Recipe

Almond cookies.

Almond flour, a little arrowroot and maple syrup. No wheat, no refined sugar, and they take twenty-five minutes from cupboard to cooling rack.

Category
Sweet things
Total time
25 min
Makes
12
Almond cookies

Ingredients

  • 150g (1½ cups) almond flour
  • 30g (¼ cup) arrowroot powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  •  80ml (⅓ cup) maple syrup or honey
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
  • ⅛ tsp almond extract (optional)
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • A pinch of salt

Method

  1. Mix the almond flour, arrowroot, baking powder, and salt in one bowl.
  2. Combine the maple syrup, extracts, and vinegar in another bowl, then mix the two together.
  3. Roll into balls, space them on a lined tray and flatten slightly — not completely.
  4. Bake at 180°C for 13–15 minutes, until the edges are just golden.

per cookie

100 kcal · 3 g protein · 6 g fat · 11 g carbohydrate · 1.6 g fibre


Good source of

vitamin E · magnesium

From Katia

The texture is the win here — properly chewy, rather than the dry crumb you usually get without wheat. Twenty-five minutes from cupboard to cooling rack, the dough is forgiving enough that a child can roll it, and these are on repeat in our house.

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