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Healthy sugar cookie cutouts with naturally colored icing

Decorate-Your-Own Sugar Cookie Cutouts

The family-activity cookie, with icing colored by plants.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Chill 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings: 20 cookies
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 108
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Cookies
  • 2 cups blanched almond flour 200g
  • 2 tbsp coconut flour
  • ¼ cup pure maple syrup 60ml
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil melted
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ¼ tsp almond extract
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
Natural Icing
  • ¼ cup coconut butter 64g, softened
  • 1 tbsp pure maple syrup
  • Warm water, 1 tsp at a time
  • Colors: ¼ tsp beet powder (pink/red), ¼ tsp matcha or spirulina (green), ¼ tsp turmeric (yellow)

Method
 

  1. Mix the cookie ingredients into a dough. Chill 30 minutes.
  2. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and line a baking sheet.
  3. Roll the dough between parchment to ¼ inch thick and cut out shapes.
  4. Freeze the cut shapes for 10 minutes so they keep sharp edges.
  5. Bake 8–10 minutes. Cool completely.
  6. Stir the icing until smooth, divide it into bowls and color each one.
  7. Decorate.

Notes

Macros are estimates per cookie based on the ingredients listed. Carbs are total carbs.