Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Avocado Oil
This gluten-free chocolate chip cookies recipe is sponsored by Chosen Foods and includes an amazing giveaway opportunity! Congratulations to the winner of last week’s GapFit giveaway: Amanda H.! The lucky lady has been emailed.
As someone who is always excited to expand their nutrition and cooking knowledge, I love being introduced to new ingredients or techniques. As I learn more about food and the types of ingredients and recipes that work well for our family, our grocery purchases will reflect that. Something that has made an impact on my cooking: oils and the types I’ll use for various recipes and foods.
For a long time, I’ve cooked strictly using olive oil. It’s a healthy oil option, but it turns out that it’s really at its best when served at room temperature or heated at lower temperatures. I’ve also experimented with ghee, coconut oil, and butter in our cooking, so I was excited to try out some new oils from Chosen Foods.
About Chosen Foods:
-Carsten Hagen (from Norway) founded Chosen Foods with the belief that food has the power to heal. Carsten studied naturopathy (did not practice, but has always had an interest and passion in health and wellness), and is on a mission to make healing superfood ingredients accessible.
-They have expanded from Mexico to the United States, Canada and Bolivia, and oversee the entire production of their superfoods, from field to table. Because of this, they are directly involved in the quality, supply, trade practices, and sustainability of their products.
-Their headquarters are here in San Diego! On their site, you can find the cooking oils and sprays pictured above, in addition to grains, chia seeds, avocado oil mayo (!), and snacks.
Chosen Foods sent a goodie package with cooking sprays (avocado, coconut, avocado coconut oil blend and olive) in addition to avocado oil.
What I Like About Chosen Foods Products
The sprays are BOMB. They are amazing for pancakes, stir fry, on salads (just spritz, add a squeeze of lemon, salt and pepper, and eat!), and greasing baking dishes. They have zero calories, and one to two ingredients which equate to 100% pure oil. No weird chemicals propellants or additives.
The avocado oil is one of my new favorites. It has a high smoke point of 500 degrees (where the oil starts to break down), so it’s awesome for high heat cooking,
but also a lovely unexpected ingredient in baked dishes, like these cookies!
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Avocado Oil
The avocado oil gave these cookies a light, beautiful texture (they’re perfectly soft and chewy), plus a dose of heart-healthy fats. These cookies take about 10 minutes to put together, and are preschooler-approved. 😉
Here’s the recipe if you’d like to give them a try! Enjoy!
Gluten-free chocolate chip cookies
- Yield: 10 1x
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup almond meal
- 1 cup oats
- 1/2 cup avocado oil (or melted butter or oil or choice)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of sea salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a cookie sheet with nonstick spray. (I used the Chosen Foods coconut oil spray.)
- Mix all ingredients in a large bowl until well combined.
- Using a large spoon, place the dough in cookie shapes (about 10) onto your cookie sheet, leaving some generous space in between each one.
- Cook for 12-14 minutes, until set, and allow to cool for 2 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to cool completely.
And now, it’s giveaway time! (Giveaway has ended)
My friends at Chosen Foods have kindly offered the following for a lucky reader friend:
-a goodie package of cooking oils and sprays
-a $50 gift card to Williams Sonoma
Simply enter via the widget below!!
xoxo
Gina
This post is sponsored by Chosen Foods. Thank you so much for supporting this blog and the companies who help to support our family.
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I love coconut oil! Lately I have been using it to pan fry chicken and it gives it a delicious, semi-sweet taste and crispy texture.
The sprays look amazing! Would make healthy baking and cooking easier!
Coconut oil is my favorite but I would love to try avocado oil!
Love avacado oil for cooking with high heat!
I usually use olive oil but would love to try these out!
The cookies sound super yummy!
I really like cooking with coconut oil because it’s flavor isn’t as potent as I find olive oil to be but I would love to try avocado oil!
I like coconut oil, olive oil and sunflower seed oil. I use them all
We use a good mix of olive, coconut, and ghee occasionally. I have been meaning to try avocado oil though 🙂
I have an olive oil aerator for misting with olive oil. It is seriously amazing!
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I love coconut, grape seed & olive oil, but would love to try avacado oil!
I love coconut oil. My favorite way to use it is when roasting sweet potatoes!
I love olive oil and grapeseed oil
I’ve been using mainly coconut oil lately and I would love try avocado oil. That cookie recipe sounds amazing!
I use olive oil for multiple daily uses too but just recently started incorporating coconut oil. I would love to try Avocado oil!
Hi Gina, this is unrelated (though I do love avocado oil), but I have been on a desperate search for CROPPED maternity workout pants – ideally without them costing a fortune. Any ideas you have would be great, thanks!
I love using EVOO!
What an awesome give away. I always use Olive Oil, but would love to give these a try:)
This post definitely has me interested in trying Avocado oil. I haven’t tried it yet, and didn’t know much about it. Loving the fact that it has a high smoke point….that has been my “issue” with coconut oil is the low smoke point. Thanks!
Please please let me win! I currently use olive oil and coconut oil. I definitely want to start to experiment with more oils.
I’m definitely guilty of using EVOO for everything
Coconut oil
Haven’t tried avocado oil yet but hear great things. My go to is coconut oil
avacado oil!
The avocado oil sounds delicious!
Most of the time it’s olive oil. When I bake, I sometimes use coconut oil as a sub for butter… And I know that I should find an alternative to olive oil at high heat, maybe it’s time to give avocado oil a try.
We always just use olive oil but I’ve been thinking for a while that there might be a better option for high-heat cooking. Maybe will try some avocado oil to switch it up
I love Chosen Foods avocado oil! It is my go to oil every time I cook. Can’t wait to try their sprays 🙂
I love using garlic infused olive oil!
I’d love to try avocado oil. I use olive oil most of the time even though I know I’m not supposed to use it with high heat
I love using avo oil!! Its so great for cooking and on my salads!!
Olive oil
I usually roll with olive oil. I would love to try avocado oil. A coworker told me corn tortillas are awesome when they’re cooked in a little avocado oil! I love that this company keeps their oils simple.
I use a lot of EVOO but have been trying to use more coconut oil. I would love to try some new options!
My favorite is coconut oil! I also like having dressings with olive oil.
Those sprays seem so convenient! Would love to try out any of these products. 🙂
Good ol’ EVOO! I have a coconut oil cooking spray but I find myself going back to the good quality olive oil, I find nothing beats it!
I usually use coconut oil- I haven’t tried avocado oil but would love to!
What a great giveaway, those sprays look awesome!
Yummy!! I loveeee coconut oil, especially in coffee. Never tried avocado!!
i love using coconut oil
I LOVE coconut oil. especially in chocolate chip cookies!
I usually cook with olive oil.
I like to use coconut oil for desserts and olive oil for savories, but I’d love to try avocado oil!
I love coconut oil!
I love coconut oil, and you can use it for so much more than cooking
I’ve recently started using avocado oil as well and love it!
My favorite cooking oil is coconut, because I can cook with it at higher temps. But I have a pantry/fridge full of other oils that I use for dressings and as added ingredients.
Amazing! Me me. Me
Olive oil is my fave to cook with!