40 Paleo Cookies - Sugar Free Cookies

Do you love cookies but you are avoiding eating grains? Here is an amazing collection of 40 scrumptious grain-free cookies to satisfy your cookie-loving desire.

40 Amazing Paleo Cookies Recipes. Who says special diets need to be boring? These cookies prove your diet can be healthy and delicious too.

We’ve made a lot of changes to our diets over the years and the most recent change being a move to eating less grain. We’re not completely grain-free, but seeing as so many others are trying to move more and more in that direction I thought that you all might appreciate an assortment of Paleo Cookies to give you healthier options, not only for the Holidays, but for all year round.

In my family, we’ve gone sugar-free due to candida, removed dairy, eggs, and other foods from my son’s diet (and mine when I was breastfeeding) due to his life-threatening food allergies, then my son went gluten-free due to his autism, and now, since gluten is implicated in so many problems such as thyroid disease, the whole family is gluten-free.

Now, as we are seeking to improve our gut health, we are going more and more grain-free.

We eat a lot of protein, veggies, some fruits and some beans, but grains are less and less making their showing in our kitchen.

It’s hard enough to figure out sides when your family is used to eating rice (or pasta) and such, but especially when baking, grain flours are the staple.

So I’ve been gathering some yummy Grain-Free Cookie Recipes for our family, and now for you all as well.

I hope these recipes are a blessing to you and your family as you seek to explore new ways to improve your health as well.

All of the following are grain-free cookies and they are also paleo cookies, meaning they contain no milk or butter. However, most use higher carb sweeteners and some use eggs.

Here is what I do to substitute in those cases.

For the most part, if the recipe’s base is almond (or another nut or seed) flour, then an egg substitute such as my Powdered Egg Replacer or flax, chia, or gelatin will work pretty much for any recipe. Of course, the Powdered Egg Replacer has starch so it isn’t the best choice for low carb diets. Here is my post on how to make a flax egg.

And if you are eating lower carb like we are, you can use coconut sugar or palm sugar, or go totally lower carb by using xylitol, erythritol, or stevia extract as your sweetener..

To use xylitol, just sub in 1:1 for the sweetener being used and you’ll be pretty accurate. For stevia extract, use 2 scoops, or 1/16 teaspoon for each 1/8 cup of sweetener. Here’s a post on stevia to help you out with that.

You can also use my Homemade Chocolate Chips for a lower-carb option for any cookie that has chips or chunks in it.

If a recipe contains fruit, you can replace it with coconut, nuts, or a sugar-free chocolate or carob chip if the dried fruit was intended for a low-carb option.

40 Grain-Free Cookies

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

Double-Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies

Double chocolate and almond in a cookie? You betcha! I personally would use my Homemade Chocolate Chips or a low-carb store-bought option for these. If you want to try a vegan option, then I would use my Homemade Egg Replacer for the egg. Don’t these look fantastic?

17 Comments

Anonymous says:

June 5, 2020 at 4:59 am

Thanks for sharing this roundup!

Judi says:

July 17, 2017 at 2:57 pm

Hi,
My husband has food sensitivities that are just recently discovered. He has been really good but is missing something desserty. I am looking for a chocolate cookie that has no sugar(maple, honey, granulated sugar of any kind), no wheat, no coconut flour (or shredded), no eggs and no applesauce. I’d like to use dairy free unsweetened chocolate.I’m thinking of maybe taking something like prunes and stewing them to use as something sweet. Would love any ideas.
Thanks,
Judi

1. Adrienne says:
  
  July 19, 2017 at 9:14 pm
  
  Hi there. Can he have stevia? Would this work? https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/chocolate-mint-cookies-gluten-free-cookies-vegan-cookies/
  
Hannah says:

December 10, 2016 at 2:41 pm

Thanks so much for sharing this. While I have been gluten free for years now, I have recently discovered I also have severe allergies to rice and corn. I was so excited to stumble upon your list of grain free cookies, especially with the holidays right around the corner!

1. Adrienne says:
  
  December 10, 2016 at 11:16 pm
  
  Hello Hannah! Nice to hear from you!
  
  I am so sorry about your newly discovered allergies. How terrible? How did you discover that? Have you tried the Almond Joy Bars on my site? They are a real favorite. Oh – these! https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/snickerdoodle-cookie-dough-balls/
  
  I get compliments on them regularly. Merry Christmas!
  
Audrey @ Gluten-Free Vegan Love says:

January 27, 2015 at 1:20 am

What a lovely collection, Adrienne — can’t wait to check them all out! 🙂

1. Adrienne says:
  
  February 1, 2015 at 9:00 pm
  
  Thanks! Your comments keep going to spam – so sorry! I think it’s the @ that you are putting in.
  
  1. Audrey | Unconventional Baker says:
    
    February 6, 2015 at 12:43 pm
    
    No worries — maybe with the new email this will no longer be a problem 😉
    
    1. Adrienne says:
      
      February 6, 2015 at 10:31 pm
      
      Nope – ended up in spam again. Maybe don’t put your blog name after your blog. I think that’s what’s throwing it. I am looking into possibly changing spam catchers but I am swamped right now :).
      
      1. Audrey says:
        
        February 6, 2015 at 10:36 pm
        
        Oh, brother! 🙂 Well, trying again {without the blog name}. But I hear ya — who has the time to sift through all the spam…
        
        
        Adrienne says:
        
        February 6, 2015 at 10:38 pm
        
        Woot! That’s the ticket :)!
        
        
        Audrey says:
        
        February 6, 2015 at 10:58 pm
        
        Hooray! 🙂
        
        
        Adrienne says:
        
        February 6, 2015 at 11:14 pm
        
        Happy dance here too – comment victory :)!
        
Jill@JillsHomeRemedies says:

January 23, 2015 at 9:14 pm

Wow what an awesome list! I’m currently battling candida and this will be a great source for me!

1. Adrienne says:
  
  January 23, 2015 at 9:32 pm
  
  Thanks so much, Jill! Candida is horrid. But these should help w/ the low carb subs!
  
Raj @ www.ThePrimalDesire.com says:

January 23, 2015 at 8:03 pm

Killer list!!!

Thanks for including our Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies, these all look great.

1. Adrienne says:
  
  January 23, 2015 at 8:21 pm
  
  You are so welcome! Those cookies look GREAT! I can’t look at the post too much….

40 Grain-Free Cookies

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