Wholesome Birthday Cake Cookies (gluten free!)

Summer time is on its approach out and I believed why not rejoice a brand new season with a enjoyable birthday-themed deal with? I truly made these simple, tremendous comfortable, scrumptious cookies nearly 4 years in the past to the date to convey somewhat pleasure again into 2020 (IYKYK).

These gluten-free and grain-free birthday cake cookies are completely comfortable like these Lofthouse cookies you in all probability grew up on, however are made with extra nourishing elements and topped with the most effective vanilla buttercream frosting. I say life is best with sprinkles, so you understand we’re mixing some proper into the batter AND on prime of those beauties.

Bake them up to your mates or together with your kiddos and have somewhat dessert celebration any day of the week!

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Elements in these wholesome birthday cake cookies

These deliciously comfortable, grain free & gluten free birthday cake cookies use just a few pantry staples and naturally, loads of sprinkles. Right here’s every thing you’ll have to make them:

• Coconut oil: you’ll use melted and cooled coconut oil to ensure these birthday cake cookies are completely moist.
• Natural cane sugar: I like to make use of natural cane sugar however you too can use common sugar or coconut sugar. Simply notice that the cookies will end up darker in colour should you use coconut sugar (however will nonetheless be scrumptious!) 
• Egg: you’ll simply want 1 egg in these birthday cake cookies. Ensure it’s at room temperature earlier than utilizing within the recipe!
• Vanilla & almond extract: we’re utilizing a combo of vanilla extract and almond extract, which supplies these cookies that true birthday cake taste.
• Flour: we’re additionally utilizing each high quality, blanched almond flour and somewhat bit of coconut flour to get preserve the cookies grain and gluten-free.
• Baking soda & salt: to assist these cookies bake up correctly.
• Sprinkles: as a result of they’re birthday cake cookies, in fact! This is the model that I like to make use of, and this model can also be an all pure alternative for sprinkles.
• For the vanilla buttercream: you’ll want butter or vegan butter, natural powdered sugar, vanilla extract & sprinkles.

Can I make them vegan?

Sure, these wholesome birthday cake cookies can simply be made vegan & dairy free! Right here’s tips on how to do it:

• Use a flax egg as a substitute of an everyday egg within the recipe.
• Swap in vegan butter for the frosting (we want Earth Steadiness or Miyokos for the most effective texture)
• Alternatively, you may skip the frosting altogether or use a dairy-free frosting similar to Easy Mills vanilla. The cookies themselves are scrumptious even with out the frosting (although the frosting takes these to the following degree).

Straightforward birthday cake cookies in 5 easy steps

1. Combine the moist elements. Add your whole moist elements to a big bowl and blend till properly mixed and clean.
2. Make the dough. Add the dry elements to your bowl with the moist elements and blend till a dough kinds. Fold in among the sprinkles (leaving some for adorning the tops) and permit the dough to take a seat for a couple of minutes.
3. Roll & bake. Use your palms or a cookie scoop to roll dough into golf ball sized dough balls. Place on the ready cookie sheet then flatten every dough ball with the palm of your hand in order that it’s about ¼ inch thick, then bake them up.
4. Cool & make the frosting. Enable the cookies to chill fully when you beat collectively all the frosting elements.
5. Frost & devour. Frost every cookie, add just a few further sprinkles on prime, and eat up!

Ideas for making the most effective wholesome birthday cake cookies

• Don’t use substitutes. Almond flour shouldn’t be changed with every other flour, nor do you have to try to interchange the coconut flour (although I believe oat flour or a gluten free all objective flour instead of the coconut flour may go out okay). These wholesome birthday cake cookies are good as-is and the recipe needs to be modified at your personal threat.
• Pack your almond flour. You may pack the blanched high quality almond flour identical to you’d with brown sugar. It makes all of the distinction! Do NOT pack your coconut flour although.
• Use a room temperature egg. This may be certain that the coconut oil doesn’t coagulate and trigger the cookie dough to be tremendous lumpy. Simply place your egg in a bowl of heat water for a couple of minutes (earlier than cracking), or run heat water over the egg for a minute to convey it to room temp.

Storing & freezing ideas

• To retailer: be at liberty to maintain these cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for 1 day, then switch to the fridge or freezer.
• To freeze: be certain that the cookies are fully cooled, after which switch them to an hermetic container lined with wax or parchment paper or freezer-safe bag earlier than storing them within the freezer for as much as 2 months. I like to position them in a single layer to keep away from any cookies breaking. As soon as able to eat, merely thaw out at room temperature and luxuriate in! You may frost earlier than or after they’re frozen!

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I hope you like these wholesome grain free birthday cake cookies! When you make them remember to depart a remark & a ranking so I understand how you favored them. Get pleasure from, xo!

This submit was initially printed on September 14th, 2020, and republished on September third, 2024.