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    Home / Recipes / Gluten-Free

    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars

    Modified: Jan 29, 2025 · Published: July 23, 2018 by Sarah Menanix · This post may contain affiliate links

    4.80 from 30 reviews

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    With just a few ingredients, these quick and easy flourless chocolate chunk almond butter cookie bars are soft and chewy with crunchy dry roasted almonds studded throughout!

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    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars #glutenfree #cookiebars #blondies #almondbutter #flourless

    I expected this post to have a very different tone. I expected to have a brand new snuggly, cookie-dough smelling baby in my arms while I told you all about my favorite midnight treat. (Hint: it's these flourless chocolate chunk almond butter cookie bars.) But despite my best efforts to woo baby boy out of my belly and into the world this week, he's made it very clear that he's in charge. To be fair, he's got one more day before his due date, but I'm very ready.

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    The good news is, I've got alllllll the time in the world today to tell you about these almond butter cookie bars. Over the next year, I’m partnering with Safeway for a blogger tour to feature some of the products they carry that you might not know about.

    For our last collaboration, I shared these wine braised artichokes with cashew mandarin tarragon aioli after visiting an artichoke farm. This time around, they invited a group of us to Safeway's Culinary Kitchens and Technical Center to learn about, cook with, and taste their Open Nature products. Open Nature is their line of products made with natural ingredients and nothing artificial - available only in their stores. For our hands-on cooking session, I made these beachy scallop and coconut summer rolls with a coconut almond butter dip. Then guzzled the dip when the rolls were gone.

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    I could eat and have eaten this almond butter straight out of the jar with a spoon, but I recommend turning it into these flourless chocolate chunk almond butter cookie bars. They're so easy, you can make them in the middle of the night while 40 weeks pregnant (not that I would know).

    With just a few ingredients, these bake up as the most buttery blondie-style bars ever with roasted nutty layers and plenty of gooey melted chocolate. They're soft and chewy with crunchy dry roasted almonds studded throughout. We may have made and polished off three pans in one week.

    On request, I e-mailed the recipe to my friend last week. She reported back that her husband turned his nose up at the idea of gluten-free bars. But then he ate one. And another. And another. They, too, polished off a whole pan. Don't let that flourless part turn you off - that just makes them extra chewy. Relatedly: I add two tablespoons of almond meal/flour to the batter. Does this make them not flourless? Up to interpretation. I think the almond meal makes them just a little easier to pick up, but my girlfriend left it out and, well, they were obviously still delicious.

    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars #glutenfree #cookiebars #blondies #almondbutter #flourless

    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars #glutenfree #cookiebars #blondies #almondbutter #flourless

    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars #glutenfree #cookiebars #blondies #almondbutter #flourless

    Yesterday my mom guilted me into taking an hour and a half long walk to try to get this labor show on the road. On the way, she bought a peanut butter cookie at the market. A gluten-filled peanut butter cookie I couldn't touch. And by the end of the walk, I felt so intensely jealous I couldn't stop thinking about these cookie bars. But I was so tired and my feet so sore that I was definitely not baking. No way. Not a chance.

    When we got home, we popped by our next-door neighbor's house to find them setting up their family tent in the backyard, prepping for a night of "practice" camping with their toddler. Jeremy joked, "we'll just be out here all night, so feel free to drop off baked goods whenever." I laughed, "I'm definitely not baking tonight." In fact, I was sure I'd be laboring instead.

    Three hours later I texted him, "I have fresh from the oven almond butter cookie bars - are you awake still?" These bars, you guys, they're delicious enough to get me off the couch at 40 weeks pregnant to put a pan in the oven. Fortunately they take approximately 5 minutes of active time, which is as much as my feet can handle in the kitchen right now.

    When I met my neighbor at the back fence with a plate of almond butter cookie bars, he told me his wife had accidentally fallen asleep with the toddler. I assured him I wouldn't tell her these bars ever existed if he wanted to hog them for himself. (Sorry Kate! You snooze, you lose!)

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    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars #glutenfree #cookiebars #blondies #almondbutter #flourless

    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars #glutenfree #cookiebars #blondies #almondbutter #flourless

    Here's to polishing off the last two bars tonight just in time for baby boy's arrival!

    While we wait, here's a peek at a couple of our maternity photos from a few weeks back - taken by Carla from CharlieSue Photography.

    Maternity Photos with Toddler #maternity #maternityphotos #pregnancy #family

    Maternity Photos with Toddler #maternity #maternityphotos #pregnancy #family #toddler

    Maternity Photos with Toddler #maternity #maternityphotos #pregnancy #family #toddler

    Disclosure: Special thanks to Safeway for providing the ingredients for this recipe and sponsoring this post! And thanks to you for supporting the companies that keep Snixy Kitchen cooking!

    Recipe

    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Bars #glutenfree #blondies #almondbutter #flourless

    Flourless Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Cookie Bars

    yields: 12 bars - one 8x8 pan
    prep time: 5 minutes mins
    cook time: 22 minutes mins
    total time: 27 minutes mins
    With just a few ingredients, these quick and easy flourless chocolate chunk almond butter cookie bars are soft and chewy with crunchy dry roasted almonds studded throughout!
    4.80 from 30 reviews
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    Ingredients

    • 1 cup salted almond butter, I recommend Safeway's Open Nature almond butter
    • 1 cup (162g) dark brown sugar
    • 1 large egg
    • 2 tablespoons super-fine blanched almond flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
    • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
    • 4 ounces (¾ cup) chopped bittersweet chocolate
    • ½ cup chopped dry roasted almonds
    • Flaky salt, for topping
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    INSTRUCTIONS

    • Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8x8 baking pan with parchment paper.
    • Mix all the ingredients together in the bowl of a stand mixer or in a medium bowl with a hand mixer.
    • Dump the dough into the baking pan and press down evenly. Bake for 22-25 minutes, until set and a toothpick comes out clean (I vote for slightly under-baking because then they'll be gooey and chewy!)
    • While they're still warm, top them with a few pinches of flaky salt. Let cool for 15 minutes before pulling out of the pan and slicing into 12 bars. Note: the cooling is necessary or the bars will fall apart!

    Notes

    *A friend tested the recipe without the almond flour and they turned out delicious for her. So if you can't get your hands on it, then feel free to leave it out! [br]Peanut option: I made a version replacing the almond butter and dry roasted almonds with peanut butter and roasted peanuts and it is also DELICIOUS.
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    1. Betsy -

      September 04, 2023 at 10:13 am

      Lovely recipe and great idea. One modification I would strongly recommend is using toasted walnuts or pecans in place of the dry roasted almonds. The texture of the denser almonds is a little too tough for these sweet little bars.

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    2. Laura -

      April 09, 2019 at 8:34 pm

      Hi! These are awesome! I made a couple of modifications I thought I’d share. I used natural PB instead of almond butter (and added a little sea salt), and I used 1 cup of coconut sugar instead of brown sugar. I live in Denver so baked for ~13 -14 min. Delicious!!

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    3. Joni Hartman -

      March 31, 2019 at 7:18 am

      Since you make so many things gluten free, I was wondering if you have a go-to substitute for eggs? I usually use a flax egg when needed, but it doesn’t always work like a real egg (in creating fluffiness).
      I also use almond milk to make baked things dairy-free, but is there a better alternative you have found? Thank you!

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      • Sarah Menanix -

        April 01, 2019 at 11:08 am

        I haven't experimented much with egg-free baking because so many gluten-free recipes really rely on the eggs for binding. For this particular recipe, I wouldn't recommend leaving the egg out because it doesn't have much else to bind it together. Sorry I'm not much more help in this area!

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    4. Scott -

      August 18, 2018 at 12:50 pm

      Just made these and they’re out of this world! (And so easy too) thanks for the great recipe!

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    5. todd wagner -

      July 31, 2018 at 6:15 pm

      Soooo gooey, and full of crunchy textures!! DROOLING!

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    6. Stephanie T. -

      July 24, 2018 at 6:15 pm

      A batch is in the oven now! Even the dough (with extra chocolate and subbing walnuts) tasted amazing! Very excited for your second baby!

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    7. Mimi -

      July 24, 2018 at 6:27 am

      Beautiful photos! I love this recipe. It’s something my grand daughter and I can make together!

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    8. Veronica -

      July 23, 2018 at 11:10 pm

      I love this recipe! Your maternity photos are gorgeous!

      Reply

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