Apple Walnut Cookies (low carb, gluten free)

10/13/2013

Apple Walnut Cookies | Gluten Free, Low Carb

These Apple Walnut Cookies are gluten free, low carb, grain free, sugar free, and just plain awesome! They taste like . . . Autumn!!

Apple Walnut Cookies (low carb, gluten free)

Ingredients:

1 C. almond flour
1/4 C. almond butter
1/4 C. butter (soft, salted)
1/4 C. sour cream (or plain Greek yogurt)
1/4 C. brown sugar substitute (I use Ideal)
1/4 C. white granulated low carb sub. (I used erythritol)
10 drops liquid stevia (vanilla)
1/4 C. whey protein (plain flavor)
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. xanthum gum
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/8 tsp. cloves
1/2 C. walnuts (chopped)
1/3 C. apple (chopped) (Granny Smith is lowest in carb)

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix all the ingredients together. I like to mix the sugars and butter first . . . then the rest of the liquid ingredients . . . then the dry . . . fruit and nuts are last.
3. Scoop batter by teaspoonful onto spray-greased cookie sheets (I used two average-sized baking pans.)
4. Bake for approx. 10 minutes or until lightly browned on the edges.
5. Allow to cool on the cookie sheet.

This recipe makes about 20 cookies. Enjoy!

Apple Walnut Cookies (low carb, gluten free)

5 Comments

Barbara B

1/4/2016 04:03:13 pm

The flavors were spot on and it was overall a good tasting cookie ! My thoughtful comments are that I would probably have reduced the apple to 1/4 cup and chop them more finely. Or, I would have increased the batter portion of the recipe, as well as the cinnamon. The recipe calls for a teaspoon of batter, I used measuring teaspoons and used 2 per cookie and got 2 dozen cookies. I used a small amount of vanilla extract and EZ Sweetz (sucralose) instead of Stevia, for brown sugar I used Sukrin Gold and Erythritol for white sugar sub (Was out of regular Sukrin:1) All in all, a nice cookie with flavor and not too sweet ! I might even throw in a couple of sugar free chocolate chips next time !

Barbara B

1/4/2016 04:22:14 pm

Also, forgot to mention in my original post - I subbed the Whey Protein with Egg White Protein.

Melanee link

2/5/2016 01:31:53 pm

Barbara,

I'm so glad you made this recipe! I really like your idea of chopping the apple finer and using less apple, plus adding chocolate chips. I'm not familiar with Sukrin. What is that? Is it low carb?

Thank you for taking the time to comment and for providing your suggestions for alterations. Have a great day!

Barbara B

3/23/2016 04:37:10 pm

HI, Melanee ! Sukrin is a new low carb sugar (from Europe) which is a combination of Erythritol and stevia glycosides. No cooling effect. I love it much better than Swerve or straight Erythritol and so does my non-d hubs. I still reduce the sugars down in recipes that I try-I find a lot of the recipes are "too sweet" for me. The brown sugar is great. It is available at www.SukrinUSA.com. THe only thing is that they are only packaged in 8 oz bags, but since I rarely use what a recipe calls for, it does last a while ! Just made a huge batch of cookies again, taking some to my daughter's for Easter. If I stop sneaking in the tin and eating them !

Melanee link

3/29/2016 06:00:15 pm

Hi Barb,

I may have to order some of that "Sukrin" because I have issues with Swerve. I really appreciate the information! Have a great day!

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