Almond Flour Dessert Recipes
Almond flour was baking long before keto found it, in macarons, financiers and the almond cakes of Italy and France. It bakes up tender and nutty, and on its own it is gluten-free. Thirty almond flour dessert recipes from bakers who use it on purpose, from fudgy brownies to frangipane tarts and a few low-carb favorites.
Six to Bake First
One from every section, starting with the cookie that is supposed to crumble.
Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies
Almond flour, a cup of butter and a little sugar do all the work, and the cookies are meant to crumble. Real vanilla next to the almond extract matters here, so use Pure Vanilla Extract.
Torta Caprese (Italian Chocolate Almond Cake)
Capri has made its chocolate cake with ground almonds instead of flour for about a century. Dark chocolate and five eggs bake into a crackly top over a fudgy middle.
Almond Flour Brownies
The classic pan: butter, three-quarters of a cup of cocoa and almond flour, with a few chips on top. The recipe recommends Dutch-process for deeper flavor, so reach for Dutch-Process Cocoa.
Pear Frangipane Tart
Sliced pears fanned into a frangipane made with two cups of almond flour and an optional splash of dark rum. The crust is wheat, so save this one for a table that eats gluten.
Brown Butter Financiers
Little French almond cakes made with browned butter and egg whites, baked until the edges go crisp. Some cake flour goes in too, but almond flour leads.
Our RecipeChocolate Chip Banana Bread with Almond and Lupin Flour
Our own loaf: two and a half cups of almond flour plus half a cup of Lupin Flour, which keeps the slices from crumbling. Allulose sweetens it, so it stays keto-friendly.
Almond Flour Cookies
Almond flour makes a cookie tender and short, the way shortbread is supposed to be. These six run from Italian amaretti to a chocolate chip that holds its own next to the classic.
Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies
Almond flour, a cup of butter and a little sugar do all the work, and the cookies are meant to crumble. Real vanilla next to the almond extract matters here, so use Pure Vanilla Extract.
Five-Ingredient Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Five ingredients and no eggs, and still a chewy cookie packed with chips. Almond flour carries the whole dough, so there is no flour blend to buy.
Soft Amaretti Cookies
Amaretti were flourless long before anyone counted carbs. Almond flour, sugar and egg whites bake into a soft, chewy middle under a crackled powdered sugar shell.
Almond Flour Thumbprint Cookies
Jam pockets pressed into a buttery, maple-sweetened almond flour dough. Fill half the tray with peach and half with raspberry and it decorates itself.
Chocolate Almond Flour Crinkle Cookies
A powdered sugar coat splits into white crackles over a fudgy cocoa middle as they bake. The recipe takes plain cocoa, and Dutch-Process Cocoa makes them darker and smoother.
Keto Almond Flour Cookies
A plain butter cookie for the low-carb crowd, with a chocolate version for anyone who asks. Where it calls for a sugar-free sweetener, Allulose bakes like real sugar with 0 net carbs.
Almond Flour Cakes
Two of these are old European cakes that never used wheat in the first place. The rest are the everyday kind, made for a slice with coffee.
Torta Caprese (Italian Chocolate Almond Cake)
Capri has made its chocolate cake with ground almonds instead of flour for about a century. Dark chocolate and five eggs bake into a crackly top over a fudgy middle.
Tarta de Santiago (Spanish Almond Cake)
Galicia has baked this one without wheat since the Middle Ages. Almond flour, eggs and sugar, brightened with lemon zest and a pinch of cinnamon, and nothing else needed.
Orange Olive Oil Cake
Olive oil keeps it moist for days, and both the zest and the juice of an orange go into the batter. Two cups of almond flour give it a tender crumb that still slices clean.
Lemon Almond Cake with Mascarpone
Whipped egg whites lift this one, so it bakes up lighter than most almond cakes. Two lemons go into the batter, and a soft mascarpone topping finishes it.
Almond Flour Cake with Sliced Almonds
The plain almond cake the rest of this section builds on, sweetened with maple syrup and topped with sliced almonds that toast as it bakes. A slice and a coffee is the whole plan.
One-Bowl Chocolate Almond Flour Cake
If the torta is for company, this is the weeknight chocolate cake: one bowl, cocoa and a handful of chocolate chips. Dutch-Process Cocoa gives it a darker, smoother chocolate flavor.
Almond Flour Brownies & Bars
Three brownies, each a different road to fudgy, then two lemon bars and a low-carb blondie. Almond flour keeps every one of them dense and tender.
Almond Flour Brownies
The classic pan: butter, three-quarters of a cup of cocoa and almond flour, with a few chips on top. The recipe recommends Dutch-process for deeper flavor, so reach for Dutch-Process Cocoa.
Small-Batch Almond Flour Brownies
A small pan for nights when a full batch is too many. Two cocoas and a splash of coffee push the chocolate further, and the recipe allows a sugar-free swap where Allulose drops right in.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Brownies with Flaky Salt
Melted chocolate instead of cocoa and a double dose of chips make this the fudgiest pan in the section. Finish the top with Flake Spring Salt while they are still warm.
Almond Flour Lemon Raspberry Bars
Three cups of almond flour make the shortbread base under a layer of lemon curd, with fresh raspberries baked right in. The berries make these the prettier of the two lemon bars here.
4-Ingredient Lemon Bars with an Almond Flour Crust
Just lemon, start to finish. Almond flour pressed with sugar, zest and one egg makes the crust, under the classic tart layer of eggs, sugar and lemon juice.
Low-Carb Brown Butter Blondies
Browned butter and a spoon of molasses bring the caramel depth a blondie usually gets from brown sugar. Where it calls for erythritol, Allulose swaps in with 0 net carbs and no cooling aftertaste.
Give almond flour some backbone
Almond flour has no gluten, so cakes and cookies made with it lean tender and crumbly. Trade a little of the almond flour for Lupin Flour and the crumb holds together, the way it does in our banana bread and blueberry muffins. It is gluten-free and runs 1g net carb per serving.
Almond Flour Tarts, Pies & Cheesecakes
Almond flour turns into a crust you can press in by hand, or a frangipane that bakes up soft and custardy. These run from a pear tart to a keto cheesecake.
Pear Frangipane Tart
Sliced pears fanned into a frangipane made with two cups of almond flour and an optional splash of dark rum. The crust is wheat, so save this one for a table that eats gluten.
French Apple Tart with an Almond Flour Crust
A press-in almond flour crust means no dough to roll. Cooked-down apples go underneath, thin slices fan over the top, and an apricot glaze makes it shine.
Almond Flour Blueberry Galette
Free-form and forgiving: fold the almond flour pastry up around lemony blueberries and let the edges crack. A little tapioca keeps the dough soft enough to fold.
Crustless Plum Frangipane
Skip the crust entirely. Plums bake under a brown butter and honey frangipane with sliced almonds on top, and it comes out looking like a tart anyway.
Salted Dark Chocolate Tart with an Almond Cocoa Crust
An almond flour and cocoa crust holds a dark chocolate ganache made with coconut milk. Sliced almonds and a pinch of Flake Spring Salt go on last.
Keto Cheesecake with an Almond Flour Crust
Two pounds of cream cheese on a buttery almond flour crust, with a full tablespoon of vanilla in the filling, so Pure Vanilla Extract earns its spot. Allulose covers the sweetener.
European Almond Classics
The French and English bakes that were built on ground almonds from the start. Macarons use no wheat at all, and in the other two a little wheat plays backup.
Brown Butter Financiers
Little French almond cakes made with browned butter and egg whites, baked until the edges go crisp. Some cake flour goes in too, but almond flour leads.
French Macarons for Beginners
The cookie that made almond flour famous long before keto did. This method walks a first-timer through the meringue and the folding, which is where most batches go wrong.
Bakewell Tart
Raspberry jam under an almond frangipane, scattered with sliced almonds, the English way. The filling is nearly all almond flour, and the case is a wheat shortcrust.
Almond Flour Muffins & Snack Bakes
Bakes for breakfast and the afternoon slump. Two of them are ours, made with almond flour and Lupin Flour together.
Our RecipeChocolate Chip Banana Bread with Almond and Lupin Flour
Our own loaf: two and a half cups of almond flour plus half a cup of Lupin Flour, which keeps the slices from crumbling. Allulose sweetens it, so it stays keto-friendly.
Our RecipeKeto Blueberry Muffins with Almond and Lupin Flour
Our recipe too, with golden tops and a pop of blueberry in every bite. A quarter cup of Lupin Flour gives the almond flour a tender crumb that holds together.
Almond Flour Coffee Cake
A maple-sweetened cake under a cinnamon and maple-sugar streusel, made for a slow weekend morning. A little coconut flour alongside the almond flour keeps it soft under all that crumb.
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What is the difference between almond flour and almond meal?
Almond flour is ground from blanched almonds with the skins removed, so it is fine and pale. Almond meal keeps the skins, which makes it coarser and flecked with brown. They swap in most cookies, crumbles and brownies. Use fine almond flour for macarons, financiers and light cakes, where a gritty or speckled crumb would show.
Can I swap almond flour for all-purpose flour one for one?
Not reliably. Almond flour has no gluten and far more fat, so a wheat recipe made with it tends to spread and crumble. Start with recipes written for almond flour, like every one on this page, since the extra eggs or binders they call for are doing the job gluten would. Blending in a higher-protein flour such as lupin flour also helps the crumb hold together.
Why do my almond flour bakes brown too fast or fall apart?
Almond flour is rich in natural oils, so it browns sooner than wheat flour. Bake around 325 to 350°F and lay a sheet of foil over the top once it is golden. Crumbling usually means it left the pan too soon. Almond flour cakes, bars and cookies firm up as they cool, so give them 10 to 15 minutes in the pan before you move them.
Is almond flour gluten-free?
Almond flour on its own is naturally gluten-free, since it is just ground almonds. Whether a finished dessert is gluten-free depends on everything else in the bowl, like oats, chocolate or baking powder, and on where each ingredient was packed. If you are baking for someone who has to avoid gluten, check every label for a gluten-free claim and any shared-facility note.
Are almond flour desserts keto?
Only some of them. Almond flour is low in carbs, but plenty of the recipes here use regular sugar, honey or maple syrup, which keeps them off a keto plate. The low-carb ones swap in a sugar-free sweetener. Allulose tastes and bakes like real sugar with 0 net carbs, which makes it the easiest swap if you want to convert one.
How should I store almond flour?
Almond flour is high in oil, so it goes stale and bitter faster than wheat flour. Once the bag is open, keep it airtight in the fridge for a few months or in the freezer for longer. Let it come to room temperature before baking, since cold flour firms up the butter and changes how a batter mixes.
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