I baked these AIP grain free tea cookies one day I invited my cousin over at my house. She’s neither on the AIP nor following a gluten-free diet, but she fell in love with these cute leaf-shaped cookies so much that she asked for the recipe!
…Thank God for tea on the AIP! While the Autoimmune Protocol could look like a crazy tough diet (at least during the elimination phase), if instead of focusing on what we can’t eat, we cherish what we can have instead, life starts smiling again 🙂
And what’s better (and more healing) than enjoying a tea with some close friends and savor some delicious AIP paleo cookies while having a nice chat?
Remember: healing from an autoimmune disease is as much about diet as it is about those lifestyle changes that allow us to remove stress from our day, take time for ourselves, rest and spend quality time with friends cultivating non-toxic relationships.
You can read more about the links between stress and autoimmunity her,e and about the health benefits of connection here.
What I love about these grain-free tea cookies is that, despite being free from gluten, dairy, nuts and refines sugar, they please the palate of every single eater, even those who are used to traditional store-bought cookies!
Simply bake them, display them on a platter, and have your family and friends try them. They will keep asking for more, and you will simply feel normal, as if you were not following some weird diet protocol that prevents you from enjoying food with others… but more like you are making people happy, making them good food that’s also good for them!
And if you want more crowd-pleasing recipes like this, make sure to check out my “AIP Italian Cookbook”, packed with delicious Italian food that’s compliant with the Autoimmune Protocol.
Grain Free Tea Cookies (Gluten & Dairy Free, Paleo, AIP)
Preparation
time:
00:15
Cooking
time:
00:15
No. of
servings:
40
For the Grain Free Tea Cookies:
- 40 gr Tigernut Flour
- 50 gr Arrowroot Flour
- 50 gr Cassava Flour
- 30 gr Coconut Milk
- 1/8 tsp Ginger Powder
- 70 gr Coconut Oil, melted
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 tbsp Limoncello (the alcohol will evaporate while baking)
- *1 tbsp Mesquite Powder (Mesquite is technically a legume so avoid during the elimination phase of the AIP))
For the Green Tea Icing:
- 1 tbsp Raw Honey
- 1/4 tsp Matcha Green Tea Powder
- 1 1/2 tbsp Coconut Milk
- Preheat the oven to 345 F (175 C).
- In a mixing bowl combine dry and wet ingredients, mix and knead well until you get a nice and smooth ball of dough. To save time, you can combine them all in a food processor like the one I use and make the process a lot easier)
- Place your ball of dough over a sheet of parchment paper, cover it with another sheet of paper and roll down your grain free cookie dough with a rolling pin until it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
- Carve out cookies using your favorite cookie cutters (I love these leaf-shaped cookie cutters).
- Bake for 15 minutes and let them cool down while you prepare the green tea icing simply by combining all the ingredients in a small pan over low heat.
- Drizzle the green tea icing over your cookies, let them cool and enjoy!!
I can’t wait for you to try my AIP grain free tea cookies, and if you love them, please make sure to share the recipe with your friends on Pinterest and Facebook!!
I am here for you, so if you have questions or need suggestions on how to replace certain ingredients, just leave a comment on this post!
Ciao, Ambra
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14 Comments
Hi Ambra,
What can I use in place of the mesquite powder? Can I simply omit it?
Hi April,
you can simply omit mesquite without problems. Mesquite gives the cookies a nice sweet flavor, and if you want your dough sweeter you can replace it a teaspoon of honey or date sugar instead.
Let me know how they come out!!
HI Ambra, I would like to make these for Thanksgiving day. Could you confirm that I can replace the mesquite powder with one TSP of honey, or should it be one TBSP?
Looking forward to trying these! Thanks for all these great recipes!
That’s exciting Julie. Yes, you can replace the mesquite powder. I would use date sugar or honey.
Ambra
I don’t have limoncello, but I have some very nice culinary lemon oil. could I use that instead?
Ciao Amy! You could use lemon oil to replace a part of coconut oil, that sounds like a very delicious alternative. I would say about 10% of it. The limoncello can be replaced with rhum or another sweet spirit, or even coconut water if you want.
Hope you love the cookies!!
Can limoncello be replaced with lemon juice?
Thank you in advance.
Yes, only put 1 tablespoon though. I don’t want it to make the dough too tart.
Enjoy your cookies!
Yikes! I brought my Cassava flour to my boyfriend’s house and left it there. I have almond flour, tapioca, Tigernut, coconut…would any be ok?
Amy, unfortunately, neither one of these can replace cassava: almond is too high in fat for this recipe and would alter the texture, tapioca would make the dough taste like hard glue, all tigernut would be overpowering and so would be coconut. The only idea I have is that, if you have already reintroduced rice, you could use rice flour.
Hope this helped!
Maybe I will just wait until I get the Cassava flour…darn, I got Limoncello and matcha powder thinking I had Cassava at home. Cant wait to try it when I have ALL my ingredients 🙂
Yes Amy, I think it’s worth waiting because this recipe is too delicious to risk it 😉
Hi, I don’t have tigernut flour. Can I replace it with cassava, almond or coconut flour? Thanks.
Hi Sumi, the only flour you can possibly replace tigernut with is almond meal. BUT, this will definitely change flavor and texture. Also, the type of substitution is something I have never tried so I can’t guarantee on the outcome. My best advice for you is to try and find some tigernut flour inline, it’s totally worth it 🙂
Ambra
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