This sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, soy free cookie recipe is adapted from one of my favorite cookbooks, the Gluten-Free Almond Flour cookbook, by Elana Amsterdam. She has a myriad of other fabulous recipes on her website.
I took her recipe for Chewy Chocolate Cookies and made a dough that can either be rolled flat and cut into thin slices to mimic a Thin Mint or made thicker to taste more like a peppermint patty. Here’s the recipe with the secret ingredient at the end!
- 3 cups blanched almond flour
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup arrowroot powder
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup grapeseed oil
- ¾ cup agave
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 7 drops of natural peppermint oil (I use LorAnn Oils)
Preheat oven to 350. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl mix the almond four, salt, baking soda, arrowroot powder and cocoa powder. In a medium bowl, whisk together the grapeseed oil, agave and vanilla. Mix the wet ingredients into the almond flour mixture until thoroughly combined. Add 7 drops of peppermint oil and mix again. Scoop the dough (about a ¼ of a cup) onto baking sheet or roll out and use a cookie cutter or glass rim to cut thin circles in the dough and place on the cookie sheet.
Bake 10 – 15 minutes if you use scoops. Bake 9-11 minutes if you roll out the dough and use flat circles. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 30 minute – this also allows them to finish a last bit of cooking. You don’t have to worry about egg in this recipe being undercooked and that even means you can sample the dough!
We love ours with a glass of unsweetened almond milk. Enjoy!
Sounds fabulous, can’t wait to try them!
These are great! Love the peppermint taste. I do not always have agave. I will try them with honey…possiby 1/4 cup and work the way up to desired sweetness and consistency. What do you think? Also what about aluminum free baking powder instead of arrowroot powder?
mj
Yes, honey would be great too! Let me know how substituting the honey goes and how they taste. Baking powder is a rising agent and the arrowroot powder is a thickening agent so I don’t think these can be substituted BUT you can always try it and come out with something great. That is how we created our favorite dinner recipe!
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