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today I'm turning basic keto cookies into these
stunning Christmas cookies we're making a keto version of a soft sugar cookie and stacking them
into fun Christmas trees for the ultimate keto cookie that everybody is going to be shocked
that it's keto so let's get to baking so you can make your friends think that you've enrolled
in pastry chef School even though you've just been watching The Great British breaking show every
night on Netflix with a glass of wine and your dog and cat next to you there's nothing wrong with
that first we start with a medium bowl and one of these things a sifter add in one and a half cups
of almond flour a third cup of coconut flour a teaspoon of baking soda a teaspoon of cream of
tartar and a half a teaspoon of salt sift that into your bowl and I highly recommend sifting
your dry ingredients because it gives these cookies the best texture that's fine and soft
it's not gritty or grainy that's common in a lot of almond flour cookie recipes you'll see that
after sifting your dry ingredients that you have some of this grittier almond flour left behind
you just want to toss that because that doesn't belong it's going to make it too coarse set those
dry ingredients aside and bring in a large bowl add one cup of unsalted butter that's softened to
room temperature and cream this together with 2 3 cup of powdered sugar-free sweetener and again we
don't want our cookies to be grainy or gritty so we're going to add in powdered sweetener instead
of granulated sweetener sometimes that granulated sweetener doesn't dissolve when baking mix these
together until it's fluffy and creamy and to get soft cookies you need to incorporate some air
into this butter so mix it for around two to three minutes then we're going to stir in two
teaspoons of vanilla extract and then I like to add a quarter teaspoon of almond extract just
for a little bit of flavor then add in one egg and mix that until it's combined and then slowly
stir in your dry ingredients until everything is fully combined now we're going to refrigerate
our dough for two hours and the reason why we do this is two raisins the first reason is it gives
it time for all those flavors to meld together and second it helps prevent your cookies from
spreading when they bake and at this point till you could actually stop and make your cookies
late later you don't have to finish them and bake them all in one day you could freeze them
for up to one to two months or just keep them in your refrigerator for a week to make our tree
shapes we're just making circles and you could use a cookie cutter to do this but I didn't want to
mess with the hassle of rolling out my dough and punching out the cookies so instead I'm just going
to roll these into balls and then flatten them and you want to roll them into three different
sizes a large one for the bottom of the tree a medium sized one and a small one for the top of
the tree the first one you want to make around one to one and a quarter inches in diameter the
second will be around three quarters to an inch in diameter and the third is about half an inch
in diameter but honestly you can like make these any sizes that you wanted you could go really big
or even smaller but it's best to bake all the same sizes at the same time because the smaller you go
it's going to take less time to cook because they all have varying temperature times temperature
times times of cooking once you put the balls in a parchment lined tray you want to use the glass
to flatten them down to about a quarter of an inch thick and then I just use a knife to scrape off
the cookie and if at any point you feel like your dough is getting too soft just put it back in the
refrigerator to harden up a bit just around 5 to 15 minutes and that way it just makes it easier
to work with once your cookies are on the tray I do return them back into the refrigerator for
5 to 15 minutes this just helps to keep them from spreading when they bake you want to bake
the larger cookies at 325 degrees for seven to eight minutes the medium cookies will take around
six minutes and the small cookies will take five minutes basically bake them until they start to
get a little bit golden brown around the edges but not too much because you don't want to over bake
them it's going to look like they're not done yet like they're too soft but trust me they're going
to firm up as they cool now this is extremely important and where a lot of people mess up with
making these cookies because they didn't listen to me or they're just too impatient do not I repeat
do not try to pick up these cookies and until they have completely cooled if you do they're just
going to crumble and you're gonna get mad at me and you're going to blame me that this recipe
didn't work when in fact you just didn't listen I guarantee you that even though I'm telling you
this now there's going to be people that don't listen and they're gonna get mad at me just read
the comments down below because I'm sure you're gonna find some while our cookies are cooling
let's make that buttercream frosting and this is just a basic keto buttercream frosting and I
love it because it's not overly sickenly sweet like some buttercream frostings can be besides
one cup of unsalted softened butter add in one and a half cups of powdered sugar-free sweetener
and then mix that together until it's fluffy then we'll add in two teaspoons of vanilla extract and
I'm gonna need a helping hand for this one and we'll keep mixing that until it's light and fluffy
and if your buttercream is too thick at this point you want to add in some liquid so I usually
will add in one to three tablespoons of nut milk or you can use heavy whipping cream to get
that bright green color I added in food coloring this is liquid gel food coloring it's my favorite
kind I added around 11 drops of the green and then some yellow too to get that sort of lime or bright
green coloring so there's around four to six drops of yellow food coloring there then put this into a
piping bag fitted with a large star tip and start building your trees first you take a large cookie
and pipe some frosting and then top that with a medium cookie more frosting then a small cookie
and more frosting and then you can decorate these with sprinkles there's keto sprinkles like
these they're not really Christmassy so you could use these ones instead and yes they have
sugar in them and the keto police are probably going to attack you but you just tell them that
these 12 sprinkles are what brings you Joy and to mind their own business and it probably doesn't
really add that many carbs anyway the keto police are just one of the many things that nobody
needs on the keto diet and if you want to know some other ones that are over hyped and just not
necessary to be keto then just click right here
