Easy-to-Make Low FODMAP One-Bowl Chocolate Chunk Cookies
One bowl (and a spoon) to chocolate nirvana! These Low FODMAP One-Bowl Chocolate Chunk Cookies are basically the same as our classic approach to Chocolate Chunk Cookies, but this time we have streamlined the process with melted butter.
Otherwise this is the same recipe, ingredient wise.
Use The Microwave!
I use our microwave all the time in the Test Kitchen; I think it is the most important appliance for making prep time more convenient. I use it to soften butter and buttercream. I use it to make ganache and melt chocolate. I nuke potatoes when I don’t have time to bake them.
It heats food for me so that photos look fresh, fresh, fresh and I use it to defrost English muffins several times a week.
But let‘s talk about the butter melting. If you melt the butter for this recipe in a large microwave safe bowl, then you will be able to make the recipe in that one bowl.
This means quick prep and little dish washing. Pluses in my book, for sure.
Chill the Dough – or Not
You have a choice here; you can make the recipe start to finish in less than 30 minutes and you will be eating ooey gooey chocolate chunk cookies before your next TV show comes on.
Or, you can chill the dough for two hours or even overnight, in which case the cookies will hold their shape a little better, and the flavor of the dough will be richer and more butterscotchy. Yeah, I just made that a word.
Older is Better
Aging chocolate chip/chunk cookie dough in the fridge overnight is a well-known technique and it works just as well with this version of Low FODMAP One-Bowl Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
The cookies in these images were made from chilled dough.
One Recipe – Three Versions
Take a good look at the image below. On the left are Low FODMAP One-Bowl Chocolate Chunk Cookies with the addition of nuts. The cookies in the center are sans nuts.
The cookies on the right are without nuts and are baked until crispy, as opposed to chewy (the other two versions).
It is very easy to create any – or all – of these cookies even with the same batch of dough. Just follow the directions below in Step 4.
For another One-Bowl cookie, check out our yummy Oatmeal version!
And if you are looking for a VEGAN chocolate chunk cookie, we have a FANTASTIC version!
We think you will like our Salted Buckwheat Chocolate Chunk Cookies, too.
Low FODMAP One-Bowl Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Like Chocolate Chunk Cookies? Hate clean-up? Want to get them into your mouth as soon as possible? This recipe for Low FODMAP One-Bowl Chocolate Chunk Cookies is your new best friend.
Low FODMAP Serving Size Info: Makes about 2 dozen cookies; serving size 1 cookie
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (2 sticks; 226 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into pieces
- 1 cup (213 g) firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup (99 g) sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 1/3 cups (338 g) low FODMAP gluten-free all-purpose flour, such as Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12- ounces (340 g) dark chocolate, cut into approximately ½ inch (12 mm) pieces (about 2 cups); we like 60% to 70% cacao
- 1 1/3 cups (132 g) toasted walnut or pecan halves, chopped (optional)
Preparation:
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Position racks in upper and lower thirds of oven. Preheat oven to 375°F/190° Line two half-sheet baking pans with parchment paper.
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Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave - or melt in a saucepan and then transfer to a large mixing bowl (in which case this will be one bowl and one pot!). Using a whisk or a sturdy wooden spoon beat in the brown sugar, sugar and vanilla until very well combined. Let the mixture cool to room temperature at this point. Beat in the eggs, adding one at a time to better incorporate them.
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Sprinkle the flour over the wet mixture along with the baking soda and salt, stirring as you go. When a few floury streaks remain, stir in the chocolate and nuts if using (see headnote above under One Recipe - Three Versions). If you want some of the cookies to have nuts, simply divide the dough at this point and stir in HALF the amount of nuts listed above in the ingredient list. Proceed to baking or cover dough with plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours or overnight.
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Form golf ball sized balls and place the cookies 8 per pan, spaced evenly apart. No need to press them down. Bake for about 9 to 12 minutes total, rotating the pans front to back and moving from upper rack to lower rack halfway through baking, until lightly browned with the edges firmer than the centers, which should be soft. This will give you chewy cookies with a thin, crispy edge. If you want your cookies crisp through and through simply bake a minute or two longer until golden brown all over. Remember that the cookies firm up tremendously upon cooling.
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Cool cookies completely on pans set on racks. (Make subsequent batches with cooled pans). Cookies are best served the same day but may be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
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Notes:
If You Can Tolerate
- Fructans: If you have passed the wheat fructan challenge you can use conventional all-purpose flour. Use weights for best equivalent substitution. Note that the recipe will no longer be gluten-free.
Nutrition
All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more. For a more detailed explanation, please read our article Understanding The Nutrition Panel Within Our Recipes.
Can you use vegan butter for this recipe. I tried creating it just as the instructions stated but the mixture came out runny. I’m wondering was it because I melted down the butter?
Hi Eric, any changes to recipes, particularly baking recipes, when it comes to substituting ingredients, technique or even equipment can lead to a very different outcome. Melting the vegan butter and even just using the vegan butter would change the texture of these cookies. It’s not that you wouldn’t get some sort of cookies in the end…they just wouldn’t look like the images or be the same. The mixture could be chilled after it is all mixed before baking, which could help your situation.
You mention vegan. Did you use egg? It is necessary.
Also, I don’t know if this applies to you or not but remember that the low FODMAP diet is not a dairy free diet. It is lower in lactose.
If you love baking, check out our ebook, Low FOFMAP Baking. The ebook covers techniques and substitutions and has recipes not available on the site.
Hi, I love the taste of the dough but unfortunately my cookies didn’t spread. do you know why this may be?
Hi Jo! Dede is away for a couple of days but will respond to you as soon as she’s back on line. As she’s the baker I will let her answer this question! Thanks for your patience!
My guess would be temperature of ingredients, temperature of your oven, the type of cookie sheet that you were using and also did you use the flower that was asked for?
These turned out great! I used Nameste flour from Costco and refrigerated the dough overnight. I baked 16 of them in the morning and rolled the rest of the dough into balls that I froze to keep in the freezer to bake later.
YUMMY! Thank you for letting us know what you used. It will help others!
I don’t know what I am doing wrong I’ve tried to make these cookies twice now, following the recipe perfectly (I even used that exact flour). I’ve tried cooking them straight away and once leaving the dough overnight but both times I got one big sheet of indistinguishable cookie. How do you get them to keep their shape???
If you are using all the ingredients called for, I would look at the temperature of your ingredients. Check oven temp with an oven thermometer to make sure it is accurate (it is not unusual for ovens to be off by 25 or even 50°F. Also look at measuring implements and technique. . My bet is temperature is off somewhere along the way.
I don’t see a hyperlink to Dédé’s VEGAN chocolate chunk cookies, so here:
https://www.fodmapeveryday.com/recipes/low-fodmap-vegan-chocolate-chunk-cookies/
Dough was very thin couldn’t make a ball with that. If you fallow the recipe that is on the bag of Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1 to 1 flour (it’s basically the same) it doesn’t say to melt the butter. That would likely keep the dough a better consistency.
Hi there, there is a step in the recipe that calls for bringing the melted butter to room temperature. There is also an option to chill the dough and a specific mention that the images of chilled dough cookies. The recipe works both ways and the melted butter is to provide a specific end result texture, which is different from when creaming the butter.
What makes this low fodmap other than GF flour? Isn’t all of that sugar high fodmap? Maybe I’m confused.
Hi there, several things. First of all, GF flour is not necessarily low FODMAP. Low FODMAP flour is low FODMAP. Dark chocolate and nuts, butter etc. all the ingredients have low FODMAP ingredients per the serving size recommended. White sugar contains no FODMAPs at all as fructose is never in excess of glucose.