Why are the simplest things so difficult?? All I wanted was a good Chocolate Chip Cookie! Was that too much to ask??

I don't know anyone who doesn't take comfort in a warm chocolate chip cookie fresh out the oven.... Mmmm the aroma as they are baking is intoxicating!  I bravely continued to make non-gluten-free cookies after my diagnosis for my boyfriend and his son on weekends because they truly loved having a warm cookie and milk on a chilly Saturday afternoon.  I mean, who doesn't?  Not being able to partake in the weekend ritual sometimes got me down.  I occasionally tried different gluten-free chocolate chip cookie recipes only to be sorely disapointed.  They called for a laundry-list of various flours and starches (and usually called for sorgrum flour, which I hate the taste of).  They were hard, bland and crumbly.  Hardly the warm and gooey cookie I was craving. 

So, I decided to go back to the basics.  Below is my cookie recipe.  It is essentially my old cookie recipe that I have been using since I was about 7 years old, only replacing the wheat flour with Almond Meal Flour and adding in Xanthan gum to replace the gluten. I also reduced the margarine from the original recipe because of the moistness of the Almond Meal,  I increased the vanilla for flavour/liquid.  This makes a chewy (even after a few days in a ziploc bag!), delicious cookie that we ALL enjoy on chilly Saturday afternoons!

Gina’s Chocolate Chip Cookies!!

¼ cup margarine

¾ cup white sugar

½ cup packed light brown sugar

1 large egg

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups Almond Flour

1 tsp xanthan gum

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp baking soda

¾ cups chippits

Combine using stand mixer.  Bake on greased pan, 375F for 12-15 minutes.  Makes about 20 cookies.