Lemon Cardamom Cookies - Sugar Free-Keto-Low Carb
Servings: 28 cookies
Delicious, delicately flavoured, crispy biscuits that you will want to bake all year round.
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Ingredients
Ingredients for the cookies:
- 90 g ground almonds (U.S. option HERE)
- 90 g lupin flour (U.S. option HERE or world-wide delivery option HERE - use code QUEENKETO5 for discount at checkout)
- 150 g unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 tsp ground cardamom (U.S. option HERE)
- 1 organic unwaxed lemon zest only
- 100 g erythritol (U.S. option HERE)
- ½ tsp pure stevia powder (U.S. option HERE)
- 1 pinch fine himalayan pink salt (U.S. option HERE)
Ingredients for the Royal Icing:
- 1 small egg white
- 4 TBSP Sukrin icing 'sugar' or Swerve confectioner (U.S. options HERE and HERE, or Make your Own)
- 1 tsp warm water
Instructions
Make cookies:
- beat butter with sweeteners until creamy and smooth.
- stir in cardamom (use more if you prefer a stronger flavour) and grated lemon zest.
- incorporate ground almonds, lupin flour and salt.
- knead until well amalgamated, then wrap in cling film and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- pre-heat oven to 180C static.
- place dough over a sheet of non-stick parchment paper and cover with another sheet.
- roll out to 5mm then cut out desired shapes (I used Christmas stars, U.S. option HERE).
- keep kneading and rolling out off-cuts until all the dough is used up.
- place over tray(s) lined with non-stick parchment paper.
- (optional) if you intend to use the biscuits as hanging decorations, poke holes using a skewer (without handling them) once they're ready to go in the oven.
- bake for about 10 mins, until you see them starting to become golden.
- remove from oven and let the biscuits cool down completely before handling.
Make Royal Icing:
- whisk egg white until firm.
- add icing 'sugar' and water and whisk to a thick paste consistency (add a little more warm water if too dense).
- transfer to a piping bag and decorate your biscuits as you wish.
- leave to air-dry for a couple of hours before handling.
Notes
Keep the dough chilled as you cut out your biscuit shapes.
Once baked and cooled, handle with care as the biscuits will be crispy and fragile.
Use Metric Kitchen Scales to weigh ingredients accurately. U.S. option HERE.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 71kcal | Carbohydrates: 0.7g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g
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