My boys love these Paleo Sugar Cookies because they’re delicious and so fun to make. I love them because they’re quick and easy to throw together and full of healthy low-carb ingredients. They’re adorable as a heart cookie, but you can make them into a variety of shapes depending on the holiday you’re celebrating.
Paleo Sugar Cookies Recipe
These Paleo Sugar Cookies are gluten-free, dairy-free, and do not use refined sugar. This low-carb recipe for Paleo Valentine’s Day cookies has only 7 ingredients total. All you need to make it is almond flour, coconut oil, honey, nutmeg, orange zest, salt, and baking soda.
Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies for Valentine’s Day
For one Valentine’s day, when he was 9 years old, my older son gave out these Paleo Sugar Cookies instead of paper valentines. Because the children in his class had so many different food allergies, these cookie valentines were perfect. Even without ingredients such as gluten, sugar, and dairy, my son told me that the children in his class said they were incredible!
Paleo Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- ½ cup coconut oil, melted
- ¼ cup honey or agave nectar
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine almond flour, salt, baking soda, and nutmeg
- In a small bowl, mix together coconut oil, honey, and orange zest
- Mix wet ingredients into dry
- Separate dough into 2 balls and place each on a piece of parchment paper
- Cover each ball of dough with another piece of parchment paper and roll out ¼ inch thick
- Place in freezer for 30 minutes
- Use heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out cookies
- Bake at 350°F for 5-7 minutes
- Cool and serve
Paleo Buttercream Frosting Recipe
We frost these healthy cookies with my White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting which makes them even more adorable and delicious! This fantastic frosting recipe is super easy to make and has only 5 ingredients.
Easy Paleo Sugar Cookie Recipe for the Holidays
We make Paleo Sugar Cookies into hearts for Valentine’s Day and at Christmas, we use other fun shapes such as snowmen and snowflakes. Rolling out cookie dough and cutting out cookies is a fun project the boys and I love doing together!
More Low-Carb Cookie Recipes
Here are some of my other healthy cookie recipes for you. All of them are far lower in carbs than their sugar-laden, wheat-filled counterparts!
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Joy says
I tried this recipe with my granddaughter yesterday for Valentine’s day. It wasn’t a total disaster, but I should have tried the recipe first as freezing the rolled out dough made it too difficult to using the heart shape cookie cutter. Should the dough be frozen or should it be put in the refrigerator? They tasted delicious! We loved the orange zest! She’s a picky eater and i wasn’t sure if she would like them, but she did! I
Elana says
Joy, I freeze it and if it’s too cold wait a couple minutes to cut out the cookies :-)
Sharon says
Where can I find your nutrition facts. I am looking for low carb but also want to limit salt
Elana says
Sharon, for more on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information/
Have a wonderful day!
Elana
Kaivalya Miller says
This recipe was a nightmare for me. I have no idea where I went wrong. The balls were crumbling. Then after I froze them they were so hard to cut out and crumbled and broke everywhere. I used it will my class of preschoolers because it was GF and looked easy but it turned out to be very difficult
Elana says
Kaivalya, thanks for your comment! This is what happens when you use coconut flour instead of the almond flour called for in the recipe :-)
angela says
These might be the perfect cookie, but i was wondering if you might have nutritional info on them
Thanks
Elana says
Angela, thanks for your comment. For more on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information/
Have a wonderful day!
Elana
Dina S Amsterdam says
These are super delicious with icing or without. I wanted a healthy yummy cookie for my social distancing guests who came for a backyard visit. These were a hit! Thank you Elana. You are a cookie genius.
Elana says
Thanks Dina!
Sarah says
I want to make these paleo sugar cookies with icing, but the icing itself is not paleo. Is there an icing recipe you have for those only eating paleo? I’m hoping to make my family these cookies for Christmas!
Elana says
Sarah, thanks so much for your comment! I do have some chocolate frosting recipes, but guessing you’re looking for an icing for sugar cookies. Unfortunately, I don’t have a paleo icing recipe :-)
Erin says
I’ve had these bookmarked for a few weeks and finally got around to make them. I made a few tweaks to the flavoring and used pure maple syrup instead of honey and they turned out great! Going to use this recipe for making Hamantashen later this month :)
Elana says
Erin, thanks for letting me know these turned out great!
Patricia says
Thanks for your website I really enjoy it.
I have a question and it’s if I can use rice flour instead of almond flour.
Thanks again.
Elana says
Patricia, I haven’t tried that so not sure. I haven’t eaten rice or rice products since I gave up grains in 2001, sorry I can’t be of more help!
Tara Zlotkin says
I love the website and I thnak Elana for many delicious recipes. I try not to substitute and did this one exactly as it is oosted. It was dry and the cookies did break apart. It is disappointing, as the ingredients such as almod flour, are expensive.
I am on the east coast, so perhaps these cookies are meant for higher altitudes
Elana says
Tara, thanks for your comment! I’ve made these cookies at sea level and they are fantastic. The dough can be dry if your honey is not fresh and is crystallized or if you do not use one of the recommended brands of almond flour:
https://elanaspantry.com/ingredients/almond-flour/
I’m so happy you are enjoying my recipes!
Elana
D.U. says
Trader Joe’s has very decent prices, including almond flour. They also sell almond meal with bits of almond skin, but meal won’t work in Elana’s recipes. Only almond flour.
Elana says
Thanks D.U.!
Theresa says
If I were to sub plain cane sugar or coconut sugar *granular would I need to adjust liquid? Would it effect the texture as I need these to keep their round shape. Thank you.
Elana says
Theresa, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Diana says
I Why couldn’t Coconut flour work as well
Elana says
Diana, thanks for your comment! Unfortunately, that won’t work. Here’s a post that explains why:
https://elanaspantry.com/paleo-baking/
Enjoy!
Elana