Soft-baked Vegan Snickerdoodles
Soft, chewy and generously scented with cinnamon and vanilla, these decadent vegan snickerdoodles are made with almond flour, for a tender crumb and natural sweetness that everyone will fall in love with…no one will know they’re gluten free!
Equipment
- Handheld mixer stand mixer, or just good old fashioned elbow grease!
Ingredients
- ½ cup vegan baking sticks place on counter for 10 minutes to soften
- ⅓ cup maple syrup or sugar free liquid sweetener
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ½ cups almond flour or walnut flour
- ¼ cup arrowroot powder or extra almond flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon divided
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons sugar for rolling cookies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉ (176℃). Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment. In a small bowl or place, mix 1 tsp of the cinnamon with the sugar and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, beat the butter, maple syrup and vanilla together until the butter is well distributed in the liquid - it won't emulsify, and that's okay!
- Sprinkle over the almond flour, arrowroot, remaining 1 tsp cinnamon, baking powder and salt and beat together until a soft dough forms.
- Scoop out 2 tbsp (30 mL) of dough for larger cookies, 1 tbsp (15 mL) of dough for smaller cookies. Roll dough into a ball using your hands and roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Place on baking sheet and gently press down with fingers until it is about 1 cm (⅓ inch thick). Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake 14-16 min for larger cookies. Or, 8-9 min for smaller cookies. You want golden brown bottoms and tops that are very soft but dry to the touch.
- Place baking sheet on a rack and let cool completely. For the first day, store completely uncovered so they cookies don't re-soften. The next day you can loosely cover them...they won't dry out!
Notes
Want smaller cookies? You can use just 1 tbsp (15 mL) of dough and you'll net 24 cookies.
FODMAP friends! One of these cookies (1/12 of dough) is a low FODMAP portion. Almond flour is high in GOS in larger serves.