Sugar-Free & (GF, Vegan) Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This past week was the worst week of my life. Without starting this post of really negative, we had a really scary thing happen with our sweet baby dog. She’s been with us for 4.5 years and truly my best friend. She’s all I have and has been my rock. We have moved to California together, Utah, Florida, back to Utah and now Montana with each other.

Wednesday, 1/8

Last week she started feeling really sick and so we took her to the emergency vet, she spent 3 nights in the doggie hospital and pulled through. All I felt like doing last week was crumbling into a million pieces. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep and Drew and I were just a puddle of fear. Our baby is home with us now. She is resting and recovery and we are just holding her so close to our hearts now that she is back in our arms.

I was restless and started baking. Since I personally gave up refined sugars, I baked these and had some friends try them and let me know how they tasted! For sugar free January this year, I gave up stevia and 0 calorie sweeteners as well, but if you are looking for a refined sugar free cookie, these are your cookie!

These chocolate chip cookies, are ideally sweet, soft and bendy but full of chocolate chips. Let’s get to baking!

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Sugar-Free & (GF, Vegan) Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • Author: Paige
  • Prep Time: 10
  • Cook Time: 20
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 40 cookies 1x
  • Category: cookies
  • Method: baking
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sugar free, gluten-free and vegan chocolate chip cookies! did I mention these are also low carb?! they are!

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 of a ripe banana
  • 1/4 cup of sugar free maple syrup or maple syrup
  • 1/2 tsp of salt
  • 1 tsp of vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup of flax meal
  • 2 tbsp of creamy natural peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup of cashew milk (almond milk works too!)
  • 1/2 tsp of baking powder
  • 1 cup of almond flour
  • 1/2 cup of sugar free chocolate chips ( I like Lily’s brand)

Instructions

  1. preheat your oven to 350° F and line your baking sheet with parchment or a silicon mat
  2. in a bowl with a fork, mash your banana into delicate chunks
  3. add in your maple syrup, salt, baking powder, vanilla and peanut butter until well combined
  4. next add in your 1/2 cup of cashew milk and stir until the dough has loosened
  5. add in your flax meal and almond flour until the dough combines and becomes thicker, this batter will be looser than most cookie dough
  6. add in your chocolate chips and combine until evenly distributed
  7. place cookie dough into the fridge to chill for about 30 minutes
  8. after you have chilled your dough, with a cookie scoop, scoop out your cookies
  9. bake for 15-20 minutes until cracked on the surface
  10. enjoy!

Notes

*you can use any dairy alternative

*honey is a great option if you aren’t vegan

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 cookie

Keywords: vegan cookies, gluten free cookies, sugar free cookies, sugar free january

These are so delish (from what I have heard from my taste testers!). Super soft and easy to munch on, but not bad for you in the slightest!

Try them and see how you like them! Sugar free January or not! For the next foreseeable future, I will be snuggling my best friend and cherishing all the moments of my little warrior! <3

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Gluten-Free & Vegan Peppermint Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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There is a trend with me and chocolate cookies. I absolutely love chocolate cookies that are tender and sweet but also really taste the cocoa!

Christmas seems to be the time where you get endless tins of mediocre peppermint bark in varying shapes, thickness and more. I am starting a trend where we give out these cookies instead! They are still full of peppermint and chocolate flavor but will switch up the annual cookie or sweet give!

These cookies are so easy to make, soft on the inside with a brownie like crunch on the outside! The soft peppermint filling in the cookie chunks add a delicious peppermint flavor to the chocolate flavor of the cookie.

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Gluten-Free & Vegan Peppermint Chocolate Chunk Cookies

  • Author: Paige
  • Prep Time: 15
  • Cook Time: 12
  • Total Time: 28
  • Yield: 60 cookies 1x
  • Category: cookies
  • Method: baking
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sweet, bright and full of rich cocoa flavor! 

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup of melted coconut oil
  • 1 cup of granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup of almond milk
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp of vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup of almond flour
  • 1/2 tsp of salt
  • 3/4 cup of cocoa powder
  • 10 gluten-free & vegan peppermint sandwich cookies (I got mine at Trader Joes)
  • 1 3/4 cup of gluten-free flour

Instructions

  1. preheat your oven to 350°F and line your baking sheet with parchment or a silicon baking sheet
  2. in a food processor or a blender, pulse your 10 peppermint sandwich cookies
  3. in a separate bowl, mix your melted coconut oil with your sugar and almond milk
  4. next, add in your baking powder, salt and vanilla extract
  5. fold in your almond flour, cocoa powder and your gluten-free flour to form a cookie dough
  6. add to your finished dough your pulsed pieces of cookies and lightly fold into the dough
  7. using a cookie scoop or a spoon, spoon 2″ dough balls onto a cookie sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes until slightly cracked 
  8. remove the sheet pan and finish baking the rest of the cookies
  9. eat and enjoy!

Keywords: gluten-free and vegan chocolate peppermint cookies

This recipe yields about 60 cookies that are perfectly bite sized. Due to the yield you can fill your friends, co-workers and family with a huge batch of these cookies during the holiday season!

The perfect cookie for any holiday gathering! Bake up a big batch and share them on instagram! Tag me so I can see your creations!

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vegan & gluten-free fiber protein cookies

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If you are anything like me you have to have a little sweet treat after dinner!

Let’s talk mindful indulgences!

FrontPaige.net is a place for all things gluten-free, baking and lifestyle. One thing I hardly share much about is my passion for fitness, simply because I don’t wear makeup when I workout, and find it really hard to want to take pictures of me working out. I know, crazy haha! I have been a very active gal from the day I learned how to walk, because I didn’t walk first, I freaking ran! By age 6 I had run full force into the kitchen table after my mom and dad telling me not to run into the house, but hey the dead tooth didn’t stop me from moving!

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vegan & gluten-free fiber protein cookies

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delish, healthy and tastes like a real deal chocolate chip cookie! healthy never tasted so good!

Ingredients

– 2 scoops of vanilla protein powder (my go to is “orgain” vanilla pea protein

– 2 tbsp of creamy peanut butter

– 2 tbsp of ground flax seed

– 1 tbsp of almond flour

– 1/4 cup of water or almond milk

– 1 tsp of maple syrup

– 1/3 cup of enjoy life or lilys chocolate chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350° F and place a piece of parchment on your baking sheet

2. in a bowl mix together your peanut butter and your maple syrup

3. next add in your vanilla protein powder, almond flour and ground flax

4. add your water to the dough and mix until the dough thins and all the components are combined

5. fold in your chocolate chips until well combined

6. using a cookie scoop or two spoons place cookie dough rounds on the prepped cookie sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes until set

makes 10-12 cookies: *subject to change if you make more or less, the below is based on 10 cookies

calories: 44 per cookie

protein: 3g per cookie

fiber: 1.5g per cookie

carbs: 2.7g per cookie

In the post I wrote about my birthday – see here – I talked about how I have a hummingbird like personality and I am realizing that is just who I am! I love to workout, walk my dog and just live an active lifestyle! When it comes to what I eat, I stick to a healthy diet 80% of the time, and indulge because it is truly my job to taste my recipes 20% of the time. I am all about recipe testing a cake and eating a slice of cake but also having a salad for lunch! You gotta live your life guys!

That being said, when I wake up, I always crave sweet. I am very much not a savory breakfast person…unless I am going out to brunch then I am all about the savory! But 9/10 at home I reach for my healthy fiber protein cookies for a late night bite or an early morning coffee treat because they are truly healthy for you!

Let’s circle back to balance. Like I said, I very much could turn this website and my instagram into a fitness and health account about tracking this and tracking that, but that is not me. But if you are tracking for your wedding, post partum or just because you feel like you need to, I have linked the macros for these cookies in the recipe for you! When it comes to balance and the balance of eating sugar I really try to move away from sugar, that is why most of my recipes – with the exception of course to some – have 0 added sugar in them. I feel the negative effects on refined sugar in my body, I feel sluggish, my muscles ache when I walk my dog and tbh my migraines become unbearable! These cookies are added sugar free and I use high quality chocolate that again doesn’t add white sugar so there really isn’t a reason to eat the whole batch of 10 in 1 night! (because I totally do HA!).

By simple switches from a stack of French toast to a few protein cookies, I have found that my migraines have gotten better and that you can mindfully indulge and feel that you are truly truly indulging!

gluten-free & vegan chocolate protein cookies

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This recipe has been in my books for a while now! After weeks of testing different protein powders and nut butters, I finally have found the perfect ratio! Think of the softest brownie, mixed with the crisp edges of a cookie with melted peanut butter on top. I mean straight PERFECTION!

These cookies are not only delicious but they are the easiest cookies to make! Just a few simple ingredients, packed with fiber and protein!

Peanut butter and chocolate are two of my absolute favorite flavors together. I love how the creamy peanut butter offsets the sharp notes in chocolate and adds depth to both flavors. When baking with protein powder, there is a delicate balance of adding flavor to make it still taste light and fresh instead of chalky. With vegan protein powders especially, the pea protein adds a grassy flavor to the protein, but this is easily muted with the fat and flavor of nut butter!

Let’s start baking!

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gluten-free & vegan chocolate protein cookies

  • Author: Paige
  • Prep Time: 15
  • Cook Time: 12
  • Total Time: 27 minutes
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easy, tasty and healthy!

Ingredients

– 1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter

– 2 tbsp of unsweetened cocoa powder

– 2 tbsp of coconut oil (melted)

– 2 scoops of chocolate vegan protein powder

– 2 tbsp of flax meal

– 1/2 tsp of stevia

– 1 tsp of vanilla extract

– 1 tsp of baking powder

– 1 tbsp of melted peanut butter

Instructions

1. preheat your oven to 350° F

2. in a bowl mix together your creamy peanut butter, melted

coconut oil and vanilla extract until combined

3. next add in your cocoa powder, protein powder, stevia, baking powder, flax

4. form 2″ cookie dough balls and place on a baking sheet, continue until all batter is used

5. bake for 12 minutes and let cool on a baking sheet

6. once cool, melt your remaining 1 tbsp of peanut butter and drizzle over your cookies

7. eat and enjoy!

Let me know what you think and tag me in your photos on instagram! I love seeing your creations! Share the love and who doesn’t love a healthy cookie?!

Nut free Vegan & Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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THEY ARE HERE THEY ARE HERE! I have been working on this recipes for what seems like ages and I am finally sharing it with you guys!

These cookies are….

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Nut free Vegan & Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies!

  • Author: Paige
  • Prep Time: 15
  • Cook Time: 12
  • Total Time: 27 minutes
  • Yield: 20 cookies
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soft, tender and full of good ingredients! these are vegan, gluten-free & nut free!

Ingredients

– 1/2 cup of vegan butter

– 1 cup of brown sugar (or coconut sugar)

– 1 2/3 cups gluten-free flour

– 1/4 cup of coconut milk

– 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract

– 1/2 tsp of baking powder

– pinch of salt

– 1/2 cup of dairy free chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. preheat your oven to 350° F and line your cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicon mat
  2. in a bowl using an electric mixer or stand mixer, cream your sugar into your vegan butter (about 2 minutes until light and fluffy)
  3. next add in slowly your vanilla extract, coconut milk, baking powder and salt
  4. adding 1/2 cup at a time, add your gluten-free flour to the mixture and combine until smooth
  5. using a rubber spatula, fold your chocolate chips into your dough
  6. scoop 1 tsp of dough onto a cookie sheet until your sheet is lined with cookie dough
  7. bake until cracked and golden brown (about 12 minutes)
  8. eat and enjoy!

Notes

can make cookies bigger, just add a minute or two to your cook time!

These taste 100% identical to store bought cookies containing all the butter & gluten…but these won’t make you sick!

Try these out today and give me a tag!

Gluten-Free & Vegan Chocolate Snickerdoodles

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DRUMMMM ROLLLL Please! 

Introducing the new cookie of the season!

CHOCOLATE SNICKERDOODLES!

Think chocolate brownie meets spicy snickerdoodle! Not only are these perfect with a glass of almond milk, but they are amazing in your afternoon espresso!

Dunk. Bite. Dunk. Bite. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat! OOPS I ate all the cookies!

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Gluten-Free & Vegan Chocolate Snickerdoodles

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soft, sweet, spicy and perfect cookie for the winter months!

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cups of vegan butter
  • 3/4 cups of granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp of ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup of 1:1 gluten-free flour (bob’s red mill is my fave!)
  • 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp of vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp of baking powder
  •  1/4 cup of almond milk

Topping

  • 1/2 cup of granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon

Instructions

  1. preheat your oven to 350°F and line your baking sheet with parchment, reusable silicon pad or grease with vegan butter
  2. in a bowl with a mixer cream your vegan butter with your sugar – about 3 minutes until light and fluffy
  3. once they are mixed add in your vanilla extract, almond milk, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder and ground cinnamon
  4. next add in your gluten-free flour, 1/4 cup at a time until well combined
  5. in a separate bowl, mix your ground cinnamon (2 tbsp) and sugar until evenly mixed and set aside
  6. pinch 1″ ball of dough and roll in the palms of your hands to form a ball, roll each ball in the sugar and cinnamon topping and set onto the baking sheet 2″ apart
  7. repeat until your dough is all rolled
  8. bake for 10-12 minutes and enjoy warm!

Notes

* can use regular milk or any milk alternative *ovens may differ in temperature, so bake times might change

Test out these for the holidays! For sure these delicious nibbles will be at our table! 

One tradition we have at Christmas is serving tons of cookies, candies and pies for ultimate dessert game after dinner! Instead of classic snickerdoodles this year we are including more new recipes! In a family of chocolate lovers, they are sure to love this recipes! Test it out and let me know what you think, I love the feedback! Tag me on your posts @frontpaigebakes!

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