This popular ingredient for gluten-free baking can do so much more, and these 10 recipes show you how.

It’s grain-free, paleo, and gluten-free.

But almond flour’s assets can also work against it in recipes.

Platter of Mexican Wedding Cookies

Simply Recipes / Photo by Julia Gartland / Food Styling by Samantha Senevirate

Many of them are low in sugar and gluten-free.

Why not tap into that bag of almond flour and get to a cozy afternoon of guilt-free baking?

Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Simply Recipes / Cambrea Gordon

This loaf is moist and substantial.

A loaf of sliced almond flour banana bread seen from the side.

Simply Recipes / Cambrea Gordon

Almond flour lends a nuttiness to this one-bowl recipe.

And chocolate chips lend…chocolate!

Everyone will love it.

Flourless Lemon Almond Cake

Elise Bauer

Gluten-Free Dinner Rolls

Simply Recipe / Coco Morante

Appealing homemade gluten-free bread is a Holy Grail for gluten-free households.

Here are dinner rolls made with almond flour and tapioca flour (making them grain-free as well).

These get their lift from baking powder, not yeast, so they come together quickly.

Gluten-Free Dinner Roll Cut in Half with Butter

Simply Recipe / Coco Morante

Store-bought croissants actually work best for this recipe as they soak up more syrup."

Mexican Wedding Cookies

This recipe, a classic holiday cookie, traditionally calls for all-purpose flour.

Almond Flour Waffles

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Pile of Almond Croissants on a Wooden Tray, and in the Surroundings, a Kitchen Towel and a Blue Coffee Mug

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

These waffles are so easy, and such a delight.

Crispy and light, they trounce those frozen gluten-free waffles you pay so much for at the store.

If fact, why not make a batch and freeze them?

A stack of almond flour waffles on a plate as syrup is poured on top

Sally Vargas

Particularly in the fall, when you could showcase your favorite baking apples.

Grain-Free Apple Honey Cake

Coco Morante

Almond cookies scattered on a rimmed plate.

Michelle Becker

Log of Marzipan with Sliced Marzipan Disks Next to It

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

Homemade Amaretti Cookies in a Bowl

Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer