2-Ingredient Almond Cookies

Name: 2-Ingredient Almond Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 2 cups almond flour ((exact amount will depend on almond flour brand)); 1/2 cup maple syrup

December 9, 2018 By Lorena Grater

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Melt-in-your-mouth 2-Ingredient Almond Cookies. The most amazing deliciousnesses of all times! Paleo, vegan, low-carb & absolutely delicious!

One Almond Flour Cookie leaning agains a stack of Almond Cookies

After scrolling through an endless Pinterest feed of Christmas cookies I couldn’t help but think the world needs quick and easy to make, healthy Christmas Cookies!

I’ve been testing around with coconut flour and coconut oil and eggs and flour and and and ended up SO FRUSTRATED! Why do most healthy cookies need sooo many ingredients? Why do healthy cookies take so long to prepare? *scream*

The same thoughts went through my mind when working on a Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies recipe before. All the recipes out there are way too complicated!

Why not keep it simple my friends? I still can’t believe how only 2 ingredients can be enough to make melt-in-your-mouth cookies. These Almond Cookies will knock you off your feet.

They are gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, mapely sweet, nutty, soft, and simply amazing! Oh and they’re paleo, too! How awesome is that? I’m sure I forgot a couple denominations.

How to make Almond Flour Cookies

Ok, so let’s get to the nitty gritty details. There are 4 very simple steps to success:

Mix almond flour and maple syrup until you have a dough-like consistency. Make sure you count your ingredients. It’s almond flour (1) plus maple syrup (1) equals two (2) ingredients. Ha!
Put in the freezer for 15-20 minutes to make rolling out easier but it’ll also work with non-chilled dough. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin in between two large pieces of parchment paper (important!). Roll out to about 1/4″ (0,5 cm) (I know, I say 1/2″ in the video, I meant 1/4″ though. I don’t think in inches and never trust me when I “talk” about inches)
Remove the upper parchment paper and leave the rolled out dough on the bottom layer of paper and cut out stars or whatever shape cookie cutter you have on hand, then remove the dough in between the stars. This is the magic trick to get pretty shaped cookies. Most people cut out the cookies and then try to move the cut-out-cookie-dough onto a baking sheet but it gets all distorted in the process. It’s much easier to just leave the cut-out part on the parchment paper and use a flat knife or even tooth pick to remove the excess dough around the shape. Then transfer the paper full of stars onto a baking sheet.
Bake your almond flour cookies for 15-25 minutes at 250 F (120 C). Remove from the oven and take the edges of the paper to transfer the whole thing onto a cooking rack. Let cool down completely.

Important notes: you will feel very tempted to eat the dough and that’s ok, it’s fine to eat “raw”. YAY! However, remember, that the more dough you eat the less almond flour cookies you will end up with. Uh-oh!

How To Spice Up Your Almond Cookies Recipe

So absolute mega bonus tip is to transform these melt-in-your-mouth almond cookies into Chocolate Almond Cookies. It’s a 3-ingredient cookie then but hey, still pretty good, eh? So, what’s the best way to dip them into chocolate? There is quite an art to it, you know?

First, you will want to put your completely cooled cookies in the freezer in a single layer. Use a baking sheet for this. Freeze them for a while. Like 20 minutes or so.

Then, melt your favorite chocolate in a double boiler over veeeery low heat stirring constantly. If you use high heat or stop stiring the chocolate starts to clump and becomes all yucky. Be patient. It only takes a couple of minutes.

Once the chocolate is nice and runny, remove from the heat. Take out your ice cold cookies and dip into the chocolate, lift up and let excess chocolate drip back into the bowl. The chocolate should harden pretty fast due to the coldness of the cookies.

Once the cookie stops dripping, lay on the cold baking sheet on which it was in the freezer. Repeat this with all cold almond cookies. Once you are finished, return to freezer for about 10 minutes and they’re good to eat.

These are an AWESOME edible gift, too by the way. The almond cookies without chocolate are probably better as a gift, less messy.

You can pack them in a nice cellophane bag without risking the chocolate to smear all over it. Put a pretty bow around it, pair it with a jar of this uuuuh-mazing Cashew Chocolate Spread that takes only 5 Minutes to make and off your go make someone extremely happy :)