Orange Heart Cookies
We have been working away on our valentines this week. The ones pictured above are my younger son's.
My older son did not want to give out paper valentines, so he made cookie valentines, as pictured below. Because the children in his class have myriad food allergies, this recipe contains no gluten, sugar or dairy. Even without those ingredients, my son claims the children in his class still say, "yum".
3 cups blanched almond flour
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 pinch nutmeg
½ cup coconut oil, melted
1¼ cup agave nectar
1 tablespoon orange rind
- In a large bowl combine almond flour, salt, baking soda and nutmeg
- In a smaller bowl, mix together coconut oil, agave and orange rind
- 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 and roll out to ⅛ inch thickness
- Place in freezer for 30 minutes
- Use heart shaped cookie cutters to cut out cookies
- Bake at 350° for 5-7 minutes
- Cool and serve
Makes 32 cookies
Update: Thanks to lisa's comment below, I found that there was a typo in this recipe, these cookies require ¼ cup of agave, not 1 ¼. My apologies and my disaster, not hers. Thanks lisa for catching this error.
Posted on February 13, 2007 in desserts by Elana
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OK, I am saving this recipe for when I get more almond flour! Yum!
Susan :)
first i want to say that i really enjoy your blog and have enjoyed several of the recipes you have posted.
i don't quite know what happened this time, but i tried to make these cookies this weekend and it was a disaster. i followed the simple instructions very closely, but found the consistency of the dough to be too liquidy from all of the agave nectar that was added. so i added an additional cup of almond flour and froze the dough. once frozen and rolled out i was able to cut the heart shapes out, but the minute they went into the oven they turned into puddles on my cookie sheet. i am bummed out about the results because they sounded so delicious and i have really enjoyed some of your other recipes. is there a typo in the recipe for the quantities?
thank you, elana. i can't wait to try them over :) i was able to salvage a good part of the dough i had left by adding all-purpose gluten-free flour and transforming the dough into a raspberry thumbprint recipe. thanks for all of your hard work in the kitchen!!!
Susan -Thanks
Lisa -I came home a little early from our 3 day weekend and headed straight to the kitchen to test these cookies. You are correct. There is a typo in the recipe. Upon testing it, I found that the batter is like a cake batter, not at all like anything that would work for a cookie. So, I went back and dug up my original scrap of paper and found that this recipe calls for ¼ cup of agave, not 1 ¼.
I am now going to add some eggs to this soupy batter and try to make a cake out of it --maybe some chocolate chips or dried fruit as well, in order to interest my children.
Thanks again for your kind comment and for delicately pointing out this glaring error.
I'm so glad you were able to salvage!
Ah, sweet delicious orange-flavoured archives, how I love you!
Laura, Thanks for your sweet, orange flavored comment!