Here's Why This Recipe Works

My top 3 favorite reasons:

It's Made Without Flour, Eggs, or Oil
Can Be Prepared In Under 10 Minutes
Made With Clean Ingredients

You can feel good about making my healthy, plant-based recipe because it's vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, flourless, grain-free, egg-free, paleo-friendly and contains no refined sugar!

Karielyn's Expert Tips + Ingredient Substitutions

Here are some of my expert tips to make this recipe perfectly:

Avocado: It's very important that you use a soft, ripe avocado which will make it easier to mash into a creamy texture. The goal is to mash it as smoothly as possible with little to no small chunks of avocado remaining.

Coconut Sugar: This can be substituted with your favorite granular sweetener.

Chocolate Chips: I highly recommend using "mini" chocolate chips instead of standard-size chocolate chips for this recipe since the cookies are so small and the amount you will need is only ¼ cup.

Almond Butter: This can be substituted with another neutral-flavored nut butter such as cashew butter or even sunflower seed butter.

Himalayan Pink Salt: This is my salt of preference, however, it can always be substituted with sea salt.

Scoop Size: You will need to scoop about (1) tablespoon of the cookie mixture onto the cookie sheet. The cookies will spread slightly into a 2 ½-inch cookie.

Cooling: It's VERY important that you allow the cookies to cool completely before removing them from the cookie sheet, or they will crumble and fall apart.

Serving Size: This recipe will make approximately (8) 2 ½-inch cookies. Nutritional information is for (1) cookie which is (1) serving.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Are These Cookies Healthy?

In my opinion, yes!

As with most store-bought brands and traditional homemade cookie recipes, they contain ingredients like these:

S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) Homemade Cookie Typical Ingredients: White Flour, White Sugar, Eggs, Butter, Oil, Shortening, etc.
S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) Drake's Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients: Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Flour, Reduced Iron, B Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Riboflavin (B2) Folic Acid)], Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Shortening (Contains One or More Of: Soybean, Cottonseed or Canola Oil), Water, Corn Syrup, Cocoa, Chocolate Liquor. Contains 2% or Less Of: Whey, Whole Eggs, Salt, Leavenings (Baking Soda, Ammonium Phosphate, Aluminum Sulfate), Soy Lecithin, Cocoa Butter, Dextrose, Natural Flavor, Vanillin (Artificial Flavor)

My healthy recipe is made with clean ingredients and is 100% vegan and gluten-free!

What Other Kinds of Desserts Can I Make with Avocados?

If you haven't had a chance, try one of my other dessert recipes I've made using the chocolate + avocado combination like these:

What's The Best Kind of Avocado to Use to Make Cookies?

The secret of using avocado in this recipe is to mash it up as smooth as possible.

You will want to make sure you use a soft + ripe avocado to get the creamy texture that will blend into the cookie mixture easily.

This is an excellent recipe to make when you have an extra soft + ripe avocado that is about to go bad!