Cheerio!
Today I’m going to share a low carb recipe for soft and chewy molasses cookies. And since it is an English recipe, I thought I’d start out by sharing a funny short from the BBC.
This short is from a British sketch comedy series called Big Train that aired in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. (video below)
You will likely recognize one of the actors as Simon Pegg, of Star Trek fame. The episode was about how English tourists are treated abroad. The locals pretend not to understand you when you know that they secretly do. This sketch is a lovely bit of absurdism. Enjoy.
And I hope you enjoy these chewy low carb molasses cookies too.
I’ve been scouring the Internet, trying to find a soft, chewy and spicy molasses cookie recipe that is also low carb. I found some decent low carb gingerbread cookies but they were cakey, rather than chewy. So no dice. But then I stumbled upon a Paleo version of the cookie on Gourmande in the Kitchen. And it was just perfect! It took short work to make the recipe low carb and sugar free too. Now each cookie has just 1.5g net carbs.
So make yourself a cuppa, and tuck into these lovely low carb cookies.
Chewy Low Carb Keto Molasses Cookies
Finally, a soft and chewy low carb molasses ginger cookie!
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 8
- Total Time: 23 minutes
- Yield: 38 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
1 cup almond butter
2 large eggs
3 tablespoons blackstrap molasses
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, finely grated
3/4 cup Swerve or equivalent granulated sweetener
1/4 cup coconut flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon gingerbread spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and cover 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, beat together almond butter, eggs, molasses and fresh ginger with an electric mixer until smooth.
3. In a medium sized bowl, mix together sweetener, coconut flour, baking soda, gingerbread spice and salt.
4. Slowly beat the dry ingredients into the wet.
5. Drop rounded teaspoons of dough onto the prepared cookie sheets, 2 inches apart. You should have enough dough to fill 3 cookie sheets, so bake the first 2 cookie sheets, and then reuse one of the cookie sheets for the remaining cookies.
6. Bake cookies, until firm around the edges and starting to crack in the center, 8-9 minutes. The cookies will looked slightly puffed but will flatten and crinkle as they cool.
7. Cool 2 minutes on the cookie sheets and then transfer the parchment paper with the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 cookies
- Calories: 102
- Fat: 8
- Carbohydrates: 5
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 4
Keywords: Low Carb Molasses Cookie, Keto Molasses Cookie, Sugar Free Molasses Cookie
If you like low carb cookies like this one, then you might like my Compost, Gingerbread, or Shortbread Cookies.
You’ll need these specialty ingredients:
These are Yum! We used pumpkin spice cuz we couldn’t find gingerbread spice. And we ended up adding a bit more ground ginger cuz we like em spicy. We also added a little vanilla (isn’t vanilla always good?) :). Made a double batch and glad cuz we love them. Couldn’t stop eating the dough!
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Those sound like great improvements. Good to know that vanilla is good in the recipe too. Did you use 1 teaspoon?
Just made and wow!! Been craving these for a few weeks and finally had all the ingredients. Too funny, I only managed 22 cookies total (2.8c, 6.5f, 3p, 87 calories for ONE) but today I don’t care! Delicious!! Will attempt smaller “teaspoons” next time. Oh, I did lightly dampen my hands to press them flat, but not too flat. The DO look and taste close to the old “Archway” – if I got the brand right – Molasses cookies… only healthy! Thank you so much!
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Sure! So glad you liked them. Good tip about wetting your hands.
These cookies didn’t spread on their own, the first batch stayed rounded even after cooling. For the second batch I flattened them and this helped. Also they are very prone to burning quickly even with adjustments to time, not sure why that is as I’ve made molasses cookies with regular flour, sugar etc with no problem. The bottoms burned and the cookie inside was under cooked. Tried it a few times in different ways, which is too bad because I wanted to love this recipe.
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Oh jeez. I’m sorry that this recipe didn’t work for you. I wonder if the kind of almond butter you used made the difference? Almond butter is the main ingredient, and you can get too thick (not enough oil) or too thin (too much oil) versions sometimes. That’s the only think I can think of. Sorry, I wanted you to love the cookies too!
I love molasses cookies! These look delicious and perfect for Christmas ♥
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This will be the first time in re-creating this recipe. I’m so excited because I and my husband just started our keto journey. Thanks for posting.
Sure thing! Good luck with the diet. You’ll find low carb versions of most things.
Molasses cookies are the best! I especially love them during the holiday season, and low-carb or not, I’m in! (Santa might like them too!) 😉
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These look fab! 3g net carbs for the win! Can’t wait to try these.
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Oh these are awesome! I am so into low carb right now. I will have to give these a whirl. Cheers!!
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Cheers!
Could I sub brown Swerve for the molasses or wold the texture be different?
I’m not sure of the answer because I haven’t tried it, but I think you could get away with using Swerve Brown in place of the molasses. It won’t have that full molasses flavor, but it should still work for you. I would actually try increasing the Swerve Brown and decreasing the regular Swerve. So something like 1/4 cup Swerve and 1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons Swerve Brown. So- no promises- but I think you can probably get away with it.
Thank you so much.
This recipe has potential. Possibly less butter and more flour would help.
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I am making these for the first time. While mixing, it looks like there are short hairs or fibers in the dough. Is that from the coconut flour perhaps?
I’m guessing it’s the ginger?
I’m not sure if molasses are strictly keto, but these cookies are so good, I don’t care. Thanks for posting.
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Molasses are a hotly contested issue. These cookies still only have 3g net carbs, so I don’t think they are doing too bad.
No food is “not keto” as long as you stay under your daily carb limit.
You say that, but you haven’t been chided by the keto police like I have. I posted this recipe on a Facebook keto group and there was quite a bit of debate over it. They ended up deleting the recipe because it wasn’t keto enough for everybody. The keto police are real! (But I agree with you about it. Molasses is not a big deal if you don’t eat too much of it.)