Quinoa Flour Cookies
These quinoa flour cookies are just as delicious as your favorite chocolate chip cookie, but they’re made with healthy ingredients! The quinoa adds a nutty flavor that makes these soft cookies completely irresistible!
Quinoa flour is a nutritious ingredient that can be used in everything from cookies to pancakes! Try using quinoa flour in place of regular flour for additional protein, fiber, and nutrients.
What is quinoa flour?
Quinoa flour is made from grinding quinoa into a fine powder, similar to flour. Quinoa is technically a seed, not a grain, meaning this flour is completely gluten-free.
Where can you buy quinoa flour?
I typically buy Bob’s Red Mill’s brand. You can usually find it in the gluten-free section of larger grocery stores. If you can’t find it in the grocery store, you can order it on Amazon!
How to Make Quinoa Flour at Home
To make your own quinoa flour at home, blend 1/2 cup of quinoa flour in a spice grinder or coffee grinder for 1 minute, or until blended into a fine powder. Spread onto a baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes. This will remove some of the bitterness. This will make about 3/4 cup of flour.
What can you make with quinoa flour?
You can make all kinds of recipes including cookies, pancakes, muffins, and bread! This flour is different than all purpose flour, so you do have to make some changes to a recipe. I wouldn’t recommend substituting quinoa flour for regular flour cup-for-cup.
Quinoa Flour Recipes
Lemon Berry Quinoa Muffins
These nut-free Lemon Berry Quinoa Flour Muffins are a tasty, flourless option for a nutritious and easy breakfast on the go to school or work. These muffins are earthy, creamy, sweet, and satisfying! What more could you ask for in a muffin?
Fluffy Quinoa Pancakes
Made with simple ingredients, these fluffy quinoa flour pancakes are delicious, and will soon be your favorite weekend breakfast! They’re gluten-free since they’re made with quinoa, but they’re just as fluffy as your favorite pancakes! Plus, they’re totally vegan!
Sprouted Quinoa Bread
This easy, sprouted quinoa bread is completely homemade. Yes, even the flour is homemade! It takes a few days for the quinoa to sprout but after that, it’s a piece of cake. Or bread.
Quinoa Flour Cookies
The great thing about these cookies is that I truly think they taste like a regular cookie. Sure, it’s made with a healthier flour and it’s gluten-free, but it has real sugar, eggs (with the yolk!) and chocolate chips, so you’re not skimping on the ingredients. I’d like to think of this as a real cookie with a healthy twist. Get the recipe below!
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Quinoa Flour Cookies
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 12 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Dessert
Description
These quinoa flour cookies are just as delicious as your favorite chocolate chip cookie, but they’re made with healthy ingredients! The quinoa adds a nutty flavor that makes these soft cookies completely irresistible!
Ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar (or brown sugar)
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the quinoa flour, baking soda, salt, and coconut sugar in a bowl.
- Stir in the egg and coconut oil until combined.
- Add in chocolate chips.
- These cookies won’t really spread, so shape them into a ball and then flatten slightly.
- Bake on parchment paper or a silicone baking mat to prevent them from sticking to the pan.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned. (Check the bottoms, those will brown first!)
Have you tried baking with quinoa? Leave your questions below!
I definitely like having healthier desserts around. I enjoy having a snack at night and it’s often something I’ve made, so it’s usually not triple chocolate cake every night. I definitely have my fair share of the real deal, but I enjoy the healthier versions too!
Yum, these look delicious! Moderation is the key over here too! I have coconut and almond flour right now, I wonder if that would work?
Ohh I don’t know! It’s worth a try! 🙂 I do have a brownie recipe made with almond flour… so I’d use the almond flour for that one 😉
These cookies look so good, Liz! & as for your question I agree with you. A little bit of both 🙂
We do a mix. Sometimes we have fruit and sometimes we have brownies. 🙂 I always like finding ways to lighten up recipes though, so we get good flavor and less bad stuff!
These look delicious and I am so happy to see a just quinoa/other grain free flour recipe, makes grain free so much easier!
I must say I have had a problem to cooking with quinoa, I don’t particular care for the grain, because I think it doesn’t taste like anything. 🙂 I know that as a vegan this is a great way to introduce protein to your diet and I have been really struggling with perfect marriage between taste and quinoa. But I definitely love the idea of having an alternative flour option to the typical cookie. Thank you for sharing!
You always make the best and most unique recipes. These look really good!
Totally with you–I prefer full on indulgence AND healthified sweets. These look great!
Cute little guys! Interesting ingredients there!
To your question – I think you have to enjoy life and absolutely dig in to your favorite sin once in a while. Just don’t make it a regular thing. I personally would rather have a few bites of something really good than a whole thing of just a so-so dessert.
I definitely prefer a little of both. Frozen grapes are my go-to “healthy dessert”, but every now and then, I pop a s’more into the microwave. I think the best way to insure you’re going to binge on something is when you say you’re “NEVER” going to eat it again! Happy Friday! Stay warm!