Instructions. Preheat oven to 350 degree. Using a Microplane grater, finely grate the zest of the orange, and set aside. Be sure to save a teaspoon for the glaze. In a bowl of a …
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Using keto-friendly ingredients lowers the carb count to just 1 gram of net carbs per cookie. Make sure you use blanched almond flour so the skin of the nuts doesn't ruin the cookie taste and texture. There's no salt added to the cookie dough because salted butter is used.
As far as making them goes, they are a little more work than some of the other low carb cookie recipes I’m posting this week, but well worth the extra effort! Simply divide your dough into 12 balls – then roll them into 3 inch logs, press into the sliced almonds, and bend and pinch into a crescent shape and bake.
These almond cookies are crunchy and sweet and have a similar texture to biscuit cookies. They are just 2 ingredients and incredibly easy to make. You don’t even need a mixer to make the dough. These cookies also don’t require any eggs or low carb flours. These cookies were a delightful surprise.
I just made them as drop cookies without the almonds on the top (I didn’t have any) and half of the almond extract it called for. They came out really good!