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Chloe O'Claire

Snowman Sugar Cookies

It's day four of the Christmas Countdown Cookie Advent Calendar for 2021. Sugar cookies are a fan favorite and we couldn't disappoint. This time we are making the sugar cookies into snowmen, however, feel free to make snowwomen, snow-children, snowpeople. If you are feeling very ambitious, snow-animals!


Makes: 1+ cookies depending on the sizes of the cookie cutters Best served: Fresh

Prep Time: 20-40 minutes Cook time: 8 minutes or until faintly golden brown



Sugar cookies typically have a very sweet and vanilla-y taste to the cookie. We don't add any vanilla extract or any extract at all because we can't have it. However, go ahead and add it if you prefer.


These cookies are soft, delicious and taste amazing! They are great warm, room temp, and even better the next day. If they even last that long, lol.


The batter is soft so make sure to refrigerate it before rolling it out and in between uses so it is easy to work with.



Ingredients

2 1/4 cup almond flour, lightly packed

1/2 cup coconut flour, lightly packed

3/4 cup coconut oil, room temperature

3/4 cup Turbinado sugar

2 eggs, unpasteurized

Pinch of kosher salt



Instructions

Beat together the coconut oil and sugar. I recommend using a mixer, but mixing everything by hand is doable! Add the eggs one by one. Wait until each egg is fully incorporated before adding the next. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl to get all the hidden pockets of oil and mix or beat that in.


In a different container, add the flours and salt. Go ahead and mix them together and break any large clumps with a fork.


Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet. Wait in between each time to make sure that everything is fully incorporated before adding more. This is to make sure that there are no clumps or packets of flour. I guarantee that it is very unpleasant when biting into a cookie and getting a mouthful of flour or salt. Yuck!



Transfer the dough to a Pyrex or Tupperware container, or wrap the dough in saran wrap and stick in the fridge for about 30 minutes. We want the dough chilled so it is very easy to work with. The coconut oil has a very low melting point and if the dough isn't chilled it will start to stick and break apart.

My dough chilling in the fridge


Once chilled, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Transfer the dough to a clean countertop or on a piece of parchment paper. I sometimes prefer the parchment because it is easy to clean up, and will help get the cookies off the counter.


Let the fun begin. Roll the dough out using a rolling pin or anything circular. If the rolling pin is playing hide'n'seek an easy substitute for adults is a wine bottle. For anyone else

try and find something that has a cylinder shape like a soup can. Once the dough is rolled or pressed out to the desired thickness take a snowman cookie cutter, or two, or three, and start cutting out the snowmen.


Chill the dough as soon as it starts to get soft and oily/sticky. Otherwise, it will break.

My kids may have wanted a tree or two to decorate


If the dough was rolled on a piece of parchment paper, simply take the paper with the cutout dough on it and put it on the baking tray. If it wasn't, line a baking sheet with some.


Bake the dough for 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown. There will be oil splotches on the parchment paper. This is okay and is from the coconut oil in the cookies. It does not affect the taste at all.


These cool very nicely and don't need to be transferred to cool. They pop right off of the tray.


Decorate with your favorite frosting or eat plain. Either way, these sugar cookies are great. Enjoy!


This is my very first attempt with this recipe. I had the dough thicker because I didn't want them to break when removed from the tray. As you can see, they don't look the best, that's okay! Looking closely at the snowmen there are divets and aren't a uniform shape. That is from dough that got too warm and crumbled when transferring to the baking sheet.



This is from my most recent baking with this dough and my cookies have improved. Yay! The dough is thinner and they are a more uniform look. The cookies don't stick together and are easily removed from the pan.


























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