Recipe: Tasty Almond Meal Cookies
Almond Meal Cookies. Whether you're looking for festive keto-friendly recipes for the holidays (these Vegan Almond Flour Sugar Cookies are just the ticket), wholesome paleo options (you'll love these easy cookies made with applesauce), or gluten-free alternatives to classic desserts (these Chocolate Chip. Whisk Dry ingredients - Use a whisk to combine the almond meal, sugar, salt, lemon and almond extract. Almond meal tends to yield heavy and dense cookies and will be darker in color.
You must measure your butter in a melted/softened state. If you use homemade almond meal that is not completely dry, the excess water content prevents the cookies from holding together. The final result should be a chewy, slightly undercooked cookie. You can have Almond Meal Cookies using 0 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Almond Meal Cookies
In a large mixing bowl, stir together almond meal, dark chocolate chips, coconut, baking powder, salt and sugar. In a separate bowl, beat egg using a whisk or large fork until uniform in color and slightly foamy. Whisk in the coconut oil and vanilla, then add to dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt evenly over the top, then sprinkle in the almond flour.
Almond Meal Cookies instructions
- In a large mixing bowl add almond meal (use from almond milk recipe if you made it) & flour if mixing, cocoa nibs, coconut, baking powder, sugar & salt and mix well..
- Whisk egg until creamy and doubled in size,, then whisk in coconut oil and vanilla extract.
- Add to dry ingredients and mix well until all the dry is coated..
- Chill for 30 minutes or overnight, I did 30 minutes then preheat oven to 375°F 190° farenheight.
- Put greaseproof paper on a baking tray, divide mixture into 20 balls then press down on greaseproof paper giving 1" apart or if using moulds pat in small moulds and bake 10 minutes till firm take out oven, leave oven on, let cool completely then turn out and put on greaseproof paper on baking tray on other side for 5 minutes. Completely cool before taking out moulds. You can omit the nibs if you like like I did with moulds and I used 32g own made canderal brown sugar...
- Place in centre of oven for 7-10 minutes until edges turn brown. Mine took 9 minutes.
- Leave to cool on tray then transfer to cooling rack, be careful these are soft biscuits not hard n crunchy.
- Enjoy....
With the mixer on low speed, beat until the mixture is well combined. By hand, fold in the chocolate chips. You can decorate the shortbread with almond slivers instead of whole almonds, if you like. Trying almond flour as an alternative to of white flour in cookies brings a nice healthy dose of fibre, iron, protein, and healthy fats. Almond flour has a more coarse consistency, and a nutty flavour, so it makes cookies slightly softer and more dense then regular white flour would.
