Tigernut Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

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

Published: Apr 3, 2024 by Bea C. | This post may contain affiliate links | 2 Comments

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These Tigernut Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies are deliciously soft and chewy. They take 10 minutes to make in just a few shockingly simple steps.

Tigernut flour cookies on a baking rack with chocolate chips, cinnamon sticks, vanilla bean, cloves and nutmeg on the side.

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

These tigernut flour chocolate chip cookies are perfectly soft and chewy. But if you prefer crispy cookies, you can try my Crispy Gingerbread Cut Out Cookies (AIP, paleo, vegan) that are also made with tigernut flour.
This recipe is shockingly simple.
These cookies are gluten free, grain free, nut free, paleo, vegan and can be made AIP (follow the instructions in the recipe card for the AIP option).

📖 Ingredient notes

All the ingredients for the tigernut flour cookies displayed 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. And if you have some leftover pumpkin purée after making these tigernut flour cookies, do not hesitate to make my extremely popular Pumpkin Muffins (gluten free, paleo, AIP).
Tigernut flour. If you don't know what tigernut flour is and want to learn all about it, you can read my post What is tigernut flour .
Arrowroot. It is a starch. See below for substitutions.
Cacao powder. Make sure to use unsweetened cacao powder. Cacao powder is not AIP compliant. So if you are on AIP, make sure to use carob powder.
Dark Chocolate chips. Make sure to use dairy free, vegan or paleo compliant chocolate chips if needed. Check the ingredients carefully for that. Moreover, because cacao is not AIP compliant, chocolate is not AIP compliant either. To make these tigernut flour cookies AIP compliant, make sure to use carob chips. Note that most store-bought carob chips contain ingredients that are not AIP compliant. So, you will most likely have to make some homemade carob chips in order to stay AIP compliant. Another option is to replace the chocolate chips with dried fruits. Again, make sure to check the ingredients of the dried fruits before buying them.
Spices. This tigernut flour cookie recipe uses a combination of cinnamon, vanilla extract and optional cloves and nutmeg. Nutmeg is not AIP compliant, omit it if you are on AIP.

For the quantities and complete list of ingredients for these tigernut flour 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). If you are not on AIP nor Paleo diets: you can use potato starch or corn starch instead of arrowroot.
Chocolate chips. As said above, you can replace them with carob chips or with dried fruits.
Cacao powder. You can replace it with carob powder.
Pumpkin purée. You can replace the pumpkin purée with mashed bananas.
Apple cider vinegar. You can use lemon juice instead.

🥣 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 flour, arrowroot, coconut sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips and optional cloves and nutmeg.

All the dry ingredients transferred to a mixing bowl.

Stir with a spoon.

All the dry ingredients mixed together in a mixing 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.

All the wet and dry ingredients mixed together in a mixing bowl.

Line or lightly oil a baking sheet. 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 12-15 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!

👩🏻‍🍳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

💬 Recipe FAQ

How to store these tigernut flour chocolate chip cookies?

These tigernut flour cookies will last 1-2 days stored in a cookie container in the fridge.

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This recipe was first published on September 22nd 2022 using a flour mix that contained tigernut. It has been updated on April 3rd 2024 without the use of this flour mix because it can't be purchased anymore.