Healthy Lemon Cookies with Almond Flour
Healthy Lemon Cookies with almond flour are thick, soft, lightly golden, and made with unrefined cane sugar and real lemons. Perfect for all your spring and summer party dessert tables!
Servings: 18 cookies
Calories: 120kcal
Ingredients
For Cookies:
- 1/3 cup butter softened
- 1/3 cup cane sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 lemon, zest of
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 cups almond flour
For Lemon Glaze:
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar I use eryhtritol
- 1 tbsp lemon juice or water more if needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line 2 large baking sheets with unbleached parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, add butter and sugar and using an electric hand mixer or stand mixer blend until creamy. Add the egg, vanilla extract, baking soda, salt, lemon zest and juice; blend another minute. Add almond flour, stir with spatula until cookie dough forms and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Using a small scoop, scoop dough, roll into a ball, place on previously prepared baking sheet and gently press with fingers to flatten cookies a bit. Cookies spread somewhat, so leave 1.5 inch in between. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake on a middle rack for 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes.
- While cookies are cooling, make glaze by whisking powdered sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl. Drizzle over cookies and enjoy!
Notes
- Store: In a cookie jar for up to 5 days.
- Freeze: In an airtight container for up to 3 months. Thaw on the counter for a few hours.
- Shipping: Let cookie get 1 day old first. Then wrap 2 cookies bottoms to each other with plastic wrap, place in airtight container where they don't tumble around much, with a slice of bread, and ship to a not long distant destination, like 5 days max.
- Coconut oil: I have not tried using it but in my experience it results in more crunchy cookies. It will work though.
- Any other flour: Gluten free flours are very finicky, all flours are. I have not tested this recipe with any other flour and do not recommend to do so. Almond flour is very unique and can't be easily replaced.
- Fresh lemon juice is the best but bottled will work as well.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 120kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 78mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g