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We had finished up our dinner on Sunday evening, and everyone was asking for a little sweet treat. We didn’t have any cookies in the house, so I figured I’d make a quick batch of cookies before our evening walk. These vanilla maple sugar Einkorn cookies are a simple twist on a classic sugar cookie. They are perfectly buttery and sweet for a nice little after dinner treat.

Why Einkorn Flour?

We use Einkorn all-purpose flour for two reasons. The first is that it is much lower in gluten compared to regular all-purpose flour. And second, it tastes so much better! The flour has a natural buttery flavor to it, bringing so much more depth of flavor than regular flour. Since it has a weaker gluten structure and absorbs liquid differently, you’ll want to add about a half cup more flour to any recipe that you’re substituting regular all-purpose flour for Einkorn flour. If you’d like to make this recipe with regular flour, try using 2 1/2 cups of flour instead.

Check out these other recipes made with Einkorn all-purpose flour.

• Simple Einkorn Biscuits
• Einkorn Lemon Olive Oil Muffins
• Einkorn Graham Crackers

Vanilla Maple Sugar Einkorn Cookies Ingredients:

Cookie Dough Ingredients:

3 cups of Einkorn all-purpose flour

1 cup of maple sugar

1/2 tsp salt

2 sticks of butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

Vanilla Maple Glaze Ingredients:

1/2 cup of powdered sugar

1/2 tsp of vanilla

6 tsp of maple syrup

Vanilla Maple Sugar Einkorn Cookies Recipe:

Start by preheating the oven to 350F. If the butter is cold, take it out of the fridge and heat slightly until the butter is softened, but not melted.

Mix together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder,  and cinnamon.  Add the vanilla,  butter, and eggs and mix well.

Place the cookie dough in the fridge for 15 minutes or the freezer for 5 minutes to cool the cookie dough.

Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and use a small ice cream scoop to scoop uniform cookies. Place the scooped cookie dough on the cookie sheet and space evenly.

Bake for 10 to 13 minutes, depending on how cold the dough is when you bake.

When the cookies are slightly golden brown around the edges,  remove from the oven and transfer to a cooking rack.

Begin making the vanilla male glaze. Mix powdered sugar, vanilla, and maple syrup until all of the ingredients are well incorporated and there are no chunks of sugar.

Once the cookies are fully cooled, drizzle the glaze over the cookies. This recipe yields 24 cookies.

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