Paleo Salted Caramel Cookie Cake

This sweet and salty cookie cake recipe has SKYROCKETED to the top of my list of favorite paleo desserts. It’s moist and cakey in the center, perfectly golden-brown on the edges, and topped off with a gooey 3-ingredient caramel sauce that makes this dessert absolutely impossible for me to pass up!

The secret: layering the caramel sauce on the bottom of the skillet before baking, and topping the cookie dough with extra chocolate chips & sea salt. HELLOOO dessert of my dreams!

The BEST Healthier, Grain-Free Cookie Cake Recipe!

There’s something about a classic chocolate chip cookie cake, you know?! They always seemed to be at every birthday party or last day of school celebration growing up sooo I was pretty adamant about creating a cookie cake recipe that I could still eat on the specific carbohydrate diet.

But when I had some of my extra specific-carbohydrate-diet-friendly caramel sauce leftover in my fridge, I couldn’t resist incorporating it into this recipe! Honestly, I think it took the traditional cookie cake to a whole new level.

This cake is lightly sweetened with honey and made with almond flour in order to be completely grain-free, gluten-free, and refined-sugar-free!

I’ve been following the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) for about 5 months now in order to help manage my IBD symptoms. However, over time I’ve been able to branch out a little bit and experiment with adding in certain foods back in based on how I feel! I wrote this post explaining the foods that aren’t traditionally “allowed” on the specific carbohydrate diet, but are foods that I feel good eating. But everybody is so so different… especially when it comes to what causes an IBD flare. I CANNOT stress that enough!

That being said, dark chocolate (70%- 100%) is one of those foods that I’ve been able to add back in over the past few months!! Thank goodness.

I’ve always been a big chocolate girl… one of my favorite candy bars to get on Halloween was just a straight up Hershey bar, basic I know. Any dessert with chocolate involved automatically has my attention.

Chocolate chip cookies (or honestly any cookie with melty chocolate chips) are my absolute favorite! Sooo I am BEYOND excited to share this (finally) perfected grain-free, refined-sugar-free healthier cookie cake recipe! A couple of my other recipes with dark chocolate involved include:

• Paleo chocolate chip banana cookie bites
• Paleo chocolate collagen mug cake
• Fudgy flourless avocado brownies
• Paleo cookie dough pancakes

I paired this cookie cake with a drizzle my favorite SCD caramel sauce to take the traditional cookie cake to the next level. Every slice has a perfectly caramelized crust, melted dark chocolate chips, and a kiss of sea salt. Ugh. This dessert gets me every time.

How to Make Paleo Cookie Cake

Step 1: Combine the almond flour, baking soda, baking powder, and sea salt in a large mixing bowl. Stir until everything is well combined.

Step 2: Add in the rest of the ingredients (except the chocolate chips) and beat until a cohesive cookie dough forms. Then add in the dark chocolate chips.

Step 3: Prepare an 8″ cast iron skillet by lightly greasing it with coconut oil. Pour about 1/4 cup of my SCD caramel sauce in to the skillet and lightly spread it over the bottom with a spoon.

Step 4: Add the cookie dough mixture into the skillet on top of the caramel and evenly spread it to fill the skillet. Sprinkle chocolate chips and a dash of sea salt over the top.

Step 5: Bake, let cool, and enjoy!

Print