
LC Note
This recipe, which originally appeared on Shauna’s blog, inspired no fewer than 92 comments at last count. Suffice it to say, there were a lot of deliriously happy home bakers in the days after this recipe first went public–and there are even more today.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ingredients
Directions
Sift each of the flours into a bowl. Add the xanthan gum, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and whisk.
Place the butter and the sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer and, using the paddle attachment, when you’re noticing that they’re well combined, mix for 1 minute more. Don’t overmix.
Add the eggs, 1 at a time, making sure each is fully incorporated before adding the next. Add the vanilla extract and mix.
Add the flour mixture into the batter, 1/2 cup at a time, mix just until the dry ingredients have been incorporated before adding the next addition. Add the chocolate and mix just for a moment.
Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 36 hours. (Yep. Really. 36 hours.)
When it’s time to bake, pull the dough from the refrigerator and preheat the oven to 350°F (175° C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Scoop generous balls of dough from the bowl. You can determine the size for yourself. (If you want them to mimic the indulgently sized cookies found in pastry shops, the dough should be the size of golf balls (about 3 1/2 ounces each). Place 6 of them on the baking sheet. Poke any errant pieces of chocolate back into the dough. Sprinkle the top of each cookie with the sea salt.
Bake the cookies about 18 minutes, less if you make smaller cookies, or until the tops have turned golden brown. The middles should still be somewhat soft. Take the baking sheet out of the oven. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes. Then transfer the cookies to a wire rack and let them cool for a few more moments.
Eat your warm gluten-free chocolate chip cookies and be grateful.
Recipe Testers Reviews
I’d already made these once before our official testing, and was delighted to have another excuse to make them. I only can say that these are amazing chocolate chip cookies. They’re soft in the middle, slightly crispy on the outside (they soften up after a day or so, though), with just a wonderful moist, yet slightly dense, texture. I love these. I used granulated cane juice, light brown sugar, and a different brand of semisweet chocolate chips, as I can’t find Dagoba. It’s problematic for me to have these sit for three days, though—I can’t seem to leave the batter alone.
This recipe rules and is my definite favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. The combination of the flours and starches gives excellent results. Sometimes the proper ratios in gluten-free recipes are tricky. In this recipe, all the work is done for me! My non-celiac husband adores these cookies and prefers them to gluten cookies I’ve made in the past. I hate to admit this, but even the raw dough is great! The texture is so lovely and soft, yet chewy. These cookies make me smile. They are simply delicious.
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Thank you for sharing her recipe with your readers!!! This recipe is my family’s VERY favorite cookie recipe. Hands down the one my husband always asks me to make – and he can eat gluten! I went to find the recipe and it has disappeared. I was almost to the point of tears, yes this recipe is that important to me. It is now hand written on a recipe card, and has a place in my recipe box. I’m off to mix up the batter with a smile on my face. By the way, I give this recipe the full five stars!
Dari, yes, these cookies are amazing. I’m glad you have it safely tucked in your recipe box, but if you ever lose it, it’ll always be here with us.
David Leite’s recipe wasn’t my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe before I had to give up wheat but it was my family’s favorite so I made them frequently. I was so glad to find someone had adapted it to be gluten free and it was with high hopes that my family and I watched these bake. My family loves them. I’m the only one who notices the flavor of the amaranth although to be fair, I don’t know if I would notice it if I didn’t know it was in there. Ultimately, they’re very good and certainly worth making whenever the urge for a yummy, decadent cookie hits.
Hi Wendi, I’m happy that you found a version of the cookies that works for you and your family. We all were very impressed with Shauna’s results. Munch on!
Super yummy recipe! I can’t wait to try it! It sounded so good I went ahead and shared it on my food blog! Yum!
Xanthum gum has always been hard to find. I haven’t looked in a while. Our new supermarket has a lot of gluten-free products now—it has a whole section for GF folks. I don’t remember seeing sorghum flour there. I wonder if they have it. When I was low-carbbing it, I would’ve loved to make this. Now I am trying to eat less gluten as diabetes runs in my family, altho’ I don’t have it. Thanks for all your testing and creating. I can’t wait to get all the ingredients and get baking.
Can’t wait to try these out—I’ve been reluctantly gluten and (mostly) dairy-free for more than three years and of course my favorite foods are bread, cheese, ice cream, and my *killer* chocolate-chip cookies, which I still bake for my kids. Maybe these will be the *new killer* chocolate chip cookies—ones I can actually eat!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I have a friend who is in your same situation and I have been trying to find a yummy recipe to make for her as a surprise. This will definitely fit the bill! Thanks again!
Shauna’s adaptation liberated me! I’ve made these cookies so many times, and if I don’t tell, no one knows they’re eating GF.