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Grain Free Cinnamon Cookies! Laced with cinnamon, cloves and molasses, these chewy and delightful cookies are low in calories, easily customizable and quick to make. An anytime treat you can enjoy guilt free! Paleo + Gluten Free + Low Calorie
Just letting you know, this Grain Free Cinnamon Cookies Recipe was originally published in December 2015. I retested, rephotographed and updated the content for you. Hope you enjoy it!
One week until Christmas! I hate to lay it all on you so close to the holidays, but I'm gonna! I have a love hate relationship with this time of year.
I alluded to this in last week's post that it really bothers me when I look around the internet and Pinterest and see thousands of "healthy" and "gluten free" recipes that are the farthest thing from healthy.
Either my definition of what healthy is, is WAY off or there are a lot of healthy imposters. I will argue the later.
I like to think of them as infomercials you see on tv claiming to have the latest and greatest weight loss pill or magical skincare cream. You know the ones I'm talking about.
The food you see on the Internet, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, etc. are no different than an infomercial. You have to use common sense and judge whether or not the recipe is healthy for you.
Let me give you an example. I stay away from butter and generally use egg whites because high cholesterol and heart disease has infested every single person in my family.
Knowing I'm at high risk for that, I avoid putting those foods and high saturated foods in my body. When I see a recipe loaded up with those things, I avoid it like the plague.
So, before you believe a recipe is "healthy" stop and ask yourself is it "healthy for me?" You may be surprised how few recipes that actually is.
Getting off my bandwagon now because you have some D-E-LICIOUS and HEALTHY Cinnamon Cookies to munch on today!
This is an old recipe from 2015. The pictures were in desperate need of updating (I have so many recipes like this *insert crying emoji*).
I also decided to add a few twists and turns in the recipe. Subbed extra virgin olive oil for the coconut oil, replaced the honey with maple syrup, added cloves and molasses and much more cinnamon. YUM!
I love cinnamon! It's naturally low in calories and sweet so you can reduce the sugar content in recipes by replacing sugar with cinnamon.
Cinnamon is also high in antioxidants and has anti-inflammatory properties helping the body fight infections and repair cells.
It even helps to regulate blood sugar. Insulin regulation is so important for weight management. Something I've talked about over and over again in my newsletter!
What does all this mean to you? It means it's good for you! So grab your cinnamon and bake yourself a batch of these good-for-you Grain Free Cinnamon Cookies this week for the holidays!
Grain Free Cinnamon Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 egg white
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons molasses
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour
- 1 teaspoon coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon + more for sprinkling
- Pinch sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a hand mixer or standing mixer, whisk together the egg white with extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, maple syrup, molasses and almond extract
- In a separate bowl, combine almond flour, coconut flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients to combine.
- With an medium ice cream scoop, scoop balls of the dough onto the baking sheet. Press the doughs down slightly with the palm of your hand to flatten a bit.
- Bake 10 minutes until edges are slightly brown. Remove from the oven and cool on the baking sheet 10 minutes prior to removing and eating. Store cookies in the refrigerator up to 10 days.
Notes
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Nutrition
I did the alcat testing and found it quite helpful. It is ridiculously expensive, though. That said, seeing that I shouldn't have corn and soy in writing gave me the motivation I needed to stop pretending I felt good when I ate them! I definitely had a mild freak out after I read my results because the list was so long. Good news, a couple months later I was able to reintroduce a lot of foods (just not the highly reactive ones). If the testing and food diet feels stressful, don't do it! Cut out foods you feel any mild discomfort after eating and work on healing your gut (bone broth, homemade gelatin gummies) etc. I know for me the stress of just figuring out what to eat wasn't helpful in healing. Good luck, girl!
I also did the LEAP MRT test and another test that looked assessed whether or not I had a methylation defect with b6.
I haven't heard of that tes. Is there one you recommend over the other?
So I don't have stomach issues or at least I'm not aware of them. Sometimes eating beans hurts my stomach or too many veggies at one time, but in those instances I have no idea what specifically is the cause. It's frustrating to me because I don't have pain like many others do. The only real stomach pain I get is related to stress.
Yeah on better health. BOO n more probs & I don't know why insurance does not cover allergy testing these days - crazy!!!!!
As for those cookies - not going to make - I would eat the whole batch! 🙂
Haha! I tamed my cookie monster a long time ago. One cookie a day. 🙂
As someone who adores baking with almond flour and has to eat gluten-free, I love these cookies! Cinnamon is my all out favorite spice too, so these sound fabulous!
Oh yeah, hope you love them!
Oh no, more allergies? Seems like you should do the test just to know, but I'm sure you don't feel like worrying about that right now. I often wonder if I should eliminate anything from my diet, but alas, I eat everything. 🙂 Cookies sound yummy, Megan! Happy Friday!
I used to eating everything too and look where it got me! Oh well...
I would love to get an allergy test done. Man, elimination diets are no fun. I hope you're able to figure out what's going on!
Getting there!
Do you remember me doing that ALCAT testing? It was pricey, but it was right on. I followed it for a while and it made a difference. Then, well... we all know I have had no discipline the past year. LOL! I can give you the name of the person that administered mine if you just want to talk to her.
My naturopath is the one who recommended I do the ALCAT. Which test did you do? There are a lot of them and I'm having trouble choosing! I need to go back and read your post.
So I think you should come to NYC and make me a bunch of Paleo desserts. Ok? Cool. See you soon!
DEAL! Maybe when it's not snowing though?
I have not had to do allergy testing but we have for Dave. For some reason his was covered under insurance (it was all blood and it wasn't the "best"). We are dealing with all sorts of food allergies over here, Dave still doesn't feel that great even after months of no gluten. SIgh. He also doesn't do any nuts because his test showed tree nuts as a slight allergen. I grind up sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds and use them like almond flour and that seems to work pretty well! Good luck friend!
I can understand what he must be going through. For me, I don't necessarily feel bad. It manifests itself in other ways which has been scary for me. I wish him all the best of luck in figuring things out! xoxo
A food elimination diet and/or the food allergy or intolerance test is well worth the time and investment. They changed my life three years ago. Things I was eating every single day ranked very high among things I was intolerant to (cinnamon was one). I've been able to reintroduce a few things in small quantities from time to time, but others just flatten me. And life without eggs is still good -- I've been vegan for 5+ years and have never once missed an egg. Good luck figuring it out.
Good to know Beth! There are so many different tests you can pick from. In my mind, if you do not do the biggest one then how would you really know because you're not testing all the foods? I think part of me doesn't want to know.
So glad that you're making some progress on the food intolerance front. Life will improve so much once you really can figure out what's going on in your body. 🙂
And these cookies?! LOVE. The cinnamon, the low-cal, the healthy ingredients, all of it!
Thanks Blair! It's been a process, but moving in the right direction.
I never did the autoimmune elimination with eggs or nuts because I just didn't have to, but I think it'll give you great info once it's over. There are some great AIP paleo blogs and instagrams etc for some meal ideas in the meantime! These cookies look so yummy! Always looking for new grain free cookie ideas 🙂
I'm not sure how I would know there are so many other factors that could cause me to feel sick, fuzzy or have a headache. The elimination process seems so vague.
What a great way to end your epic recipes this week than with these cookies! I just wanna dunk these in some coffee and call them breakfast 🙂
I didn't think about eating them for breakfast until you mentioned it. BEST IDEA EVER!
come over! we will have a week of elimination diet! haha. kidding, kinda. But glad you are feeling better
Now wouldn't that be fun!
My cinnamon threshold is so great by now, I have to just pour the entire jar in my food for it to be just right 😉 But I'm not complaining, I LOVE my favorite spice!
Hence why I have a huge container of it in my pantry. Pure love!
I say do the allergy test. Doing a food elimination diet is like throwing buckshot--you won't know exactly which one did the deed. These look delicious!
I know the testing is the best way to go but it's ridiculously expensive.