The Ultimate Easy Cut Out Coconut Flour Cookies
This nut-free, grain, gluten, and dairy-free cut out cookie is delicious! Decorate with icing or melted chocolate! It's vegan too!
Ingredients
- 1/8 cup ghee (sub coconut oil for vegan)
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1 flax egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup (add a little more if the dough is too crumbly)
- 1/2 cup coconut flour (I have had success with Honeyville and Let's Do Organic brands)
- 1 tablespoon tapioca starch/flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder (try my homemade recipe on the site - see links in this post!)
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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In a small bowl, whisk together coconut flour, tapioca, baking powder. Set aside.
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In a bowl, using an electric mixer beat flax egg and sugar for 1 minute.
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Add ghee, vanilla extract, sea salt and beat until combined.
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Add flour mixture and beat until combined and forms a dough.
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If the dough is crumbly, add a bit more maple syrup so it will be an easy dough to roll out into cookies.
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Place the dough between two sheets of parchment paper, on a flat surface, and roll out cookies using cookies. You should end up with one sheet pan of cookies. the number of cookies will depend on the size of your cookie cutters.
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Bake cookies for approximately 8 minutes (will depend on the size of cookies).
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Icing: 1/4 cup powdered sugar (I use organic powdered sugar) and add several drops of almond milk, whisking, and keep adding until you get the consistency of icing. I added a few drops of natural food coloring to make some of the cookies pink and red.
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Another delicious icing is 1/4 cup of chocolate chips, melted, and spread as icing on cookies.
Recipe Notes
Notes: a flax egg can be made by adding 3 tablespoons of water to 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed. I like organic golden flax for this. Stir the mixture in a small bowl and let sit for 10 minutes. The flax/water combo will start to congeal and become "egglike". Flax eggs don't work in all recipes, but I have had success using them in this recipe.