Keto Linzer Cookies

If you all know anything at all about me by now, you will know that food is my love language. One year, on our anniversary, I made nothing but heart-shaped food for my husband. Come to think of it, it must have been a funny sight on the construction site as he sat down to eat his heart-shaped sandwiches, lol.

So, if you want to feed your love heart-shaped food for Valentine’s Day, or any other day, then these Keto Linzer Cookies (aka Linzer Kekse) are probably a bit more of a low-key way of going about it.

I filled mine with this crazy simple and delicious Super Smooth Low Carb Strawberry Jam, which doesn't require you to use any chia seeds, and I had the left-over jam swirled through some sugar-free ice cream, yum. Make a batch for your Valentine. Enjoy!

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Step-by-step

1. Sift all of your flours together, along with the xanthan gum.

   

2. Cream the butter and sweetener together until light and fluffy and then add the egg and vanilla and combine well. Add the dry ingredients, mixing until a soft dough forms.

   

3. Tip the dough out onto some cling wrap and form a disc. Wrap and then chill for 30 minutes.

4. Remove from the fridge and roll out to about ¹/₂ cm (¹/₄ inch) thick. Using a cookie cutter, cut out 24 cookies.

   

5. Create heart-shaped cut outs in 12 of your cookies and lay them out on lined baking trays.

   

6. Chill on the trays in the fridge for a further 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 160 °C/ 320 °F (conventional), or 140 °C/ 285 °F (fan assisted).

   

7. Transfer the cookies in the oven and bake the cookies for 15 minutes, until they are just starting to colour on the edges. Remove and cool on racks.

   

8. To complete the cookies, you will need to prepare our Super Smooth Low-Carb Strawberry Jam. If you don't have any, it will take an extra 1 hour.

9. Pace 1 tsp of jam on the bottom cookie and slowly press the cut-out cookie on top, spreading the jam in an even layer between them and filling the heart-shaped window.

   

10. Prior to serving, dust with powdered sweetener.

    

11. These cookies are not suitable for making in advance and storing. Assemble them just before serving.

    

12. Store cookies (without filling) in an airtight container, in the pantry for up to 10 days. You can also freeze them for up to 4 months.

Recipe

Keto Linzer Cookies

★★★★★4.6 (78 ratings)

These cute low carb heart-shaped cookies are filled with sugar-free strawberry jam and topped with powdered ...

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25m

Overall

1h 30m

Servings

12

2.2 g

Net carbs

4.2 g

Protein

14.2 g

Fat

156

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Ingredients makes 12 sandwiched cookies

• 1 ³/₄ cups of almond flour (175 g/ 6.2 oz)
• ¹/₄ cup coconut flour (30 g/ 1.1 oz)
• ¹/₂ tsp xanthan gum
• ³/₄ stick unsalted butter, softened (85 g/ 3 oz)
• ¹/₂ cup granulated Erythritol, Swerve or low-carb sweetener of choice (100 g/ 3.5 oz)
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp sugar-free vanilla extract
• 3 tbsp Super Smooth Low-Carb Strawberry Jam to fill (45 g/ 1.6 oz)
• 2 tsp powdered Erythritol or Swerve to dust

Instructions

1. Sift all of your flours together, along with the xanthan gum.

2. Cream the butter and sweetener together until light and fluffy and then add the egg and vanilla and combine well. Add the dry ingredients, mixing until a soft dough forms.

3. Tip the dough out onto some cling wrap and form a disc. Wrap and then chill for 30 minutes.

4. Remove from the fridge and roll out to about ¹/₂ cm (¹/₄ inch) thick. Using a cookie cutter, cut out 24 cookies.

5. Create heart-shaped cut outs in 12 of your cookies and lay them out on lined baking trays.

6. Chill on the trays in the fridge for a further 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 160 °C/ 320 °F (conventional), or 140 °C/ 285 °F (fan assisted).

7. Transfer the cookies in the oven and bake the cookies for 15 minutes, until they are just starting to colour on the edges. Remove and cool on racks.

8. To complete the cookies, you will need to prepare our Super Smooth Low-Carb Strawberry Jam. If you don't have any, it will take an extra 1 hour.

9. Pace 1 tsp of jam on the bottom cookie and slowly press the cut-out cookie on top, spreading the jam in an even layer between them and filling the heart-shaped window.

10. Prior to serving, dust with powdered sweetener.

11. These cookies are not suitable for making in advance and storing. Assemble them just before serving.

12. Store cookies (without filling) in an airtight container, in the pantry for up to 10 days. You can also freeze them for up to 4 months.

Nutrition per one sandwiched cookie

Carbs 6%Protein 11%Fat 83% of calories

Net carbs

2.2 g

Total carbs

12.8 g

Fiber

2 g

Sugars

1.5 g

Protein

4.2 g

Fat

14.2 g

Saturated fat

4.6 g

Calories

156 kcal

Sodium

10 mg · 0.44% RDA

Magnesium

42 mg · 10.5% RDA

Potassium

119 mg · 5.95% EMR

Nutrition by ingredient

Per one sandwiched cookie	Net carbs	Protein	Fat	kcal
Almond flour (blanched ground almonds, almond meal)	1.3 g	3.1 g	7.7 g	86
Coconut flour, organic	0.3 g	0.4 g	0.4 g	9
Xanthan gum, thickening agent	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Butter, unsalted, grass-fed	0 g	0.1 g	5.7 g	51
Erythritol (natural low-carb sweetener)	0.4 g	0 g	0 g	2
Egg, whole, fresh, raw (free-range or organic eggs)	0 g	0.5 g	0.4 g	6
Vanilla extract, sugar-free, alcohol-based	0 g	0 g	0 g	1
Smooth Strawberry Jam, homemade (KetoDiet blog)	0.2 g	0 g	0 g	1
Erythritol (natural low-carb sweetener)	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Total	2.2 g	4.2 g	14.2 g	156

Serving size one sandwiched cookie

• Gluten free
• Nightshade free
• Pork free
• Avocado free
• Fish free
• Shellfish free
• Beef free
• Pescatarian