Yummy Almond Cookies

Healthy wheat free snack cookies
Healthy wheat free snack cookies

These yummy almond cookies are wheat free and uses rapadura as  sweetener. The almond meal is a good source of protein, making these cookies a yummy, filling and nutritious snack. This recipe can also be used as a base for inventing other cookie variation, including raisons, chocolate chips etc.


Ingredients

Makes approximately 20 cookies

1 1/2 cup almonds
1/2 softened butter
1 cup arrow root flour
1/2 cup rapadura
1/2 teaspoon salt
grated rind of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon almond extract


Method

Place almonds on food processor and process to a fine meal.

Add remaining dry  ingredients to a bowl and mix.

Add the softened butter and mix until a firm dough is formed.

Form dough into walnut size balls and place on a buttered cookie sheets.

Bake at 180 degrees for approximately 20min. After 5 minutes in the owen press cookies lightly down with a fork.

Let cool completely on a wire rack and keep in an air tight container.

The cookies last longer of stores in a refrigerator.