Paleo Spritz Cookies to Get in the Holiday Spirit
A Paleo Twist on a Christmas Classic
As spritz cookies are traditionally made with butter, flour, sugar, and eggs, you’re going to have to get a little bit creative when making your paleo versions. Ghee, almond flour, arrowroot flour, and coconut sugar will be serving as your primary ingredient replacements. The combination of almond and arrowroot flours provides the somewhat dry texture that spritz cookies are well known for while the ghee acts as a healthier butter substitute. While butter, and especially grass fed butter is far from bad for you, ghee has been shown to offer a few more health benefits, such as decreasing the levels of the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream. (1) The recipe also includes other paleo baking staples — baking soda, an egg, and vanilla extract specifically.
After your cookie dough mixture is prepared according to the instructions listed below, you’re going to want to press the dough through your cookie press and onto your prepared baking sheet. If you don’t have a cookie press, I highly recommend the same model that I recently picked up. You can purchase it directly from Amazon by clicking right here. It’s incredibly easy to use and it comes with plenty of stainless steel disks to make a variety of shapes.
If you already own a cookie press, then you already know how addictive it can be making batch after batch of cookies in a variety of shapes with it. Of course, it also helps when all of the cookies are deliciously nutritious paleo-friendly cookies as well. Once the spritz cookies are done baking, I also like to sprinkle them with a topping of coconut flour and coconut sugar. However, that’s entirely optional, and if you’d rather just enjoy a classic spritz cookies, you can certainly do that as well.
P.S. – Even if you don’t own a cookie press, it’s still always a good time to bake some cookies. So with that in mind, I wanted to share a few extra paleo-friendly cookie recipes for you to try out:
#1 – Paleo Thumbprint Cookies with Homemade Chia Jam
#2 – Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
#3 – Homemade Paleo Fig Newton Cookies
Paleo Spritz Cookies to Get in the Holiday Spirit
Jess (Paleo Grubs)
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