Wait until you try these gluten free lemon cookie nests are a delicious treat to make for your Easter celebration. Fill them with your favorite gluten free Easter candy!!
Lemons are my favorite fruits to use to flavor desserts. If you love lemons too, you will want to try some of my best gluten free lemon desserts!!
How do you like to celebrate Easter? Do you have a family gathering?
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 can also include these awesome gluten free cupcakes on that dessert buffet :-).
You will love these gluten free lemon cookie nests.
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:
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.
Press the dough into the cups.
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.
Add a peep and some jelly beans to the cookie nest.
Here is another delicious Easter treat. These 5 Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs from Beaming Baker.
Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests
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
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixer, add all wet ingredients (including zest) and mix on low speed until blended.
- Gradually add in the dry ingredients, starting with the almond flour.
- Turn the speed up to medium after the dry ingredients are blended in and mix for one more minute.
- Spray coconut oil in a muffin tin or cookie bowl tin.
- Fill each cup 1/3 with batter.
- With wet fingers, push the dough up the sides to make the nest.
- Repeat with each cup.
- Bake for 10 minutes until done.
- Remove from the oven and put each cookie nest on a cooling rack to cool.
- Use squeeze frosting to line the edge and the middle of each nest.
- Fill each nest with 1 tablespoon shredded coconut.
- Add a peep and jelly beans.
- Enjoy 🙂
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving:Calories: 549 Total Fat: 28g Saturated Fat: 13g Trans Fat: 1g Unsaturated Fat: 14g Cholesterol: 71mg Sodium: 221mg Carbohydrates: 68g Fiber: 4g Sugar: 29g Protein: 10g
Kay K
Sandi: They look wonderful and I am sure it must be somewhere but how many does one batch make?
Thanks,
K
Sandi Gaertner
Hi Kay, Thank you for your note. This makes 6 cookie nests, with a small amount of dough left for a few cookies.
Deb @ Cooking on the Front Burner
These are too adorable and I know my granddaughter would love these! So fun for Easter!
Sandi Gaertner
Awesome…let me know if you get a chance to try them with her 🙂
Cyndi - My Kitchen Craze
What a cute and fun idea! Plus I’m obsessed with lemon anything so this is right up my alley! 🙂 My daughter is going to love these!!
Sandi Gaertner
I hope she loves them Cyndi 🙂
Kimberly @ The Daring Gourmet
These are so cute! My kids would have a blast helping me make (and eat) these!
Sandi Gaertner
LOL my kids loved helping on this one. I hope they like them 🙂
michelle @ blackberry babe
These are just adorable. My son would love them!
Sandi Gaertner
🙂
Laura / I Heart Naptime
These look amazing! My kids caught a glimpse and now are begging for me to make these.
Sandi Gaertner
I hope they like them 🙂
Valerie | From Valerie's Kitchen
These are super cute! I’m certain that even my grown boys would love them ?)
Sandi Gaertner
You will have to let me know what they think Valerie 😉
Sarah
They look adorable. Great idea. 🙂
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you so much Sarah.
Taylor Thurston
These are so ridiculously cute! So perfect for Easter!
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you Taylor 🙂
peter @feedyoursoultoo
Totally love this and love the design. So cute.
Sandi Gaertner
Thanks Peter 🙂
Shelby @ Go Eat and Repeat
These cookie nests are so cute! I personally eat the head last because a headless chocolate bunny creeps me out! lol
Sandi Gaertner
OMG too funny Shelby 🙂
Sharon @ What The Fork Food Blog
So cute!!! My girls would love these, they’re so perfect for Easter.
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you Sharon. I hope they like them 🙂
Jean
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?
Sandi Gaertner
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 🙂