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Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies With White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting!

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Course Dessert
Cuisine Cookies
Servings 25 Cookies

Ingredients
  

  • INGREDIENTS FOR COOKIES
  • 3 Cups Blanched Almond Flour (not almond meal)
  • 1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt I used pink himalayan pink sea salt
  • 1/4 tsp Baking soda
  • 1 Pinch Ground Nutmeg I used 1/4 tsp because I like strong spice flavors
  • 1/2 Cup Coconut Oil, melted
  • 1/4 Cup Honey
  • 1 TBSP Orange zest
  • INGREDIENTS FOR WHITE CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
  • 1/2 Cup Organic Cane Sugar, ground into powdered sugar in a vitamix If you already have powdered sugar use 1 Cup
  • 6 TBSP Butter Room temperature cut into 6 small pieces
  • 1 OZ Cacao Butter
  • 1/4 tsp Natural Food Coloring Or more per your preference

Instructions
 

  • INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE COOKIES:
  • In a medium bowl mix dry ingredients together: almond four, salt, baking soda, & nutmeg.
  • In a small bowl mix melted coconut oil, honey and orange zest.
  • Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients.
  • It's easiest to divide the dough evenly between two balls, place each piece onto parchment paper & cover with second piece of parchment paper. I used my rolling pin to roll out the dough. The original recipe states to roll dough out to thickness of 1/4th inch, but I like my cookie a little thicker therefore mine was closer to 1/2 inch thick. Place cookie dough in the freezer for 30 minutes.
  • If it's Valentine's Day, use heart shaped cookie cutters to cut out cookies. unfortunately I only had round cookie cutters, but using pink food coloring and sprinkles made it the cookies a very nice valentine's day treat.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake for for 5-7 minutes. Each oven temperature might be slightly different. I needed to bake mine the full 7 minutes, than I allowed it to cool off on the pan for another couple minutes before removing.
  • For the frosting: I used the same ingredients that Elana had listed but I didn't completely follow her instructions.
  • I used a small sized double broiler, it just felt easier to me & less chance that I burn my ingredients. Once the water on the bottom broiler was boiling, I added the powdered sugar and 2 TBSP water to the top pan, stir until melted.Next add the cacao butter and butter, stir until both are melted. Last I stirred in food coloring.
  • Place the pan of icing in refrigerator and allow to cool until it's solid. Using a hand blender, blend until smooth.
  • Once the cookies are completely cooled, you may frost and decorate them.

Notes

  1. You can find good quality cacao butter at whole foods or amazon
  2. I use the food coloring and sprinkles from the brand, COLOR KITCHEN that I found it on amazon. I like this brand because the colors all come from fruit and vegetable pigments and it doesn't have any added preservatives.