My Gluten Free Snickerdoodles made with low carb almond flour and antioxidant-rich cinnamon are a super healthy cookie.
Gluten Free Snickerdoodles
While Gluten Free Snickerdoodles are great for the holidays, we love making them all year long.
Why? Because the healthy low carb ingredients in this recipe won’t spike your blood sugar.
Snickerdoodles are Gluten Free?
Better yet? These cookies are so good you won’t ever know they’re gluten free.
Cookie Recipes with Cinnamon
On top of that, cinnamon is a fantastic blood sugar stabilizer.
This makes Gluten Free Snickerdoodles perfect if you’re following a Low Carb Diet to control your glucose levels.
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Looking for more cinnamon desserts? Check out my Cinnamon Coffee Cake.
For now though, here’s my Gluten Free Snickerdoodles recipe!
Gluten Free Snickerdoodles
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ⅛ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup palm shortening
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ½ cup coconut sugar for dipping
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon for dipping
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine almond flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon
- Pulse in shortening and honey
- Scoop 1 tablespoon of dough, and roll into a ball
- Briefly dip ball in a small bowl of water
- Roll wet ball in coconut sugar and cinnamon to coat
- Place ball on a parchment paper lined baking sheet
- Flatten ball with palm of your hand
- Bake at 350°F for 7-9 minutes
- Cool and serve
Easy Snickerdoodles Recipe
This easy snickerdoodles recipe is made with only eight healthy ingredients.
What are Snickerdoodles?
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about this classic cookie:
A snickerdoodle is a type of cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, and flour rolled in cinnamon sugar. Snickerdoodles are characterized by a cracked surface and can be crisp or soft depending on preference.
Vegan Snickerdoodles Recipe
My Gluten Free Snickerdoodles are dairy-free and made without butter, wheat flour, and eggs.
If you would like to make vegan snickerdoodles, use agave instead of honey in this easy recipe.
Snickerdoodles Recipe without Cream of Tartar
Many of you may not have cream of tartar in your pantry. Not a problem! My Snickerdoodles don’t contain cream of tartar.
Eggless Cookie Recipes
Like ninety-nine percent of my cookie recipes, my Snickerdoodles are eggless.
Doesn’t matter whether you follow an Egg Free Diet, or simply like to snack on raw cookie dough, you’re safe with my cookie recipes that don’t contain eggs.
Cookie Recipes for Dairy Free Diet
You can also add dairy free to the list of what these Snickerdoodles offer.
Cookie Recipes with Almond Flour
The below cookie recipes are all made with almond flour and are family favorites
They’re perfect for the holidays but just as good for every day!
Easy Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe with Almond Flour
My Peanut Butter Cookies with Almond Flour are made with seven simple ingredients.
All you need to make them is almond flour, peanut butter, honey, shortening, vanilla, salt, and baking soda. They’re a staple in our home.
Pecan Shortbread Recipe
Looking for a cookie with pecans? Look no further than my fan favorite Pecan Shortbread Cookies.
These melt in your mouth cookies are made with seven ingredients total, including the salt and baking soda.
The almond flour base keeps this dessert low carb.
They’re the perfect holiday cookies, but so good we make ’em all year round.
Mexican Wedding Cookies Recipe
Mexican Wedding Cookies have been one of my favorite desserts for as long as I can remember.
They’re also known as:
- Italian Wedding Cookies
- Russian Tea Cookies
- Spanish Butterballs
- Snowballs
This cookie is so incredible it can be enjoyed at every celebration –but did you know they’re one of the most common Christmas cookies?
This is another healthy cookie made with an almond flour base that my boys loved growing up!
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
These are my husband’s favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies. With seven healthy ingredients they could not be easier to make.
Enjoy them plain or go decadent with some Vegan Ice Cream stuffed between two cookies for a healthy Ice Cream Sandwich.
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
Love Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies, but not all the sugar in the raspberry jam? My version uses an incredible fruit sweetened jam.
I searched for this amazing product when the boys were little so they could have jam that was not a sugar bomb!
Healthy Cookie Recipes
Not only are all of the cookie recipes on my site healthy, they’re also gluten free!
What’s your favorite cookie recipe? Leave a comment and let me know.
This Snickerdoodles recipe is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared it in 2013.
Elle says
Elana, this is a flashback to childhood.
I love snickerdoodles and their sweetness and cinnamon flavor. They are definitely a guilty pleasure of mine.
This recipe takes them from guilty pleasure to acceptable treat. Thank you for that!
I think that we all need to indulge in our sweet tooth or other weaknesses from time to time. Denying them just makes us want it more.
It is all about moderation, eating a balanced diet, and staying active. This way we can enjoy the occasional treat but also know that we are doing the best that we can for ourselves and our bodies.
Elana says
Thanks Elle!
Glenda says
Fantastic, and thank you! I like this recipe better than the others because you don’t use eggs–we are allergic to wheat & all grains, dairy, and eggs. I’ve been using a variation on this recipe (I call it Sugar&Spice cookies) with great success. I used your recipe this morning and, as I said before, it’s Fantastic! Thanks, very very much, for your blog & cookbooks.
Elana says
Glenda, I’m so happy to hear these were fantastic!
Summer says
Those look absolutely gorgeous! Can’t wait for my girl and me to whip up a batch of these guys…thanks as always, Elana!
Elana says
You’re welcome Summer!
Sally Chippendale says
I’m yet to eat a snickerdoodle, I love lots of cinnamon but my husband doesn’t, he can always tell if there is even a pinch in my baking. I cook with butter so I might try these and sub butter for the shortening. Thank you.
zosia says
then don’t give them to your husband…
Ann says
I love you, Elana, but every time a snickerdoodle recipe is published using baking soda instead of cream of tartar, an angel loses its wings. These are sugar cookies with cinnamon, not snickerdoodles. I know, I’m splitting hairs, but this is my favorite cookie. I get passionate.
Bekki says
You’re right, and you’re funny, Ann! And I think I need to bake cookies now… with cream of tartar, for proper snickerdoodliness.
Shirley @ gfe & All Gluten-Free Desserts says
These are terrific, Elana! Snickerdoodles are one of my family’s favorite cookies of all time. I think these will be great to take camping this weekend. :-)
xo,
Shirley
Elana says
Thanks Shirley!
Alyssa says
Oh my goodness these are making me so excited!!!
Elana says
Thanks Alyssa!
Darkhorse says
YUM!!! Can’t wait to try these!!! Thanks Elana!!!
Elana says
You’re welcome Darkhorse!
Cheryl says
These look fantastic! Could I use coconut oil instead of Vegan shortening?
zosia says
make a batch and find out
Kelli says
If using coconut oil, you would have to use it in its non-liquid state, right?
Sarah Grace says
Would coconut oil work in place of the shortening?
Lori says
I don’t know but would love to know if coconut oil would work as well?! Unsure if it would make the cookies too soft…? Might just try it today and let you know :)