Gluten-Free Chickpea-Flour Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Peanut Butter and Oats

These were shockingly good! I really was hesitant in using that much chickpea flour, but it actually works! I made my own chickpea flour by grinding up dried chickpeas until very fine and then sifting out the flour (only do this in a heavy duty blender and not a food processor, or you'll burn it out). I also upped the peanut butter to 1/2 cup (we have a bit of a peanut butter addiction in our house), used about 3/4 cup rolled oats, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, and dark chocolate chips in place of the chunks. I also wouldn't generously grease your cookie sheets, as these cookies have enough butter in them not to stick (parchment paper works better). I got 35 cookies out of this recipe.

Excellent. My husband’s friends were in the middle of trimming trees when I served them lunch and this delicious “healthy” cookie. One said, “If you hadn’t told me about the chickpea flour, I would have never known.” I sprinkled cinnamon and sugar on top and used mini gourmet chocolate chips so there was chocolate in every bite. You can’t go wrong there. Baking time was 13 minutes. The cookies are very moist.

They worked out quite well. I stuck to the recipe though I added some cinnamon to half the batch for fun. Either way was good!