3-Ingredient Almond Flour Cookies {With Honey}
Servings 16 cookies (3-inches or 7.5 cm in diameter)
These healthy 3-ingredient almond flour cookies are the perfect soft and chewy cookies to add to your cookie tray this year. Unlike your typical cookies, this recipe is eggless, contains no refined sugar, and no butter. With only 3 simple ingredients, these easy almond flour cookies are a breeze to prepare and are sure to be a hit with the whole family! {Gluten-free, dairy-free, paleo & vegetarian}
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched almond flour
- 1/3 cup honey (the runny kind)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-2 tablespoons warm water
For decorating (optional)
- 3/4 cup chopped dark chocolate or chocolate chips
Instructions
- Add the almond flour and salt to a large bowl. Mix until combined.
- Next, add in the honey and stir until clumps of dough start to form. If the dough is too crumbly, add 1 tablespoon of warm water and mix until you get a dough-like consistency. You may have to add a bit more almond flour if the mixture seems too sticky, or a bit of additional water if the mixture seems too dry to reach the right consistency. You should be able to roll the dough into a ball.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Wrap the dough ball in parchment paper and place in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
- Next, place the dough ball in between two pieces of parchment paper roughly the size of your baking sheet. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough so that it’s about ¼ inch (0.5cm) thick. Remove the top piece of parchment paper.
- Using a star cookie cutter (or another preferred shape), cut out stars in the dough, removing the excess dough around the cookie cutters with a knife or your fingers. Carefully hold the parchment paper full of cut out cookies by the outer edges and transfer it to a baking sheet.
- Roll out the remaining dough and continue cutting out shapes until all of the dough has been used up. If you don’t have much dough left at the end, you can just form it into a small circular cookie. Place on a second baking sheet.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes, depending on how large you cut the cookies and how thick you rolled the dough. Check the cookies at the 9 minute mark and every minute or so after that since almond flour burns very quickly. They should be slightly soft to the touch in the middle with firmer and lightly golden edges.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven and allow the cookies to fully cool on the baking sheet. They will firm up during this time.
- To dip them in chocolate:
- Once cooled, transfer the cookies back to the baking sheet and place in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
- Next, in a small bowl, melt the chocolate chips in the microwave in 20 second increments until just melted and smooth.
- Dip the cooled cookies halfway into the melted chocolate, allowing any excess chocolate to drip off.
- Once the chocolate has stopped dripping, place the dipped cookies on the cold baking sheet that was in the freezer. Repeat with remaining cookies.
- If desired, decorate chocolate with decorations such as chopped pistachios, sea salt, sprinkles, chopped candy cane, or leave plain.
- Place the chocolate dipped cookies back in the freezer for about 10 minutes to allow the chocolate to harden. Now they’re ready to serve!
Notes
- For best results, be sure to roll out the almond flour cookie dough as evenly as possible. If any parts of the cookie are thinner, they may brown up more quickly around the edges, resulting in unevenly baked cookies.
- Keep a very close eye on the cookies since almond flour burns very quickly. If your oven tends to run hot, check them before the 9 minute mark. The baking time may vary depending on your oven.
- The back of the oven tends to be the hottest part of the oven, so you may find that the cookies at the back will cook up faster. You may need to remove them from the oven first when checking the cookies if they’re cooking up faster than the rest to prevent them from burning.
- I also tested this recipe using smaller cookie cutters (5 cm in diameter). If you plan to make smaller cookies, cook them for 7-9 minutes.
- If you plan to skip the chocolate step, feel free to decorate the cookies with some sprinkles or other desired decorations before placing them in the oven, or use frosting after they're baked.
Nutrition
Calories: 101kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 3gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 0.5gSodium: 37mgPotassium: 4mgFiber: 1gSugar: 6gVitamin C: 0.04mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 1mg
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