Low Carb Thumbprint Cookies – delicious low carb treat for the holidays

These low carb thumbprint cookies are the perfect sweet treat for the holiday season. No one will know that they are sugar free and gluten free and best of all they are only 0.9g net carbs per cookie!

You might also like these low carb spice tea cookies!

I love cookies. Lately every time I go by a certain bakery I stop in for a couple thumbprint cookies. I don’t know if it’s because my mom used to make these or if it’s the nuts and buttercream icing that I love so much. Finally I said enough is enough and I set out to make some low carb thumbprint cookies and I am so happy with the result. Each cookie is only 0.9g net carbs and they are delicious! My husband raved about them and he doesn’t even like sweets so much. 

Search for the best buttercream recipe

I love buttercream icing and have been on a mission to find the best one. Our local bakery (Barton’s) has the best in my opinion and I have been trying to figure out how them make theirs. I finally came upon a recipe from my friend Veena and it was spot on. If you love buttercream icing, I have to recommend her recipe and her video is especially helpful. However I wanted a sugar free recipe so I made my own and it was delicious too. (But if you want the real deal and you don’t care about carbs go check out Veena’s)

Notes about this low carb thumbprint cookie recipe

The base of the cookie is my mom’s recipe and my sister Patti has a post with her recipe! I substituted almond flour and Swerve sweetener and they came out great! They are very soft to work with and they seem pretty fragile at first but once they cooled, they were perfect. The nuts keep the dough together so don’t skimp on the walnuts. 

The butter cream is really sweet and the secret is to beat it for a long time- 5 to 10 minutes. Start out with less sugar and add more if you think it needs it. I used Swerve confectioner’s sweetener so it would mimic powdered sugar however I found that you don’t need to use as much as powdered sugar.

Low Carb thumbprint cookies

These sugar free cookies were delicious to me and I hope you like these as much as I did. I froze them so I could have 1 or two every once in awhile. My low carb spice tea cookies are a good low carb cookie too but not as fancy as these. I will be making these again and again I assure you! The nutrition for 1 cookie is:

176 cals / 17.9g fat / 22.3g carbs / 21.4g fiber / 2.9g protein = 0.9g net carbs 

5 from 2 votes

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Low Carb Thumbprint Cookies

These low carb thumbprint cookies are the perfect sweet treat for the holiday season. No one will know that they are sugar free and gluten free and best of all they are only 0.9g net carbs per cookie!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword butter cream icing, low carb, sugar free, thumb print cookies

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 30

Calories 171 kcal

Author Denise Wright (MyLifeCookbook.com)

Ingredients

Cookies

• 2 cups almond flour
• 1 cup butter softened 2 sticks
• 1/2 cup Swerve sweetener
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 1/2 cup walnuts finely chopped

Butter Cream Icing

• 1 stick of butter softened
• 1/4 cup of heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups Swerve confectioners sweetener

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
2. Chop nuts and add to a shallow bowl.
3. Separate eggs and put the whites in a shallow bowl and the yolks in with the butter.
4. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter, Swerve, vanilla, salt and egg yolks.
5. Add in the flour and mix until a dough forms.
6. Roll the dough into balls and then dip in the egg whites and then roll in the walnuts.
7. Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 5 minutes.
8. Pull out of the oven and gently push your thumb into the cookies to make a print.
9. Place back into the oven for 7-10 minutes until lightly browned.
10. Let cool completely before icing.
11. To make the icing, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla using a standing mixer.
12. Slowly add the cream and then mix on high for 5-10 minutes until nice and creamy.
13. When cookies are cooled, pipe the icing onto the cookies.

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