Chewy Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies
A big bowl, kids eager to flex some creativity, and a mom semi-worried about precious ingredients (about a cups worth) spilling out onto the floor = some slammin’ almond flour shortbread cookies.
When almond flour calls your name, and little people want cookies, do yourself a favor—respond! It’ll make the little people in your life happy–and the big people too.



Chewy Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies
Servings: 1 dozen
Ready In: 20 mins
Good For: Snack
Cuisine: Gluten-Free, Grain-Free
Ingredients:
- 2¼ cups of almond flour
- 1 tsp of flax seed meal
- 2 Tbsp coconut oil (melted)
- ¼ cup of maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp of nut milk
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a bowl, mix dry ingredients (minus flax seed meal
- In another bowl, mix wet ingredients (including flax seed meal)
- Combine both by slowly pouring dry ingredients into wet ingredients, and mix. Dough will be sticky. Add no more than 1/2 tsp of nut milk if impossible to stir.
- Form dough into little balls and place on top of cookie sheet, lined with parchment paper
- Gently press into flat circles
- Bake for 12 minutes, and be careful they don’t burn!
- Let cool down, to firm cookies
- Cookies should be crisp on the outside, with a nice chewy center 🙂

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Delicious cookie, the texture reminded me of a coconut macaroon…I will make it again
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed 🙂