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Best Paleo Sugar Cookie

January 4, 2018 by predominantlypaleo 25 Comments

 

Best Paleo Sugar Cookie recipes are a dime a dozen but finding just the right one seems to be a little trickier. This one is THE ONE and is egg free to boot, making it AIP friendly!!!


Best Paleo Sugar Cookies

So here we are, but 4 days into the new year and I’m writing a cookie recipe. I’m sure some of you are flipping the bird at me right now and I get it. The rest of the world is resolving to do better and here I am all “Hey COOKIES!” 

But here’s the thing. I got an email 2 days before school was back in session that my youngest daughter’s class would be decorating sugar cookies (because clearly we didn’t have enough goodies over the holiday break). And naturally there would not be any gluten free options for her so I haphazardly blurted out “I’m happy to bake some!” And the thing is, of course I’m happy to make some but the other thing is, I have no time for baking after taking time off over the break. I’m in hard core deadline mode offering to make cookies. And it would have THEN been easy enough to just follow someone else’s recipe, because that would be the smart thing to do. But nope, I decide to write a recipe, because that’s clearly better for my adrenal issues. You follow me?

Best Paleo Sugar Cookies

Ultimately, I am really glad I wrote this recipe. It’s freakin’ good. And the other recipe I typically follow, a very popular paleo sugar cookie recipe, is almond flour based, which I rarely use anymore (more on that another time). And I also always have these little internal goals and challenges when I write a recipe – for this one I wanted it to be AIP friendly, egg and nut free, and use ingredients that most people who eat paleo would have on hand. Check, check, check… #nailedit. (Ok maybe not these adorable sprinkles, but those are easy enough to grab online with your other Amazon order of toilet paper, cuticle trimmers, and DIY dog hypnotizing book, right?)

But then there’s the part of me, aside from carving out time, that thinks, oh fabulous, all the clean eaters in the world are trying so hard to undo the holiday eating and I’m dangling a stinkin’ cookie in front of them. So to you, healthy do-gooders, look away. That’s all I can really offer you for moral support. Because they’re real good and quite frankly they taste better than kale. There I said it. 

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Best Paleo Sugar Cookies

Best Paleo Sugar Cookies
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★★★★★

5 from 2 reviews

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 10 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup cassava flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 tablespoons grass fed gelatin (the kind that congeals)
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup warm melted ghee, coconut oil or sustainably sourced palm shortening
  • 1 teaspoon 100% vanilla
  • Pinch sea salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350
  2. Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl and stir (including the gelatin)
  3. Combine wet ingredients in another bowl, stir to combine and then pour the wet ingredients into the dry bowl
  4. The dough will be too wet to work with at first. Let it sit for approximately 5 minutes to cool
  5. Now take a small handful of dough and roll it into a ball; press it out into a circle onto a parchment lined baking sheet. You could also roll the dough out but I find it is faster with this small batch to just press into circles, about 1/4 of an inch thick. If the edges crack just keep pressing by hand, they seal easily
  6. You can make around 10-12 palm sized cookies with one batch
  7. Bake for 8-10 minutes, they will brown slightly. Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool slightly – then use a thin, flexible spatula to transfer them to continue cooling
  8. Ice and decorate or serve as is
  9. The sprinkles I used in the photo can be found HERE, HERE and HERE.
  10. If you need an icing recipe, consider the one HERE, in Paleo Kids Cookbook or the Black and White Cookie icing from The New Yiddish Kitchen

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Comments

  1. Lauren says

    January 5, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    I’m so excited to try this. I’m allergic to tree nuts and living a Paleo-ish lifestyle. I didn’t realize how hard that would be!

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      January 8, 2018 at 5:08 pm

      I use very few nuts in my more recent work!

      Reply
  2. Krista says

    January 9, 2018 at 2:14 am

    Do you think I could sub honey for the maple syrup?

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      January 9, 2018 at 2:41 pm

      Yes!

      Reply
  3. Valeria says

    January 10, 2018 at 5:31 am

    What brand sprinkles are these? They look pretty

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      January 12, 2018 at 2:32 am

      The links are all in the post! India Tree 🙂

      Reply
  4. Jacqueline says

    January 20, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    These are seriously incredible!! 🙂

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      January 24, 2018 at 11:13 pm

      Thank you so much!

      Reply
  5. Shayna says

    February 7, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    I follow the SCD diet – could you use almond or coconut flour instead of cassava?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      February 14, 2018 at 2:45 am

      I don’t know what the results would be like, cassava and coconut are very different in terms of how much moisture they soak up.

      Reply
  6. Laura says

    February 9, 2018 at 10:19 pm

    These are wonderful! We made these today for a school Valentine’s Day party. We used a heart shaped cookie cutter, and made pink frosting with palm shortening, honey and natural food coloring. These are the first AIP sugar cookies I’ve made that didn’t fall apart just from picking them up. The gelatin was a great idea! Thanks for sharing this recipe!

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      February 14, 2018 at 2:45 am

      Oh wonderful, thank you for letting me know!

      Reply
  7. Madison says

    February 19, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    Ive been needing this!! Can’t wait to try it!!

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      February 21, 2018 at 8:32 pm

      Hope you love it!

      Reply
  8. Dana says

    March 29, 2018 at 5:20 pm

    Can this recipe be doubled? Tripled?

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      March 31, 2018 at 8:49 pm

      Yes it should be able to be doubled or tripled easily.

      Reply
      • Dana says

        April 1, 2018 at 7:18 pm

        These were great! I made them a bit thicker than yours and I think I’ll bake them a minute or two longer. Reminded me of shortbread, so I added powdered freeze dried strawberries to your icing mix. Thanks!

        ★★★★★

        Reply
  9. G says

    December 20, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    Hi,
    Is the gelatin to hold the recipe together? Wondering if I can add an egg or two instead. Any thoughts? Thank you!

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      December 21, 2019 at 2:03 am

      Yes it does! Maybe one egg but two will give you poofy, cakey cookies.

      Reply
  10. Sally Koppy says

    February 18, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    I made Valentine’s Day sugar cookies for my granddaughters. Some are gluten-free and others aren’t, and my husband and I are Paleo. These were an absolute hit with all!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • predominantlypaleo says

      February 20, 2020 at 7:24 pm

      Yay! Thank you Sally!

      Reply

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