gluten-free & dairy-free chocolate chip cookie recipe

Look no further, dear reader, you have found a perfectly decadent gluten-free chocolate chip cookie that also happens to be dairy-free.  It even fooled by gluten-eating husband, who inhaled a dozen on Father’s Day.

Many of the store-bought gluten-free cookies taste a little funky. Metallic.  Slightly off.  Some are great in a pinch, but nothing, can replace freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.  The smell alone sends the boys running to the oven, peeking and hoping…

Over the better part of the past two years, I have been been tinkering with my recipe.  Playing with the multitudes of GF flours.  A bonus of this recipe? Coconut sugar {lower on the GI index}.

And finally, on Father’s Day, these babies were born.

Perfect.

In lieu of butter or ghee, I used a mixture of coconut and palm oil {which is non-hydrogenated shortening}.   Both of these fats are healthy saturated fats, loaded with medium-chain fatty acids.  Coconut oil is in a bit of a revival now, after years of being treated like the red-headed step-child.  I’ve noticed palm oil returning in some store-bought goods.

Behold…