Paleo Peppermint Cookies
These Paleo Peppermint Cookies are everything you're looking for in a Christmas cookie. They're soft + sweet, chocolatey + minty. They're beautiful to look at + SO easy to eat.
Servings: 18
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
Wet Ingredients
- 1/2 cup cashew butter any nut butter will work!
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp coconut oil or ghee, melted
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanill extract
- 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
Optional Toppers
- 1/2 cup melted chocolate
- peppermint pieces
- 1/4 tsp peppermint extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350f or 175c. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine all of the wet ingredients. Mix until the eggs, cashew butter oil, maple syrup + extracts are all combined.
- In another bowl, sift together the cocoa, almond flour, salt + baking powder. *In truth, the sifting is optional, you can absolutely just stir - I just find it makes better batter when its sifted!
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and mix until combined. It should be a thick, shapable dough!
- Take 1-2 tbsp of the batter, depending on the size cookies you want, and roll them into balls. Place them on the baking sheet + smash them down into cookie form. These cookies won't spread or change shape once in the oven, so be sure you like the shape!
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until soft set. Cool completely before enjoying or storing in an airtight container.
- OPTIONAL - to take these up another level, melt some chocolate + add the 1/4 tsp of peppermint oil. Dip the cooled cookies into the chocolate (I do half-way) and sprinkle with crushed peppermint pieces. Cool + enjoy!