A great tasting dessert that will make you think you're splurging, but each cookie only has 2 carbs! They're gluten-free, too!
With a little ingenuity, almost anything you want
The best way to make somebody want something is to tell them they can't have it.
Maybe that's the reason why when you're on a diet all you want is dessert!
Dessert isn't off limits when you're on a low carb diet, you just have to get smart about how you make them.
I Love Dessert!
I really wanted to lose weight, but it was so hard to stay on my low carb diet because of my cravings for sweets.
The will to lose weight won out over the will to have dessert, but I didn't give up that easily.
I went searching for ways I could indulge occasionally with sweets, but stay true to my low carb diet.
I learned what ingredients I could substitute for their higher carb counterparts, such as almond flour, coconut flour, sweeteners, etc.
Since switching to more healthful cooking techniques, baking has become fun again. Before I would only bake occasionally because I knew it was bad for me. I'd bake sweets, scarf them down because I couldn't just eat a little bit, then feel guilty that I'd bombed my diet.
Now I can have my sweets (in moderation) and not worry about packing on pounds.
I can have my low carb cake (or cookie) and eat it, too!
A bit different than you're used to, but they taste so good!
This chocolate chip cookie recipe is a typical low carb recipe. It does not use wheat flour, nor does it use sugar, which are both full of carbs and calories.
This recipe uses almond and coconut flour. Both have a very low carb count, and they're full of vitamins and minerals.
Coconut flour is more than 35 percent fiber, which helps bring the carb count down in any recipe you use it in.
For the liquid sweetener in this recipe, I used xylitol honey. It has next to no carbs and it is very low on the glycemic index. As a bonus, it's good for your teeth. Table sugar can't make that claim!
For the granular sweetener I used Xylosweet, but you could just as easily use Swerve, Just Like Sugar, or Splenda. It really comes down to what your preferences are.
For the chocolate chips, use the darkest chocolate you can find to cut down on the sugar, or you could chop up a sugar free low carb chocolate bar. Hershey's sugar free chocolate chips are a good choice, too.
So don't be afraid, give in to your dessert cravings with this great tasting cookie!
You won't be able to just eat one
Ingredients for 12 portions
1 cup almond flour · 1 Tbsp coconut flour · 1/3 cup of your preferred granular sweetener ( I used Xylosweet) · 1/4 cup melted coconut oil or olive oil · 1/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp xylitol honey · 1/8 Tsp salt · 1/4 tsp baking powder · 1/2 tsp vanilla extract · 1/3 cup sugar free chocolate chips · *optional 1/3 cup nuts of your choice
What to do:
Preheat your oven to 350 F.
Place all ingredients in a medium bowl and mix well.
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a lightly greased cookie sheet.
Bake cookies 15-17 minutes or until nice and brown. These cookies will be really soft when they come out of the oven, so let them cool completely before transferring them to a rack.
Everyone loves pizza, even those that are gluten sensitive. Most gluten-free pizza recipes are lacking in taste. This recipe comes about as close as you can to the real thing.
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AbbyFitzDec 12, 2013
DerdriuMarrinerDec 12, 2013
Thanks for sharing this tempting recipe.
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