3-Ingredient Almond Flour Sugar Cookies
Almond flour sugar cookies are easy 3-ingredient healthy sugar cookies with almond flour.
Plus, they are gluten-free, grain-free, and paleo-friendly!
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What Are Almond Flour Sugar Cookies?
Almond Flour Sugar Cookies are a healthier version of the classic sugar cookies.
The traditional sugar cookie recipe is made with all-purpose flour, dairy butter, and eggs, and the almond flavor generally comes from almond sugar.
This almond flour sugar cookie recipe brings the same classic taste and texture with healthier and dairy-free ingredients.
How To Make Almond Flour Sugar Cookies
There’s nothing easier than baking with almond flour. It’s actually one of the easiest grain-free flours to bake with.
It’s not as tricky as coconut flour because it doesn’t contain as much fiber, so don’t hesitate a second and give a try to these simple almond flour sugar cookies!
Ingredients
Plus, as a healthy vegan foodie, you probably have all the 3 ingredients in your pantry, so no need to wait.
- Vegan butter – I love to use a brand made of coconut oil, palm oil-free.
- Almond flour – use blanched fine almond flour for best results.
- Coconut sugar – or any unrefined crystal sugar you like.
Baking The Cookies
Gluten-free, vegan cookies are easy to make, but I recommend following these 3 main steps for the best results.
- First, beat the vegan butter and sugar together to create a fluffy mixture and incorporate it into the butter. This will prevent pieces of sugar into vegan sugar cookies.
- Then, add the almond flour and use the electric beater again to combine and form a crumble. Only use your hands to knead the dough at the end and form the cookie dough.
- Finally, place the dough for 10 minutes in the fridge before rolling, and make sure you roll the dough between pieces of parchment paper, or it will stick o the roller pin.
Flavoring Ideas
You can play with spices and create a range of flavorsome almond flour sugar cookies. My preferred option is to add one of the following:
- Cinnamon, ginger, or pumpkin spices – 1 teaspoon of ground spices is enough for this dough size.
- Vanilla – 1 teaspoon liquid vanilla extract.
- Grated orange zest or lemon zest – add 1 tablespoon.
Almond Flour Sugar Cookies Nutrition
These are healthy low-sugar cookies thanks to the small addition of coconut sugar. In fact, 100 grams of coconut sugar contain only 75 grams of sugar, and this recipe uses a tiny amount.
Consequently, one of these almond flour sugar cookies contains only 2 grams of sugar!
Storage Instructions
These almond flour sugar cookies can be stored for up to 3 weeks in a cookie jar, sealed, at room temperature.
Allergy Swaps
These cookies are made with only 3 simple plant-based ingredients. However, if you still have allergies to some of these, there are a few substitutions you can make:
- Almond Flour – While you can’t use coconut flour, it’s possible to swap the almond flour for sunflower seed flour.
- Coconut Sugar – You can replace coconut sugar with any other crystal sweetener such as allulose, tagatose, erythritol, or classic table sugar.
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I hope you enjoy this new healthy vegan cookie recipe.
If so, look at the other options on the blog, like our vegan peanut butter oatmeal cookies. See you soon here or on Instagram.
Almond Flour Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Almond Flour
- 3 tablespoons Vegan Butter
- 3 tablespoons Coconut Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Line a cookie tray with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, beat vegan butter and coconut sugar with an electric beater until fluffy and well incorporated – about 20 seconds on medium speed.
- Add in almond flour (and optional flavoring if desired), and using the electric beater again, beat all the ingredients together to form a consistent crumble. Use your hands to gather the dough pieces and form a dough ball.
- Place the dough ball in the fridge for 10 minutes to firm up.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and place the ball between two pieces of parchment paper. Roll the dough with a rolling pin to the thickness of your choice. The thinner, the faster it cooks, and the crispier/harder they get. I recommend not too thin, or they burn. The best is about half a cm thick.
- Peel off the top parchment paper sheet and use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes.
- Lift a flat tool (knife, spatula) under the cookie to transfer onto the prepared cookie tray.
- Gather the leftover dough, form a ball, and roll again, following the same process. You should be able to form 20 sugar cookies with this recipe.
- Bake the cookies in the center of your oven until the sides are slightly golden brown, about 8-12 minutes. If you roll thin cookies, they will bake fast. Otherwise, it can take up to 12 minutes to bake. They will stay slightly soft after 8 minutes, and that is what you want. They harden and crisp when cooling down like all shortbread recipes. Don't overbake to get them hard in the oven, or they will burn.
- Cool down on a cookie rack before decorating with melted vegan dark chocolate, icing sugar, or serve plain.
Storage
- Store up to 3 weeks in a cookie jar, sealed, at room temperature.
Wonderful recipe! Can I freeze the dough, if I make a larger batch?
Yes, you can! Thaw it in the fridge before forming new cookies!
What will the outcome be if I don’t have an electric beater? Do you think I should just pass? I have a smallish chopper/food processor I use for pulling seitan together. Would that do? I like the simplicity of ingredients in this recipe.
I think it should work to cream the vegan butter and sugar
We are a gf vegan household. I made these tonight since my husband and I are quarantined because of Covid. Had all ingredients on hand. Went with a nice vanilla paste instead of extract and fresh orange zest. Made a ton of little trees, stars, bears and gingerbread people. About 40 cookies! So easy and fun! Sprinkled with red and green sugar. They baked in under 8 minutes. Thanks for the recipe. I’ll make them again! Added a little cheer to our holidays!
Thanks so much for this lovely feedback, Merry Christmas!
Hello I love all your recipe so much, I was wondering if I could use a other flour .
You can try my vegan shortbread cookie recipe instead if you prefer to use regular white flour
is it possible to use a sugar other than coconut sugar?
Absolutely! Any granulated sugar works well
these are delicious, but how teeny are your cookie cut outs? i got 10 cookies and they are very thin. (probably a bit too thin)
I usually make 20 little stars but it depends of your cookie cutter size as well.
Would I have to make any adjustments if I use real butter?
No, same amount will work well too
Where are the ingredient amounts in these recipes? I can’t find them!
Just before your comment, in the recipe card as always. Enjoy!
loved making these! so easy and delicious! the texture came out nice and soft with a little crunch 🙂
My dough was too soft to work with even after refrigerating. I was not able to transfer them to a baking pan without breaking them. Was it too little almond flour perhaps? Although I did measure correctly. Also they started to burn at 6 min. I rolled out half cm thick.
If its too soft it means that your dry to wet ratio is wrong. It can be that the flour is not ultra thin and didn’t absorb the moisture or you did you swap any ingredients?