Get into the holiday spirit with a delicious low carb gingerbread cocktail. Made with new stevia simple syrup for a sugar-free indulgence!
I am well into the Christmas recipe creation and Thanksgiving isn’t for more than a week yet. You might suspect I am one of those wildly organized people who gets way ahead of the game and is always on top of everything. You know, one of those people who remembers to send birthday cards to everyone she knows well in advance and has her children all glammed up in Christmas finery in October for the yearly holiday card photo. You might suspect that, but you’d be wrong. Dead wrong. I am like the opposite of that person. I haven’t sent a birthday card to anyone beyond my immediate family in years and my holiday cards usually arrive between Christmas and New Year’s, if I am lucky. Some years I don’t get around to sending them out at all and they sit neglected in my closet until I shake my head in disgust at myself and toss them into the recycling bin.
However, I do love Christmas baking and I do tend to get a jump on it early most years. And in my defense, Thanksgiving is quite late this year so it would push back all the holiday prep and cookie-making by almost a week if I were to wait until it was over. A whole week in which cookies were not being made would be wasted time indeed!
Add to that the fact that Thanksgiving will be a non-event this year in my household. Turkey Day is getting short shrift in the face of a huge move from one coast to the other. I’ve made a few yummy low carb pumpkin recipes, a pecan pie and a turkey breast roulade and I hope you will forgive me that I have now set my sights on the next holiday. You might not be done with Thanksgiving yet, but I certainly am. And when you have eaten your fill of turkey and low carb stuffing and sugar-free cranberry sauce and are ready to turn your attention to the Yuletide, I will be waiting for you with a whole host of seasonal recipes.
Here’s one to wet your whistle, both literally and figuratively. I love a good cocktail now and again and I was recently sent a new product by NuNaturals that just screamed cocktails. They have come out with a line of stevia syrups, including a stevia simple syrup that is perfect for low carb mixed drinks. It worked wonderfully in these martinis, sweetening just enough to make them seem like a treat (you can sweeten yours more, if you prefer). I didn’t detect ANY bitterness or aftertaste from the syrup, even when I put a little directly on my finger and tasted it on its own. Now, I know some people are far more sensitive to stevia so I can’t say for sure that it’s right for everyone. But I think it’s a great new product to add to the low carb arsenal and has many possible applications in baking as well. Because of my upcoming move, I haven’t yet opened the cocoa syrup or the cocoa mint syrup but I foresee these being as just as good and useful as the simple syrup.
Now, because this is a new product and you may not have had a chance to get your hands on it yet, and because some of people are highly sensitive to stevia, I’ve also written the recipe with an alternative sweetener option. You can’t say I’m not thinking of you!
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Gingerbread Martinis – Sugar-Free
Get into the holiday spirit with a delicious low carb gingerbread cocktail. Made with new stevia simple syrup for a sugar-free indulgence!
Ingredients
For the Rim
- 1 tsp almond flour
- Dash ground cinnamon
- Dash ground ginger
- NuNaturals Stevia Simple Syrup OR water
Martinis
- 3 ounces vanilla vodka
- 1 ounce sugar-free coffee liqueur
- 2 tbsp heavy cream
- 3/4 tsp NuNaturals Stevia Simple syrup OR 1 tbsp Swerve Sweetener (or more if you like your cocktails on the sweet side)
- 1/8 tsp ground ginger
- Dash cinnamon
- Tiny dash cloves
Instructions
For the Rim
- On a shallow plate, mix together the almond flour, cinnamon and ginger. Dip a paper towel into some of the stevia simply syrup and run it around the edge of two martini glasses. Dip martini glasses into almond flour mixture.
Martinis:
- In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine vanilla vodka, coffee liqueur, cream, simple syrup, ginger, cinnamon, cloves.
- Shake well and divide between prepared martini glasses. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.
Recipe Notes
Serves 2. Each serving has 5.66 g of carbs and 0.23 g of fiber. Total NET CARBS = 5.43*
*please note that because the NuNaturals says it contains less than 1 g of carbs per serving (1/4 tsp), this carb count is an approximate. To be on the safe side, I added 1 g of carbs per serving to account for this unknown amount. This carb count also assumes you have used my recipe for sugar-free kahlua.
Food energy: 213kcal Saturated fatty acids: 3.50g Total fat: 5.85g Calories from fat: 52 Cholesterol: 20mg Carbohydrate: 5.66 g Total dietary fiber: 0.23g Protein: 0.57g Sodium: 5mg
Carolyn, oh my gawd!! I love these gingerbread martinis!! so inventive!! I’m usually pretty organized with things but when it comes to holiday cards. . ha, forget it! Since having kids, I’ve only sent out photo cards once. . and I’m trying to do something this year! 😛 We do what we can, yo!!
I can’t wait to try the stevia syrups. I’d love to use the chocolate in my own version of decaf, sugar-free mochas. I recently bought a well-known sugar-free chocolate syrup and it just tastes weird. Have been using stevia drops in my tea for about 10 years and love the stuff.
I hope your move goes well! This looks delish (just like all your other recipes!). Thanks for letting us know about this new product too! Looks to be very useful!
I would prob make the brownie bark from your website, ooh or the new pb fudge recipe.
I’d love to try this for the eggnog martinis I make. Thanks!
This looks really good! Perfect for the holidays.
I can’t decide what I’d make first. I’m hosting Thanksgiving this year and I’ll be making both a traditional meal and a full menu of sugar and grain free items, lots of desserts, so these would help out bunches.
I really love your stuffing recipes. Who an I kidding, I love all of your recipes. Your site/blog has been my first, and will always be my favorite.
Thanks for all the hard work, Carolyn.
Happy Holidays!
Thanks so much, Kat!
That drink looks yummy!! I would love to win these 🙂
I’d probably make some healthy hot chocolate!
This is really good news! A new Stevia product AND one that contains Cocoa AND Mint! That just screams HOLIDAYS, doesn’t it?!
Definitely a chocolate drink of some sort!! Or chocolate/mint…yum!!
This is so good . Stevia syrups, mint and chocolate for ice cream and fudge here I come.Thanks for all that you do.
i’m going to have to try these regardless, I’m obsessed with NuNaturals!
OMG this is awesome! So many things could be made with the NuNaturals simple syrups! I’d probably make a low carb drink of some sort, im sure!
Oooh, perfect timing! I’d definitely make your gingerbread martini for our family Christmas party!
For the swerve alternative- is this the powdered or granular? Thanks!
Either, although powdered would dissolve a bit better.
I would make a chocolate mint latte!
When I open that bottle I’m taking a shot straight to the face!
I would like to try these in my coffee, and for making grain-free, sugar-free baked goods!
I’d probably make a chocolate mint hot chocolate! It’s been very cold here the past week. Good luck on your move!
I’d like to make that martini!
Since we already have below zero wind chills and 6 inches of snow, it will be a hot chocolate recipe for me!
I’m thinking some mint chocolate chip cookies would be in the works.
Really interested in trying the syrups!!!
I would probably make one of your bar recipes.
Oh I need to have these asap! To make all your yummy drinks! Love this new one and we love love your pumpkin martini’s so much!
Gingerbread Martini!!! Two of my favorite things in one glass….yay!
I’ma make cookies!
I would make this martini (or 3). 🙂
I know it’s not exactly Mojito time, but that’s what I’d make first!
I’ll make peppermint hot chocolate!
I love this idea! I printed out the recipe to make for friends when we entertain this holiday season. I’m going to shop for the simple syrup. I LOVE NEW IDEAS AND RECIPES!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR WORK BRINGING US GREATNESS!
You are most welcome, thanks for being so enthusiastic!
Mint hot cocoa 🙂
Oh I can’t wait to try this!
I don’t do well with sugar or fructose so I’d like to incorporate these into my pecan pie. The chocolate one would be good in hot chocolate too.
Oh, YUM!!! Cheers!
egg nog or chocolate mint martinis!
I want one!
I want one! I’ll make these martinis!
Thanks so much for the great recipe and opportunity to win these syrups from NuNaturals! I don’t know for sure what I’d make first… Maybe some chocolate mint fudge or some of the cocktails I’ve been missing since going low carb.
MMMMM! Perfect timing, I was just wanting to find a replacement for a hot fudge ice cream topping and a thinner version for drizzling across the serving plates. That’s what I would make first!
Definitely want to make egg nog
These look so good!
Need to get supplies to make the martinis. Now.
A peppermint mocha coffee or healthy hot chocolate would be divine!
Looks amazing! I didn’t know about the sugar free syrups.
These cocktails are perfect for the holidays! I love that you used almond flour for the rim, I would never have thought of that and it must taste great with the sweet drink.
I would make some type of drink, cold or maybe hot for the season.
I would try these in or with brownies and in hot chocolate.
Yum! You’ve done it again Carolyn! I would make a cocktail with the new syrup for sure – this one looks fabulous. I’ve also been in the mood for a minty hot chocolate to sip while putting up the Christmas tree and listening to Christmas Carols.
A gingerbread martini!
OMG, I have been looking for a simple syrup that I can have to make my beloved Sazerac and Southern Gentlemen cocktails! My attempts with other alternative sweeteners haven’t been successful! This is awesome.
Something warm and comforting!
Can’t wait to try this. Good luck on your move – and all the ensuing settling-in that follows.
This is such a perfect drink to kick off the holiday season!
I didn’t know about stevia simple syrup. There are so many great uses for this!
I love experimenting with oatmeal based desserts! I would try NuStevia in one of those creations!
Can’t wait to splurge on holiday cocktails with these syrups 🙂
These look great! Not sure what I would make first since I love ALL your recipes…but I am nuts over a slice of your banana nut bread,
These look jummy. I’m gonna look on Amazon for them right now.
I would love these syrups for coffee and homemade hot cocoa!
I would love to try these, I haven’t used any liquid sweeteners yet since starting low carb back in April. Good luck on your move. I am sure you will love it over here in the Pacific Northwest, there are so many beautiful places to go see. I love it here. You will have to make a trip out to the San Juan Islands this next summer and go on a whale watching trip, it is awesome to see these creatures up close. P.S. Maya Charters on San Juan Island has very good luck with locating the whales, often very close.
These look great! I would love these syrups!
This sounds so yummy! I will be making these during the holidays, gingerbread cookies are one of my favorite childhood Christmas treats. So this will be perfect for a Christmas Cocktail/ Dessert.
Good luck with your move, always a trauma no matter how organised. Martinis can only help the situation. Cheers!
I’d use the syrups for coffee and hot chocolate.
Yeh I’d like to try out the syrups with coffee and hot chocolate.
My hubby was recently diagnosed with diabetes, so he is now grateful for all of the stevia recipes available out there. I am thinking that your Gingerbread Slowcooker Recipe is on my list of “to make” this holiday season. 🙂
That Chocolate Mint would be so good in my coffee, or I would add heavy whipping cream and make a hot cocoa!!! YUM!
Yummy, will be making these for the holidays!
I would add it to coffee and hot cocoa
I would add it to yogurt, along with a few raspberries.
id try these martinis!
These look amazing. Being diagnosed a few months ago with diabetes, I am trying to covert everything I love into sugar-free options and use Stevia in most things. These would be amazing to try as I am trying to adapt 40 different recipes for Christmas cookies. My nieces and nephews may all be in their 30’s but i have been making them cookies since they were little and now for their little ones. They don’t think it is really Christmas if they don’t get cookies from me, so I ship them across the country and also have shipped many to my nephew’s whole troop in Iraq. They get a box every year with all kinds of things they would have enjoyed as little boys and girls. Everyone is a kid at Christmas! Wishing everyone a Blessed Holiday Season! xoxo
Hope you have a wonderful time experimenting with low carb, low sugar cookies this year!
I’m new to low carb and gluten free baking, and am thrilled to have found your website!!! If I were to win one of these sweeteners, I would definitely be trying it out on one of your recipes.
I’m not quite sure what I’d make first but the Gingerbread Martini looks like a great place to start!!!!
Looks yummy!
Get my wife to use it in her green iced tea. No more Starbucks simple syrup!
This looks so good!!
I would experiment with some cocoa cocktails with the syrups!
This is a great product idea. Haven’t tried them yet. But am eager to.
I would so make this or a low carb Pumpkin Martini!
I would use it to make your Gingerbread Martinis as I have two family members that can’t have sugar so this recipe will be great for them for the holidays.
OMG I want this!!!
There are SO many recipes that call for liquid sweeteners that I’d like to try! (And your cocktails look SOO yummy, but I can’t drink with the meds I have to take. :/) I think I’d try a cranberry relish I found as my first recipe. 🙂 Thanks for your generous giveaway!
Those martinis look amazing! I would use the simple syrup with maple extract to make sugar-free maple syrup.
I would make a gingerbread latte 🙂
OMG… this looks delish
I have been dying for a syrup for coffee!! can’t wait to try these!
I’d make that Gingerbread martini for winter and a Mojito for summer!
Martinis + Swerve = Perfection 🙂
Chocolate Martinis!!
I would love to try these in my coffee.
I miss lattes…a sweet, creamy latte! Someone above mentioned a chocolate martini….that sounds good too!
These look really good. Would love to try them! So many things to make with them.
This Gingerbread Martini sounds really good to try, lol. Wow.
I have been wanting some sweets like cookies, puddings etc I think if I won, I would use these to make some of them and let me have a VERY happy sweet Christmas season!
I can’t wait to try this drink. Yummy!
I’d love to try these! Thanks for the chance!
I’d love to make lemonade with the simple syrup! Or, there’s a glaze dressing for a fruit salad that called for simple syrup. I tried with a different sweetener and it did not work. haha
I’ve been making homemade cranberry liqueur for Christmas presents. It is a pretty simple recipe: vodka+cranberries+simple syrup. Macerate together for 3 weeks, strain out the berries, and bottle it up. I haven’t attempted to make a sugar-free version because I didn’t know how to sub out the simple syrup. Looks like you just found my answer!
I think I am going to do that!
I would make Thanksgiving and Christmas goodies for my family and friends! Thanks so much!
:0 I’d totally make this!! And try a chocolate version!
Wow you got my interest at Gingerbread and you had me at Martini! Unfortunately it’s not easy to come by all the ingredients in Switzerland… but I ll order them from the internet and make it as soon as possible! Thank you so much
Do these stevia simple syrups add body to the martini? What makes this different from stevia liquid concentrate, which I frankly use in most of your recipes that call for Swerve without any decline in quality. I’ve made drinks using flavored sugar free syrups before and while they taste great, they just don’t have the mouth feel to them that the sugared drinks do. Also, where do you find the sugar content for the vanilla vodka? Any flavored alcohols I’ve tried always seem to have a ton of sugar in them, but of course that doesn’t need to be disclosed on the label.
Good luck with your move. My least favorite thing to do.
Absolut Vanilla has no added sugar. I use it all the time.
Oh and yes…it has more body to it than liquid stevia extract.
I am going to try this one warm…. Yum.
Thank you
**U**
Nance
Nu Naturals syrups will make sugar free drinks and baking so much easier.
Thanks
Looks like an interesting drink. New to the gluten free diet and my sister is diabetic, so this drink recipe will come in handy for the holidays
First thing I would make is some chocolate fudge (aka fat bomb) with the cocoa mint !! Yum.
The first thing I would make is this gingerbread martini–looks awesome!
Hot cocoa, I believe!
oooo, what a great product! i have been wanting to experiment with shrubs, especially after seeing this book on amazon. but, the carbs in the fruits plus sugar/simple syrups are too much for me…until now.
http://www.amazon.com/Shrubs-Fashioned-Drink-Modern-Times-ebook/dp/B00G3IMV3W/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416769614&sr=1-1&keywords=shrubs
also, do you have any info on low carb/sugar free flavored vodkas? the internet is full of conflicting information (shocking, i know) and some of them are loaded with carbs.
I don’t know about all flavoured Vodkas but if you look at the Absolut webpage, they clearly state that their vanilla vodka has no added sugar.
I’d make margaritas with the simple syrup (of course)! Perhaps add blackberry or mango mmmmmm.
I would totally use the simple syrup to make a mojito =)
I made your sugar-free coffee liquor awhile back and have not known what to use it in. This looks perfect. Plus I’m sensitive to inulin in Swerve so the new syrups are very exciting to me. I hope they come out with a maple or berry one too that I can use on pancakes!
a gingerbread martini or two !!!
An extra special iced coffee for my husband’s commute!
Would be awesome for my teas and lattes!
I imagine there would be tons of recipes the simple syrup would be great for! I’m wondering if low carb marshmallows would be possible with these?
I recently moved to the Caribbean Sea in Riviera Maya. I am having trouble finding my low carb products here. This would be suxh a gift. So many things to create. All low carb. Yummy tummy goodness. Thanks for all the great recipes. Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I’d add these to my coffee or to almond milk.
I would love to try these.