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Home Β» Chef Recipes Β» Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests

Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests

March 13, 2016 By Sandi Gaertner 26 Comments

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If you love to bake, these gluten free lemon cookie nests are a delicious treat to make for your Easter celebration.

Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Baskets filled with jelly beans and marshmallow peeps

How do you like to celebrate Easter? Do you have a family gathering?

(*This post was sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill. All opinions and fun recipes are my own.)

We are very low key. I honestly think my kids’ favorite thing about Easter is the candy. They are past getting excited about egg hunts but give them a chocolate bunny or peeps, and they are so happy. (As long as I don’t bite off their chocolate bunny’s ears!)

Okay, don’t laugh. I really do think the chocolate bunny ears taste the best. My kids have learned over the years to hide their chocolate bunnies from me.

This year we decided to make a dessert that would look pretty on a dessert buffet. What could be more fun than a sugary sweet peep in its own little nest?

You will love these gluten free lemon cookie nests.

Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests are filled with Easter candy and yellow marshmallow peeps. They are sitting on a brown paper napkin

For a long time now, the star of my baking has been the new Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 Gluten Free Flour Blend. I use this blend in most of the recipes you will find on my blog. This flour holds up so well to any recipe I try it on…no more crumbly gluten free cookies!

 

Bob's Red Mill gluten free flour and almond meal in bags on a table

Why I use Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Flours:

  • It is perfectly formulated for baked goods with terrific taste and texture – no additional specialty ingredients or custom recipes required.
  • This flour combines finely ground brown rice flour, sweet white rice flour, whole grain sorghum flour, potato starch, and tapioca flour with a touch of xanthan gumβ€”just enough xanthan gum to create chewy cookies and springy muffins.
  • The protein in the sorghum flour helps give baked goods an almost wheat-like texture and aids in browning, for those times you need a perfectly golden brown chocolate chip cookie. Use this blend for cookies, cakes, and brownies.

Another Bob’s Red Mill product I use a lot is their almond flour. This is my “top secret” way to both add protein to my baking, and it helps keep what I make moist so it doesn’t get dried out and break easily. It is ground from whole blanched almonds.

These gluten free lemon cookie nests are full of fresh lemon.

Our lemon tree is still producing lemons at a record rate, and I knew the tart acidic lemon flavor would carry through and balance out the sugar in these cookies.

How to make gluten free lemon cookies:

Lemon Cookie Batter in a silver bowl

These cookie nests are really easy to make. If you don’t have a shaped baking tin, just use a regular muffin tin. Mix up your wet ingredients in a mixer. Slowly add in the dry ingredients.

Cookie dough pressed into the baking pan cups

Press the dough into the cups.

Filling the cookie basket with shredded coconut. There is green icing around the rim.

Add the frosting around the edge of the cookie basket. Also add a little to the inside of the basket. Fill with unsweetened shredded coconut.

Adding the jelly beans and yellow peeps to the Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests assembly

Add a peep and some jelly beans to the cookie nest.

Little yellow marshmallow peeps sitting in their gluten free cookie nests

Here is another delicious Easter treat. These 5 Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs from Beaming Baker.

Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests

Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests

Yield: 6
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Easy gluten free Easter lemon cookie nests

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 Gluten Free Flour Blend, (*Note, my flour blend has xanthan gum included. If yours doesn't, add 1 teaspoon.)
  • 1/2 cup Bob's Red Mill Almond Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 stick butter, melted
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • Zest from one lemon
  • unsweetened shredded coconut
  • Jelly beans
  • Peeps

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a mixer, add all wet ingredients (including zest) and mix on low speed until blended.
  3. Gradually add in the dry ingredients, starting with the almond flour.
  4. Turn the speed up to medium after the dry ingredients are blended in and mix for one more minute.
  5. Spray coconut oil in a muffin tin or cookie bowl tin.
  6. Fill each cup 1/3 with batter.
  7. With wet fingers, push the dough up the sides to make the nest.
  8. Repeat with each cup.
  9. Bake for 10 minutes until done.
  10. Remove from the oven and put each cookie nest on a cooling rack to cool.
  11. Use squeeze frosting to line the edge and the middle of each nest.
  12. Fill each nest with 1 tablespoon shredded coconut.
  13. Add a peep and jelly beans.
  14. Enjoy πŸ™‚
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 262 Cholesterol: 27mg Sodium: 60mg Carbohydrates: 49g Fiber: 4g Sugar: 26g Protein: 5g
© Sandi Gaertner
Cuisine: American / Category: Dessert
I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls and the content and   opinions expressed here are all my own.

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Comments

  1. Kay K

    April 13, 2017 at 2:10 pm

    Sandi: They look wonderful and I am sure it must be somewhere but how many does one batch make?
    Thanks,
    K

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      April 13, 2017 at 3:49 pm

      Hi Kay, Thank you for your note. This makes 6 cookie nests, with a small amount of dough left for a few cookies.

      Reply
  2. Deb @ Cooking on the Front Burner

    March 15, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    These are too adorable and I know my granddaughter would love these! So fun for Easter!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 15, 2016 at 9:10 pm

      Awesome…let me know if you get a chance to try them with her πŸ™‚

      Reply
  3. Cyndi - My Kitchen Craze

    March 15, 2016 at 10:03 am

    What a cute and fun idea! Plus I’m obsessed with lemon anything so this is right up my alley! πŸ™‚ My daughter is going to love these!!

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 15, 2016 at 2:57 pm

      I hope she loves them Cyndi πŸ™‚

      Reply
  4. Kimberly @ The Daring Gourmet

    March 14, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    These are so cute! My kids would have a blast helping me make (and eat) these!

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 15, 2016 at 2:59 pm

      LOL my kids loved helping on this one. I hope they like them πŸ™‚

      Reply
  5. michelle @ blackberry babe

    March 14, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    These are just adorable. My son would love them!

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 15, 2016 at 3:00 pm

      πŸ™‚

      Reply
  6. Laura / I Heart Naptime

    March 14, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    These look amazing! My kids caught a glimpse and now are begging for me to make these.

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 16, 2016 at 10:41 pm

      I hope they like them πŸ™‚

      Reply
  7. Valerie | From Valerie's Kitchen

    March 14, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    These are super cute! I’m certain that even my grown boys would love them ?)

    Reply
    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 14, 2016 at 4:54 pm

      You will have to let me know what they think Valerie πŸ˜‰

      Reply
  8. Sarah

    March 14, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    They look adorable. Great idea. πŸ™‚

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 14, 2016 at 4:54 pm

      Thank you so much Sarah.

      Reply
  9. Taylor Thurston

    March 14, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    These are so ridiculously cute! So perfect for Easter!

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 14, 2016 at 4:54 pm

      Thank you Taylor πŸ™‚

      Reply
  10. peter @feedyoursoultoo

    March 14, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    Totally love this and love the design. So cute.

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 14, 2016 at 4:54 pm

      Thanks Peter πŸ™‚

      Reply
  11. Shelby @ Go Eat and Repeat

    March 14, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    These cookie nests are so cute! I personally eat the head last because a headless chocolate bunny creeps me out! lol

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 14, 2016 at 4:55 pm

      OMG too funny Shelby πŸ™‚

      Reply
  12. Sharon @ What The Fork Food Blog

    March 14, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    So cute!!! My girls would love these, they’re so perfect for Easter.

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 14, 2016 at 4:55 pm

      Thank you Sharon. I hope they like them πŸ™‚

      Reply
  13. Jean

    March 13, 2016 at 9:50 am

    This looks like the perfect recipe for a school fundraiser I’m baking for this week. Unfortunately anything I bring has to be nut free. What do you recommend as a nut-free substitute for almond flour? If I were to go 100% with the Bob’s 1:1 flour mix, would I have to alter any other ingredients?

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    • Sandi Gaertner

      March 13, 2016 at 1:10 pm

      Hi Jean, if you need to avoid nuts, add 1/4 cup additional of the Bob’s 1 to 1 gluten free flour. I hope this helps raise a lot of money for the school πŸ™‚

      Reply

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