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Gluten-free baking can be intimidating.
We’ve definitely had our fair share of gluten-free baking flops at Breakfast Criminals HQ and ended up with a crumbling, undercooked mess. BUT with the right recipe, gluten-free vegan baking can be fun, delicious, and actually relatively simple!
This beautiful guest recipe for almond rose cardamom cookies is by Dr. Sarah Kucera, a yoga teacher, chiropractor, and wellness practitioner with a background in Ayurveda. Inspired by a dinner party dessert gone awry, this recipe is great for when you want to whip up a batch of cookies with a healthy and elevated twist.
Sarah’s philosophy is all about finding balance in life and the belief that we can all feel even better than we do right now. This mindset definitely translates into her food, and just the pictures of these cookies already have us smiling!
Gluten-Free Almond Rose Cardamom Cookies Recipe
*Makes 12 cookies
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 flax egg or chia egg (1 TBS of ground chia or flax blended with 3 TBS of water)
- 1 tspn vanilla extract
- 2 TBS food grade rose water (rose hydrosol)
- ½ tspn fine sea salt
- 1 ½ tspn ground cardamom
- 3 TBS granulated maple syrup or other sweetener
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- ½ cup oat flour (either use ready-made, or blend flat oats into a fine flour)
- 1 cup almonds, ground into fine pieces in blender (the stage before almond butter)
- Maldon sea salt flakes
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, mix together flax/chia egg, rose water and vanilla.
- Add sea salt, cardamom and granulated maple syrup and blend together.
- Mix in coconut oil, making sure it has fully softened and blended.
- Add almonds and oat flour, stirring until fully combined.
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and press flat to ½ inch thickness. Sprinkle Maldon sea flakes on top.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes, making sure the bottom does not become overly brown.
- Let the baking sheet sit on cooling rack for several minutes before transferring the cookies from the pan.
PRINTABLE RECIPE:
Gluten-Free Almond Rose Cardamom Cookies
Author: Breakfast Criminals
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Gluten-Free, Vegan
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Serves: 12
This gluten-free cookies recipe is great for when you want to whip up a batch of cookies with a healthy and elevated twist.
Ingredients
- 1 flax egg or chia egg (1 TBS of ground chia or flax blended with 3 TBS of water)
- 1 tspn vanilla extract
- 2 TBS food grade rose water (rose hydrosol)
- ½ tspn fine sea salt
- 1 ½ tspn ground cardamom
- 3 TBS granulated maple syrup or other sweetener
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- ½ cup oat flour (either use ready-made, or blend flat oats into a fine flour)
- 1 cup almonds, ground into fine pieces in blender (the stage before almond butter)
- Maldon sea salt flakes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, mix together flax/chia egg, rose water and vanilla.
- Add sea salt, cardamom and granulated maple syrup and blend together.
- Mix in coconut oil, making sure it has fully softened and blended.
- Add almonds and oat flour, stirring until fully combined.
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and press flat to ½ inch thickness. Sprinkle Maldon sea flakes on top.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes, making sure the bottom does not become overly brown.
- Let the baking sheet sit on cooling rack for several minutes before transferring the cookies from the pan.