Star Cookies
Ingredients
- 2½ cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- 5 tablespoons agave nectar or honey
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine almond flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon
- In a small bowl, mix together coconut oil, agave, and vanilla
- Mix wet ingredients into dry
- Roll out dough between 2 pieces of parchment paper until ¼ inch thick
- Refrigerate for 1 hour
- Remove top piece of parchment paper and dust dough with almond flour
- Cut out cookies with a small star cutter
- Using a metal spatula, place stars on a parchment lined baking sheet
- Bake at 350°F until lightly browned around the edges, 5-8 minutes
- Cool completely prior to handling cookies
Prep Time 10 minutes
Refrigerate 1 hour
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
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So, what is a gluten-free mom to do for a wheat-filled, sugar laden holiday celebration? I devised a holiday dessert recipe for the parents who had volunteered to bake star cookies. Then I assembled bags with the recipe, parchment paper, a cookie cutter and the ingredients.
The children dressed up in white robes and spent the entire day serving star cookies to everyone from ‘kindergarteners’ to high school seniors. And the five gluten-free kids in my son’s class? They were able to eat the cookies that they gave to others and break bread with the entire school. Now that’s Lucia magic.
My White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting recipe is amazing on these Star Cookies!
Here are some of my other healthy Christmas cookie recipes:
jessica says
I just tried making the ginger shortbread cookies and the star cookies. The ginger shortbread swelled up to 3X’s their size, but they were also very sticky, I could not get them off the paper without them crumbling into pieces. The Star cookies also swelled and went from star shapes to flat round circles and were also impossible to get off parchment paper without completly falling apart. I’m not sure what went wrong…I followed the recipe exactly as it is printed. Has this happened to anyone else? Do you have any suggestions for me?
I’m bummed I’ve been baking all morning, 5 hours to take these cookies to our family’s get-together tonight. My son is gluten free and I wanted him to have some desserts he could eat at the party…Oh well.
Arrow says
did you use any of the brands of almond flour Elana recommends?
https://elanaspantry.com/ingredients/blanched-almond-flour/
Rachel @ GrokGrub says
I went to a Waldorf school for 18 years. I’m delighted you mentioned them!
Elana says
Thanks Rachel!
Jessica says
I enjoy making holiday cookies!
Elana says
:-)
Jessie says
QUESTION! I really want make these with my little ones but I am allergic to almonds. What would a good alternative flour be? Thanks!
Elana says
Jessie, you might want to take a look at my Nut-Free Recipes page:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/nut-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Ewa says
Hello,
How long would these keep in a cookie tin box / fridge?
Elana says
Ewa, mine keep for about a week in the fridge :-)
diana says
Hi! How well does this keep in the freezer? Thanks for the lovely recipe and site!
Elana says
Diana, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Kellaigh says
Is there anyway that I could use coconut flour instead of blanched almond flour as I would make this as an ordinary cookie for my kids to take to school but no nut products are allowed?
Elana says
Kellaigh, for more on that please go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/paleo-baking/
Enjoy!
Elana
Lyann says
Perfect for our Saint Lucia next year-our last;( Thank you for the recipe.
Elana says
Lyann, you’re welcome!
Sia says
I am definitely going to make these cookies at Christmas. No milk or butter. They are going to be divine.
Elana says
Thanks Sia!
Genice says
Mine totally flopped! :( Not sure what the issue was, but they spread like crazy in the oven and you couldn’t even tell what shape they had originally been intended for. Of course, they were still delicious, but my little girls were somewhat disappointed by the disappearance of their ducks and trees and snowmen. (Yeah, I let them go crazy with the cookie cutters.) We enjoyed eating them anyway. Next time, I will do the measuring instead of having my 12 year old niece and nephew help. Perhaps that was the difficulty?
Elana says
Genice, measuring accurately definitely makes a difference to the outcome of this recipe :-)