Festive Green Christmas Cookies with Cassava & Coconut Flour

Do you have favorite holiday traditions from your childhood? Have you continued them with your own family today? When I think about Christmas as a little girl, my mom’s “Green Cookies” are top of the list. But, since our family has adopted a real food lifestyle I’ve had a hard time replicating them — until now!

Very much like a traditional Snow Ball cookie, with the addition of green food coloring, I needed to find ingredients to replace the white flour, confectioners sugar, and artificial dye, while maintaining the soft, crumbly texture, and nutty, almond flavor.

I had tried many combinations of substitutions for these Green Christmas Cookies, but I think this one is a winner.

Cassava flour, coconut sugar, and plant-based food coloring (using spirulina and turmeric extract), along with walnuts, grass-fed butter, and almond extract, came together to bring my favorite holiday cookie back to life!

While there is only a hint of green (compared to the vibrant color I remember), the idea is there. You can also use green decorating sugar (made with spirulina and turmeric extract) to roll the cookies in as soon as they come out of the oven to give a richer color.

Now I can share these tasty morsels with my own kids and keep the tradition alive. Luckily, they think these Green Christmas Cookies are as delicious as I do! Give them a try and add them to your favorite healthy holiday treats list this year.

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