Coconut Oil Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (gluten free)

So, it might be a new topic on Blueberry segmentS but I've always been a huge baking lover, in fact i usually make some sort of healthified cake/bread to have for breakfast and stuff - used to do every week, but now is more sporadical. It has been ages since I've made cookies and even though I have half banana bread from last week, I was feeling like cookies! I don't buy cookies on the supermarket as I'm trying to cut on refined sugars and also because I hate not knowing more than half the ingredients!

I took Coulinary Couture's "Perfect Coconut Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies" and made them with my own twist - as per usual when "following" a recipe, hope you know what I mean! It calls for plain white flour but instead I used rice flour, I used more vanilla, a bit more of salt - plus a bit more for topping - didn't use the granulated sugar and substituted for a bit of vanilla liquid stevia and for the chocolate chips I used my stevia sweetened 70% black chocolate!

Also, I don't usually follow the recipes per se, I tend to just mix by hand the wet ingredients and then mix in the dry ones, I hate using more than one bowl if I can't avoid it! - yeah, lazy ass. They came out really really good. They really filled my cookie craving! They were fluffy yet crunchy, kinda chewy and with the perfect amount of saltiness and sweetness!

*By the way, have you seen my new silicone heart shaped spatula? It's from tiger and I love it! Really handy to take the cookies out of the baking sheet and to make me happy*

Ingredients:

1 and 1/2 cups rice flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt
1/2 cup coconut oil, room temperature
1/2 cup dark brown sugar

10 drops vanilla liquid stevia

1 egg
2 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup stevia sweetened dark chocolate chunks

Directions:

- Preheat oven to 350ºF/175ºC

- Prepare a couple of baking sheets, preferably with parchment paper - I didn't have so I rubbed some coconut oil on my one and only baking sheet that I reused once the first batch was done!

- In a large bowl mix the coconut oil, egg, sugar, stevia and vanilla extract with a whisk.

- Once whisked add baking soda, baking powder and salt and whisk again.

- Slowly add the flour - I did it at 1/4 of a cup batches - and mix it with a spatula (don't use the whisk as this mixture is about to get thick and sticky!).

- Chop the chocolate and add in the chunks to the mixture!

- Add scoops of 1 tablespoon to the baking sheet, leaving at least an inch between dough balls.

- Bake for 9 minutes - or until the edges start to brown.

- Let them cool a bit on the sheet and then transfer them to a wire rack - I used my oven rack.

- Preferably try not to eat them until they're cooled off!!!! Hardest task of them all, hahaha.

Let me know what you think if you make them!

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