Gluten Free Maple Walnut Cookies
These gluten free cookies are lower in sugar, but still maintain all the delicious flavor and texture! Don't forget the dairy free icing to top them off.
Servings 18 cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup 1:1 gluten free flour
- ½ cup tigernut flour can use almond or more gluten free, see notes above
- 1 tablespoon tapioca starch
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup maple sugar see substitutions above
- ½ cup coconut oil softened*
- 1 egg room temperature
- 1 egg yolk room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
Icing
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoon melted coconut oil or butter
- 2 teaspoon maple syrup room temperature (zap in microwave at 5 second intervals if needed)
- Milk of choice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Whisk together the flours, baking soda and powder, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl and set aside.
- Beat together the sugar and coconut oil/butter until light and fluffy (30-60 seconds).
- Beat in the egg until combined. Beat in the egg yolk and vanilla until combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix on low to just combine.
- Fold in the walnuts.
- Let batter sit while you line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Scoop tablespoon sized drops of dough onto one baking sheet, leaving 1.5-2 inches between each cookie.
- Bake one cookie sheet on the middle rack for 10-12 minutes until golden and just firm around the edges.
- Let cool on the baking sheet for 5-8 minutes, before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling. While one sheet of cookies bakes, prepare the next sheet. Repeat until all cookies are baked.
- Let cookies completely cool before icing.
- To make the icing, mix together the sugar, oil, and maple syrup until you get a thick icing consistency. Add a tiny splash of milk if needed.
- Ice cookies as desired and enjoy
Notes
*You can also use (vegan) butter. Butter results in the lighter colored cookies that are softer. Coconut oil will yield a slightly more crunchy cookie that is darker in color.