"Levain" Inspired Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts

When you look for a recipe online for chocolate chips, if you are as indecisive as I am , you could lose yourself in an hours-long fruitless attempt to first differentiate, and then select, one in a million recipes. Most recipes for chocolate chip cookies looks more or less similar to the single most important chocolate chip cookie recipe: that on the back of a bag of Toll-House chips. So when Dada Eats published her recipe for Levain Bakery inspired cookies, based on the famous cookie from the New York bakery, I was thrilled, as if all my decisions had finally been made for me. These cookies are a cakey alternative to all the other chocolate chip cookies I could have made. The recipe comes together quickly and the result is absolute chocolate chip perfection.

Ingredients

Makes 8 Large Cookies

1/4 cup coconut oil

1/2 cup maple syrup

2 eggs

1-1/2 tsp vanilla

1 cup almond flour

1-1/2 cup gluten free flour

1 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt

Vegan chocolate chips

Walnuts

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together coconut oil, maple syrup, egg, and vanilla until smooth.

3. In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, and walnuts. Fold flour mixture into egg and oil mixture and mix until combined completely and no flour is left dry. Form into eight large (like, very large) rounds.

4. Bake for 20-25 minutes. (At minute 10, rotate baking sheet so they cook evenly)