These Flourless Almond Cookies from Spain are almost too good to be true. They're gluten free, dairy free, and they take just 4 ingredients and 25 minutes to make. And they're totally delicious.
Cooking Light has a terrific cookbook called Global Kitchen
. The book is filled with healthy and delicious recipes from all around the world - a book after my own heart! As I paged through, these flourless Spanish almond cookies caught my eye.
I have to admit that the first thing that attracted me to them was how healthy they are. There's no butter or flour - they're made mostly from almonds.
They bake up crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, with a fresh nutty flavor and a hint of lemon.
Spain is one of the worlds largest almond producing countries and desserts made with almond flour are common.
Almond flour is simply blanched almonds, with the brown skin removed, that are finely ground.
Once you grind the almonds for 20 seconds or so, add the egg, sugar, lemon zest and salt, and pulse until you get a sticky dough.
These flourless almond cookies are also great if you happen to be eating gluten free, dairy free, or if you're looking for a sweet treat for Passover.
I hope you enjoy the cookies! For more delicious, lightened-up recipes from around the world, here's the link to Cooking Light Global Kitchen on Amazon.
For more delicious varieties of flourless almond cookies, check out my post: A Trio of Flourless Almond Cookies
Now here's the recipe for Flourless Almond Cookies from Spain. If you try this recipe I hope you'll come back to leave a star rating and comment. I'd love to know what you think!
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Spanish Almond Flour Cookies
- Total Time: 26 mins
- Yield: 24 1x
Description
Delicious crunchy nutty almond cookies that are made mostly from healthy almonds. Naturally gluten free and dairy free.
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched slivered almonds
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- Zest from 1 lemon
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 24 roasted salted almonds to top cookies (or use any type of almond you like)
Instructions
- Set an oven rack in the center position. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly oil a baking sheet.
- Put almonds in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the chopping blade. Process for 15-20 seconds or until they are finely ground. Add the sugar, egg, lemon and salt to the bowl of the food processor and pulse 20-25 times, until the mixture becomes sticky and holds together.
- Make 24 dough balls. Pull out about a tablespoon of dough at a time. Squeeze it and roll it. Spread balls out evenly on prepared baking sheet. Press a whole roasted almond down into the center of each cookie.
- Bake in the center of the oven for 16 minutes. Cool cookies on pan for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 16 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Spanish
Laurie Emerson
My favorite cookies are sugar cookies. I have begun to make them with honey instead of white sugar to be a little healthier.
alyce poalillo
I love shortbread cookies and they are not really healthy and I feel if I am going to eat a treat it should be a good one.
Carolsue
I like Oatmeal and Raisin cookies as well as gingersnaps and sugar cookies. I can't think of a particularly healthy cookie right off ....
Daniel M
my fav cookies are snickerdoodles!
Lorena Keech
Maybe not the healthiest cookie but we love Oatmeal Raisin
Carol at Wild Goose Tea
I love shortbread cookies made from real butter. I was quite intrigued with this recipe because it's flourless. And the 'from Spain' entices me too. A little teeny mini-vacation---
Eugenia Hall
My favorite cookies are my own recipe for oatmeal cookies with diced dried apricots, dried cranberries and toasted pecans.
Christine
love my oatmeal cookies, just halve the sugar in recipe.
rhiannon
toooo many favorite cookies. They're the easiest things to make for last minute company! I like these almond pillow cookies that are made with almond paste (yum). I also like just making brown sugar cookies with walnuts- basically chocolate chips minus the chips. And i sub in half whole wheat flour/half almond flour instead of all purpose, and switch out the white sugar for honey
Diane Baum
lOVE this for my glutten free hubby
Daria
Can you use almond meal instead of grinding up almonds?
Lisa Goldfinger
Yes! Almond meal, almond flour and ground almonds are all the same. Check the ingredients on your bag of almond meal to make sure, but the almond meal I've used, such as Bob's Red Mill, are simply ground almonds.
Carole
How much almond meal would you use? 1 Cup?
Lisa
I would use 1 3/4 cups almond meal.
Eleanor
Thank you that is what I was looking for. Going to start straight away- have lunch with friends, need something nice! Lost my own recipe whilst moving house.
Tari Lawson
I love these cream cheese cookies my mom makes that are filled with cherry preserves and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
zoe lee
I make my daughtet oatmeal "cookies" with just a couple of ingredients: Oats, banana and raisins, almonds or chocolate chips mix them all up, drop them into the oven and then bake. super healthy and delish for a 4 year old, and better than from a box or bag 🙂
Hannah
I love my mom's chocolate chip cookies!!!! Classic and hard to beat with a glass of ice cold milk!
Eileen
These look wonderful! They sound like just the thing for my son-in-law. They don't sound too sweet either. I already subscribe to your post via email, and I don't do tweets, Pinterest, etc. I don't see how to enter your contest by just commenting.
I have made several of your recipes, and can't wait to try the pain au chocolat. I went to Trader Joe's to buy the puff pastry and they only carry it during the holidays, so I'll have to go to another store to get some.
Thanks for your intriguing recipes.
Lisa Goldfinger
Hi Eileen, I just added a "leave a comment" option for entering the contest. Thanks for your kind words and I really appreciate your suggestion regarding the contest. Lisa
Becky
AND Gluten free!!! Awesome:))