I love lemon baking recipes! You might have tried my Blueberry Lemon Blondies, 3-Ingredient Lemon Donuts, or 4-Ingredient Lemon Cake. There’s something about lemon that screams summer. So I make lemon recipes in summer because it’s the right time. I make lemon recipes in winter because I want to feel like summer. And of course also in spring and fall, because, why not?
Ingredients and Substitutions
To make these soft and chewy meltaway lemon cookies with almond flour, you need:
Ultra-Fine Almond Flour – I don’t recommend baking with almond meal. It has a coarse texture and darker color and gives a gritty texture to almond flour cookies. Freshly-Squeezed Lemon Juice – or bottled juice. Lemon Zest – Make sure you are using untreated lemon to avoid pesticide residues. Baking Powder or half baking soda, so 1/8 teaspoon. Maple Syrup – or any other liquid sweetener like agave syrup. Coconut Oil – it must be coconut oil, no vegetable oil, or the cookie won’t firm up properly. Vanilla Extract – for flavor. Lemon Extract – optional but delicious to enhance the lemon flavor of these cookies.
How To Make Lemon Shortbread Cookies
These are soft shortbread cookies entirely made of almond flour and vegan lemon cookies!
Add-Ons
You can add up to 1/3 cup of poppy seeds to these dairy-free cookies. Add the seeds at the beginning of the recipe, along with the dry ingredients.
Cookie Taste
These are entirely made of almond flour, so they definitely have an almond flour flavor. But almond perfectly blends with the tangy lemon flavor. They are soft, chewy cookies, way less sweet or buttery than a classic lemon crinkle cookie.
Storage Instructions
These almond flour lemon cookies store very well in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. The texture becomes sticky with time as almond flour soaks up some moisture from the air. You can also freeze your cookies in zip-lock bags and thaw them the day before at room temperature on a cooling rack.
More Almond Flour Cookie Recipes
I love to bake with almond flour because it’s full of plant-based protein, and it tastes delicious in cookies. Below I listed my favorite vegan, gluten-free almond flour cookie recipes for you to try. All are paleo-friendly and dairy-free
