Low carb, keto friendly cut out Christmas cookies with icing, sugar free, wheat flour free, gluten free, even diabetic friendly!
Keto / low carb
These keto butter cookies can bring nostalgic childhood memories to you. These festive cookies are very easy to make and have less than 1g of carbohydrates in each serving! If you search on the web you may find many recipes for keto cut out cookies. What makes this recipe so special? The ingredients I choose do not allow these crispy cookies to spread during baking. They keep their shape and remain crunchy for days. They're just like the real thing!
These cookies are usually made in various shapes with cookie cutters or simply with a glass and are optionally decorated either with sugar-free icing or with dark sugar-free melted chocolate.
It may take a little longer to prepare these cookies than other types of cookies but it's a process that will entertain children and adults alike. Let the children be creative! They will be happy to see their cookies as decoration on the Christmas tree.
Keto Cut Out Christmas Cookies
(78 cookies of 10g each)
1 serving: 30g
Servings 26
• Ingredients: 250 g / Soft butter 170 g / Powdered natural sweetener 1:1 (I use erythritol-stevia blend)
3 tsp / Homemade Vanilla Extract
1 tsp / Lemon juice
1 / Egg (medium sized)
1 / Yolk (medium egg)
100 g / Coconut flour
50 g / Fat-reduced almond flour
100 g / Protein Powder
(Pur Whey isolate unflavored)
4 g (1 tsp) / Guar gum
1/4 tsp / Salt
30 ml / Almond milk (unsweetened)
• Icing (optional) 50 g / Powdered erythritol-stevia blend 1:1 1 Tbsp / Heavy cream 1-2 Tbsp / Water
• Instructions: 1 Half an hour before the execution of this recipe, take the butter and the eggs out of the fridge. 2 Weigh and mix the flours, protein powder, guar gum and salt. 3 Beat the butter and powered sweetener until fluffy, for about 10 minutes. 4 Add vanilla extract, lemon juice, the yolk and lastly the egg.
5 Then combine the butter mixture with the dry ingredients beating with the mixer. 6 At the end add the almond milk. 7 Make a ball out of the dough (it may stick slightly to the hands), wrap in a cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 8 During this time, preheat the oven at 170°C. 9 Line 2-3 large baking sheets with parchment paper. 10 After 30 minutes divide the dough into four parts and roll each part of the dough with the help of a rolling pin, on a silicone surface or between 2 parchment papers, about 0.5 cm thick. 11 Cut the dough with cookie cutters into the forms you want or simply with a glass and place on the baking tray.
If you want to hang the cookies on the Christmas tree, you can make a small hole with a straw on each cookie.
After baking, pass and tie a decorative ribbon.
12 Bake for about 5-8 minutes until golden at the edges.
13 Take the cookies out of the oven.
Let cool for about 5 minutes and gently slide a spatula under each cookie to transfer on a rack.
The cookies will firm up after 20 minutes and get their best texture after completely cool.
• For the icing (optional) 1 To decorate some cookies with icing, mix the 50 g of powered sweetener and heavy cream and gradually add the water.
Make sure the mixture is not too runny.
2 Put the icing on the special tool (icing syringe) or in a small plastic bag and then make a very small hole on one edge.
You can easily correct the texture of the icing by adding water if it is too thick or some more sweetener if it is too runny. 3 Decorate the cookies with icing patterns.
• Serve and enjoy!
• Storage:
Allow the icing to dry well and harden before storing.
Store the cookies in an airtight container (room temperature) for up to 15 days.
Macros for 1 serving (30g):
Protein: 5.7 g
Carbohydrates (net): 0.85 g
Fat: 9 g
Energy: 110 Kcal
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I am not a nutritionist. If you have strict dietary needs I always recommend using an online nutrition calculator to calculate your totals using your exact brands you're using in this recipe as values may vary per brand.
Always keep in mind that ingredient replacements can change the outcome of the recipe in terms of taste, texture, appearance and of course macronutrients.
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