hey everybody I'm Alisa Hines from our paleo family calm and summer and have a special treat for you today so we're gonna make my paleo chocolate chip cookies and now I realize that Paleolithic man probably just not eat chocolate chip cookies but we call them paleo because we're not using dairy we're not using soy we're not using grains we're not using ultra refined sugars so that's how they fit in that paleo category and these fit in our paleo lifestyle because what it's like without an occasional treat and I happen to be making these as we get ready to embark on a camping trip and we're going to be doing lots of hiking so it's actually a great treat and a pretty pure way to get some good calories that we're going to need with all that work so recipe but I just thought it would be fun to show you how we make something as simple as a chocolate chip cookie with these more natural and better tasting ingredients so we do have several different sugars and that's just because it gets the texture and the flavor that I think is best so we need a quarter of a cup of raw honey a quarter of a cup of maple syrup and you know you just you want to have two cup total of those so if you only have one you only have honey you'll feel like a little syrup that's fine just use just use what you have I don't personally like the flavor of honey but I like the texture that it gives to baked goods so that's why I tend to do it half in half with maple syrup and something these in my bowl and then I a half a cup of dates and see there's a lot of stuff here so these these are the mental dates they are and these do have pits but the pits are really easy to take out you just sort of squeeze it and out they come and even if you buy pitted dates occasionally you'll find one with a pit in it so you should just give it a little squeeze and make sure to get that out and sometimes you can find nice fresh dates that are soft like these and other times they are drier so you're going to want to combat that dryness by heating them and I'm just going to show you how to do it because even with them soft I want them to be heated a little bit so that I can totally blend them up the dates are adding of course flavor and sweetness and a chewiness I like a cookie that is a combination of that one looks a little funky I'm going to use that one a combination of the chewy in the middle that crispy on the outside that's the kind of Tokyo like and dates really helped us get that texture cheap that texture so but you don't want chunks of dates you don't want it to be like like an oatmeal cookie or you know where you have like a chunk of raisin you don't want to chunk up date you want them blend it up really well so I have a half a cup and you saw me just press them down and I'm going to just kind of break them apart as I put them in here and I'm gonna put this whole bowl in the microwave for just about 20 seconds okay so that's 20 seconds in the microwave you could also just will this on the stove that's what I used to do but I'm just trying to be fast so I'm using and mixer you don't even need to use a mixer for this recipe but it just so happens that I'm in a little bit of a hurry and I already worked out my arms today so my muscles are sore so I'm going to go come in the lazy bass play and use my hand mixer and you could also use a blender you could use an immersion blender the whole point here is to get those dates really chopped up you can land in a towel on the cutting board and you can chop them that way but they're so sticky they're constantly sticking to the knife and it's just kind of a pain so I like to mix my sugars together and then blend them up so I'm just going slowly to kind of get it started they're not increases over here as you add some dry ingredients you'll it'll add to the friction of this mixing process so if you have a piece or two that aren't blending up your well it's okay just wait no no mixed up they do your best to give them kind of blended okay so we got about a minute of mixing there I'm documenting this for put the blog for writing it up so I'm going to be taking some photographs as we go okay the next thing I want to add in is palm shortening I love Tom shorty for baking number one is very free and number two it makes a really nice texture you can buy palm shortening at most grocery stores however I do really like tropical traditions theirs is sustainably sourced it is very good quality and I find that it works the best in my baked goods and if I'm going to go to the expense and the effort to make something homemade like this I want it to be really good in the end so I find a tropical tradition there's a great job they're not paying me to say that it's just what I use you have to order directly from their website I don't believe through any video but if you go to their website you can sign up and they'll notify you when they have sales and that periodically will have the functioning on sale and of course as through the late that is when I bought it ok so we added 2/3 of a cup of foam shortening and now I need a teaspoon and a half which is the same thing as 1/2 a tablespoon of vanilla vanilla and then I need an egg yolk so sorry white but we don't need you for this recipe so I used to sell these cookies so I have my recipe whoops set to be a very large batch so in cutting it down I really didn't need a full egg so we'll just use the yolk that's yummy is part anyway so we're kind of using a basic baking method here where we mix all the liquid or liquid ease sort of ingredients and then we'll add in our dry let me have a picture of it at this stage it's nice and fluffy okay I have my phone shortening my dates my maple syrup honey vanilla and egg and now we're just down to our dry ingredients so we'll start with a cup and half well be ultra fine and you can buy directly from well bees or here's my secret you can buy it from Amazon and it's the same price so if you're an Amazon Prime member you can get free shipping where I live this comes next day so I can realize that night that I'm running out and need to order more and place the order okay so a half a cup I already use my half cup measuring cup and so it's dirty so I'm going to do two quarter cups of arrowroot so I'm giving you all my secrets like I said I used to sell these cookies but when I went back to school I'm studying functional medicine help itchy right now when I went back to school in February I just needed this that was not something I had time for in my life so I'm not selling the cookies anymore and also you know what I never made cookies with my kids anymore so turning something I loved into a business it just didn't work really well in the morning and I forgot why I'm telling you I have no idea I had a purpose I'll think of it in a second okay so I need I put in 1/2 of a cup of arrowroot oh oh I was telling you my secrets I can tell you my secrets now because I'm not selling these anymore so I need 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda and 3/4 of a teaspoon of sea salt so the palm shortening from tropical traditions is one of my secrets that really makes nice baked goods and other secrets is this combination of almond flour and arrowroot it really makes for nice nicely texture based good it's almost always sometimes if that's all my dry the on the flour the arrowroot the baking soda and the salt sometimes if it's a recipe that is particularly wet like banana bread for example I might need to add a tablespoon or two of coconut flour or something like that just to help comeback the extreme wetness without adding tons and tons of almond flour because one that's expensive and really using the different flours improves the texture but in this case we can be simple and just use the almond and the arrowroot so I'm just mixing this just like you would do any cooking 50 powder you can use your stand mixer if you want or like I said certainly can mix this by hand if you're going to mix it by hand I would use a blender or a mini food processor or something like that to get your dates and honey and maple syrup blended up really well because it's just coming it would be a lot of effort to do that by hand so if you have a tool use your tool for that part of the process all right let me scrape down if you have very dry dates and you needed to heat that date honey maple syrup mixture for a long time this would be very hot right now and you could not add your you could not add your chocolate chips but because mine is not hot I'm looking at the temperature I need my oven 325 because I had nice fresh dates and I did not need to heat it very long to get those nice and soft my mixture is not hot and I can move right ahead now if you want your cookies to be kind of thicker batter I would chill the dough for sure if you like the flatter cookies you can go ahead and bake them when they're rim to the true because if they're ripped imagery they're going to spread out more but that's what I want that's what will let me have the crispy edges and the soft interior these are my favorite chocolate chips they are in jewelry life I like the mini ones they have large chips they have chunks but the many ones have you get a little bit of chocolate right which I like that better these are a nice rich I think it's something like 70% cocoa there is cane sugar in them but they're there's no soy a lot of commercial chocolates have to weigh less it into the inertia livery which is nice so as little lady turning my oven on so we need that to get up to temperature so we're obvious now let's show you how easy that was this will be so fun to do with your kids it's really just like any other chocolate chip cookie recipe you're just using slightly different ingredients we didn't have to jump through any hoops or do anything really weird to make these with safe ingredients and let me tell you so I told you I used to sell these cookies so the store that carried them you know they would order a dozen or two dozen or whatever and my recipe might make 15 so there were always a couple extra hanging around and if there is nobody here like it seemed to fall they were placing order when the kids were at camp or you know my husband was on a scout trip or something and so if I didn't eat them I would just package them and stick them in the freezer well I was cleaning out the freezer a couple weeks ago and there was a chocolate chip cookie in there and I just could tell the eye i had relatively big labels at first and then when i went through all those I ended up ordering smaller labels the second time around because the pig labels covering up the whole cookie so I knew this one of the big labels like well that is an old cookie it's been in the freezer for well over a year and my son opened it up and he started to eat it and he was and I couldn't tell if that was a moon this is bad this is good he just looked at me and he said mom I don't know how you managed to make such a good chocolate-chip cookie without flour and all that other stuff and I thought you know that's high praise from a 13 year old boy so these really are good let me clean this up a little bit and then roll okay when I bake my cookies I always find my trays okay so this is a soap hat this is a silicone mat you just they fit perfectly in these a half sheet pans i link to this on my website across the top there is the menu and there's one that says ingredients and resources and I've linked to these trays that I really like they come with a cooling rack that fits inside they're super cheap available in Amazon or like a cookie supply store also the silicone mat the problem with this little timeout you have to wash it at the end but it is convenient because it fits right in there okay so I mean remember I'm being lazy today so I'm using first remover so that I can throw it away so the first paper doesn't fit exactly so you have to fit it in in there I really recommend you buy especially if you're going to bake I use it for all sorts of things pancakes muffins course cookies are these dishes I have five of them all different sizes so like I use this big one this is perfect for a muffin or a pancake and again they're inexpensive i link to them on my website sometimes they come with a number I think this one might say in over on the inside of it my eyes can't read it but this is the size I like it's roughly I would say about a tablespoon and a half to two tablespoons is the capacity and it makes it really easy I remember a long time ago I mean I've had these for a long long time and I was famous for my molasses cookie this was way before paleo days and people were always amazed that my cookies were exactly round and all the same size like that was some sort of magic trick like you know it's just this little tool thing that I have so then just scoop them help you could if you wanted to scoop them out and have them ready then you could put them in the fridge and chill them so you can do it that way if you want anymore of you know like I said this sort of coffee cookie so we're just spacing them out I usually do about a dozen of this side I do about a dozen per tray and if they run into each other a little bit but that doesn't hurt my feelings at all also what works really well is say you just want to make fresh cookies for your family and cavity really just heat it doesn't so you just cook up a dozen and then you would skip out all the rest of your dough and pop the tray in the freezer and once the cookie balls are frozen then put them I usually when I package things for the freezer I sort of triple wrap because I don't want anything to get about threes or tastes so wrap them up in plastic or parchment paper and then foil and then in a ziploc bag and label that clearly what it is and then when you're ready to bake them just get them out set them on your trade really just like 15 minutes and they'll fall enough and bake them up until they're done nothing to bake for a few more minutes because you're starting from cold but it's totally and then you can have fresh cookies any time you want that's what we do when we go to the beach as a family for a week in the summer my mom will make some cookies I'll make some cookies and we'll just make all dough you actually don't take any baked cookies with us we only take dough and we have fresh cookies every day you know I'll be out the beach with the kids in the morning and my mom will get the cookies out and show bacon we'll come in we'll have fresh cookies at lunch okay so going in the oven our amazing delicious cookies I'll show you the finished product in a minute all right and here we are the perfect chocolate-chip cookie so these I left a little bit too long but they're going to be extra crispy around the edges which my husband actually loves these are perfect in my opinion we've got these perfect little circles they're steaming hot I would love to just pick one of them and heal it right now but I'll show you the inside texture and everything when they're nice and cool I prefer to bake these at 325 you could bake them at 350 and they will bake faster but then you rush it and I just don't believe they bake as well so just take your time 325 about 20 minutes and then you get these perfect perfect chocolate chip cookies which we will dig into in just a little bit okay here we are with our finished and cooled cookies I just want to show you you know these if you have a little snap to them get these a little more done and they have a nice crunch everyone who just break them all apart but I'm doing whole 30 so I can't eat any so I just want to show you we have this lovely yeah I see but yet you can see there's some been this is the perfect chocolate chip cookie I wish I could eat it I cannot they're beautiful they taste great make these cookies I hope you saw that they're easy they're fun to get in the kitchen and mate with your kids or surprise them with the treat when they're can't just a basic chocolate chip cookie but we took out the wheat flour in the white sugar and all that yucky stuff and made a super delicious so if you enjoy this one and I'll see you next time .
Video Description:
Elizabeth makes Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Recipe: https://ourpaleofamily.com/recipe/unbelievably-good-paleo-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Ingredients links: https://ourpaleofamily.com/2016/04/01/ingredients-and-resources-2/
