Almond Flour Sugar Cookies Food

ALMOND FLOUR SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together almond flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together sugar and butter at medium speed until fluffy and granular, 2-3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and mix until smooth. Add sour cream and mix until smooth. Add dry ingredients and mix to combine.
• If scooping dough, tightly cover mixing bowl and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight. If rolling out and cutting dough, transfer to a large piece of plastic wrap on a work surface and wrap to cover dough completely, shaping into a 1-inch thick disc. Place in freezer for 2 hours - you want the dough to be as cold as possible, but still pliable.

ALMOND FLOUR CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Evenly position 2 racks in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
• Whisk the almond flour, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl. Beat the butter and brown sugar in another bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add the eggs to the butter mixture one at a time, beating after each addition to incorporate, then beat in the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low, add the flour mixture and beat until just incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chips.
• Scoop 12 heaping tablespoons of dough onto each prepared baking sheet, spacing them 2 inches apart. Roll each into a ball with slightly wet hands, then sprinkle the top of each ball with some sea salt. Bake until the cookies are golden but still soft in the center, 10 to 12 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely, about 30 minutes.

ALMOND COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla, and almond extract. Sift the flour over the top, add the salt and the chopped almonds and fold to combine.
• Pull off little pieces of the dough and roll them into balls about 1-inch in diameter, enclosing a whole almond in the center of each one. Place on an ungreased baking sheet and bake on the center rack of the oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until light brown. Transfer to racks to cool slightly. When cool enough to handle, roll 1/2 the cookies in the cocoa powder, and the remaining 1/2 in the confectioners' sugar. Serve warm or return to the rack to cool.

ALMOND BROWN-SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in egg and vanilla. At low speed, mix in flour mixture until a dough just forms. Stir in whole almonds. Divide dough in half. Using a sheet of plastic wrap or wax paper as an aid, form each piece of dough into a log 9 to 9 1/2 inches long (about 1 1/4 inches in diameter). Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until very firm, at least 4 hours. Freeze 30 minutes to facilitate slicing.
• Preheat oven to 350°F with racks in upper and lower thirds. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Cut 1 log of dough crosswise into slices less than 1/8 inch thick with a thin sharp knife, rotating log after each slice to help keep round shape. (If dough gets too soft to slice through nuts easily, freeze briefly.) Arrange cookies about 1/2 inch apart on baking sheets.
• Bake cookies, switching position of sheets halfway through, until golden brown all over, 12 to 15 minutes total. Transfer cookies on parchment to racks to cool.
• Repeat with remaining dough (cool baking sheets and line with fresh parchment).

ALMOND SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in almond extract. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Roll into 1-in. balls. , Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Coat bottom of a glass with cooking spray; dip in sugar. Flatten cookies with prepared glass, dipping glass in sugar again as needed. , Bake until edges are lightly browned, 7-9 minutes. Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks., In a small bowl, whisk together the confectioners' sugar, almond extract and enough water to achieve glaze consistency. Tint with food coloring if desired; drizzle over cookies. Sprinkle with almonds.

ALMOND COOKIES - SUGAR FREE

Steps:

• Using an eletric mixer, cream the butter, then blend in the egg yolk, sweetener, and extracts.In a separate bowl, break up the almond flour with your hands, then mix it with the remaining ingredients. Add the dry mixture to the butter mixture and stir until evenly blended. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
• Shape the dough into 1 1/4-inch balls and place them on a large cookie sheet, evenly spaced. Refrigerate the cookies on the sheet for 15 minutes while you preheat the oven to 350.
• Bake the cookies for 20 minutes. Cool them on the sheet for a minute or so, then transfer to a rack to finish cooling.