Beach Cookies

This week my 4 year old wanted to make "beach cookies." Sure.  I had been wanting to try a Martha Stewart fossil cookie idea that I had seen so... I dug up some shells and an Urban Poser almond flour sugar cookie recipe and we headed into the kitchen.  

 We tried three different shells and this was definitely the most successful.  Press shell into a ball of dough then gather dough around the shell.

 I was pretty impressed at the amount of detail that the cookies had after baking.  I also tried adding some arrowroot to half of the batch to see if it helped with detail in the shells.  It didn't really make a difference in the appearance of the cookies but we did not like the way that they tasted as much as the ones without it.

 It was a fun project to let this one get her hands into in the kitchen.

note: I used coconut oil to replace the applesauce in the recipe.