Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies

It’s been a week.

Like one of those that despite your best intentions, all you can eat think of is chocolate, dessert, pasta, cheese… Basically, all the bad stuff.

I blame the stupid weather which, according to weather.com, was supposed to be sunny and 60s every day when I checked on Sunday and then somehow ended up a cloudy, drizzly mess for 3 of those days.

My cousin just graduated with a degree in meteorology and took his first job which is accompanied by a disgustingly low salary. I now understand why. I’m convinced they all just sit around throwing darts at a selection of weather patterns and pick whichever one they hit for the forecast. (Chris- I’m kidding)

This is why I hate winter. It makes me crave bad things.

And before someone gets all sassy in the comments, no, I’m not calling cheese and pasta inherently bad, but when you crave copious amounts of each every day because it looks like armageddon outside, it’s not the healthiest choice.

I can usually hold myself off for the first half of the day but that 2-3pm blah time gets me.

Every. Single. Time.

It’s about the time I want a nap, lose all motivation to work and want to eat every single piece of chocolate and/or carby goodness in my house. This doesn’t happen in the summer.

Reason #345987456 why we should’ve never moved back to NY from Florida.

So since we have approximately 6 more months of this craptastic weather coming our way, I decided I needed a go to 2-3pm fix.

Requirements:

1. Chocolate
2. Tastes legit
3. I can eat like 5 of them without feeling bad.

Let’s expand upon #2 for a second – when I say “tastes legit” I mean I don’t want some “health-ified” or “high protein-ified” version of a classic that uses prunes or dates or protein powder. Although, I’m kinda making fun of myself when I say that because these raw brownie bites fit that description but are SO delicious at the same time.

Guys- there’s some crazy ass shit out there in the form of “recipes” for stuff like that.

I just so happened to have picked about 5 of them for recent breakfasts. Wednesday’s ended up in a batter explosion and a black waffle with great flavor but the texture of an air puff. Um, wtf? Do people not taste their creations before posting for the world?

I digress.

I’m giving myself an A on this assignment.

These paleo chocolate chip cookies have chocolate chunks, legit chocolate chip cookie flavor and most importantly for me when it comes to a chocolate chip cookie, they have the soft gooey chocolate center. Soft batch cookies are where it’s at. Life’s too short for crispy, hard cookies, at least when it comes to chocolate chip.

Somehow they’re also miraculously dairy-free, grain-free and paleo.

Holla.

Also, I somehow only ate 3 straight out of the oven. So make that an A+ on this cookie assignment.

If you want to take these paleo chocolate chip cookies to the next level, check out these paleo bacon chocolate chip cookies!

Same recipe just with the addition of some crispy crumbled bacon to the batter for that delicious salty sweet combination.

Love these paleo chocolate chip cookies?

Try these other paleo cookie recipes like this Paleo Salted Chocolate Chip Cookie Skillet <– so gooey and insanely delicious!, these Paleo Blueberry Thumbprints or these Paleo Blueberry Chocolate Macaroons.

And for something chocolaty but not in cookie form, paleo chocolate mousse never disappoints.