Tigernut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Tigernut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 22 min
Ingredients: 100 grams tigernut kasha; 140 grams pumpkin purée; 4 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 2 Tablespoons brown sugar; 2 Tablespoons arrowroot; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 4 Tablespoons chocolate chips; Pinch of nutmeg; Pinch of ground cloves

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These tigernut chocolate chip cookies are deliciously soft and chewy. They take 10 minutes to make in just a few shockingly simple steps.

chocolate chips cookies on a baking rack, some chocolate chips, cinnamon sticks, a vanilla bean, nutmeg, cloves and a table cloth on the sides of the baking rack

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⭐ Why you'll love this recipe
📖 Ingredient notes
💭 Substitutions
🥣 Step by step instructions
👩🏻‍🍳Top tip
💬 Frequently Asked Questions
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⭐ Why you'll love this recipe

These tigernut chocolate chip cookies are perfectly soft and chewy.
This recipe is shockingly simple.
These cookies are gluten free, grain free, nut free and vegan.

📖 Ingredient notes

all the ingredients for the tigernut kasha cookies on a kitchen counter

Pumpkin purée. You can either use canned pumpkin purée or homemade pumpkin purée. I just take unseasoned cooked pumpkin or butternut squash and put it in the blender with the other liquid ingredients from the recipe. If you are not familiar with butternut squash, you can read my complete guide to butternut squash to find out everything about it.
Tigernut kasha crunchy cacao flavored. It is a mix of tigernut flour, ground chia seeds, cacao powder, mesquite powder and cacao nibs. If you have tried tigernut flour before, you might have come across a tigernut flour that had a gritty texture. Believe me, I've been there! Well, Natureul's tigernut kasha is absolutely not gritty! It has a crunchy texture due to the crunchy cacao nibs contained in the mix but no grittiness at all. That's pretty amazing! It already contains cacao powder so no need to add any to get delicious double chocolate chip cookies.
Arrowroot. It is a starch. See below for substitutions.
Spices. This tigernut cookie recipe uses a combination of cinnamon, vanilla extract and optional cloves and nutmeg. Feel free to use a pumpkin spice blend.

For the quantities and complete list of ingredients for these tigernut chocolate chip cookies, please see the recipe card below.

💭 Substitutions

Arrowroot substitutions. If you are not cassava intolerant, you can substitute it with tapioca starch (also called tapioca flour). You can also use potato starch or corn starch instead of arrowroot.

🥣 Step by step instructions

In a small blender put the pumpkin puree, apple cider vinegar, vanilla extract and extra virgin olive oil. Blend until well combined.

all the wet ingredients for the cookies blended together in a small blender and a spoon full of the mix to show the smooth texture

In a large bowl, combine the tigernut kasha, arrowroot, brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips and optional cloves and nutmeg.

all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl before being mixed

Stir with a spoon.

all the dry ingredients mixed together in a large bowl

Add the wet ingredients to the dry.

the wet ingredients added on top of the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl

Mix until well combined.

Line or lightly oil a baking tray. Using a cookie scoop or Tablespoon measuring spoon, measure one Tablespoon of dough. Roll into a ball, then press it with the back of a spoon to flatten it. Repeat with remaining dough.

6 balls of cookie dough on a lined baking tray

Press the rest of the chocolate chips onto the top of the cookies.

9 chocolate chip cookies on a lined baking tray

Bake the cookies for about 12-13 minutes. At first, the cookies will look very soft, but they will continue to set as they cool. Let them cool completely on the baking sheet. And voilà!

chocolate chips cookies on a baking rack, some chocolate chips, a pack of tigernut kasha, cinnamon sticks, a vanilla bean, nutmeg, cloves and a table cloth on the sides of the baking rack

👩🏻‍🍳Top tip

If you don't have a cookie scoop, no worries, you can use your tablespoon to scoop the dough.

Then use a spoon to remove the dough from the tablespoon.

a spoon removing the batter from a tablespoon to make a cookie

💬 Frequently Asked Questions

How to store these tigernut chocolate chip cookies?

These tigernut cookies will last 4-5 days stored in a cookie container at room temperature.

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