These keto shortbread fingers are sure to hit the right spot for your cravings. The perfect texture that will keep you reaching out for more and more.
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Shortbread cookies, Shortbread fingers all of them have always been my weak point. Especially during the Christmas season when it's in abundance in my local Costco store.
That buttery, sweet, melt in your mouth cookie that we all love. Since this cookie happens to be my weakness I decided I was going to figure out how to 'ketorize' it if I intend to have some peace in my new WOE.
What are Keto Shortbread Cookies made from?
The traditional Shortbread cookies are made with just 3 ingredients with an occasional 4th. The 3 ingredients is the butter, sugar and flour. The occasional 4th being the vanilla extract.
These keto Shortbread Cookies are made with butter, almond flour, sweetener, xanthan gum and vanilla extract.
How to make Keto Shortbread Cookies
After several trials I eventually got a ratio that worked perfectly for these keto shortbread fingers. These are melt in your mouth just like the carb loaded version aka the original ?. They taste very close to the original. And honestly has kept my cravings at bay. You really need to try these.
All you need to do is mix the ingredients together starting with creaming the butter and sweetener till fluffy. Then add in the Blanched Almond flour. and vanilla extract. The dough will look crumbly. Bring together into a ball with your hands.
Refrigerate dough. See recipe card below for full recipe and tips.
Line 9 by 9 square cake pan with Parchment paper letting it an over hang.
These cookies though a bit more crumbly than the original, because of the absence of gluten in keto flours. These cookies hold their shape perfectly and are delicious.
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- Blanched Almond flour.
- Parchment paper
- 9 by 9 square cake pan
- Xanthan gum
- Erythritol
- Bench scraper
- Kitchen timer
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Nutrition per Serving: (makes 6 Servings)
Calories: 177 | Total Fat: 16.5g | Carbs: 3g | Fibre: 1.4g | Protein: 2.5g | Net Carbs: 1.6g
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Keto Shortbread Fingers
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups almond flour
- 6 tablespoon salted butter soft but still firm
- ½ cup erythritol
- 1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon xanthan gum
Instructions
- In a clean bowl, cream butter and erythritol till light and fluffy.
- Add the almond flour and Xanthan gum to the butter and sweetener mix. Then add the vanilla flavor.
- Mix everything together. Mixture will be crumbly. Don't worry about it.
- With your hands bring mix together to form a dough ball.
- Transfer to a parchment paper lined 9 by 9 square pan
- Press the dough evenly till it covers the pan.
- Refrigerate for 30 mins.
- Bring out pan from the refrigerator with a bench scraper, slice the cookie dough into 24 cookies while in the pan. 8 slices vertically and 3 slices horizontally
- Pop back into the refrigerator then preheat your oven to 325.
- When your oven is ready, bring pan out of the refrigerator, then with the over hanging parchment paper lift cookies out of the pan onto a baking sheet.
- Using your bench Scraper gently shift the cookie dough cut outs away from each other so they don't glue together while baking.
- Bake for 20 mins then turn off heat of oven leave in oven for another 5 mins then bring out of oven and Cool completely. It would be soft when hot but hardens as it cools.
Notes
Nutrition
So delicious! An amazing texture and great flavor. I added a tsp or so of heavy cream because of the dry climate I live in. My kiddos are them and loved them so did my gluten free husband. Best keto baked good I have found so far!
Yayyy ????. That’s good to know. Glad your family loved it. Thanks for trying out the recipe and dropping me your feedback you are amazing. Your tip for adding heavy cream for a dry climate is noted and appreciated ? thanks