Description
Buttery grain-free vegan linzer cookies with yummy chocolate fudge filling (or swap for your favorite jam!) The perfect easy healthy holiday baking recipe!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup (120g) almond flour
- 1/3 cup (40g) coconut flour
- 1/4 cup (80g) maple syrup
- 1/4 cup (50g) coconut oil, melted
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 1/2 a vanilla bean (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
- 1/4 tsp salt
Chocolate Fudge Filling
- 2/3 cup (120g) Hu Gems
- 1/4 cup (60g) coconut milk
Instructions
- Whisk almond flour, coconut flour, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda, zest, seeds scraped out of the vanilla bean, and salt.
- Add maple syrup and coconut oil. Mix to form a ball of dough.
- Roll out between two pieces of wax paper to 1/4 inch thickness.
- Cutout with a linzer cookie cutter, you should get approximately 16 cookies.
- Transfer dough to a pan and freeze for 30 minutes (this makes transferring to the baking sheet easier.
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Use a spatula to transfer cookies to a lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool completely.
- For the filling, melt the Gems with the coconut milk. Stir until smooth.
- Spoon a dollop of the filling on each whole cookie, top with the cutout cookies, and chill until the chocolate is firm.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 sandwich
- Calories: 321
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 157mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 12g
- Carbohydrates: 21g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 4g
Keywords: holiday, Christmas, ganache, chocolate, shortbread, easy, healthy, almond flour, paleo, gluten free