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Preheat oven to 150 degrees C and line a baking tray with bleach-free baking paper (I always use the “if you care” brand).<\/p>\n

If milling your own nuts, do this first so you have your almond meal all ready. Then place almond meal, sugar, vanilla and salt in a large mixing bowl and stir to combine. Make a well in the centre.<\/p>\n

Melt the cacao butter and pour into the well you created, use your hand to “rub” the cacao butter into the almond meal until you have a crumbly dough that you can press together to roll into balls. If dough feels too wet you can add a little more almond meal so keep an extra 1\/2 cup close by just in case.<\/p>\n

Gather approx 2 Tablespoons of dough (I didn’t exactly measure but grabbed what “looked” like enough) and roll into a ball. Place on baking tray and flatten with palm of hand, working gently because the dough is a bit fragile. Turn flattened dough “disc” over and press around the sides to smooth out any “ridges”. Repeat until all the cookie dough is used up.<\/p>\n

Bake for 12-15 minutes and remove and cool slightly before using a small spatula or egg flip to transfer cookies from tray to an airtight container, where they will keep for a week or so. Let’s be honest though lovely ones, will they last the whole week at this time of year? Most likely not. They are such a beautiful treat to share with the ones you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These Christmas cookies are flour-less, butter-less and egg-less. Calling upon 5 simple ingredients and 12-15 minutes in the oven. They can be whipped up when guests call in at the last minute or if you’re just really craving cookies and don’t have much patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,79,85,3,80,81,35,83,34,82],"tags":[22,54,21,25,20,23,46,24],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biscuits-and-cookies","category-dairy-free-recipes","category-egg-free-recipes","category-genuine-reads-for-genuine-people","category-gluten-free-recipes","category-grain-free-recipes","category-real-food","category-refined-sugar-free-recipes","category-vegan","category-vegan-recipes","tag-dairy-free","tag-egg-free","tag-gluten-free","tag-grain-free","tag-nuts-and-seeds","tag-refined-sugar-free","tag-vegan","tag-whole-foods"],"yoast_head":"\n