Paleo White Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread Cookies (with a keto option!)
The flavor of white chocolate and peppermint in a slightly crisp (sugar-free, if you like!) cookie is simply divine. These Paleo White Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread Cookies are made with the simplest, whole ingredients and can banish a case of the winter blues like nothing else! They’re grain-free, dairy-free, egg-free, and can be keto with an easy sweetener swap!
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What is it about winter and white chocolate???
Is it because we associate white chocolate with white snow…
And peppermint with cold…?
Whatever it is, I’m obsessed with winter and white chocolate! (Check out my Nourishing White Hot Chocolate!)
The flavor of white chocolate and peppermint in a slightly crisp (sugar-free, if you like!) cookie is simply divine.
I’m telling ya… There’s NOTHING in a box or package at the supermarket that can compare!
Only The Best Ingredients
These cookies don’t have many ingredients… Therefore, you can splurge on the *best* ingredients! I choose my ingredients carefully because I want our foods to be as delicious and nutrient-dense as possible. So, here are the simple, nourishing, must-have ingredients for this recipe:
Organic Cacao Butter: With a deep, rich chocolate smell, nothing compares to cacao butter! I use Wildly Organic’s Raw Cacao Butter because it isn’t processed at high heats and no solvents, chemicals, or hexane is involved in the processing. If I’m going to use a more expensive fat like cacao butter, you better believe I want the BEST! <– Save 10% on your Wildly Organic purchase with my coupon code NOURISHING!
Superfine Almond Flour: Next, superfine blanched almond flour will ensure that your cookies have a phenomenal texture. This light, not dense, flour is one of my favorite grain-free flours!
Palm Shortening: For dairy-free folks, palm shortening gives these cookies a butter-like crisp without the butter! Although, you can use butter if you’re not dairy-free.
Sweetener: Need a low-carb, sugar-free cookie? Use Dietz Sweet — my special blend of erythritol and stevia that can be substituted cup-for-cup with sugar. (Not sure about erythritol? Get my FREE Guide To Alternative Sweeteners!) However, if you prefer to avoid alternative sweeteners, then you can’t go wrong with organic coconut sap sugar.
Peppermint Essential Oil: Yep, this recipe uses essential oils for flavor! I absolutely love using peppermint essential oil instead of extract in my recipes. In my opinion, the flavor is much purer, not fake like an extract. <– Save 10% on your Spark Naturals purchase with my coupon code NOURISHING10 + free shipping on all orders over $25!

Paleo White Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread Cookies
The flavor of white chocolate and peppermint in a slightly crisp (sugar-free, if you like!) cookie is simply divine. These Paleo White Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread Cookies are made with the simplest, whole ingredients and can banish a case of the winter blues like nothing else! They're grain-free, dairy-free, egg-free, and can be keto with an easy sweetener swap!
Ingredients
Peppermint Shortbread Cookies
- 1cupsuperfine almond flour
- 4tablespoonspalm shortening or butter
- 3tablespoonsDietz Sweet or coconut sap sugar
- 3 to 4dropspeppermint essential oil
- pinchsalt
- 1/2teaspoonbaking powder
White Chocolate Drizzle
- 1/3cupcacao buttermelt first, then measure
- 1tablespoonDietz Sweet or maple syrup or honey
- 1drop peppermint essential oil
Instructions
For The Cookies:
- Combine all ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
- Mix until a dough forms.
- Turn out onto parchment paper and roll into a cylinder about 6 inches long.
- Wrap in the parchment. Place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350° F.
- Remove from the freezer and cut the dough into 1/4-inch slices.
- Lay each slice onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet about an inch apart.
Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and gently transfer the hot cookies to a cooling rack.
- Cool completely before drizzling with white chocolate.
For The White Chocolate Drizzle:
- Over a double boiler or saucepan of boiling water with a glass bowl on top, melt the white chocolate very gently. You don't want to heat it too much.
- Add the sweetener of your choice. Honey or maple syrup will result in a smooth drizzle. If using Dietz Sweet, your drizzle will taste great, but it may have some undissolved bits of erythritol, as this is the nature of sugar alcohols.
- Whisk until smooth.
- If the cacao butter melts too much, place it in the fridge or set it aside to cool and thicken, whisking occasionally.
- Spoon the drizzle into a piping bag fitted with a fine tip, and pipe in back-and-forth motions across the cookies.
- Alternatively, drizzle the white chocolate on to the cookies with a spoon or fork.
- Let the drizzle set completely and harden before serving.
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Last modified on 10/23/2018
In the white chocolate peppermint cookie recipe, how does 1/3 cup cacao butter, honey and peppermint oil end up being white chocolate? Is something missing from the recipe
Hi Rachel, cacao butter is the basis for REAL white chocolate. By adding honey, you make it sweet. Peppermint oil makes it minty. This isn’t the same as the white chocolate that comes in blocks or bars and that you melt down. This is the whole foods version of that!
Is the time to bake in this recipe a misprint? At 350 degrees, mine were noticeably burnt at 18 minutes. I made a second batch and had them in for only 10 minutes. The edges were golden brown and the tops were starting to brown.
Hi, Daniel! Yes, I am SO sorry about that. You found a typo! The baking time is 15 minutes. I will correct that now. But if yours were done at 10 minutes, perhaps one of us needs to check our oven temperature? 😉 Sorry to hear about the burned first batch! I hope the second one was all you hoped it would be.
You should do that..haha!
They turned out great. I have a chocolate allergy, so I replaced the cacao with coconut butter and a little coconut oil. I love the peppermint.
What a great adaptation! So happy you made the recipe work for you, Daniel!
White chocolate and peppermint combo screams Christmas to me! These look amazing!
For sure!
These look simply delightful. Thanks for sharing!
Peppermint and white chocolate are perfect winter flavors! These cookies look delicious!
Can you just overnight me a box?! 😉 Peppermint makes most treats better!
I love everything about these cookies!!! That white chocolate peppermint drizzle!!! My kiddos are going to love these cookies!
These look like such a tasty cookie for the holidays! Very festive 🙂 Love the peppermint and white chocolate combination!
Lindsey these are so gorgeous, how perfect is your drizzle! Love that they don’t have too many ingredients 🙂
I love how these look, the texture and their festive quality, and I LOVE cocoa butter! Yummy, Lindsey!!
I think it’s the cold weather, but I’m in a real baking cookies frame of mind these days! I shall be trying these out very soon!
I need to make these for Christmas!
These SO get me in the mood for the holidays! It’s all about baking and these cookies are perfection!
These are so simple and so special Lindsey! By the time we get to Christmas Eve, I’m usually looking for something a little less sweet for leaving out for Santa and these would be perfect! We are all a little treat overlaod by then!
These are so pretty and delicate looking. That glaze is top notch!
Thank you! I could easily eat that drizzle alone!