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Classic Italian Christmas Cookies and a Swerve Baking Giveaway

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Honestly some of the best low carb Christmas cookies I have ever made. A classic Italian recipe gets a healthy keto makeover! 

Low Carb Grain-Free Italian Christmas Cookies

It’s the holidays and I come bearing gifts! And pretty awesome gifts they are, if I do say so myself. The first are my new favourite Christmas cookies. Yes, yes, I say this about all my cookies because I fall fast and hard for whatever new creation I’ve just made. But really, these are startlingly good. They look relatively plain and not all that fancy. They don’t have lashings of frosting and there isn’t a speck of chocolate to be seen. Or peanut butter either, for that matter. But they are tender and soft, almost melt in your mouth, with a lovely hint of anise.

 

These tender almond flour cookies are sugar-free and have a classic anise flavor.

They are modelled after a classic Italian-style Christmas cookie. These would be the cookies I used to pass over on the holiday cookie plate in favour of the fancier, more gaudily festive ones. They simply looked too plain to me. But over the years, I’ve come to realize that there is so much to enjoy about the simpler things. This goes for life and for cookies. Simple, well-made cookies are such a pleasure. And let’s face it, the Italians do things right when it comes to the holidays.

A low carb keto classic! Italian Christmas cookies get a low carb makeover.

I created this cookie recipe for my friends at Swerve Sweetener, so the actual recipe lives over there. But it’s worth the click-through, believe me. And I am making a double batch very soon to giveaway to family and friends.

Please see my Classic Italian Christmas Cookies on Swerve Sweetener

**Please note that there is something wrong with Swerve’s nutritional analysis that we are trying to sort out. My software gives this information: Food energy: 164kcal; Total fat: 14.62g; Carbohydrate: 4.50g; Total dietary fiber: 2.33g; Protein: 3.73g; Erythritol: 15g. NET carbs = 2.17g per serving. Serving size is TWO cookies.

 

Low Carb Grain-Free Italian Christmas Cookies

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  6. Sugar cookies with every kind of decoration you can imagine. Kids love to help with these and making the cookie is easy but the fun and family togetherness never stops….

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  8. My favorite have always been Peanut Butter Blossoms and was thrilled to see your low carb version! I’ve made the full sugar ones for my family-they are packed away in the freezer-but now it’s time for me!!!! Can’t wait to try them, or these law carb Italian Cookies too. Thanks Carolyn. You’ve saved Christmas for me Lol ?

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  11. Just yesterday the kids and I made the traditional roll-out/cut-out cookies with a buttercream icing, sprinkles, etc. I think they are my favorite. However, since I went sugar-free two years ago, I simply can’t eat a million of them like I want to, so I’m thrilled to try a simple low-carb cookie that looks as yummy as the pictures on this post! Ty for all your yummy recipes!

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  14. Oh my gosh. I have wanted a kitchen aid mixer my whole life but could never afford it. Love your blog. Thank you for sharing such wonderful recipes.

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  20. Nut rolls and cottage cheese rolls. Can’t have Christmas without those for this Hungarian girl:) in fact I will attempt to make more like a danish this year using a low carb Stromboli recipe.

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  26. I like the sugar cookies made them when kids we’re little they help to frost and put sparkles on going to make these today .

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  27. ARE YOU KIDDING?? How can I just pick ONE favorite? I will say that yesterday I made two pans of Scandanavian Almond cookies for the first time – edges crunchy, inside soft and thoroughly delightful. First time I have made them and sure to be added to my ‘favorites’ list.

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  30. I thank you so much for all your hard work in coming up with new recipes for this kind of living that make us feel like we have never given up anything!! I refer so many people to your blog to give them hope and joy!! Thanks again, Teresa

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  31. I have a 1992 copy of a Woman’s Day Holiday Baking magazine, and in it is a priceless treasure: Vermont Crackles Cookies. Easy and so, so delicious with good black hot coffee. Now that our household is gluten and (as much as possible) sugar free, Vermont Crackles are a fond memory. But a good one. Have a wonderful holiday, and bless you for your hard work, and remarkable recipe skills!

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  32. I have to find a low carb recipe for these, but there are these ginger molasses cookies sold by a bakery nearby that are to die for.

    Otherwise, there is nothing like a great chocolate chip cookie!

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  36. Chocolate crinkles used to be my fave! Now I like your fudge bars, although like you, my favorite is whatevers in the kitchen!

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  44. I love cookies, and I have learned to love simple buttery cookies the most (Shortbread, Russian Teacakes etc) I am looking forward to giving these a try.

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  46. Cinnamon Stars-This is a meringue-based almond cookie I roworked using Swerve instead of sugar. I was surprised that the Swervo made the crunchy coating the same way the sugar does.

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  51. Favorite cookies since beginning LCHF eating are any really rich buttery or almond butter cookies. Lots of dark chocolate never disappoints either. Thank you for all of your amazing recipes, so many to choose from this holiday, our cookie tray will be beautiful and so much healthier this year!

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  56. I always loved making decorated cutout spice cookies, it was a family traditional and my mother had a collection of more then 100 cookie cutters which she left to me and my sister. But I have to say I think I liked to EAT Mexican Wedding cookies the best!

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  57. I’ve never heard of Swerve, but will look for it next time I’m in the store! My favorite Christmas cookie is a soft sugar cookie with cream cheese frosting. Your Italian Sugar Cookies sound wonderful!

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  58. Custard creams – something my grandma and mom made. Basically shortbread cookies with jam in between and icing on top. And nanaimo bars – thanks for giving those back to me!

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  62. My favorite is either my grandma’s date balls or double chocolate craisin cookies. Neither are low carb unfortunately.

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  65. We always used to make Italian cookies filled with nuts and chocolate with sprinkles. And Nutmeg logs. We still splurge and use gluten free flour for nutmeg logs because the men can’t do without them. Not low carb but a splurge. Excited this year to try a low carb version of Russian wedding cookies because we used to eat a few dozen weekly :/

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  67. Still looking for my favorite low carb cookie. Sugar cookies are my favorite regular cookies. Hiring this new recipe is a winner!

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  69. A mixer would be a lovely gift, I’ve never had one like this before. These cookies look so delicate and pretty, can’t wait to try them. But, I guess my favourite would have to be Browned Butter Snickerdoodles.

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  76. My favorite Christmas cookie is a Biscochito. Love this traditional New Mexican cookie which has anise and uses lard instead of shortening.

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  78. These look amazing, can’t wait to try them. My favorite is Neapolitan cookies or Rainbows! Any chance you could do a recipe for them?

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  79. I love the decorated Christmas cookies. To me there is nothing better than watching your baby girls make them and giggle – that is what Christmas is all about. 🙂 I think your beautiful Italian Cookies would be a fantastic treat to take to my daughter’s school Christmas party!

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  81. My favorite cookie is Starlight mint surprise. I have to make my own chocolate wafers as they don’t make Rockwell chocolate wafers anymore.

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  84. Thank you for this opportunity! My favorites are Italian Rainbow cookies. Haven’t engineered those to be low carb yet!

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  89. Chocolate chip is always a favorite but I really like most cookies whether it’s a holiday or not. Your brownie bark recipe has become a real favorite at my house.

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  99. My favorite Christmas cookie is whatever I’m making at the moment – with batter spattered, music mingling, and Mom mumbling about “time” and “To Do’s.”

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  102. I definitely would not skip these cookies had they come by me! I might have to make my way to the kitchen today. Thank you, Carolyn!

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  104. My new favorite Christmas cookie, just discovered this November, is your Biscoff (Speculoos) Cookie recipe using Wilton’s Holiday Mini Cookie Cutters. Will be taking a batch to our family Christmas party.

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  111. I would always make Italian cookie and I love them. I want to try these. I also make sugar cookies so my grandchildren can decorate them. I like buck eyes and well I guess I like them all.

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  115. There isn’t a cookie i wouldn’t eat but I love classic sugar cookies and italian filled cookies…. of course now i look for low carb versions. I’m so looking forward to giving this a try!

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  127. I don’t know what they are called they are lacy caramel on the top with a thin layer of dark chocolate on the bottom. I have tried finding low carb sugar free versions but have not yet found or figured out how to make them.

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  131. My fave holiday cookie is the biscochito. It’s a shortbread cookie flavored with anise, and it ain’t Christmas without it.

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  137. My favorite holiday cookies are sugar cookies. The older and staler the better! My husband is always grossed out if I eat them after they are a few days old.

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  142. All of them! HAHA. But since I have to pick I’d have to say the Italian wedding cookies or pecan snowballs 🙂

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  146. I have two favorites that I will try to make low carb. The first one is called mint tweeties, they have a brown sugar shortbread crust with a mint chocolate topping. They were my late sister in law’s favorite. I would make a batch just for her.

    The other is my friend’s ginger cookies. I make those for times when we have to take goodies to work, but I am going to try a makeover.

    Winning all of this Swerve would help with the projects of making these recipes into something low carb eaters could enjoy. The mixer would help too.

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  148. I know exactly what type of cookie you’re going for here – both of my parents were born in Italy and my Nonna makes these at least 5 times a year. Very interested to see how the low carb version compares!

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  162. I love Swerve and would love to win this package! I would love to see if Swerve works for Christmas “crack”. I know I would have to use molasses with the granulated Swerve.

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  175. Oh, childhood favotires, thumbprint cookies, Russian tea cakes, spritz cookies, shortbread, all now made new for me and mine through this wonderful low carb blog and others like it!

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    • My favorite holiday cookies are those double chocolate mint chocolate chip Tollhouse cookies. Oh my! I figured out how to make them gluten-free, now I just need to figure out how to make a low carb version but since I can’t use the chocolate chips, that one will be harder!

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  178. My favorite Christmas cookies have always been the cut out sugar cookies I made with my mom and now I make with my grandchildren. The recipe is from a cookbook given to my mom by her grandmother when she got married.

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  179. My favorite holiday cookie is peanut butter blossoms with the Hersheys kiss. Still haven’t found a low carb version of these 🙁

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  180. So I’m walking around Sam’s club looking for ingredients to some of your cookie recipes and I see this Swerve post….yeah, I’m parked on the side if an isle entering every which way I can!! One of my goals this morning was to find a place that sells Swerve in this town! So far, no luck. Ordering online is my only option. Grrrrr!! Maybe soon, though.

    Thanks for the chance and ALL of your fab recipes and low carb lifestyle advice! I couldnt do it without you!!

    Blessings,
    Nessa

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  199. I have such a collection of your recipes, Carolyn. I made your dried cranberries yesterday. Thanks for all your efforts and your amazing creativity.

    My favorite Christmas cookie? It used to be thumbprint cookies made with oatmeal cookie batter and topped with a gumdrop. But not since going LC. I plan to try your oatmeal cookies if I can find my baking supplies and equipment. I was 85% packed to move when the contract fell through the end of last week. Life is always interesting.

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  200. I love chocolate chip cookies. Now they are low carb and sugar free. I’ve also discovered coconut macaroons with sugar free chocolate chips.

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  209. Cut sugar cookies were my favorite before I went low carb. I haven’t tried any low carb recipes for sugar cookies, but I will be!

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  212. Shortbread cookies. You know, the ones in the Christmas tins. Maybe only because they make me think of Christmas growing up. Definitely pre-keto! Thanks for the chance to win!!!!

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  213. I absolutely LOVE cookies of all kinds and it’s so hard to pick just one, but if I had to it would be a soft sugar cookies. Yum! Thanks for this awesome giveaway!

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  218. I don’t have a cookie baking at Christmas kind of family, but I used to enjoy eating store bought gingerbread men cookies and all kinds of Italian cookies. I am looking forward to trying these.

    Thanks for the giveaway, I’d love a mixer!

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  220. My favorite cookies are Oreos. But they do not fit in my thm lifestyle now. I also love cheesecake cookies and chocolate chip and double chocolate.

    I have not had very much luck with low carb cookies but am excited to try these!

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  221. These sound yummy and I’m going to make these for our cookie exchange. Do they freeze well? Trying to make some in advance…

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  231. I don’t think I have a favorite holiday cookie…I’ve seemed to historically like them all! Most don’t fit into my eating plan now though…so always on the lookout for ones made so that I can eat them!

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  232. I have several favorites but I love my Mom’s sour cream twist cookies (a recipe I need to convert to gluten free one day) and her chocolate crinkle cookies.

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  233. My favorite Christmas cookie is Buckeye balls. Haven’t found a low carb version that tastes like mine with graham cracker crumbs added.

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  241. My favorite are “forgotten cookies” minty chocolate chip meringue cookies. Made them last every year with my grandmother. Put them in the oven turn it off come back later and they were done. Light and minty after a heavy Christmas dinner.

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  255. My favorite cookies are chocolate chocolate chip. But I am new to Lowes carb and have not found anything that makes my family happy…

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  273. My favorite holiday cookie, while not low carb because I have trouble finding a low carb cookie I love, are thumbprint cookies. So much butter!

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  275. Before low carb, it would have been Oatmeal Raisin. After low carbing for so long, I would prefer something simpler, like this beautiful Italian Christmas cookie. These are just beautiful!

    Alice B.

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  280. Before low carb, it would have been Oatmeal Raisin. After low carbing for so long, I would prefer something simpler, like this beautiful Italian Christmas cookie. These are just beautiful!

    Thank you for this gorgeous creation!

    Alice B.

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  281. “…the Italians do things right when it comes to the holidays.” Best.Quote.Ever. Hahaha. (Not that me being Italian has anything to do with my bias!) LOVE Anise cookies. You are correct – they are a bit understated, simple and non-flashy, but they are So.Good. Especially dunked (yes – we’re great dunkers!!) into some hot espresso. Making today!

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  282. I totally agree that the “sweet” cookies are nice but there’s something special about these! I grew up eating these so I’m very excited to try this recipe! Thank you!!

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  284. My favorite are the Mexican Wedding Cookies! I use hazelnuts in them! Thanks for the change as the giveaway and Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

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  285. In recent years I’ve craved chocolate ginger snaps and anything made with almond paste (is there a recipe for sugar free low carb almond paste? 🙂

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  300. I love anything that’s crunchy! Too many healthy recipes yield a soft cookie. However, I won’t turn my nose up at a good chewy cookie. 🙂

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  319. My favourite holiday cookies are um………holiday cookies! I love ’em all! Printed off the recipe and heading to the kitchen to make them right this minute!

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  325. Sugar cookies, although I haven’t made them in a while, partly due to the sugar. I’d like to try this recipe to see if it’ll be a new favorite!

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  333. My favorite Christmas cookie has always been the cruncy butter cookies! I could eat a whole tin before going low carb! Now I make my own…..and I don’t eat the whole batch lol.

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  343. I don’t think I could pick a favorite. I love frosted sugar cookies but usually my favorite is the one I’m eating at the time!

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  362. These sound delicious, and I’m sure they will be, just like your other recipes that I’ve made! Thank you for all you do!

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  364. My favorite cookie is any cookie that I am eating. I love home made cookies, chocolate chip is the one I get request for.

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    • Please let me know what he thinks! This was my take on the original but you know…it’s always different with low carb ingredients!

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  367. My mom made Butter Cookies that will forever be “the” Christmas cookie. I made them with my kids and now my kids make them with my grandkids.

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  370. Wedding cookies and peanut butter blossoms! I used to make these every year. I did manage some pretty good low carb peanut butter blossoms this year, but I’m still working on the wedding cookies 🙂

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  372. These look delicious and perfect for a Christmas treat. I’ve never had Italian wedding cookies so I’ll have to give this a try.

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  373. I’m making these as a test-run tomorrow for a family gathering on Saturday. They sound amazing! Do you think they would freeze well? As always,THANK YOU for all the recipes you create and share. Not a disappointment in ANY recipe EVER <3

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    • I don’t know for sure if they freeze well but I am banking on it because I just made a double batch for the freezer!

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  383. My favorite holiday cookies are ones that someone bakes for me (like my girlfriend Chris!!) since I don’t make good ones myself. I’ve tried tons of recipes and they never come out right. The only cookie I can bake are Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies and that’s because they are a cake style cookie. Sugar cookies in a shape turn out like hockey pucks. Not the perfect grandma cookies.

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  385. Walnut Squares! Unfortunately, I have still not figured out a lo-carb version of these. The recipe has been a family fave for years.

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  386. I really miss my great grandma’s impression cookies. I need to try to adapt some keto cookie dough to work with her recipe.

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  393. My favorite cookies are Mexican Wedding cookies. Someday I’ll get brave enough to try a SF grain-free version…maybe if I win!

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  397. On a side note, I just made these cookies. Nice flavor. Mine aren’t as pretty. A little brown on the bottom and edges. My oven could be too hot. Also, think I need more frosting, but these are a keeper. The husband loves them. p/s are they suppose to be on the softer side?

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  400. My favorite holiday cookie that my mom used to make is a no bake cookie made with peanut butter, butterscotch chips and corn flakes. But alas, I don’t have a low carb version of that. ☹️️ I sure miss those this time of year.

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  402. Thanks for posting! I grew up with these, and have missed them for decades!
    Can’t wait to give your recipe a try 🙂

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  409. I love Russian Tea Cookies, and Snickerdoodles, and fudge, and Cheesecake cookies, and Pecan cookies, and… etc, etc! You get the idea!

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  417. So hard to say – cream cheese sugar cookies, pistachio cranberry cookies. I need Keto friendly cookies – but havent made any to say if I have a favorite. Looking forward to making the italian christmas cookies but with almond extract

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  420. My favorite cookies are my great Aunts peanut butter cookies. Bring a smile to my face just thinking of them.

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  427. Hot chocolate chip cookies are my favorite but also love watching my children make sugar cookies. Growing up my mom always made about 8 different types of cookies including Italian wedding cookies and Russian tea cakes.

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  430. I love gingersnaps and peanut butter blossoms. I’m so glad to find your recipe. My son just became a firefighter and he is also a bodybuilder. His new co-workers told him how most folks drop off tons of sweets for Christmas at the firehouse and hardly ever bring anything low carb and/or without sugar. Several of them desperately want some “good” treats. So my friend and I are planning to make gift baskets for 3 firestations filled with low carb goodies. I’m sure these italian cookies will be a big hit. Thank you!

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  433. Pre- sugar free I loved those Mexican Wedding cookies and thumb print cookies… but these might just be my new fave! Thanks so much!

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  437. My favorite cookies are Snowballs. I won’t turn down a pretty iced sugar cookie or a gingerbread cookie either.

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  441. My favorite holiday cookie has always been classic roll put/cut out cookies! I’m looking for a new favorite now that’s I’ve gone low carb!

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  449. My favorite Christmas cookie are the snowballs; that’s what I call them, but I think they are also called wedding tea cakes.

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  451. My favorite Christmas cookies are peanut blossums with a white chocolate/peppermint Hershey’s Kiss pushed into the center while the cookie is still warm. I’ve recently discovered spitzbuben, which are running a close second to the peanut blossum cookies!

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  458. My favorite holiday cookie in my pre “healthy eating” days were the sugar cookie iced cutouts. Sadly, I haven’t really found one to replace them. I still make them sometimes, I just don’t eat them!

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  468. Just made these Italian cookies…to say they’re awesome would be an understatement! Thanks for yet another fantastic recipe!

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  486. My favorite holiday cookies are Thumbprints! I just love the jelly center with the light butter cookie, yummy!

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  489. I’m not a huge fan of cookies in general, but I’ve been looking for a softer and more simply-flavored cookie for the holiday season. Thanks for the recipe! I made your “oatmeal” chocolate chip cookies, with raisins and a couple of chopped dates in lieu of the chocolate, and my husband adores them. Thanks so much for your time and effort.

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  494. My favorite holiday cookie is gingerbread. The aroma of baking gingerbread cookie takes me back to a table full of smiling flour painted children, all working together to decorate the family Christmas Gingerbread House. Now it’s but one grandchild, but one day she’ll smell gingerbread and remember a smiling flour painted grandma trying very very VERY hard not to lick the snow icing off her fingers.

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  497. This might sound bad, but my favorite holiday cookie is the Danish butter cookies you get in the tins. If we’re talking homemade, though, it’s soft, ginger molasses cookies.

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  500. Wow – there are a LOT of comments!! My favorite holiday cookie is Molasses Crinkles from the old Betty Crocker cookbook – but I need to try giving them a makeover so they’ll be sugar free and low carb! What an awesome give-away, bless your heart for blessing others! <3

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  512. Sugar cookies…the ones we’ve made for generations we called Pillow cookies…I’m exited to make these Italian cookies..hoping they will be our new tradition.

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  515. My favorite holiday cookie is a seven layer bar… So good. So heavy. I’ve been working on KETO-ing it. Thinking about mixing coconut flour and a little pork rinds. Then some homemade low-carb sweetened condensed milk. Top with peanut butter chips, coconut, and macadamias!

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  519. My favorite cookie is one passed down from my Mother In Law. It is an apricot thumbprint cookie.
    When we were first married, I didn’t really care for them. As I’ve gotten older, I find I prefer cookies that are less sweet. Now that my daughters are grown, they also make these cookies every year.

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  527. My family has a wonderful sugar cookie recipe that I just LOVE. Sadly I have not been able to eat it in years due to the gluten and sugar. I cannot wait to try this recipe and see if it can replace what I have been missing during the holidays. Thank you for all that you do!

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  529. I love Hello Dollies – my Momma always made them. 🙂

    I did make your Italian Christmas cookies yesterday and they were super delicious and so easy. Thanks Carolyn.

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  530. I adore a good, spicy gingerbread. I’m going to try these with my kids; LC cookies are tricky. Your biscotti are my fav LC cookie 🙂

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  534. I don’t really have a favorite holiday cookie. Growing up I would say chocolate chip was my favorite, but they are not low carb. Thanks for the great giveaway.

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  546. I love almond crescent cookies and chocolate crinkle cookies. Since moving to Denver, due to the altitude, we have not been successful making chocolate crinkles that do not fall unfortunately. Thanks for the recipe and the chance to win the giveaway. I love your blog!

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  550. The Swerve site lists these at 16g carbs and 3 g fiber per serving of 1/12 of recipe (or 2 cookies, if making 24 cookies). That doesn’t sound right to me with just using almond and coconut flours. Did you notice that or is that correct?

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    • It’s actually correct but that’s because they are listing the Swerve “carbs” that don’t enter your bloodstream. Once you subtract erythritol, their Net Carb count is much closer to mine.

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  561. My favourite cookie for the holidays are Chocolate Orange Blossom cookies!!! Imagine peanut butter blossom cookies but instead of a peanut butter cookie it’s a chocolate cookie with orange extract and orange peel! SO GOOD!!! It’s like a cookie version of a Terry’s Chocolate Orange!

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  566. Could one use anise seed or ground anise powder I have access to that if not that is ok. theses sound yummy.

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  567. Shortbread cookies and frosted sugar cookies are my favorite anytime of year. Not quite the same with low-carb versions, but I am learning to like them.

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  572. Can’t wait to try… my dad is Italian and diabetic. I love to try new recipes to see if he approves 🙂

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  580. My neighbor always makes the traditional Italian cookies like these and I LOVE them! I’m excited to try these myself this year.

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  589. Sugar cookies are my favorite. I haven’t tasted one in about 25 years though. I should find out if there’s a sugar free version.

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  599. How to pick?!?! I love an old fashioned sugar cookie with a cup of hot coffee. Can’t wait to try these. Thank you!

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  604. My favorite holiday cookie is any cookie with cinnamon and /or spice…Love ginger bread, ginger snaps and snickerdoodles 🙂 Merry Christmas to you and yours 🙂

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  610. I absolutely love the peanut butter blossoms at Christmas! Can’t wait to try your recipe!
    Another fave is Mexican wedding cookies-so delish!

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  623. My favorite Christmas cookie is probably a butterball. My Mom used to make them every year. But only for Christmas – that makes them special and I always associate them with Christmas

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  626. My favourite cookies are shortbread… mmmm.. just can’t get enough! Does anyone have a good low carb version for this Christmas?

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  627. Thanks for this recipe. I love these cookies and the Italian Pizelles that many of my South Jersey neighbors used to make and gift us every year!

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  631. Since I’m Italian, and love all things Italian I will try these out. Italian cookies are my fav. And was actually just thinking about Italian cookies the other day. Thank you for designing this cookie recipe.

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  635. My favorite Christmas cookies are my parents old fashioned sugar cookies!
    I need to try to adapt them to low carb!

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  638. I have always loved decorated sugar cookies. But this year I tried the Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich cookies from your new cookbook. And I also tried the Gingerbread Cheesecake Bites. Both are winners! I can’t wait to try this Italian Christmas Cookie!

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  640. I love all cookies! Now that I’m following THM I love the chocolate moisties! I’m going to add mint extract next time.

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  643. I love Peanut Butter Blossoms and Russian Tea Cakes. Really most cookies 🙂 Looking forward to trying this low-carb version of Italian Christmas Cookies!

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  645. I love Orange Icebox Cookies and Gingerbread cookies for the holidays but a really good chewy chocolate chip cookie can’t be beat!

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  653. What sprinkles do you you recommend for the Italian cookies? Also, what can I use instead of egg white protien powder in the pepper mint bundht cake?:)

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  657. I’m a fan of pretty much any kind of cookie! But I did make some snickerdoodles with Swerve just this weekend and they were wonderful!

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  659. I love classic chocolate chip, m&m, or oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! My family usually gets the variety cookies in the tin at the grocery store around the holidays I always loved those, especially the chocolate/vanilla swirl ones with the pink outside!

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  668. So I’d have to say my favorite cookies would be Shortbread or Ginger cookies. Brings back some wonderful memories. Thanks so much for the chance to win!

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  676. Molasses cookies all the way!!!! It could only eat one cookie for the rest of my life that would be it! It’s my grandma’s recipe!

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  682. I absolutely LOVE anything Chocolate, but I think my favorite would be a simple sugar cookie with a chocolate drizzle!

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  687. My favorite cookie are cutouts or sesame cookies with orange flavoring or white chocolate with cranberries or a real good chocolate chip or….okay I love them all!

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  690. My favorite is chocolate chip. Finally found Swerve in the grocery store so I’m excited to try new cookies recipes this year.

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  701. Where do you get sugar/gluten free sprinkles? I haven’t found any anywhere!
    Other than that, I can’t wait to make these!
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    • You don’t, sadly! But there are so few on each cookie that it doesn’t raise the carb count at all. Just makes it look pretty!

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  703. My favorite holiday cookie is any cookie that can stand up to being dunked in my coffee! There is something about dunking a cookie in coffee that feels like a treat.

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  706. My favorite cookie is my husband’s great grandmothers sugar cookie. Perfect every time! I have a batch of these Classic Italian Christmas cookies in the oven right now and my home smells wonderful! Thanks for all the recipes, Carolyn!

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  707. My all time favorite Christmas Cookies are little butter cookies that my family calls “Melting Moments.” Definitely not low carb and I have been wanting to convert the recipe. Your Italian cookies look similar which is why I was excited to get your recipe (Hopefully they are!)

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  710. My favorite is thumbprint cookies. I’ve been soooo obsessed with your recipe for twix thumbprint cookies. They are AMAZING!

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  711. I have recently gone sugar free and grain free but so far have not found a sweetener or flour replacement to bake anything yummy for Christmas. I have not seen Swerve in Fry’s or Walmart in Yuma so I haven’t tried it yet. I also don’t know what non grain flours replace all purpose flour the best. I only gave a little hand mixer so the mixmaster and packages of Swerve would be an amazing gifts, wish me luck!

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  714. My favorite Christmas cookies are Coconut Kisses. Buuuut… they’re made with lots of sugar, sweetened coconut, and cornflakes. Carbs, carbs, and more carbs. Maybe I’ll start messing around with the recipe. 🙂

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  715. Snowball cookies and Christmas cutouts like my mom used to make. Never ever have I found a recipe that was even close and I fondly remember the turkey roaster full of cookie dough chilling in the fridge overnight and mom’s reaction to all the “dimples” of dough missing when she went to roll them out ?

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  716. My favourite cookies are my nanas chocolate chip cookies with extra cocoa and chocolate chips to make them extra chocolatey!

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  717. My favorite cookies are my mom’s lemon bars. She could make them ‘just right’ whereas when we made them, they would never set!

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    • I bet she had a secret ingredient or tip that she never told you, just so she could be the only one to make them! 🙂

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  719. Mexican wedding cookies and cut outs were always my favorite. Just made gingerbread cookies for the first time. I need to fund a low carb gingerbread recipe. These look dekishious!

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