It just isn’t Christmas without sugar cookies frosted with my “cherry/almond” butter frosting. So I took my low-carb favorite sugar cookie recipe, cut star shapes with my mini cookie cutter and piped with a 1/2 teaspoon dollop of low-carb butter frosting that has almond extract for a cherry flavor. Both of us just love these just-a-biteful mini cookie treats at our parties! My recipe usually makes around 40 mini cookies, but of course, your cutter size and rolled dough thickness will make a difference on the per cookie nutritional stats. I will provide the info below for the entire recipe of batter. You need to divide those numbers by the number of cookies you get. Then be sure to add in the nutritional value for your chosen frosting. These are suitable once you get to phase 2 Atkins.
INGREDIENTS:
1 recipe my Sugar Cookie dough
About 1 c. low-carb frosting of choice
DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 350º. Make up the cookie per that recipe’s instructions. Instead of making balls and pressing the cookies out onto pans, roll out the dough on plastic wrap with another sheet of plastic wrap on top. Roll to about 1/4″ thickness. With a floured cutter, cut into 40 1″ mini star shapes (or whatever mini cutter shape you have) and place onto parchment-lined cookie sheets. Pop into 350º preheated oven for about 15 minutes. Watch them so they do not get over-browned. Remove from oven and completely cool. While they bake, mix up your preferred frosting recipe. I made a quick frosting mixture of: 1 stick softened butter, 1 c. powdered erythritol, 1 c. granular Splenda, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp. almond extract and some food coloring. Fill a piping bag (or use a plastic bag with corner clipped off) and with a star tip, pipe 1/2 teaspoon frosting on each cookie. Plate and serve. Refrigerate them if you have any leftover. We rarely do, as I only make them for special occasions and they disappear quite fast.
NUTRITIONAL INFO: Entire recipe of cookie dough has 1589.4 calories, 152.64 g fat, 64.26 g carbs, 35.46 g fiber, 28.80 g net carbs, 31.32 g protein and 140 mg sodium.
If you get 40 mini cookies from the dough, each cookie (minus any frosting) will contain 39 cals, 3.8g fat, 1.6g carbs, 0.88g fiber, 0.72g NET CARBS, 0.78g protein, 3.5mg sodium
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