You Won't Even Miss the Gluten in This Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

These gluten-free, dairy-free cookies are ones I developed when creating allergen-free recipes for the Alameda County Fair in California a few years ago. I've always loved to bake and found traditional baking to be too easy, so I started tweaking recipes to be allergen-free, which proved to be more fun and more challenging.

These came out of many experiments and were my first entry into the fair's baking contest. The first year I entered them, they took an honorable mention in the regular cookie category, but the following year, one of the contest coordinators called me and said they were adding a gluten-free category and they wanted to be sure I entered.

I baked up the same cookies from before and entered them in the gluten-free category, along with a bunch of other recipes I'd come up with, and that year I won Judge's Favorite, which needless to say is the top prize.

These cookies have become my favorite because not only are they super easy to make but they also taste amazing. The coconut oil and flour give them a hint of coconut flavor, which pairs nicely with the chocolate chips. And of course, like all cookies, they taste amazing right out of the oven, but they almost taste even better if you refrigerate them and eat them cold. Trust me, once you go gluten- and dairy-free with these cookies, you'll never go back.