These soft gluten free, dairy free cookies are suitable for anyone with coeliac disease or following a gluten free and/or dairy free diet.
Wow! The sun is shining and having whizzed off on my bike first thing this morning on an elderflower forage I feel fantastic!
Last year I managed to collect loads of elderflowers and made lots of my elderflower cordial; a totally delicious taste of summer that can be used in all kinds of baking (like my lemon and elderflower cupcakes) as well as adding to water for a refreshing drink (or gin and tonic for a rather wonderful ‘cocktail!).
In addition to elderflowers making a rather delicious drink, they can be added to boiling water to make a refreshing tea and to top it all off they are said to be immune-stimulating and one of the most powerful, natural anti-viral remedies known to man!
So next time you are in the countryside keep you eyes peeled for these beautiful flowers (and the berries later in the year which can be added to smoothies or juices to keep the colds at bay).
Anyway, the point in this post was not to lecture you on the wonders of nature (sorry!), but to share a very simple recipe with you using my favourite coconut products from Coconut Merchant.
This one does not taste like coconut, hence they are not called coconut cookies!
Mr M hates coconut, so it is my mission in life to sneak the healthy oil and products into foods without him knowing they are there!
I can’t call this recipe healthy, however it is very easy and Pickle made this batch. If you avoid refined sugar then you’ll like it since it uses only coconut sugar and syrup as sweeteners. If you like simple, easy recipes that you can knock up in 20 minutes from start to finish you are also going to like these!
For those of you who enjoyed seeing my disastrous first attempt at this recipe on Facebook, hopefully you will also enjoy seeing these pictures of the perfected one!
Happy baking. Remember, I make the mistakes so you don’t have to!
Soft Gluten Free, Dairy Free Cookies (Refined Sugar Free)
Ingredients
- 100 g dairy-free margarine
- 100 g coconut sugar - I used Coconut Merchant
- 1 tbsp coconut syrup - I used Coconut Merchant
- 190 g gluten-free self-raising flour - I used Doves
- Coconut chips or whatever takes your fancy to decorate
Instructions
- Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy
- Add the syrup and mix until well combined
- Finally add the flour and mix again until a soft dough forms
- Dollop the mixture onto greased baking trays...make them any size you like but be aware that they do spread when cooking
- Bake for 10 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees, 160 degree fan, gas mark 4
- Remove from the oven and gently press the coconut chips into the top
- Return to the oven for a further 2 minutes until golden
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Emma says
Such beautiful photos! I love reading your recipes.
Vicki Montague says
Thanks Emma!
Vikki Cook says
Lol. I’m with your other half on this, I’m afraid! I really, really don’t like coconut. The FLAVOUR is fine (pina coladas!) but actual coconut? Blech!! However, these cookes look really rather incredible and now I know I could use honey instead of coconut syrup (never knew there was such a thing but sounds very interesting!), I think I shall have to give these a go. After all, the fact they have no refined sugar means I can have two, right!? RIGHT!!? ;0)
Vikki Cook
Vicki Montague says
Oh yes, go for two Vikki!!! How are you? Hope you are well.
Kate - glutenfreealchemist says
These are great Vicki! So simple and straight forward and they tick all the FF boxes!
Vicki Montague says
They certainly do! I love simple!!!
Kyra @ Vie De La Vegan says
I love how quick and easy these are – and all that coconut goodness! Although I’m wondering – could I use coconut oil instead of the margarine and coconut flour instead of the GF flour? Or would that just be coconut overkill…haha.
Vicki Montague says
Hi Kyra, you certainly couldn’t just sub coconut flour with the GF flour…it behaves in a very different way! I think it would be fine with coconut oil instead of marg though…let me know if you do some experimenting!
International Elf Service says
These look so lovely Vicky!! Coconut is so good for you too. I’m doing in house experiments to see if the youngest is ok with it but I’ll be making these as soon as we’re ‘in the clear’! #freefromfridays
Vicki Montague says
Excellent! Let me know how you get on and fingers crossed your little one passes the ‘coconut’ test!
Lupin Girl says
These look truly scrummy, I don’t have any coconut syrup, do you think it’d work with anything else? #freefromfridays
Lupin Girl
Vicki Montague says
Hi there! Just use ordinary golden syrup…or honey!
Emma Chanagasubbay says
These biscuits look really yummy. I didn’t know you could buy coconut sugar so that will be a new thing for me to try X
Vicki Montague says
Mmm, it’s lovely! I can recommend the Coconut Merchant one and you get £5 off with my code!