How To Make Coconut Cashew Cookies
These coconut cashew cookies are a gluten-free treat that makes of quinoa flour and cashew butter. They’re light and nutty with just a hint of the tropics.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2cupscashews,roasted, salted
- 4tsppeanut oil,divided
- 7tspwater,divided
- ¼cuplight brown sugar,packed
- ¼cupwhite sugar
- ¼cupcoconut oil
- ¼cupunsalted butter,softened
- 1largeegg
- 1½cupsquinoa flour
- ¾tspbaking soda
- ½tspxanthan gum
- ½tspcardamom,ground
- ⅛tspmace,ground
- 2cupsunsweetened coconut flakes
Instructions
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Place cashews, 1 tablespoon peanut oil, and 1 teaspoon water in a food processor or blender; pulse until cashews are ground. Add 1 tablespoon water to cashew mixture and pulse until a thick and chunky paste starts to form.
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Add remaining 1 tablespoon water and 1 teaspoon peanut oil to mixture and pulse until desired consistency is reached. Measure ½ cup cashew butter and store remaining cashew butter in a container in the refrigerator for another use.
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Mix brown sugar, white sugar, cashew butter, coconut oil, butter, and egg in a large bowl.
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Combine quinoa flour, baking soda, xanthan gum, cardamom, and mace in a separate bowl; pour into sugar mixture and mix until dough easily forms into a ball. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate dough for 1½ hours.
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
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Spread coconut flakes into a shallow bowl. Form cookie dough into small round balls using a spring-loaded scoop.
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Roll each cookie dough ball in the coconut and arrange on a baking sheet. Press each ball with a fork dipped in quinoa flour, making a criss-cross pattern.
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Bake in the preheated oven for about 8 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned on the edges. Cool cookies on the baking sheet for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
- Calories: 132.49kcal
- Fat: 10.13g
- Saturated Fat: 5.56g
- Trans Fat: 0.05g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.68g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.91g
- Carbohydrates: 8.89g
- Fiber: 1.39g
- Sugar: 3.18g
- Protein: 2.59g
- Cholesterol: 8.56mg
- Sodium: 33.50mg
- Calcium: 7.91mg
- Potassium: 115.60mg
- Iron: 0.92mg
- Vitamin A: 13.01µg
- Vitamin C: 0.12mg
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