Primal Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are both delicious and truly nutritious, depending upon the cocoa content of your chocolate chips. Most store bought (Trader Joes) are sweetened with evaporated cane juice and are not truly primal. You could create your own chocolate using raw honey, stevia, coconut sugar, maple syrup, etc... I just tend to use 70 to 80% cocoa chips and make the rest of the cookie primal.

Recipe taken from The Unrefined Kitchen: http://www.unrefinedkitchen.com/2011/08/10/almond-butter-dark-chocolate-chip-cookies/

Almond Butter Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
via The Unrefined Kitchen 

1 cup almond butter
1/3 cup honey (or 1/2 cup if you like it a bit sweeter)
1 egg



1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips (look for gluten-free and dairy-free if you are trying to avoid those)
2/3 cup unsweetened coconut (or if you prefer, replace with chopped nuts)

*To make them more chocolatey I added a 1/3 cup of cocoa powder*

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Oil baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
3. Stir together first seven ingredients. Mix well. Make sure honey is fully incorporated.
4. Add chips and coconut.
5. Scoop with a cookie scoop onto cookie sheets. Bake 8-13 minutes or until lightly browned.

Yield: about 20 cookies with a level 2 Tbsp. cookie scoop