Vegan Swedish Hallongrottor Cookies – Healthier Gluten Free Style

These Vegan Swedish Hallongrottor Cookies – Healthier Gluten Free Style are SO delicious. I’ve always reaaaally loved these cookies since I was little, but as all shortbread variety cookies, they have lots of butter in them. So I decided to make a healthier alternative that I could feel better about enjoying more regularly, because I’d rather not wait until a special occasion to eat a cookie (or two). :)))) Here’s my recipe for what people call hallongrottor “raspberry cave” cookies here in Sweden, but a healthier vegan/gluten free variety. It’s like a shortbread/thumbprint cookie. They are slightly crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside!

Almond flour and coconut flour make it possible for these raspberry filled cuties to be gluten free. The two flour types also add delicious flavour and healthy plant based nutrients such as fibre and protein. So you can have your (cake) cookies and eat them too! These Vegan Swedish Hallongrottor Cookies are so tender and tasty, and very easy to make! Let me know what you think if you bake them. 🙂 Enjoy!

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Vegan Swedish Hallongrottor Cookies – Healthier Gluten Free Style

A healthy version of a favourite Swedish shortbread/thumbprint cookie

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Swedish, Vegan

Servings 20

Ingredients

  

• 160 g almond flour 400 ml
• 18 g coconut flour 50 ml
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 130 g softened vegan butter or regular. I used lightly salted
• 1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
• 100 g coconut sugar or white granulated sugar if you want a whiter cookie
• Homemade raspberry chia jam* or store bought

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
• Mix flours and baking powder together in a bowl, and set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar in another bowl. Mix in vanilla. Once well combined add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix gently until combined.
• Prepare two baking sheets. Roll the dough into about 20 balls and place on the baking sheets. Slightly flatten the cookies and make a heart shaped indent in each cookie (or a circular dent if you are short on time or energy!). Fill with jam.
• Bake the cookies in the oven about 10 minutes until they are golden and slightly crispy on the outside (but soft on the inside!). Let cool. Enjoy!

Notes

*You can use either homemade or store bought raspberry jam. I like to make my own jam with chia seeds so I can control the sugar content and avoid yucky preservatives. To make jam I simply heat about two cups frozen raspberries on the stove and mash them once they’re warm and soft. Then I mix in a few tablespoons chia seeds, and you can add a bit of sweetener too if desired. Store in a sealed jar in the fridge for about 1 week. 

Keyword almond, cookies, gluten free, raspberry, valentines, vegan

Photos updated 2023