Melt-in-your-mouth 2-Ingredient Almond Cookies. The most amazing deliciousnesses of all times! Paleo, vegan, low-carb & absolutely delicious!
After scrolling through an endless Pinterest feed of Christmas cookies I couldn’t help but think the world needs quick and easy to make, healthy Christmas Cookies!
I’ve been testing around with coconut flour and coconut oil and eggs and flour and and and ended up SO FRUSTRATED! Why do most healthy cookies need sooo many ingredients? Why do healthy cookies take so long to prepare? *scream*
The same thoughts went through my mind when working on a Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies recipe before. All the recipes out there are way too complicated!
Why not keep it simple my friends? I still can’t believe how only 2 ingredients can be enough to make melt-in-your-mouth cookies. These Almond Cookies will knock you off your feet.
They are gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, mapely sweet, nutty, soft, and simply amazing! Oh and they’re paleo, too! How awesome is that? I’m sure I forgot a couple denominations.
How to make Almond Flour Cookies
Ok, so let’s get to the nitty gritty details. There are 4 very simple steps to success:
- Mix almond flour and maple syrup until you have a dough-like consistency. Make sure you count your ingredients. It’s almond flour (1) plus maple syrup (1) equals two (2) ingredients. Ha!
- Put in the freezer for 15-20 minutes to make rolling out easier but it’ll also work with non-chilled dough. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin in between two large pieces of parchment paper (important!). Roll out to about 1/4″ (0,5 cm) (I know, I say 1/2″ in the video, I meant 1/4″ though. I don’t think in inches and never trust me when I “talk” about inches)
- Remove the upper parchment paper and leave the rolled out dough on the bottom layer of paper and cut out stars or whatever shape cookie cutter you have on hand, then remove the dough in between the stars. This is the magic trick to get pretty shaped cookies. Most people cut out the cookies and then try to move the cut-out-cookie-dough onto a baking sheet but it gets all distorted in the process. It’s much easier to just leave the cut-out part on the parchment paper and use a flat knife or even tooth pick to remove the excess dough around the shape. Then transfer the paper full of stars onto a baking sheet.
- Bake your almond flour cookies for 15-25 minutes at 250 F (120 C). Remove from the oven and take the edges of the paper to transfer the whole thing onto a cooking rack. Let cool down completely.
Important notes: you will feel very tempted to eat the dough and that’s ok, it’s fine to eat “raw”. YAY! However, remember, that the more dough you eat the less almond flour cookies you will end up with. Uh-oh!
How To Spice Up Your Almond Cookies Recipe
So absolute mega bonus tip is to transform these melt-in-your-mouth almond cookies into Chocolate Almond Cookies. It’s a 3-ingredient cookie then but hey, still pretty good, eh? So, what’s the best way to dip them into chocolate? There is quite an art to it, you know?
First, you will want to put your completely cooled cookies in the freezer in a single layer. Use a baking sheet for this. Freeze them for a while. Like 20 minutes or so.
Then, melt your favorite chocolate in a double boiler over veeeery low heat stirring constantly. If you use high heat or stop stiring the chocolate starts to clump and becomes all yucky. Be patient. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Once the chocolate is nice and runny, remove from the heat. Take out your ice cold cookies and dip into the chocolate, lift up and let excess chocolate drip back into the bowl. The chocolate should harden pretty fast due to the coldness of the cookies.
Once the cookie stops dripping, lay on the cold baking sheet on which it was in the freezer. Repeat this with all cold almond cookies. Once you are finished, return to freezer for about 10 minutes and they’re good to eat.
These are an AWESOME edible gift, too by the way. The almond cookies without chocolate are probably better as a gift, less messy.
You can pack them in a nice cellophane bag without risking the chocolate to smear all over it. Put a pretty bow around it, pair it with a jar of this uuuuh-mazing Cashew Chocolate Spread that takes only 5 Minutes to make and off your go make someone extremely happy :)
2-Ingredient Almond Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups almond flour - (exact amount will depend on almond flour brand)
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
Instructions
- Add both ingredients to a bowl and stir until clumps form, then continue with your hand until you reach a dough-like consistency. Depending on how fine your almond flour is ground you may have to add a tiny bit more almond flour or a tiny bit more maple syrup to get to the right consistency. It should be the same as any other sugar cookie dough. (see video)
- Preheat oven to 250 F (120 C).
- Wrap the dough in parchment paper or cling film and freeze for approximately 15 minutes.
- Roll out dough in betweet two pieces of parchment paper the size of your baking sheet to about 1/4" (0,5 cm). Remove top layer of parchment paper.
- Cut out cookies and remove excess dough in between shapes with a knife or tooth pick. NOTE: To avoid dough from sticking to the cookie cutter, dunk it in water before you cut out the next one.
- Lift up parchment paper full of cut-out cookies at edges, place on baking sheet.
- Repeat the rolling out and cutting out and placing on a second baking sheet until all dough is used up. (Use left over dough to form little balls of about 1 tsp dough and place on free space on the baking sheet).
- Bake cookies for 15-25 minutes depending on how thick you rolled them out. Keep an eye on them at the 15-minute mark. Almond flour burns easily.
- Remove from the oven, lift the parchment paper on the edges and place all the cookies on a cooling rack this way. Let cool completely. Then store in an airtight container.
- To make Chocolate Almond Cookies refer to instructions given further up in the blog post.
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Jasmine says
I used a courser almond flour. And after switching my over to convection (rather than fan forced) I had success
Ella says
Love that these have only 2 ingredients.
Dilys says
Is almond flour the same as ground almond that we have in u.k.please
Lorena Grater says
Yes. Ground almonds.
Arijana says
nein, Mandelmehl ist entölt
gemahlene Mandeln sind deutlich fettiger und die Konsistenz verändert sich dadurch (Plätzchen zerlaufen eher)
Lorena Grater says
In North American grocery stores there is only almond flour = ground almonds. No different flour without the fat.
Jessica says
Do you think this dough would work in a cookie press?
Lorena Grater says
Ha, I just had to google what a cookie press is. So I *think* if you chill the dough really really well, it might work.
Tom from the Bronx says
I absolutely love this recipe. I apologize, but I am a tinkerer.
I found success by using 2 parts almond flour to one part of maple syrup. It makes the dough a little looser, and sweeter. I like the suggestion of sugar-free syrup, but haven’t tried it yet.
I have also made a simple syrup with Truvia. I was surprised to find that even water alone binds the almond flour enough for it to hold together while baking. It just tastes terrible!
My current experiment is to make different kinds of “cookie pockets” using this dough. I roll the dough out, and cut it into 2 inch squares. I then add different “fillers” diagonally across the top of the squares. With help of parchment paper, I fold them over diagonally to make a pocket. It loks like a mini-taco, but it is completely folded over, with no filler showing.
For fillers, I use different combinations of baking cherries, dark chocolate morsels, and different chopped nuts. When motivated, I drizzle or dip them with melted dark chocolate. When in a hurry, I have even used that famous hazelnut spread. Sometimes I top them with finely chopped nuts, cinnamon, or even instant coffee crystals.
I have been having success with setting my oven to 375F, and baking for 20 minutes, but I think my oven runs colder than the setting shows. My very old oven thermometer shows that the actual temp in there may be closer to 350F.