I haven't made them without the almond meal, but you can sub out the almond meal and use more brown rice flower, and buckwheat flower accordingly. (meghantelpner.com)
My wife's GF Patisserie uses a specially milled rice flower that is already three times as expensive as regular wheat flour, add to that the insane price for Xanthan or other necesseties and you got prices comparable to New York City's fine restaurants.... (surefoodsliving.com)
This is the one we see in all sorts of patterns like the coin stitch, rice flower stitch, woven bamboo and the persimmon stitch. (boba.com)