Paleo Almond Butter Cloud Cookies

These fluffy "cloud" cookies are paleo and grain-free, melt in your mouth and taste amazing. Best of all, they are easy and fast to make. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is! For the best prices and places to get these ingredients, check out my Shop Page (hint: fine almond flour is a must-have for grain-free and vegan baking!)

 

I made these gluten-free/grain-free dairy-free paleo cookies 2 fantastic ways: with creamy organic almond butter and vegan chopped chocolate bar...read on! Almond Butter Version:

 

 

 

Almond Cloud Cookies

Yields: 15-18

 

Ingredients:

 

2 cups fine almond flour (MUST be fine for the ideal texture!)

1/2 tsp baking soda

pinch of sea salt

1 egg or chia or flax "egg" *

2 TBSP coconut oil, melted

2 TBSP pure maple syrup

3/4 tsp vanilla bean paste

 

1/3 cup nondairy chocolate bar, chopped fine

-OR-

creamy almond butter, for topping

 

Directions:

 

1. Preheat oven to 350F and line two cookie sheets with a silpat baking mat. (I recommend that one because it's super fast and easy to clean and then you don't have to worry about burning through parchment paper).

2. Whisk all dry ingredients; set aside. (If you're doing a vegan chia or flax egg, first mix 1 TBSP ground chia or flax meal mixed with 3 TBSP warm water and leave at least 5 minutes to gel and thicken before doing anything else)

3. Melt coconut oil in a medium bowl and whisk in remaining wet ingredients.

4. Stir in vegan chocolate chips or chopped chocolate bar if desired (I prefer without for a healthier option but chocolate makes a great addition too), and divide into cookies spaced out on a cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat. If making the almond butter version, indent a hole with your fingers to swirl in the almond butter after they are baked.

5. Bake for 8-10 minutes, and let the paleo cookies cool on a wire rack. For the almond butter paleo cookie version, add in a swirl of almond butter while they are warm and let cool.

 

 

Chocolate Version: Try with Hu chopped chocolate bars for a cleaner healthier chocolately treat! I like to stock up on the almond butter + puffed quinoa dark chocolate, because that's totally a health food! IMO at least...At any rate you MUST try these paleo cookies, they are everything!!