Disclaimer: If you are not gluten free do not ignore, delete or skip over this recipe! It is an amazing recipe and can be made with regular flour for a delicious cookie!
Two years ago we entered the world of gluten free when my daughter was diagnosed with a wheat intolerance. She can actually have gluten but not wheat but if you eat gluten free you are eating wheat free. There are just a few things she can eat that have gluten in it but not wheat such as spelt. I have learned lots about this gluten free world and still have much to learn.
Even if you are not gluten free chances are you know someone who is and this recipe may just come in handy sometime. Even if you never need to bake gluten free you will want to make these cookies. They are delicious! Just substitute in regular flour for the gluten free flour mix and you have a delicious gluten-full cookie!!
When I made them gluten free the rest of the family kept asking, “Are you sure there is no gluten in these?” They were that good.
The main problem I have found with gluten free baking is not so much the taste but the texture. Because most recipes use rice flour you often get a somewhat gritty texture to your bake goods. A gluten free friend of mine shared her favorite gluten free flour mix recipe with me and that is what I have been using ever since. You can find the gluten free flour mix over on my blog.
This mix does contain oat flour. Not all oats are gluten free so please be sure and check that out. I purchased gluten free oats from Bob’s Red Mill. I have learned that there are those who are gluten free that can’t have oat flour either and in this case I would recommend increasing the amount of the other flours to compensate for not using the oat flour. All of the flours can be found at places such as Whole Foods and other natural health grocery stores.
The cookies are made just like any other chocolate chip cookie you just substitute gluten free flour mix for regular flour. When I am not making them gluten free I use a combination of cake flour and and all purpose flour. I love the texture of these cookies whether they are gluten free or not. They are crisp on the edge and nice and soft in the middle. Just the way I like them.
The recipe calls for the dough to be refrigerated for 2 hours but I was impatient and I popped it in the freezer for 30 minutes and it worked great.
So whether you make them gluten free or not you are going to want to make these cookies! I consider myself pretty much a chocolate chip cookie snob and I have several other chocolate chip cookie recipes on my blog I love too but these are right up there at the top!
For some of my other favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes check out:
The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie
Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Nutella Cookies
Triple Chocolate Malt Cookies with Sea Salt
- 4 1/4 C gluten free flour mix or 2 1/4 C cake flour and 2 C all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 sticks salted butter, room temperature (1 1/4 C butter)
- 1 1/4 C packed brown sugar
- 1 C plus 3 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 bags of chocolate chips 18 ounces
- Cream butter and sugar until very light, about five minutes.
- Add eggs, mixing well after each.
- Add in vanilla.
- Add in dry ingredients. Mix until just combined.
- Add in chocolate chips.
- Refrigerate dough two hours (I put it in the freezer for 30 minutes)
- Bake at 350 degrees on parchment lined cookie sheets.
- Bake 12-14 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
Enjoy!
Leigh Anne
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Hi, I’m baking in Australia and have no idea how much a “stick” of butter is – 100gms 250gms? Or how much a packet of choc chips is – 250gms or 375gms?
Please could you include some other reference – maybe cups as well – butter also can be measured in mls cos it weighs the same as water.
Thanks
Dianne
sorry about the confusion. A stick of butter is 1/2 Cup. One package of chocolate chips is 12 ounces.
My cookies tasted great. The only problem I had was that they didn’t spread out- at all. Do you have any suggestions?
Candice There are so many variables that can affect that – the type of cookie sheet you use, was your cookie dough at room temperature? The temperature of your oven can also cause cookies not to flatten if it isn’t baking hot enough.
Glad they tasted great!
I had the same problem, these cookies tasted great but did not spread and look like yours. I wish I did not put them in the refrig, because the dough was very dry when I took them out. I think that is due to the fact coconut flour will stuck up all the moisture from the dough. What a waste of 4-1/4 cups of Gluten Free flour.
That very well could have been the problem since there is coconut flour in it. Try them again without refrigerating the dough.
I just made your gluten free chocolate chip cookie and they are fantastic. I changed the recipe I sub brown rice flour for white I ran out and sub arrowroot for corn starch I can not have it. I also sub the gum with Organic India whole husk psyllium flakes. I am having the same problem the cookies are not spreading out like yours so what I did is that I rolled the dough into a small ball and flattened them down with my fingers on the parchment paper. This helped. I am wondering why the dough started do crumble and not hold??? I am so happy I tried your recipe. I have been baking gluten free for five months and it has been a challenge. But I am getting there.
So glad you loved the recipe!
Tried your cookies with the GF recipe that you had with coconut flour. They turned out great. They did not spread out like yours either…and I did not refrigerate because they were solid enough to put on the cookie sheet with a scoop. I did use parchment paper and I might try it without next time and just on the cookie sheet. I also put 1/4 cup of Shortening in with the margarine (I did not use butter), so I’m thinking that could have effected the spread out as well. However, it didn’t matter because we really loved them.
I also used Andes Mint chips along with chocolate chips…..and they were amazing. Took them to a Superbowl party and everyone loved them and no one else is GF…..so there you have it. I intend to try your GF flour mix in other things and see how it goes. THANKS.
I can eat neither coconut, nor almond flour. Any suggestions what I could substitute for the coconut flour in these? I also react to oats….Thanks!
Angela, You could try just replacing the coconut with more of one of the other flours.
Last school year I learned that one of the boys in my grandson’s kindergarten class is gluten intolerant so he never got to have a cookie. I made chocolate chip cookies and substituted dairy-free margarine and dairy-free chocolate chips, For the little boy they were his first ever chocolate chip cookies. As for the rest of the kids they wanted more. Thanks.
Pat, How sweet of you! I am so glad he loved the cookies and everyone else. it is the best recipe ever!