White Chocolate Chip Cookies
My younger son E, did the drawing above. He has been very into his art lately, creating a series (crayon on paper) of skateboarders doing tough jumps.
Yesterday he asked me if he could have his own flickr account (as all cool budding artists do). I thought that was a bit precocious for age seven and told him I would post his art on my flickr account. So if you go to my flickr sets and see photos that aren't food, you know who did them!
Art seems to run in the family. My mother-in-law, Marylyn Dintenfass (yes, that's Marylyn with a "y") is an artist with a piece in the Metropolitan Museum and her stuff hangs all over our house. So we definitely know which side of the family he got it from.
Alas, I digress. Back to food. Desserts. We return to the land of treats, continuing our speedy recovery from "post-holiday-dessert-burnout."
Lately my boys have been very into my chocolate chip cookies --with a twist. They love them with white chocolate chips. Unfortunately for me, white chocolate contains dairy, so I do not partake of these delightful (probably overly sweet) treats. However, the boys and their friends gobble them up.
2 ½ cups blanched almond flour *
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup grapeseed oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
½ cup agave nectar
1 cup Sunspire white chocolate chips
- Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl
- Stir together wet ingredients in a smaller bowl
- Mix wet ingredients into dry; fold in white chocolate chips
- Form ½ inch balls and press onto a parchment
lined baking sheet
- Bake at 350° for 7-10 minutes
- Cool and serve
* Please note: Bob's Red Mill almond flour does not yield successful results when used in this recipe. For more information regarding this matter please see my FAQs.
When E's friend Kai was here last week, he couldn't stop eating these gluten-free, egg-free, white chocolate chip cookies. He must have had at least a half dozen. When his mom came to get him, he took her into the kitchen, exclaimed to her how delicious the cookies were, gave her one to sample and then grabbed a couple for the road.
PS. You can watch me making this delicious recipe over at my regular chocolate chip cookie video tutorial post. Just substitute the chocolate chips!
Posted on January 27, 2008 in desserts by Elana
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Thanks for sharing your site. We will definitely be making the almond milk... it sounds fabulous. My 7 yo daughter has been on an almond kick lately so she will LOVE helping me make it. These cookies look yummy as well. I will have to check Sunspires ingredients to see if we can use the white chocolate chips or if we will need to sub.
Elana - love your blog and this recipe looks great. I will have to give it a try! Glad you stumbled across my blog and I will now be a regular reader of yours! :)
White chocolate originates from the cocoa (cacao) plant, but it is not 'chocolate.' According to the FDA, to be called 'chocolate' a product must contain
chocolate liquor, which is what gives it the biter intense chocolate flavor (and color) to dark and milk chocolates.
Jamie and Cordella -Thanks!
Harsh -Thank you for this elucidating comment :-)
I just recently discovered almond flour and I just ordered your book for recipes using almond flour. I was wondering if I would be able to substitute almond flour in most baking recipes using white flour? And if so would I use the same amount as the recipe called for?
Thank you so much for all of your hard work and yummy recipes. I am allergic to almonds and can not use almond flour and have to resort to rice flour. Is there a way to modify your recipes by using rice instead of almond flour?
Thank you so much!! You are greatly appreciated in my gluten free home. =)
Melissa