One of Ina Garten’s recipes for sugar cookies from her show, “Barefoot Contessa,” is animal cookies using flour, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Another recipe, although not technically billed as a sugar cookie recipe, is daisy shortbread cookies.
Dampen your hands and flatten the dough slightly. Bake for exactly 15 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone). Remove from the oven and let cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Copyright 2001, Barefoot Contessa Parties! by Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter/Publishers, All Rights Reserved
This sugar-free chocolate crinkle cookie recipe from The Big Man’s World is also low carb. The recipe calls for sugar-free maple syrup, keto powdered sugar and a granulated sweetener, such as erythritol. Using alternative sweeteners like these is one of many tips for reducing sugar in recipes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the butter and 1 cup of sugar until they are just combined. Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt, then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture. Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together.