December 1, 2018
Simple LCHF cookies in the cookie press
Quick and easy LCHF cookies made with a cookie press. Gluten-free, sugar-free, and grain-free.
INGREDIENTS
- 250 g cold butter
- 2 eggs
- 5-6 heaping tablespoons of erythritol with stevia (Live & Love)
- 200 g defatted almond flour (Live & Love)
- 100 g finely ground roasted and peeled hazelnuts or blanched almonds
- 70 ml full-fat heavy cream
- Vanilla flavoring or the contents of 1 vanilla pod
METHOD
I prepare the dough for these cookies in a food processor with a standard blade. However, a stand mixer should also work—start with beaters and finish with dough hooks.
Cut the butter into cubes and beat it until fluffy with the eggs and sweetener. Add the dry ingredients and vanilla flavoring (or the contents of a vanilla pod), then mix in the heavy cream at the end. The result is a smooth, soft dough that can be used immediately in a cookie press. I didn’t chill it, and it worked perfectly. If the dough turns out too soft, refrigerate it for a while.
For piping the cookies, you’ll need a cookie press. Pipe the cookies directly onto an ungreased baking sheet, without parchment paper. Mine didn’t stick at all. Using parchment paper doesn’t work with a cookie press.
Preheat the oven to 170°C (340°F) and bake for about 10 minutes, until the cookies develop a light golden color. Baking time depends on your oven and the size (and thickness) of the cookies. For crispier cookies, leave them in the turned-off oven for a while to cool slowly.
Decorate as desired.
Happy baking!
MY TIPS
- The cookie press should always be used on a cold, ungreased baking sheet, without parchment paper.
- If you want cookies that are crispy, you can dry them in the oven at a low temperature or use a food dehydrator.
- Baked cookies can be coated with chocolate, sandwiched with various spreads, or decorated as desired.
- If you’d like to make chocolate cookies, you can replace up to 20 g of the defatted flour with organic cocoa powder.
- If you’re substituting erythritol with stevia for regular erythritol, you will need to adjust or increase the amount of sweetener accordingly. Erythritol with stevia is about 25% sweeter than regular erythritol. The erythritol with stevia from Live & Love does not have the “cool” aftertaste, which may be present with regular erythritol from other brands.
- In this recipe, almond flour cannot be replaced with ground almonds. Be sure to use defatted almond flour! You can recognize defatted almond flour by its low fat content (below 20 g/100 g).
- For light-colored cookies, use blanched ground almonds. You can also grind sliced almonds without skins in a coffee grinder or blender.
- If you use regular ground almonds, the dough will be slightly darker in color, and you will notice specks from the almond skins.
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