Vegan Gluten-Free Lemon Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients in Vegan & Gluten-Free Lemon Cookies

This is a pretty classic gluten-free cookie base recipe! I keep all of these ingredients on hand, so it's an easy recipe to make whenever I'm in the mood for really great Gluten-Free Lemon Cookies.

• Superfine Almond Flour - Make sure you're buying almond flour made from blanched almonds for the best texture! Almonds make a light and fluffy delicious base.
• Oat flour - I use oat flour all the time! Oats help bind your gluten-free baked goods and give that perfect cookie base flavor.
• Arrowroot Powder - Arrowroot, along with the oat flour, helps add vegan structure to these cookies while keeping them super fluffy.
• Melted coconut oil - Your coconut oil should be in liquid form, which will mix into the cookie dough smoothly. You can also substitute melted vegan butter for this ingredient!
• Pure maple syrup - This is my favorite way to naturally sweeten recipes. Pure maple has just one ingredient: the sap from maple trees! It brings a wonderfully subtle sweetness to recipes while keeping them free of refined sugar.
• Lemon - Use the zest of two small lemons as well as two tablespoons of fresh lemon juice. I like a Microplane and a Lemon Squeezer to make this step as easy as possible!
• Baking essentials - Grab pure vanilla extract, salt, and baking soda out of the pantry to mix into this delicious cookie recipe.
• Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting - I frosted these with a chilled batch of Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting, which is the most incredible topping for a fresh and bright cookie like this one!

Gluten-Free Lemon Cookies

I kept these Lemon Cookies gluten-free by baking with a base of almond flour and oat flour! Look for superfine almond flour from blanched almonds (not almond meal). You can actually make your own oat flour by pulsing oats in the food processor until they form a fine, flour-like consistency. Almonds are low in carbohydrates and high in protein with fiber, healthy fats, vitamin E, magnesium, iron and calcium. 

Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting

I was recently able to perfect a Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting that is out of this world! I am so excited about this one. It's made with a cashew base, canned coconut cream, and naturally sweetened with maple. The texture is smooth, thick and creamy, with the perfect cream cheese flavor! Sprinkle with a bit of lemon zest on top for a beautiful garnish.

All About Lemons

Springtime just calls for lemon! It tastes as bright and happy as it looks, and I love how it enhances other flavors as well. Lemons are low calorie, sodium-free and high in vitamin C.  In addition to containing immune boosting vitamin C, a medium lemon provides 160 mg of potassium! Shop for lemons with firm, thin, and smooth skin that feel heavy for their size.  You can store them in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

More lemon recipes I love:

• Lemon Coconut Energy Bites
• Easy Fresh-Squeezed Lemonade
• Frozen Mint Lemonade
• Vegan & Gluten-Free Lemon Bars
• Creamy Vegan Pasta al Limone
• Fluffy Lemon Blueberry Muffins
• Lemon Blueberry Smoothie

More Desserts with Fruit

• Easy Maple Cinnamon Vanilla Baked Pears
• Vegan Gluten-Free Blueberry Crumble Bars (refined sugar-free)
• Riley's Easy Tropical Sorbet (Vegan + Whole30)
• Vegan Grain-Free Key Lime Pie Bars with California Avocados
• Easy Watermelon Popsicles (no added sugar)
• Key Lime Pie Pudding Parfaits with California Avocados
• Vegan + Paleo Strawberry Shortcake Cake
• Easy Vegan Apple Nachos
• Vegan and Paleo Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
• No-Bake Vegan and Gluten-Free Cheesecake
• Carrot Cake Cupcakes with White Sweet Potato Frosting
• Vegan Gluten-Free Grilled Peach Cobbler (no refined sugars)