29 Comments / Desserts, Tips for Lowcarb Dieting / By Katherine Peters / August 25, 2022 / 3 minutes of reading
These quick and easy keto butter pecan cookies are gluten free but you’d never know it from the shortbread flavor that is rich, buttery, and perfectly crumbly texture. With just 1.1 net carbs for each keto pecan cookie (2 cookies to a serving) this is a low carb recipe you’re going to want to keep handy!
For this recipe you’ll need: chopped pecan, almond flour, coconut flour, erythritol, butter, salt, and vanilla extract.
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Keto Butter Pecan Cookies
I think a keto cookie is especially difficult to get “right” when you are adapting to a keto diet. I have trouble getting the right texture and even when I do, sometimes they get soft overnight. These butter pecan shortbread cookies have the perfect, buttery, crumbly texture and they are exactly the same the next day.
In fact, we’re in kind of a cool rainy spell here in Texas with highs in the upper 60s and lots of dark skies and high humidity. I expected that the cookie would be soft the day after I baked them but they held up really well. I didn’t even do anything special , I just dumped them into a Ziploc bag.
This recipe is made to make 20 total keto butter pecan cookies but you can more for the whole neighborhood if you’d like. If you put your cursor (or finger) over the number “10” next to the “Servings”?heading in the recipe below, a slider will appear. You can move the slider to the number of servings you want to make. Remember that one serving is 2 cookies.The recipe will change automatically change the amount of each ingredient for you. If this keto recipe makes your taste buds happy, please consider giving it 5 stars. Thank you so much for your support !
Low Carb Butter Pecan Cookie Recipe
This low carb butter pecan cookie tastes amazing. They remind me of a Keebler Pecan Sandies cookie I had as a kid. Best of all, they are sugar free and gluten free so they are much better for me. They are now my new favorite keto dessert. I even like them more than keto ice cream. If you like this recipe, please consider giving it a 5 star rating. Thanks in advance.
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Low Carb Butter Pecan Shortbread Cookies
Quick and easy, these buttery, crumbly cookies are low carb and gluten free. They are sure to become a favorite snack!
Preheat the oven to 325F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar free sweetener with an electric mixer until lightened and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the almond flour, coconut flour, vanilla extract, and salt. Beat until well combined. Stir in the chopped pecans.
Roll the dough into (20) 1-inch balls and place the balls a few inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Flatten slightly with your palm.
Bake for 5 minutes, then remove from the oven and use a flat bottomed glass to flatten the cookies again to about 1/4-inch thick. Return to the oven and bake for another 10 to 12 minutes until the edges are golden brown.
Let cool completely on the baking sheet. Store on the counter for up to 4 days or in the refrigerator for up to a week. The cookies can also be frozen for up to a month.
It's a super easy cookie recipe that can be piped for a pretty shape for keto spritz cookies or simply formed into regular round cookies. Only 0.8g net carbs per cookie!
As the name suggests a butter cookie has a high proportion of butter. However, unlike a shortbread the amount of flour and sugar used is increased meaning they hold their shape more effectively.
They're both delicious cookies, but different. Sugar cookies are lighter, while shortbread is dense. Shortbread is more rustic, while sugar cookies work best for cutting and decorating. Sugar cookies will have a leavening (baking powder or soda) while shortbread has a short and simple ingredient list.
Pecan sandies shortbread cookies, pecan by Keebler Company contains 170 calories per 31 g serving. This serving contains 10 g of fat, 1 g of protein and 19 g of carbohydrate.
The bottom line, both Bridges and Spritzler agree, is that eating a starchy meal or a sugary dessert certainly could throw your body out of ketosis — and it might make you feel pretty lousy for a short time, as well.
So using oil—not butter—is actually advantageous in shortbread. With oil it's easier to get a short, tender cookie because the oil covers the flour proteins better. (Just don't be alarmed if your dough looks a bit dry at first—the oil is a little harder to work in.)
The key with shortbread is not to overhandle it. Make the dough exactly as instructed, but don't mess around making shapes or over rolling the dough - you will end up with delicious but tough biscuits. Stretching and pulling the dough activates the gluten in the flour, making chewy cookies and not crisp ones.
The most common mistakes when making shortbread are over-working the dough, and incorporating too much flour. The less you work the dough, the more crumbly and melt-in-your-mouth your shortbread cookies will be.
Pecans have the lowest net carb content of any nut. In fact, one ounce of pecans contains just 1.1 grams of net carbs! This means that you can enjoy pecans as snacks and in some of your favorite pecan recipes all while sticking to a low-carb diet.
CARB CONSCIOUS: Pecans are naturally low in carbohydrates… always have been, always will be. In fact, a handful of pecans (one ounce of pecans) contains only 4 grams of carbohydrates! That means that nutrient-dense pecans can add flavor, nutrition and disease-fighting properties to any diet that limits carbs.
Our sweet and crunchy chocolate chip cookies are made with almonds, coconut flour, butter, and a monk fruit erythritol blend for all the sweetness without all of the calories and only 2 grams of net carbs.
Make Sure Your Keto Snacks Are Balanced. In order to be successful with your keto diet, you need to make sure your snacks are balanced. That means they should have high amounts of fats, moderate levels of protein, and very little carbs.
What makes a dessert Keto? Keto desserts are considered Keto Approved when there's ZERO SPIKE to blood sugar. This means the ingredients in the product are void of carbohydrates that raise blood sugar. If you consume food that raises blood sugar you're inhibiting the ability for the body to create Ketones.
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