Keto Cream Cheese Cookies
Servings: 18 people
Calories: 200
These wonderfully sweet and crispy keto cream cheese cookies are simple to make for a perfect holiday treat. You can press them into shapes, decorate them, or enjoy them plain!
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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- ¾ cup low carb sugar substitute or other sugar substitute
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups almond flour
- ½ cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract see note
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum optional
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sweetener until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the cream cheese.
- Add in the eggs.
- Stir in the flours and xanthan gum (if using), then mix in the vanilla.
- Chill dough for at least 4 hours .
- Squeeze dough out of cookie press or roll out into a cookie log and slice.
- Bake at 350F until cookies begin to brown (about 8-10 minutes for pressed cookie or 10-12 minutes for slices). Cook longer for crisper cookies.
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Notes
- Vanilla extract can be substituted in part or whole with other extracts like almond, lemon or orange to change the flavor.
- Note from reviewer: Decreased the butter by ⅓ and only used ⅔, ¾ cup of erythritol and half ½ cup of stevia. 1 tablespoon of Maple extract and a dash or 2 of cinnamon.
- Makes about 75 cookies, 4 cookies per serving
Nutrition
Serving: 4cookies | Calories: 200 | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 43mg | Sodium: 120mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 0g | Vitamin A: 415IU | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 0.6mg
Additional Info
Net Carbs:
2
g
|
% Carbs:
4.2
%
|
% Protein:
6.3
%
|
% Fat:
89.5
%
|
SmartPoints:
8