Almond Cutout Christmas Cookies

 

OH MY GOD. ALL I CAN SAY, IS THESE ARE REALLY FRIGGIN GOOD. The cookie part without frosting tastes EXXXXAACCCTTTTLYYYYYY like almond crescent cookies. I love almond flavoring, and almond extract is a beautiful creation. Amazing. I blew myself away with this one.

Yield: about 16 large cookies

Ingredients:
- 2 cups almond flour

- 1/4 tsp salt

- 1/4 tsp baking soda

- 1/4 cup sugar

- 3 tbsp canola/vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp milk of choice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp almond extract

 Directions:
-Preheat oven to 325 degrees
-In a small bowl, combine oil, milk, vanilla, and almond extract.
-In a large bowl, combine almond flour, salt, and Swerve (or sugar)
-Pour wet into dry and mix until ball of dough forms. You can use your hands to form the ball of dough if you want.
-roll out dough onto parchment paper to desired thickness (you can use a roller or just flatten them out with your hands)
-cut out desired shapes (you can even just make flat circles with balls of dough if you are too lazy to make actual shapes)
-Don't try to pick up the shapes, cut the parchment paper in squares around each shape, stack them, and put the cutouts in the freezer for at least 20 minutes.
-Once out of the freezer, carefully remove the shapes from the paper and spread them out onto an un-greased baking sheet. LIKE SO:

-Bake for 10 or 11 minutes or until browning on  the edges.

-Let them cool at least 15 minutes before trying to remove them from the tray, they will left very nicely if you are patient, I promise.

             

You can frost them or dust them with powdered sugar, or whatever you like! I made my own icing for these:
Homemade Icing:
-1 cup powdered sugar
-1/2 tsp vanilla extract
-1-2 tbsp milk of choice

Simply mix together the sugar, vanilla, and milk 1 tbsp at a time, until desired thickness is reached. Color with food dye if desired.