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Gluten Free Lemon Cookie Nests

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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!!

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?

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.

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

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 🙂
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1
Amount 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
Please note this nutrition information is calculated by a recipe plugin and is an estimate based on the ingredients used in this recipe.
© Sandi Gaertner
Cuisine: American / Category: Dessert
 

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    • 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!

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  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! 🙂 My daughter is going to love these!!

    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

    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 🙂

      Reply

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