SUNFLOWER BUTTER COOKIES

 

Author: Stacey

Recipe type: grain free, paleo, gluten free, and low carb version

Cuisine: treat or dessert

Serves: 12

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 12 mins

Total time: 22 mins

Have some cookie decorating fun with these easy to make, sunflower seed butter cookies. 

 

Ingredients

• 6 tbsp coconut flour.
• ½ cup sunflower seed butter.
• 1 egg.
• Sweetener of choice: ⅔ cup coconut sugar for paleo, or ⅔ cup erythritol for low carb (sugar free).
• ⅓ cup butter or coconut oil, melted.
• Sunflower Decoration:
• 2 tbsp raw sunflower seeds
• 12 dark chocolate chips (dairy and soy free kind), or if you don’t eat chocolate, then use 12 raisins

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F, and line a baking sheet with parchment paper, or grease a baking sheet.
2. In a large mixing bowl combine: 1 egg, ½ cup sunflower seed butter, sweetener of choice, and ⅓ cup melted butter or melted coconut oil, and 6 Tbsp coconut flour.
3. Mix together thoroughly. Place dough in mixing bowl into the freezer for 12 minutes to make dough less sticky and spread less while baking.
4. Place your decorating chocolate chips or raisins and sunflower seeds in a bowl near the baking sheet.
5. Once dough is cold and more solid, then form into 12 dough balls and put each on the baking sheet. Flatten the tops of the dough a little *see photo above.
6. Push a chip or raisin into the center of each cookie,* as shown in photo above.
7. Then place and gently push the sunflower seeds around the chip or raisin in the cookie,* as seen in photo above.
8. After decorating, Bake at 350 F for 12 minutes or until cookies are browning.
9. Remove from oven and let cool for at least 12 minutes or more to firm up a little before taking off baking sheet as they will be very soft when first out of the oven.
10. Once completely cooled, remove from sheet and serve.

Notes

Nutritional data for Paleo Version (includes decorations): Serving : 1 medium size cookie, Cal: 185, Carbs: 16 g / Net Carbs: 13.4 g, Fiber: 2.6 g, Fat: 12 g, Protein: 4 g, sugar: 13 g
Nutritional Data for Low Carb Version (includes decorations): serving: 1 medium size cookie, Cal: 148, Carbs: 5.6 g/ Net Carbs: 3 g, Fiber: 2.6, Fat; 12 g, Protein: 4 g, Sugar: 2 g

 

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