I enjoy baking and cookies are something I make regularly, different ones each week. We all like our cakes and cookies here so having some control over the ingredients to make them a little healthier is always a good thing! These little Almond and Flaxseed Cookies are bite-sized and great for little fingers, lunchboxes or just with a cup of tea.
Crunchy on the outside but cushion soft in the middle, I make these in my mini macaron pan to try to keep their shape but these cookies aren't ones that spread all that much due to the self-raising flour. As with all my recipes I keep the sugar content down, I used 70g today but I would use 50g if I were adding fruit.
Almond Flaxseed Cookies
Ingredients
- 100 g unsalted butter, softened
- 185 g self-raising flour
- 70 g golden caster sugar
- 100 g flaked almonds
- 35 g golden flaxseeds
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 180C/400F Gas 5
- Lightly grease a couple of baking trays., see notes below.
- Rub the softened butter into the flour until you have fine breadcrumbs, stir in the caster sugar, flaked almonds and golden flaxseeds.
- Beat the egg and vanilla extract in a bowl and combine into the dry ingredients to form a dough.
- Shape the dough into small balls, place onto the baking tray, spaced out and flatten slightly.
- Bake for around 12-15 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Place on a wire rack immediately after baking and leave to cool, if you can, I usually can’t, love a warm, just out of the oven, cookie.
Recipe Notes
*Nutritional data is provided as a courtesy and is accurate to the best of my knowledge. You can verify it using the nutrition calculator of your choice. All data is based on net carbs, without sugar alcohol: Swerve, Erythritol, Monk Fruit or Allulose.
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These are brilliant for kiddie snacks and lunchboxes and also because they are mini cookies, a small, low-sugar treat when I need one!
Julie's Family Kitchen
Yummy looking cookies. #recipeoftheweek
Kate Thompson
These look lovely - a little bit different. I don't have any flax seeds in my cupboard but would love to try these 🙂 #Recipeoftheweek
Alison
I would never have thought of flax seed in biscuits, they look lovely. Love almond biscuits
Julie Ballard
I'm going to try out my macaron mould and make the cookies..just need to buy some flaxseeds. What else could I use them in?
Ruth's all sorts
These look yummy! I got into eating thing with flax seed in when I was trying to increase my milk supply when breastfeeding my babies. Not tried it with almond though, sounds like a good combo 🙂
Coombemill
Hard to beat a home made cookie!
Donna
I can't say I've ever had a flaxseed before but love trying new things, these look lovely! x
City Coastal Lifestyle
Cookies look delicious! #blogclub
Emmys Mummy
They look yummy. Such a clever idea to cook them in the macaroon pan to keep the shape. I must remember that one
Kate Thompson
Also visiting from #LABBlogCLub to say I have now BOUGHT flax seeds 🙂 and am good to go!
oana79
They look lovely, even the uncooked ones look delicious! #BlogClub
Honest Mum
These look wonderful and so simple to make too so perfect with little people, thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
Emma T
Yum, these look delicious and I love the idea of using a macaron . #blogclub
Vicki - The Free From Fairy
I LOVE flax seeds! I put them in everything I can! I always have some ground (that I have done in my coffee grinder) in the freezer where they don't loose their nutrient content. I will have to have a go at adapting these to be glutenfree and dairyfree but I think that would work! Thanks for the inspiration!
Cakesphotoslife (Angie)
They look simply delicious, sadly we don't have nuts in our house due to allergies x
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Laura @ Kneadwhine
I've pinned these for future reference. I love almonds and I've never tried to use flaxseed before.
Hannah Staveley
Love the cookies, they look so nice, I look baking with my kids 🙂 #blogclub
Emily @amummytoo
Gosh they sound wonderful and what a great way to benefit from flax goodness. Thanks so much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. I've pinned and tweeted this post and hope to see you linking up again soon! 😀 x