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Cassava Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies Using 1:1 Measurements

November 9, 2017 By Jenny 10 Comments

Cassava Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies Using 1:1 Measurements
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As a child, I remember buying the rolls of Nestle (R) Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and eating it with a spoon. I know you aren’t supposed to eat it with a spoon, but I couldn’t help myself. It was so good. My mom never baked, so this was as close to homemade cookies as I was going to get.

As I got older, I would make the recipe on the back of the Nestle Chocolate Chips bag. They tasted just as good and I felt like I was baking something from scratch (which I guess I kinda was).

Fast forward to today, I’m in a different baking realm. I can no longer use wheat flour (which is very easy to work with thanks to the protein gluten), and I’ve been experimenting with all sorts of gluten-free flours. I use nut flours, rice flours, oat flours and now I find myself experimenting with cassava flour thanks to Otto’s Cassava Flour. I bought Otto’s flour to play with – and made these cassava flour tortillas – and then Otto’s sent me another bag of flour so I could play some more. (Thanks Otto’s!)

On the bag of flour, it says that Otto’s Cassava Flour is a 1:1 substitute, in most cases, for wheat flour. So I wondered what would happen if I made the Nestle Toll House Cookie recipe using cassava flour.

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I followed all the instructions, substituting the Otto’s Cassava Flour cup for cup for regular wheat flour. The cookies looked amazing, but they were a bit dry and flaky. And I could taste the cassava flour.

What was I doing wrong?

Then I got a tip from the folks at Otto’s. The flour is 1:1 by weight, not volume! Doh! I had to redo these cookies. I couldn’t have this failure hanging over my head.

Each cup of cassava flour is 120 grams, and the Nestle cookie recipe calls for 2 1/4 cup of flour. So I used 270 grams of cassava flour, which is about 1 2/3 cups.

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After I re-did the cookies, they tasted amazing and they baked up beautifully. Just look at these beauties!!

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I SERIOUSLY could not tell that these had cassava flour in them. They tasted like the soft-baked, chewy Nestle Toll House Cookies I remember as a child. Yum! As it turns out, my family had NO CLUE these were made with cassava flour… and they didn’t mind either because we ate up so many of them before we all ended up with full tummies (and a tummy ache for me – too many cookies in my belly!).

Cassava Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies - Grain-Free, Gluten-Free - Good For You Gluten Free

I think eating is believing and the only way for you to know if you like these cassava flour chocolate chip cookies is to whip up a batch of your own. You can get cassava flour on Amazon for a great price and you should have all the other ingredients readily available in your cabinet and fridge. Good luck and let me know how it goes!!

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Cassava Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
 
I can't take full credit for this recipe. It's the Nestle Toll House(R) chocolate chip cookie recipe turned grain-free and gluten-free. Why reinvent the wheel when an awesome recipe can easily be transformed into this paleo masterpiece?
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cassava flour, chocolate, cookies, dessert, easy dessert recipes, gluten-free cookies, gluten-free recipes
Servings: 30 servings
Calories: 183 kcal
Ingredients
  • 1 2/3 cups Otto's Cassava Flour (270 grams)
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. Kosher salt
  • 1 cup butter - room temperature (2 sticks)
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.

  2. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt, set aside.
  3. Using your standing mixer, cream together butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add vanilla and eggs and mix on medium speed until well combined, then slowly add the flour mixture to the wet mixture until well combined. You'll end up with a nice dough to work with.

  4. Gently fold in chocolate chips with a spatula until well combined.

  5. Roll dough by hand (or scoop using a cookie dough scooper) into 1.5 inch balls and place on baking sheet. Press down on each ball to slightly flatten.

  6. Bake for 8-9 minutes until the bottom begins to slightly brown. Allow 5-10 minutes of cooling time before moving to a wire rack for cooling. 

Nutrition Facts
Cassava Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 183 Calories from Fat 81
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9g 14%
Saturated Fat 5g 25%
Cholesterol 30mg 10%
Sodium 177mg 7%
Potassium 15mg 0%
Total Carbohydrates 24g 8%
Sugars 18g
Protein 1g 2%
Vitamin A 4.7%
Vitamin C 0.5%
Calcium 3.2%
Iron 3.4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

 

Filed Under: Cassava Flour, Gluten Free Desserts Tagged With: Cassava Flour, Gluten Free Cookies, Gluten Free Desserts

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  1. s says

    May 5, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    does anyone have an idea of how substituting or leaving out some of the cane sugar in cookie recipes like this would look like? I was thinking of substituting 3/4 cup coconut sugar, adding some lo han guo and leaving out the rest of the sugar? or should i try all 1 1/2 cups coconut sugar?

  2. Jenny says

    May 5, 2018 at 3:00 pm

    I don’t know.

  3. Bettie says

    May 5, 2018 at 8:23 pm

    I just made these with 3/4 monk fruit sugar and 3/4 coconut palm sugar. They came out delicious! Thank you for the amazing recipe!

  4. Jenny says

    May 5, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    Yay so glad it worked!

  5. Anita says

    July 15, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    Thanks! So, for the conversion, how many grams of weight are in one cup of regular wheat flour?

  6. Jenny says

    July 17, 2018 at 11:41 am

    It’s the same (270 grams). The 1:1 measurement is by weight vs. volume. Hope that helps!

  7. Christina says

    October 20, 2018 at 9:39 am

    I’m still having trouble trying to understand the conversation. I wanna make these certain cupcakes I use to bake so can anyone have mercy on me and tell me what 1 2/3 cup of regular flour be in cassava measurement?

  8. Jenny says

    October 21, 2018 at 8:26 am

    1 cup of wheat flour is about 120 grams while one cup of cassava flour is about 140 grams. I also found a converter online. http://convert-to.com/646/flour-from-cassava-conversion-and-nutritional-facts.html. It’s really best to measure by weight.

  9. Christina says

    November 22, 2018 at 2:01 pm

    So I just weighted 1 2/3 cup of all purpose that is need for the recipe and it weight about 254 grams. I weighted out cassava at the same grams and it measured out to the same 1 2/3 cups. Same as the all purpose. Am I missing something?

  10. Jenny says

    November 22, 2018 at 8:45 pm

    It did not work out that way for me but use grams when possible. How did they turn out?

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