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Sunday 30 September 2018

The Best Paleo Christmas Sugar Cookies Ever (YUM!)

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Christmas is the time of year to spend quality time with your friends and family, enjoy each other’s company, and enjoy plenty of good meals and tasty baked treats. Sugar cookies are a classic Christmas baked good, so I wanted to share a fun little recipe that your kids will go crazy for. These paleo Christmas reindeer sugar cookies are just the thing to spice up your kitchen over the holidays.

A Classic Holiday Treat Made Paleo

Even though this recipe is to specifically focused on decorating the sugar cookies to look like reindeer, you can still make these cookies year round. They are good enough to stand on their own with or without decoration. The cookie dough is made using typical paleo baking ingredients, including almond flour, baking soda, an egg, ghee, vanilla extract, and maple syrup.

The reason I use most of these ingredients is because they are much healthier than the traditional alternatives. Where wheat flour is known to cause inflammation, almond flour can actually improve your health by helping to lower your cholesterol levels. (1) Likewise, table sugar is another common trigger for inflammation, so maple syrup makes an excellent sweetening alternative that is jam-packed full of essential nutrients, antioxidants, and phytochemicals. (2)

paleo sugar cookie ingredients

Once your sugar cookies are done baking, the real fun can begin. If you have kids, you should definitely recruit them to help out with this next part. In order to decorate the sugar cookies to look like one of Santa’s reindeer, you’ll need to melt some dark chocolate and coconut oil separately. Pour the melted chocolate into a pastry bag so that you can draw the eyes and antlers for your reindeer. In order to give your reindeer a red nose like Rudolph, add a bit of dried cranberry powder to your coconut oil and then add a small drop to each of the cookies to make the nose.

cookie dough
baking
decorating the christmas cookies

These tasty holiday treats are a perfect choice to leave out on a plate along with a glass of milk for Santa and his reindeer on Christmas Eve — provided of course that you don’t mind sharing them, which is easier said than done after you try them. And remember, just because these cookies are decorated to look like reindeer doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy this recipe all year round. There’s never a bad time to enjoy a good sugar cookie.

paleo christmas sugar cookies

P.S. – Looking for some more great holiday dessert ideas that are paleo-friendly? Look no further, we’ve got you covered with some great recipe ideas:

The Best Paleo Christmas Sugar Cookies Ever (YUM!)
Jess (Paleo Grubs)

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