These 5-ingredient, GRAIN-FREE shortbread cookies are going to be my go-to SCD cookie for the holidays this year! Buttery, soft, and slightly sweet with a dark chocolate drizzle: sign me upppp…
Healthier Grain-Free Shortbread Cookies
Shortbread cookies have always been my go-to Christmas cookie over the holidays. Eating them with a warm mug of tea are the one thing I crave more than anything else during these cold winter months!
I made this recipe to be everything I look for in a shortbread cookie (with a slight holiday spice twist)! They’re sweet, buttery, a little bit salty, and they have just a hint of my favorite warm winter spices & a touch of dark chocolate.
Easy Coconut Flour Christmas Cookies
This year, coconut flour has taken the place of all-purpose flour in my family’s long time favorite shortbread cookie recipe, thanks to my IBD diagnosis last February.
Over the past 10 months, I’ve learned how to view food as a means of helping me manage my ulcerative colitis symptoms and heal the inflammation in my body. I 100% believe that changing my diet helped me finally get better! I’ve been following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) for several months now without turning back.
With that said, I was definitely a little bit skeptical about replacing traditional flour with coconut flour in my beloved favorite Christmas cookie recipe…
Coconut flour has become one of my pantry staples for baking since I starting following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. It’s a great alternative flour to use alone or combine with other grain-free flours like almond, cashew, tapioca, or pecan flour!
Coconut flour is high in fiber, and it works really well as a thickener for cookie, cake, and brownie batters.
Spiced Shortbread Cookie Ingredients
- Coconut flour: One of my favorite alternative flours to bake with! It has a subtle neutral flavor and works really well to add “body” to grain-free recipes!
- Cold Grass-Fed Ghee, salted: Ghee and butter go hand-in-hand! Either one can be substituted for the other. I always make sure to buy grass-fed ghee since it contains a higher amount of healthy omega-3 fatty acids and more essential nutrients. Make sure to also throw it in the refrigerator for a few hours before to make sure it’s cold enough to cut into the flour without getting too soft!
- Honey: An SCD-legal sweetener, a truly difficult thing to come by lol.
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Nutmeg and Cinnamon: My two all time favorite warm holiday spices!
- (Optional, not SCD friendly): 100% dark chocolate, for the drizzle.
My Other Favorite Coconut Flour Recipes:
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SCD Holiday Spiced Shortbread Cookies
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 7 minutes
- Total Time: 12 minutes
- Yield: about 13 cookies 1x
Description
Soft and buttery grain-free, SCD shortbread cookies with a hint of my favorite warm holiday spices! Paleo friendly, Grain-free, Gluten-free, Refined-sugar-free, Soy-free, SCD friendly.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 cup cold grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- 2 tbsp. honey
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
- (optional) 100% dark chocolate, for the drizzle
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Lightly spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
- Combine the coconut flour and cold ghee in a mixing bowl. Using a pastry cutter (or 2 knives) cut the ghee into the flour until the mixture has a uniform crumb-like texture.
- Add in the honey, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir or mix with your hands until a uniform dough forms. Make sure not to over-mix to melt the ghee.
- Using a tablespoon, scoop out the dough into about 13 uniform-sized balls. Roll between the palms of your hands to smooth.
- Place on the cookie tray. Use a fork to lightly press down each ball of cookie dough is a criss-cross pattern.
- Bake for about 7 minutes.
- While the cookies are baking, microwave the chocolate for 30 seconds at a time until melted. Drizzle over the baked cookies & serve!
- Category: something sweet
- Method: bake
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 115
- Sugar: 4
- Fat: 9
- Carbohydrates: 8
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 1
Keywords: specific carbohydrate diet, healthy, Christmas cookies, holiday baking, grain-free, gluten-free, paleo, low sugar, healthy cookies, coconut flour recipe
Tried with almond flour and regular flour for my grandson – he doesn’t tolerate coconut products. Cookies didn’t rise at all – any suggestions? They were flat think floppy crumbly
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I’m so sorry to hear! It is very important to note that coconut flour cannot be directly replaced with almond flour. If you use almond flour, you will have to reduce the amount of ghee and honey slightly since coconut flour is a lot more absorbent.