Honestly some of the best low carb Christmas cookies I have ever made. A classic Italian recipe gets a healthy keto makeover!
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.
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.
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.
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My favorite Christmas cookie would either be a Melting Moment (melt in your mouth shortbread with orange juice/icing sugar glaze) or mint Nanaimo bars.
Gingerbread Cookies! and Peanut butter balls
I haven’t had a Italian Christmas cookie since my mother passed away in my late 20’s! I can’t wait to try these and share them with my friends and family ! Merry Christmas !
Our family favorite is sugar cookies.
I love sugar cookies! 🙂
Snicker doodles for me!
I love a snicker doodle.
I love just a good old fashioned chocolate chip cookie!
I love cookies! My all time favorite would be traditional, frosted, rolled out Christmas cookies so I am looking forward to trying out your recipe for Holiday Cut-Out Sugar Cookies.
I need a lot of Swerve because I am making several recipes from your book, “The Best Low-Carb Holiday Cookies and Bars.
Glad you like the book!
Can’t wait to make these, Carolyn. I have enjoyed every recipe of yours that I have tried!
PB Blossoms!
Crescent cookies
My favorite Christmas cookie is a toss up between my Grandmother’s Scotch Shortbread Cookies and Pecan Florentines (dipped in chocolate on one side and sandwiched, of course!).
Snickerdoodles!
So excited to try baking these today! QUICK QUESTION: Do you know whether you can tint granulated Swerve with a drop or two of food coloring like you can regular sugar? I just received my first shipment of Swerve the other day and am so excited to be able to do some Christmas baking – a treat I thought I would miss out on since we have been low carb since July (40 lbs down – many more to go, but feeling like it’s finally going to happen!!!).
You can, I have totally done that before. But I am too lazy now. 😉
Thanks so much!
I love any homemade cookies! I love finding your recipes they make it possible for me to indulge a little too and most time the family has no clue till they gobble them up. Thank you
Pecan meltaways
We love to make sugar cookie cutouts…. I think my children like the decorating part better than the eating part!
Rainbow cookies, anginettes, and pfeffernuse cookies! ❤
My family favorite actually are anisette Italian cookies that look like this! Excited to try these!