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.
Gayle Friz says
We used butter instead of shortening and it worked great! My daughter-in-law is a connoisseur of snickerdoodles, and proclaimed this recipe perfection!
Elana says
Gayle, thanks for letting me know this is recipe perfection!
Ingrid Chen says
Do you have a good substitute for almond flour? My 8yo was just diagnosed with a bunch of food sensitivities that includes gluten but also almonds and hazelnut. Are there other substitutes I can use for your recipes? She’s also sensitive to cauliflower, egg and corn so finding “delicious” alternatives is tough!
Elana says
Ingrid, I’m so sorry, I don’t!
Bobbi Kennedy says
Cream of tartar is what gives Snickerdoodles their unique snickerdoodle flavor. How much cream of tartar would I add to this recipe to make them legit?
Elana says
Bobbi, thanks so much for your comment and for sharing your thoughts here! I haven’t tried that so feel free to experiment and I hope you’ll let me know what works :-)
Jesse says
Oh my god unbelievable! They turned out sooooo good! Thank you so much for this recipe! :)
Elana says
Jesse, thanks for letting me know these are unbelievable!
Lauren says
What can I use as a substitute for shortening
Elana says
Lauren, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Rebecca says
You could try avocado oil, I’ve made cookies before with cassava flour and the recipe said ghee or coconut oil. I used shortening and the worked great, and recently I’ve been using avocado oil and it works too. Just try using a little less than 1/4 cup at first, because it’s a liquid you may not need as much.
Marissa says
What can I use instead of Palm shortening? Grass fed butter?
Elana says
Marissa, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
savannah says
hi elana! we have a diabetic in the family and this is the most low carb cookie we can do for him for Christmas. would using cookie cutters and decorating with icing work for these? thanks!
Elana says
Savannah, I haven’t tried that so not sure. I think you will love my Low-Carb Paleo Sugar Cookies recipe:
https://elanaspantry.com/valentines-day-cookies/
Enjoy!
Elana
Ana says
Hi there! I made this recipe, but the cookies just melted to form a sheet of cookie on the pan. I did use coconut oil instead of the shortening, but from the comments on this post, it seemed to work fine. I’m not really sure what I did wrong? I’d love if you could offer some advice! ~ Ana
Elana says
Ana, thanks for your comment! My best advice would be to follow the recipe and they will turn out perfectly. When other folks used coconut oil they may also have made further adjustments to the recipe to account for changing it :-)
Elana says
Karen, I’m so happy these were a hit!
Rosey says
The flavor is great, albeit too sweet for my taste, but despite following the recipe exactly the cookies did not hold together. Dipping them in water went against my logic, I think that step might be to blame. Next time less honey and no water dip.
Elana says
Rosey, this often happens when one of the brands of almond flour that I recommend is not used. For more on that please go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/ingredients/almond-flour/
Enjoy!
Elana
Dylan says
Elana, where could you place the vegan palm oil shortening? Vegan Palm oil shortening was sitting there in my fridge for how long to make that cold. Does it have to be cooler outside by the kitchen window, or shelf? I wonder if I have to place the vegan Palm oil shortening by the kitchen window, or dry area. Please let me know if you could answer this.
Thanks,
Dylan
Elana says
Hi Dylan, I hope you are well! I keep my palm shortening at room temperature in a cupboard or the pantry :-)
Dylan says
Hi Elana. I don’t see the directions say that mix the cinnamon and coconut sugar together, or does those 2 ingredients need to separate. Do I need to mix those together, or grab 2 small separate bowls to set up the coconut sugar, and cinnamon?Let me know as possible.
Thanks,
Dylan Kaulukou-Chang :-)
From Oahu, Hawaii
Elana says
Dylan, thanks for your comment! It will work either way :-)
Karen says
I’m sitting here with a bowl paleo snickerdoodle ingredients and can’t roll them, falling apart! I use honeyville almond flour! Help!
Elana says
Karen, thanks for your comment! This sounds like a measurement issue. If you use the full honey and palm shortening these will come together perfectly! I made them last week and they were amazing :-)