Vanilla Rose Shortbread Cookies (Paleo)
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
For the cookies:
  • ½ cup coconut flour
  • 2 tbsp arrowroot flour
  • ¼ cup coconut sugar or Monkfruit sweetener
  • ¼ cup melted coconut oil
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp rosewater
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • pinch of salt
For the icing:
  • ½ cup coconut butter, melted
  • 1 tbsp honey or maple syrup
Garnish:
Instructions
  1. Add all ingredients for the cookies to a mixing bowl and stir well until a soft, crumbly dough forms.
  2. Press out dough on a piece of parchment paper until ¼ inch thick.
  3. Cut out cookies using cookie cutter of choice.
  4. Carefully transfer cutouts to a parchment paper-lined baking sheet using a spatula.
  5. Re-roll and press remaining dough to cut out more cookies. Repeat until all dough is used.
  6. Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes until edges turn golden brown.
  7. Remove from the oven and let cool on wire rack.
  8. While cookies are cooling, melt coconut butter and combine with honey or maple syrup.
  9. Once cookies are cool, use a butter knife to frost cookies with coconut butter "icing."
  10. Sprinkle dried rose petals on top.
Recipe by Mycah Hunter at https://mycahhunter.com/2020/03/28/vanilla-rose-shortbread-cookies-paleo/