Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies + Almond Cookies - 3 Ways (Italian/Mexican wedding cookies |Almond crescent cookies |"Sugar" cookies) (Vegan, GF, RSF, Natural, Nut-Free Option)
Happy (belated) Holidays, Happy New Year, and Happy (belated) Valentines! I am back with a whole bunch of new cookie recipes, and this next one is a fun one. One batter can be used to make three drastically different cookies. The first is a healthier take on an Italian/Mexican wedding cookie. Soft, fluffy inside, not too sweet, infused with almond, and dusted with a powdered maple sugar-coconut milk powder mixture. Roll the cookie dough balls in coarsely chopped almond for an "almond snowball cookie" option. The second choice for these cookies is almond crescent cookies (except these ones are made without the almond flour!). These little crescent-moon-shaped cookies are essentially the same as the wedding cookies, just in a different shape. Lastly, the final form of these morphable cookies is a significant upgrade of my date-sweetened "sugar" cookies (texturally, flavor-wise, and appearance-wise). These vegan gluten-free cut-out cookies are soft-baked, buttery, lightly sweet, and have a delightful almond-coconut flavor. PLUS, the cut-out cookies are as easy as stirring all the ingredients together in a bowl and rolling them into a sheet before cutting out with cookie cutters and baking. And the icing is clean- no sugar, no dyes, no dairy, no nasties. And this healthier royal icing is truly something. It sets at room temp beautifully, is so sweet, almond-y, and maple-y, and colors beautifully. It can be used to flood cookies, pipe precise lines of icing, or can even be used at a buttercream-like consistency, perfect for achieving texture for Christmas tree or pinecone cut-out cookies. These cookies are perfect for Thanksgiving, the winter holidays, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, or for special occasions. And even better? You do not have to flavor them almond, you can infuse them with whatever flavor you want or just leave them plain! (so for those of you with a nut allergy, you can just omit the almond extract to make these cookies nut-free *although please do note: they will still contain coconut). So what are you waiting for? Go make these delicious, healthy, easy, and beautiful almond cookies any of the 3 ways!
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