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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

May 17, 2019 By Becky 4 Comments

These dairy-free, gluten-free peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are easy to make in one bowl and hard to stop eating!

These dairy-free, gluten-free peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are easy to make in one bowl and hard to stop eating!

I’m finally sharing the cookies I’ve been making over and over again since shortly after Madeline’s birth. These peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are dairy free, gluten free, and super simple to make. If you don’t like or can’t have peanut butter, they’re also amazing with cashew butter, and I bet other nut and seed butters will work, too.

While I wouldn’t call these health food, they do have good amounts of fiber, protein, and healthy fat. As a nursing mom, I love these because the oats help keep my supply up. However, these are not actual lactation cookies since they don’t have anything funky like brewer’s yeast or other ingredients not found in normal cookies that make you raise your eyebrows a little.

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Chocolate Almond Butter Thumbprints with Maple Caramel (Gluten free, Grain free)

December 6, 2018 By Becky Leave a Comment

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Chocolate Almond Butter Thumbprints with Maple Caramel (Gluten free, Grain free)

Who’s ready to make some cookies to share with Santa (or keep for yourself)? These chocolate almond butter thumbprints are easy to make and filled with a salty-sweet maple caramel. They’re perfect for sharing with loved ones who are following a grain-free or paleo diet!

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Brown Butter Turmeric Chocolate Chip Cookies

August 17, 2018 By Becky 4 Comments

Get your turmeric fix in cookie form with these vibrant, grain-free brown butter turmeric chocolate chip cookies!

I’m super excited to share these unique cookies with you today! They’re inspired by the beautiful golden hue of the tea towel in the pictures, which was naturally dyed with turmeric by my friend Maggie Pate. Her first book, The Natural Colors Cookbook, just came out this summer and is packed with easy recipes for using food and food waste to dye all kinds of fabrics and fibers the prettiest shades of pink, purple, yellow, orange, blue, and green.

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Lemon Vanilla Slice and Bake Cookies

December 20, 2017 By Becky 13 Comments

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Grain-free Lemon Vanilla Slice and Bake Cookies

These lemon vanilla slice and bake cookies are the perfect grain-free treat to share with family and friends this holiday season or anytime! Their buttery crumb and bright lemon flavor will have you coming back for bite after bite.

I’m here with one more delicious cookie recipe to tide you over until after Christmas! These grain-free lemon vanilla slice and bake cookies are so fun to make and eat. They’re packed with both lemony and sugar-cookie flavor thanks to Rodelle‘s lemon extract and vanilla bean paste along with plenty of fresh lemon zest, and have a wonderfully tender shortbread-like texture. A simple glaze made with fresh lemon juice tops them off and provides an ideal counterpart to the buttery cookie.

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Gluten-free Chocolate Peppermint Thumbprints

December 4, 2017 By Becky 38 Comments

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Gluten-free Chocolate Peppermint Thumbprints

These gluten-free chocolate peppermint thumbprints are festive, delicious, and a snap to make with just one flour!

Happy cookie season! As soon as Thanksgiving is over, baking cookies is pretty much all I want to do, and these gluten-free chocolate peppermint thumbprints are going to be happening over and over again this year and for many years to come. The pairing of a buttery cookie and a rich chocolate ganache, both with just the right amount of peppermint flavor, is really hard to resist. That’s what’s so special about thumbprints–the combination of textures leads to such a satisfying chew.
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Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

December 5, 2016 By Becky 8 Comments

Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies (Grain free)

These festive, grain-free chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies are just the thing for gifting, cookie swapping, and plain old snacking from now until the new year.

Looking for an adorable, two-bite cookie to enjoy and share this holiday season? I got you covered. I took a look at the cutest cookies from my archives, 2013’s sparkling sandwich cookies, and gave them a chocolate peppermint upgrade. The resulting chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies pack a lot of joy and holiday cheer into one tiny, almost-spherical package.

Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies (Grain free)

The cookie base here is super simple, made with just almond flour, Rodelle‘s baking cocoa and vanilla extract, butter, honey, and a touch of salt and baking soda. Rodelle’s cocoa has a rich aroma and great depth of flavor that makes it my very favorite cocoa for baking (and for turning the occasional morning coffee into a makeshift mocha). I also like to add a tiny bit of espresso powder to further deepen the chocolate flavor, but you can leave that out if you prefer.

There are no eggs in sight and of course no grains either, which make these cookies ideal for sharing with friends and family with food allergies and sensitivities. (Interested in a dairy-free version? The cookies should work with coconut oil instead of butter, and you could try sustainably-sourced palm shortening or vegan butter in the frosting.)

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Lemon Olive Oil Cookies

May 23, 2016 By Becky 30 Comments

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 Lemon Olive Oil Cookies (Gluten free, Grain free, Dairy free)

These lemon olive oil cookies come together quickly and are free of gluten, grains, and dairy. The olive oil won’t assert its flavor in the finished cookies, but helps produce a tender, delicate crumb.

It’s Monday, but these lemon olive oil cookies can help ease the pain. They’re bright, chewy, and irresistible. They’re delicious right out of the oven or the next morning, when they fit right in at breakfast by masquerading as extra-tasty mini scones. They’re good with or without the glaze; you can make them with Meyer or regular lemons. The only way to go wrong with these cookies would be to not make them at all.

Lemon Olive Oil Cookies (Gluten free, Grain free, Dairy free)

This is one of those cookie recipes where you basically just stir all the ingredients together in a bowl. You can even use a fork. The hardest part by far is zesting and juicing the lemons, and I find that fun. The smell of the lemon oils released from the peel is reward enough for me. (Wait, I take that back. I actually also need there to be cookies. Cookies are the best reward!)

When I make these without the glaze, I roll the balls of dough in a little raw sugar before baking them to give the outsides a little extra texture. If you’re planning to glaze them, you can skip that step.

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Grain-free Spiced Shortbread

December 23, 2015 By Becky 9 Comments

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Grain-free Spiced Shortbread | acalculatedwhisk.com

This grain-free shortbread is easy to make in just one bowl without getting out the mixer. The cookies are addictively crunchy around the edges and chewy in the middle, and their subtly spiced flavor is perfect for the holidays.

My mom sent our Christmas presents down early and told us we didn’t have to wait until the big day to open them. Mine was a copy of Ruth Reichl’s newest book, My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes that Saved My Life,  which centers around what Reichl cooked after the sudden closure of Gourmet magazine.

I was only about 3 pages in when I felt tears welling up in my eyes. When Ben asked what was wrong, at the time I had to admit that I was crying over the end of a magazine that I had subscribed to for just under 12 months, during its very last year in 2009.

Grain-free Spiced Shortbread | acalculatedwhisk.com

In retrospect, it probably wasn’t just that. There’s something about the holidays that brings my natural tendency toward nostalgia right to the surface. I think I was really crying because change is hard, and the book reminded me of that fact in a sudden and poignant way. I love being here in Chattanooga, but wish I could simultaneously be in Massachusetts and see my family for the holidays.

Reichl says in her book that “when you pay attention, cooking becomes a kind of meditation.” That’s definitely how it feels for me whenever I can manage not to rush.

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Filed Under: dessert, gluten free, paleo, recipe, vegetarian Tagged With: cardamom, Christmas, cookies, grain free, sugar cookies

Salted Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies

February 3, 2015 By Becky 16 Comments

Salted Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies (Grain free)
I’ve had four snow days in the past two weeks. Luckily, I’ve spent my extra time off pursuing an admirable goal: baking the ultimate grain-free chocolate chip cookie.
My quest began when I saw these soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies on Alexandra’s Kitchen. Alexandra’s blog is one of my favorites. Everything she makes is mouthwatering, and I love her detailed tips and stunning, perfectly lit photographs. Basically, I’m a huge fan.
I had to have those cookies.
Salted Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies (Grain free)
With a caveat, of course: I wanted them to be paleo-friendly and grain-free.
I’ve made paleo cookies before and thoroughly enjoyed them, but they weren’t the kind of cookies that could blow regular, gluten-containing cookies out of the water.  They didn’t have the holy grail: the perfect combination of crunch and chewiness.
I set out to find some grain-free cookies that fit the bill–cookies that were crisp around the edges, but chewy and a tiny bit underbaked in the center.

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Filed Under: dessert, gluten free, paleo, recipe Tagged With: baking, chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, grain free, hazelnuts

Chewy Molasses Cookies

December 25, 2014 By Becky 5 Comments

Is it too late for a Christmas cookie?
If it is, I understand.  I hope you’ll consider this as you’re choosing a Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve, or random January afternoon cookie.  Chewy grain-free molasses cookies work anytime.
Normally I don’t love cookies unless there’s chocolate or caramel involved, but I’ve made an exception here.  There’s something about the rich flavor of molasses in a chewy cookie with a hint of crunch from a coating of sparkling sugar that I can really get into.

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Filed Under: gluten free, recipe, uncategorized Tagged With: baking, Christmas, cookies, grain free, molasses, primal, winter

Almond Butter Thumbprints with Salted Caramel

October 27, 2014 By Becky 44 Comments

Almond Butter Thumbprints with Salted Caramel (Gluten free, Grain free) | acalculatedwhisk.com
My mom, my boyfriend, and I are really grateful to Karen of Karen’s Kitchen Stories for introducing us to these amazing cookies.  I know it’s a bit hard to believe because this was a pretty big batch, but we ate them all between the three of us.  I was not interested in sharing with anyone else because they were too good.
Almond Butter Thumbprints with Salted Caramel (Gluten free, Grain free) | acalculatedwhisk.com
Almond Butter Thumbprints with Salted Caramel (Gluten free, Grain free) | acalculatedwhisk.com

Even though they’re paleo cookies made with almond butter, they taste very similar to traditional peanut butter cookies, and the crumbly, buttery cookie and creamy salted caramel are an unbeatable team.

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Salted Nutella Cookies + Cuina Baking Mat Giveaway

March 13, 2014 By Becky 32 Comments

Disclosure: I received this product as part of an advertorial.
Ever since a friend of mine brought over some amazing nutella brownies a couple weeks ago, I’ve been dying to make a dessert of my own with the addictive chocolate hazelnut spread.  With a little research, I discovered that you don’t have to add many things to nutella to make a delicious brownie batter or cookie dough.  You can even make gluten-free nutella brownies with just three ingredients.  However, I decided to make cookies–I was craving something that was both chewy and crunchy, and wanted another chance to use my Cuina silicone baking mat.
I was almost all set to make these cookies–I just needed a jar of nutella.  So, in case you were wondering, here is how to spend most of your day on a desperate search for chocolate hazelnut spread:
1. Wake up and tell your boyfriend he can take the car to work, since it’s your spring break and all you really have to do all day is make cookies.
2. After he leaves, immediately regret your decision when you remember you need to go out and buy nutella for the cookies.
3. Eat some leftover bacon & sweet potato chili with a fried egg on top for breakfast, while wondering if there’s any way to get nutella delivered to your home.  You decide there probably isn’t.

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