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Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

Published: Sep 11, 2014 · Modified: Apr 23, 2020 by Felicia Lim · This post may contain affiliate links

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I couldn’t get enough of lemons.

After being overdosed with the aroma of lemons in the Amalfi Coast and then coming home to Buenos Aires and making this easy lemon curd, I should have already gotten my fill of lemon-flavored everything, right?

Wrong.

Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

I still wanted more lemon-flavored things to make and eat.

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I wanted to bask in the aroma of lemons and bring back the Italian summer to my little apartment. I wanted to stay a little while longer in lemons-and-Italy mode.

Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

With an extra jar of lemon curd sitting in my fridge, I was determined to make lemon sandwich cookies.

The idea of thick, rich lemon curd cradled between two grain-free lemon cookies was just too deliciously tempting to ignore. 

Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

So guess what I did last weekend?

Exactly. I woke up early once more, and set about to work in my humble little two-square metre kitchen.

I began with mixing all the ingredients for the cookie dough in a large bowl, stirring with a wooden spoon until the ingredients were well combined. Then came the fun part – rolling out the dough and cutting the cookies.

Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

I’m not sure why I like making cookies as much as I do, but it’s something that reminds me of the time when I first learnt how to bake. 

The rolling of dough and then cutting it into different shaped cookies is quite therapeutic, and while it may seem difficult if you’ve never rolled dough before, you just need to remember to do it with desire, or “con ganas” as they say in Spanish.

Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

Roll it gently but with enough strength to smooth out the cookie dough as thin as possible without breaking, and when it finally reaches the right thickness, all that’s left to do is to cut out shapes of your choice.

Once the cookie dough has been cut out, place them in the oven and bake until their tops are golden brown.

Be patient and let the cookies cool before you spread them with lemon curd.

Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

Keep in mind that these are not like regular shortbread cookies, and will not have the exact same texture – they will tend to be slightly chewier as opposed to crunchier due to the tapioca flour.. Other than that, enjoy!

Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies

 

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Grain-free Lemon Sandwich Cookies


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5 from 2 reviews

  • Author: felicia | Dish by Dish
  • Total Time: 40 mins
  • Yield: 6 1x
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Ingredients

Units Scale
  • 1 cup coconut flour
  • 3/4 cup tapioca flour (or more depending on how wet or dry the dough is)
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil or ghee or butter
  • 2 tablespoons of honey
  • 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • Dash of sea salt
  • 1 cup of lemon curd (see my recipe for lemon curd)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit (180 deg Cel)
  2. Place all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix until well combined (if the dough is too wet to roll out, add a tablespoon of extra tapioca flour at a time, until it is sufficient dry to manage but still moist)
  3. Turn the cookie dough onto a large piece of parchment or wax paper sprinkled with tapioca flour (the dough will be crumbly, but it’s ok)
  4. Press the dough together to make a solid piece. Use tapioca-flour smeared hands and a tapioca-flour covered rolling pin to roll the dough out to a flat disk, until it is around 1/8 inch thick. (Note that the thinner you can roll the dough out, the better, so the cookies are as crunchy as possible).
  5. Use a cookie cutter of desired shape (I used a round cookie cutter, but hearts of stars will do too!)
  6. Place cookies on a silpat-lined baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, or until slightly golden on top, then remove them from oven and let them cool.
  7. Once cookies have cooled, spread lemon curd on one cookies and sandwich it with another.

Notes

Recipe makes about 1 dozen lemon sandwich cookies. Best eaten on the same day of baking as the cookies will lose their crunchiness after that.

  • Prep Time: 20 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Category: Snacks
  • Cuisine: Western

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About Felicia

Hey you! I’m Felicia, a Singaporean girl who moved to Buenos Aires for love. A couple of things about me: I love food, writing and food photography. I wrote a grain-free ecookbook that I know you’ll love and I also do freelance writing and photography if you want to work with me. Follow me on this blog as I navigate the world of cooking gluten-free, dairy-free and egg-free.

Did you make a recipe? Tag @felicialimhz on Instagram. I love to see what you cook!

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  1. tini says

    May 26, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Hi Felicia! Nice recipe, I would love to try it, but cannot find coconut flour here (I live in Argentina too), could you please tell me where did you find it? I’ve tried everywhere!!!!
    Thanks!!!

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    • felicia | Dish by Dish says

      May 26, 2015 at 3:52 pm

      Hi Tini! Nice to meet you! You can substitute coconut flour with coco rallado in this recipe (I usually use that to substitute for coconut flour). Start by using a bit of coco rallado and add a bit more at a time until the batter can be shaped into balls/circles. Hope you’ll like it!

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      • Tini says

        May 26, 2015 at 4:30 pm

        Hi Felicia,
        Thank you so much for your soon reply!
        Great, so I can use coco rallado as a sub for coconut flour. I´ve been trying to make so many flourless recipes, but almost 90% of them have either coconut flour or almond flour. Didn’t know I could substitute it for coco rallado! Thanks for the info 🙂
        I’will definitely do this recipe and let you know.

        Will browse around your blog, it looks great…Thanks!
        Hope you like my country 🙂

        ★★★★★

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        • felicia | Dish by Dish says

          May 26, 2015 at 4:41 pm

          Definitely! I really like it here in Argentina! Btw, for almond flour, you can either go to Barrio Chino where there is a shop called “Casa China” and buy almond flour (harina de almendras). If not, you can just buy almonds, and grind the almonds in the food processor or blender, and pass the almond meal through a sieve (tamizador)and then re-grind the bigger parts that didn’t pass through the sieve.

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          • Tini says

            May 26, 2015 at 4:50 pm

            I’m glad you like it here.

            Thanks! I actually found almond flour in Villares, a “dietetica” (don’t know if you are familiar with these places, but they are everywhere in Buenos Aires) Villares-New Garden is a chain, and they carry pretty good stuff.
            I was planning to go to barrio chino to look for tapioca flour, do you think I can substitute it for any other non-conventional flour?

            ★★★★★

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            • felicia | Dish by Dish says

              May 26, 2015 at 8:28 pm

              Hey Tini! Yep I know the Villares-New Garden franchise! It’s good! There’s one in my neighborhood too 🙂 Regarding tapioca flour, you can buy it at most dieteticas (ask for “harina de mandioca”). It’s quite cheap. If you really need to use a substitute, you can use maicena I believe! Or maybe rice flour.

              Reply
  2. Grace Lim says

    September 11, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    I believe these cookies are good to eat on their own as well because it is slightly sweetened by the honey. Good for snacking… 🙂

    Have a great weekend ahead!

    Big hug & bountiful blessings 🙂
    Mum

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    • felicia | Dish by Dish says

      September 14, 2014 at 5:22 pm

      Mummy, exactly 🙂 They can be eaten on their own as well!

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