This lemon cookie recipe is gluten-free, low carb, and keto friendly... The perfect brunch dessert for spring! Using an electric mixer, cream together the butter and monkfruit until creamy. Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the lemon zest, juice, vanilla extract and egg on low until well combined.
These soft cookies clock in at only 1.7 net carbs per cookie, perfect for anyone doing a keto diet who needs to silence their sweet tooth! You can enjoy classic lemon cookies that taste like their high-carb counterpart minus all the gluten and carbs!
In fact, lemon is in the keto-allowed fruits, and therefore lemon juice is excellent on keto. All you need to make these simple keto lemon cookies are the following ingredients: Almond flour – make sure you use ultrafine blanched almond flour to avoid a dark color in your cookies or a gritty texture.
I have done Low Carb dieting many times over the last 20 years, but was never successful with cookies or cakes. You photos look amazing and your recipes sound yummy. So this morning I made a batch of the lemon almond cookies.