Most gingerbread cookies are not keto as they are made with white sugar and flour. This sugar-free gingerbread cookies recipe uses almond flour and keto sweetener, making each cookie have just 1.4 net carbs! Compare that to the average gingerbread cookie that contains over 21 grams of net carbs. What kind of almond flour can I use?
To form the Elisenlebkuchen cookies: Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C). Prepare two cookie sheets by cutting a piece of parchment paper to fit. Find a round object with a circumference of 2½ inches/ 63mm (for small cookies) or 2¾-3 inches/70-75mm (for larger cookies) and trace twelve circles onto the parchment with a pencil or black marker.
” The finest of those gingerbreads are the flourless Elisenlebkuchen, the masterpiece of the trade since the early nineteenth century, with over 45% nut content. According to the lore, this name goes back to 1720, when the daughter of one of Nuernberg’s master lebkuechner fell violently ill.
These Elisenlebkuchen, the archetypal German gingerbread, hail from the Bavarian city of Nuremberg and are soft and chewy round cookies baked on thin wafers called Oblaten. They are flourless, studded with tiny pieces of candied citrus peel, and rich in ground nuts and almond paste, which help keep them moist and chewy.