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:
Jane says
Has anyone tried making these cookies with Pyure or THM Sweet Blend? My grandson is T1D and can’t have honey or agave. Does butter work as well as coconut oil?
Christina says
Jane,
I would think that would work if you add an egg! I’ll try soon and TRY to remember to post results!
Samantha says
I just made these cookies and used Bob’s Almond Flour because it’s all the store had in stock. Having read the previous comments, I knew they might not turn out so well so I added an egg which helped to bind the dough together and they turned out great! Obviously this does not make them vegan friendly but that was ok for our crowd. Everyone loved them!
Elana says
Thanks Samantha!
MARY DICKINSON says
would you happen to know the calories and other nutrition facts on the star cut-out cookies?
Elana says
Mary, for more on that please go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information/
Have a great day!
Elana
Dayna says
Boo. I wish that there would have been a note not to use Bob’s almond flour! After spending a near fortune on the ingredients I was really sad when they turned into a crumbly, oily blob when cooking! what a shame and a waste!!
Elana says
Dayna, thanks so much for your comment! I link to all of the ingredients and brands needed in the green text in the ingredients portion of the recipe :-)
Wanda says
We made the Star cookies with our grandsons and they were so oily from the amount of coconut oil you could squeeze the oil out of the dough. After baking them and putting them on parchment paper, they leave a very oily surface under the cookies. We were really disappointed with this recipe. I think that the amount of coconut oil is way too much.
Elana says
Hi Wanda, thanks for your comment! I’ve retested this recipe and lowered the amount of coconut oil as I agree, it seemed to be too much. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it :-)
LP says
Has the recipe been corrected to reflect the new amount of coconut oil?
Elana says
Yes, it has :-)
Tracy says
These sound delicious! Do you think I could use maple syrup instead of honey or agave nectar? I can’t have either as I don’t tolerate fructose.
Thanks for your help!
Elana says
Tracy, I think that might work :-)
Chi says
Thank you for this recipe! In addition to having a GF and DF free child in our class, our entire school is nut free. Is there a substitution for the almond flour? It would be so lovely if all the children could eat the same cookies.
Elana says
Chi, here’s a link to my Nut-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/nut-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Tori Lorvig says
It’s so comforting to me, spending so many years explaining my “weird school” to people, to see someone else who knows who Santa Lucia is. I once told a friend about it and she said it sounded like I went to a cult.
Elana says
Thanks for your lovely comment Tori :-)
Jenny says
May be a silly question, but is there a good paleo “icing” recipe anyone can recommend to ice or decorate the cookies? I feel like that is where the sugar tornado happens when I let the kids “decorate” their own cookies with an inch of those toppings!
Elana says
Jenny, here you go!
https://elanaspantry.com/white-chocolate-buttercream-frosting/
Enjoy!
Elana
Tina says
These came out great! Thank you for the recipe!
Elana says
Thanks Tina!