These Paleo Whipped Gluten Free Shortbread Cookies melt in your mouth and are only 60 calories! They’re secretly sugar free, healthy and keto friendly too!

YOU. GUYS. This is a MELT in your MOUTH shortbread cookies recipe.
No “ifs.” No “ands.” NO “BUTS.”
Just pure, light-as-air, WHIPPY and BUTTERY deliciousness for your shortbread-loving SOULS.
I don’t know what it is about shortbread cookies, but they are my ULTIMATE favorite. I can easily have just 1 of a cutesty decorated gluten free chewy sugar cookie or one healthy ginger snap. But, stick a plate of whipped shortbread cookies in front of my eyeballs?
INHALE. EXHALE. THEY’RE ALL GONE.
Poof. JUST LIKE THAT.
I think the reason that I love gluten free shortbread cookies is because the classic recipe is just stupid-simple-idiot proof.

Thing you need to make shortbread cookies 101:
You only need THREE simple ingredients if you’re going to make the classic holiday cookie a real thing in your real-person-cookie-baking life:
- Butter
- Flour
- Sugar
BOOM! Pantry essential ingredients that you PROBABLY already have. Whiiiich means you could be eating cookies in only a FEW MINUTES if you get up RIGHT NOW. <– Hold up though, you don’t know what to do with those 3 ingredients. YET.
How to make shortbread cookies 101:
Step 1. Whip the butter and sugar until SUPPPPER light in color and supremely fluffy and basically perfect. Trust me, you’ll know when you get there.
Step 2: Mix in the flour. Resist the urge to eat all the dough because you KNOW that something that is just butter and sugar has to be NEXT LEVEL delicious
Step 3. BAKE.

That’s the jist of it. EXCEPT, these are paleo WHIPPED gluten free shortbread cookies. IMO, this is the only kind of cookie to eat ever because the light and melty factor? OFF THE CHARTS.
The secret to making melt in your mouth shortbread cookies is USUALLY cornstarch. It’s so light and delicate that it gives your baked good those SAME addictive qualities.
Except, in usual Taylor fashion, I decided to mix up this recipe for gluten free shortbread cookies and give “grain free” a go and attempt to swap in tapioca starch to make whipped shortbread cookies WITHOUT cornstarch.
Or flour. HI gluten free almond flour shortbread cookies!
OR actual butter. Ghee, I love that you are lactose-free. Will you marry me?
And Z-E-R-O SUGAR.

We are making our own POWDERED monkfruit, which is SO much easier than it sounds. You just have to GRIND IT up for AWHILE in a food processor. Side note: be patient with it, you’re gonna think it’s going nowhere and then – suddenly – it’s powdery-perfect!
Sugar free powdered sugar is a real thing that exists on this planet we call Earth and you are welcome for the discovery. Also sugar free shortbread cookies are a thing.
You are welcome, TIMES TWO.
Swirls of nutty almond extract dance around each and every melty bite of these paleo whipped gluten free shortbread cookies, as it combines with almond flour to create a DOUBLE dose of almond flavor profiles and coats your tongue in rich, velvety-smooth, LUSCIOUS buttery goodness.
Then just like MAGIC, the cookie is gone. Melting into your VERY cookie loving SOUL.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a serious feeling that the true meaning of Christmas is not the giving of gifts to loved ones out of the goodness of your heart.

I’m voting for “giving yourself the gift of cookies out of the HUNGRINESS of your belly.”

Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons Monkfruit Sweetener
- 1/2 cup Ghee at room temperature, the consistency of softened butter
- 2 1/2 teaspoons Pure Almond Extract
- 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 3/4 cup Almond Flour 73g
- 1/2 cup Tapioca Starch plus 1 Tablespoon, 73g
- pinch of Salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or silpats.
- Place the monkfruit into a SMALL food processor (mine is 3 cups) and process for about 3-4 minutes until fine and the consistency of powdered sugar.
- Add the monkfruit, along with the Ghee and both extracts into a large bowl. Using an electric hand mixer, beat on high speed until very pale yellow in color, about 3 minutes.
- Add in the flour, starch and salt and beat again for another 3 minutes, stopping to scrape the sides as needed.
- Scoop into a piping back and pipe onto the prepared cookie sheet in ¾-inch-high mounds. These do spread a lot so leave room between them – I put 16 on one cookie sheet. Do not press them down.
- Bake until the edges JUST begin to turn golden brown, about 11-13 minutes. If you can’t fit both sheets in at once, leave the other sheet out at room temperature until the first batch of cookies are done.
- Once cooked, cool on the pan for 10 minutes. Then, gently transfer to a wire rack to cool COMPLETELY
Tips & Notes:
As with all gluten free baking, please weigh your flour to ensure accurate results.
I have also done this with cornstarch. However, 73g is only about 1/2 cup. Again, please weigh.
Nutrition Info:
Recipes written and produced on Food Faith Fitness are for informational purposes only.

kris kelbrants says
These look delicious Taylor, I plan on making them. Been wanting to try Ghee! I will let you know after I try them!
Taylor Kiser says
Please do! We LOVE Ghee!
Becky Winkler says
Okay, these sound so amazing! Totally trying them! I haven’t used monkfruit at all yet so I’m excited to see how it tastes.
Taylor Kiser says
You will LOVE it! I am totally obsessed!
Charmaine says
Hi. I don’t have Monkfruit sweetener. what else can I use and at what ratio ie rice malt/monkfruit.
thank you.
Charmaine
Taylor Kiser says
Hi there!
Unfortunately, monkfruit needs to be used in this recipe and, recipes are only tested as written, so I would have no way of knowing how other ingredients would work. Hope you understand!
Michele Snyder says
I thought ghee is a form of clarified butter. How is that considered Dairy free?? I love using Ghee but did not think it was dairy free..
Thanks!!
Taylor Kiser says
It’s considered lactose free. If you’re concerned, you can use vegan butter!
Chrystelle says
Hi,
Is ghee vegan? I‘ve read it‘s butter by-product?
Taylor Kiser says
You use vegan butter in place! 🙂
suzy vance says
Technically, ghee does not contain milk solids, which are removed during production. This is why many consumers think ghee is ‘lactose-free’ and ‘paleo-friendly.’ However, ghee still contains butterfat and is derived from animal products (milk), and is therefore not considered vegan.
Taylor Kiser says
You’re right! It should say “or vegan butter!” thanks!
Michelle says
Is it okay to bake these in a mini muffin pan or silicone molds so that they don’t flatten out so much? I would like them to retain some of the “pillow-ey” appearance of regular whipped shortbread cookies.
Thanks!!
Taylor Kiser says
You can try! But I haven’t tried so I can’t promise how it will work!