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Grain Free Lemon Lavender Cookies

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Grain Free Lemon Lavender Cookies
photo by recipe author

 

Servings: 24
Preparation Time: 45 minutes

Lavender Simple Syrup:

  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon lavender

Cookies:

  • 2 cups almond flour*
  • ½ cup coconut flour
  • 2 tablespoons lavender, ground
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup coconut oil, melted
  • ½ cup lavender simple syrup
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 teaspoons lemon zest
  • 4-6 drops lemon oil

Glaze:

  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon ground lavender
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 3-4 drops lemon oil

Lavender Simple Syrup:

In small pan, mix water, sugar, and lavender. Heat briefly to dissolve sugar. Set aside to cool.

Strain mixture and dispose of lavender.

Retain simple syrup for cookies. (Any extra is delicious in tea!)

Cookies:

Preheat oven to 350° F

In a large bowl, combine almond flour, coconut flour, ground lavender, baking soda, and salt.

In small bowl, stir together coconut oil, lavender simple syrup, egg, lemon juice, vanilla, lemon zest, and lemon oil. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix.

Form 1 ½ inch balls of cookie dough and press onto parchment lined baking sheet using 2 tablespoons dough per cookie.

Bake at 350° F for 7-10 minutes.

Glaze:

In small bowl, combine powdered sugar, ground lavender, lemon juice, and lemon oil.

After removing cookies from oven, cool on baking sheet for approximately 2 minutes. Gently spread approximately ½ teaspoon of glaze on each cookie.

Cool completely and serve.

*You can grind your own almond flour by placing whole almonds in a blender/food processor and blending until you get a fine meal.

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Gluten Free Nut Pulp Raisin Cookies

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Gluten Free Nut Pulp Raisin Cookies
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Servings: 30
Preparation Time: 20 minutes

In a large mixing bowl, cream together oil, shortening or butter, vanilla, sugar and honey until smooth. Add in egg until blended. Add in pulp, flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and cloves until mixture is slightly crumbly. Fold in raisins.

Using a cookie scoop, or tablespoon, scoop dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a pan liner. Flatten cookies with palm.

Bake at 375 °F for about 12-15 minutes or until slightly brown on edges. Let cool completely on a wire rack.

*Use up leftover pulp from homemade nut or coconut milk.

**Gluten Free Flour Mix:

Mix all ingredients together until well blended. Use as directed.

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Momma Scout Coconut Cookies

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Momma Scout Coconut Cookies
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Servings: 12
Preparation Time: 1 hour

Cookie:

Chocolate Sauce:

Filling:

In a mixing bowl, combine cookie ingredients and knead until smooth. Roll out between two pieces of parchment paper until about ¼ inch thick. Using a donut cutter, cut out small circular cookies. Re-roll dough and cut until all dough is used.

Bake at 375 °F for 10 minutes or until slightly brown. Let cool about 15 minutes.

Melt chocolate chips and coconut milk in a double boiler. Dip the bottoms of cookies into chocolate sauce and place on a parchment lined baking pan. Chill for about 20 minutes or until chocolate has hardened.

Meanwhile, bring coconut milk, honey and sugar to a boil in a small saucepan. Boil for about 5 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in coconut flakes. Carefully spoon coconut filling onto cooled cookies. Drizzle with any remaining chocolate sauce and let chill again for about 20 minutes.

*For the freshest coconut milk make homemade coconut milk. (See video at this link.)

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Healthy Cinnamon Stars with Coconut Frosting

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Healthy Cinnamon Stars with Coconut Frosting
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These are traditional Christmas cookies in Switzerland. They’re called cinnamon stars and are usually coated with sugar frosting. This recipe offers is a healthy alternative for both the cookie and the frosting.

Preparation Time:  60 minutes

For the cookies:

  • 80 grams dried apple
  • 40 grams ground hazelnuts
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon

For the frosting:

Place the dried apple pieces in your food processor, then transfer into a bowl. Mix in the hazelnuts and the cinnamon, blend together well with a spoon or your hands.

Now carefully add water until you get a dough. It doesn’t need much.

Roll the dough and cut out star shaped cookies. Put them on a dehydrator sheet and let them dehydrate for about 2 hours. This step isn’t necessary but cures them.

For the frosting heat up the coconut butter until it is has a peanut butter-like consistency. Mix it with the honey and water and spread it on the cookies.

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