sunbutter chocolate chip cookies on a white oval platter

Sunbutter Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am so excited to share this Sunbutter Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe! It is dairy free, egg free, gluten free, corn free, and soy free. So what’s in it then? Real ingredients that are easy to find now a days thankfully! We can have almonds and coconuts in our family…as of this post, but who knows! So this recipe does contain almond flour and coconut sugar & oil. It seems like new allergies are popping up every year in my family. So we continue to adapt.

For this recipe, there is just a little bit of Tiger Nut Flour in it. I highly recommend you use this flour in baked goods. It adds just the right amount of depth of flavor that I often find missing in some gluten free baked goods I have tried. My favorite place to buy this is on Amazon. I love the Anthony’s brand of organic gluten free flours. They always work so well for me in my baking.

The sunbutter I used was the Sunbutter brand and I bought it at Walmart. My daughter recently found out she’s allergic to peanuts, although, she’s never had a serious reaction. So, we decided to give this sunbutter a try. And the best way to try it was make cookies!

I like to make mini cookies because I like being able to say I ate 5 cookies, but really they were tiny, so it’s not that bad, right? You can experiment with a medium cookie scoop, but I haven’t personally tried it, so I can’t give an exact bake time for that. I would guess trying to add about 3-4 minutes to your bake time might work.

One important thing to note, is that there is 1 TBSP of water added AFTER you refrigerate your dough. For some reason, gluten free flour just doesn’t absorb water/moisture in traditional ways. And adding this little bit of water after fridge time makes a big difference in your ability to scoop your cookies. So don’t forget to add it otherwise your dough will be too crumbly to shape into balls of dough.

sunbutter chocolate chip cookies on a white oval platter

Sunbutter Chocolate Chip Cookies

A hearty and healthy sunbutter chocolate chip cookie. It is dairy free, gluten free, egg free, corn free, and soy free. Made with hearty gluten free flours, chia seeds, and of course sunbutter.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Fridge Time 30 minutes
Total Time 57 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American

Equipment

  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 large mixing bowl with beater attachments
  • measuring cups, spoons,
  • glass measuring cup for melting coconut oil
  • parchment paper
  • small cookie scoop

Ingredients
  

  • 75 grams almond flour
  • 13 grams buckwheat flour
  • 3 grams tiger nut flour
  • 1/4 C gluten free rolled oats
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp psyllium husk powder
  • 1/8 tsp xanthan gum
  • 1/8 tsp sea salt
  • 1/2 tsp chia seeds
  • 1 TBSP water
  • 75 grams coconut sugar
  • 30 grams refined coconut oil, melted and cooled slightly
  • 50 grams Sunbutter spread approx 1/4 C
  • 1/3 C mini dairy free chocolate chips Enjoy Life
  • 1 TBSP water-to be added to dough AFTER fridge time

Instructions
 

  • In a medium sized bowl, mix almond flour, buckwheat flour, tiger nut flour, oats, baking soda, pysillium husk powder, xanthan gum, and sea salt. Set aside.
  • In a small bowl, combine chia seeds and 1 TBSP water. Let stand 1-2 minutes.
  • In a large mixing bowl, add coconut sugar, slightly cooled coconut oil, chia see/water mixture, and sunbutter. Mix well with hand mixer using beater attachments.
  • Add dry ingredients and mix well. Add mini dairy free chocolate chips and mix well. The dough will still appear crumbly and like it won't stick together unless you squish it together with your hands. Don't worry. After the fridge time, you will add that last TBSP of water.
  • Cover bowl and refrigerate for 30-40 minutes.
  • Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Prep sheet pan with parchment paper.
  • Remove dough from fridge and add the remaining 1 TBSP of water. Mix well.
  • Using a small cookie scoop, scoop 15 small cookie dough scoops onto the prepared sheet pan.
  • Bake for 12 minutes on center oven rack. Let cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes. Then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.
  • Repeat for remaining dough. **I recommend only baking one sheet at a time and only baking on the center oven rack.
  • This will make about 22 small cookies. If you want to make larger cookies, extend the bake time as you see fit.

Notes

Tiger Nut flour is an awesome grain free flour.  Just a little adds a lot of depth of flavor to your baked goods.  I highly recommend using it in this recipe.  BUT if you just don’t have any, just add a little more almond or buckwheat flour.
Keyword cookies, dairy free, desssert, egg free, gluten free, soy free, sunbutter, sunbutter chocolate chip cookies

I hope that you will enjoy making these Sunbutter Chocolate Chip Cookies!. Having so many allergies can be really complicated. I hope this recipe can help many of you to make a yummy treat for your family.