Gluten-free almond cookies recipe
If you've never baked gluten free before, these cookies are a great treat to help you get you started. The dough is easily mixed together, and guarantees a crisp, golden cookie. Why not freeze a batch too?!
See method- Serves 14
- 10 mins to prepare and 25 mins to cook and 1 hour to cool
- 218 calories / serving
- Freezable
Ingredients
- 125g (4½oz) unsalted butter, softened
- 125g (4½oz) caster sugar
- 2 medium eggs, beaten
- ¼tsp almond extract
- 250g (7oz) Doves Farm Gluten Free plain white flour
- 75g (2½oz) ground almonds
- a handful of whole blanched almonds, to top
- 1tbsp icing sugar, for dusting
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 910kJ 218.0kcal
- Fat
- 12g
- Saturates
- 5g
- Salt
- 0.0g
- Sugars
- 11g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 25.2gProtein 3.2gFibre 0.8g
Method
- Using an electric hand held whisk cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Beat in theeggsuntil thoroughly incorporated, then add the almond extract and sift in the flour and ground almonds, mixing well until your mixture becomes a dough consistency.
- Wrap in clingfilm and chill for 60 minutes. Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 3, 170°C, 150°C fan. Grease and line two baking trays with nonstick baking paper.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and roll out to ½cm thickness on a well- floured surface. Use a 5-6cm diameter cookie cutter to cut out shapes. Being careful as you handle the raw cookies (the dough is very delicate), arrange them over two baking trays and place a blanched almond in the centre of each one, pressing in gently. Bake for 12-14 minutes until they are just starting to turn golden around the edges.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the trays for 10 minutes. Dust lightly with icing sugar before serving.
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