond flour I think it’s going to come out super dry too but it never does. I’m still amazed at how nut flours work, but I love ‘em!
Hope you had a fun time at the Crossfit party! I have yet to try Crossfit (there’s one gym in London according to my last check) and I’m always tempted to give it a go! I love the functional training approach it uses, and looks like good fun in a group atmosphere.
I made these for my family. My grand daughter, who has a low sensitivity to wheat, loved them. I didn’t tell anyone that they were gluten free until they had eaten them. No one complained and they all of the cookies.
Woo-hoo! That’s awesome Barbara. I’m so glad everyone enjoyed them.
I love the title of your blog.
Thank you.