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    Home » Desserts

    Author: Emily Krill | Published: Dec 1, 2019 | Modified: Dec 1, 2021

    Heart Shaped Keto Shortbread Cookies

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    Heart shaped Keto shortbread cookies are the perfect dessert to make for your sweetie. It's true low carb love with only 3g net carbs per cookie.

    Two Keto heart shaped shortbread cookies on a blue plate

    “Hey!  Wait!  I’ve got a new complaint!” -Heart Shaped Box, Nirvana

    It’s noon here, and I’ve spent the morning making heart shaped cookies and singing along to Nirvana.  I found their “Heart Shaped Box” video on Youtube and it is even kookier than I remembered.  It’s got an elderly crucified Santa Claus, a creepy wizard child, and a skinless angel mom.  Ah, grunge rock.

    But heart cookies, let’s talk about them.

    These Keto Shortbread cookies are really tasty.  They are made from a buttery almond and coconut flour shortbread dough, that’s been chilled, then rolled out and cut into heart shapes.  Then they are baked and iced with sugar-free chocolate.  

    muliti-color plates holding gluten-free shortbread heart cookies

    And sprinkles.  

    You can’t forget the sprinkles.  I found a brand of Keto-friendly sugar-free sprinkles on Amazon that are really good.  Before I found them, I’d only seen Keto sprinkle recipes online, and good grief, who wants to make each individual sprinkle by hand?  (Not this lady.)

    Tips and Tricks for Heart Shaped Cookies

    • The butter has to be at room temperature, so you’ll need to soften it first.  Either leave it out on the counter for 30-60 minutes or microwave it for 15 seconds at 30% power.  Press it with your finger to see how soft it is and microwave for another 15 seconds if needed. 
    • You can make this cookie dough ahead of time and freeze or refrigerate it until you need it.  It’ll keep for 7 days in the fridge or 2 months in the freezer.
    • The dough needs to chill for at least 20 minutes in order to roll out properly, so you’ll have just enough time to listen to side A of Nirvana’s In Utero album.
    a hand holds a sugar-free heart cookie against a yellow background

    Also...

    • Don't touch the cookies when they come straight out of the oven, because they'll be soft and crumbly. But they firm nicely up as they cool.
    • This recipe is gluten, grain, and sugar-free. It is all the frees.
    • The cookies will take a longer or shorter amount of time to bake, depending on how big each cookie is.  Use 10 minutes as a starting point and take them out when the edges are just beginning to brown.
    multi-color plates hold low carb heart shaped shortbread cookies

    And there you have it.

    Soon you’ll be in cookie Nirvana.

    Big-Chef-Orange-Square

    Ok, chow for now!

    Big-Chef-Orange-Square
    (But let's keep in touch.)

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    Heart Shaped Keto Shortbread Cookies

    Two Keto heart shaped shortbread cookies on a blue plate
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    ★★★★★

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    Heart shaped Keto shortbread cookies are the perfect dessert to make for your sweetie. It's true low carb love with only 3g net carbs per cookie.

    • Author: Emily Krill
    • Prep Time: 40
    • Cook Time: 20
    • Total Time: 1 hour
    • Yield: 28 cookies 1x
    • Category: Dessert
    • Method: Baked
    • Cuisine: American
    • Diet: Gluten Free

    Ingredients

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    Cookies:

    • 3 cups almond flour
    • ¼ cup coconut flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 2 teaspoons xanthan gum
    • 1 cup Swerve Granular
    • 2 large eggs
    • 2 tablespoons sour cream
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    • 11 tablespoons butter, softened

    Toppings:

    • ¾ cup Lily's Sugar-Free Dark Chocolate Baking Chips
    • sugar-free sprinkles

     

    Instructions

    Step 1.  In a large bowl, whisk together all dry cookie ingredients.

    Step 2.  In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together eggs, sour cream, and vanilla.

    Step 3.  Combine wet mixture and dry mixture until a dough forms.

    Step 4.  Use a pastry cutter to mix the softened butter into the dough.  

    Step 5.  Cut the dough in half.  Form each half into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap.  Chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

    Step 6.  Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F and cover 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. 

    Step 7.  Remove one ball of dough from the refrigerator and place it between two sheets of parchment paper.  Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to a ¼ inch thick oval.

    Step 8.  Use a cookie cutter to cut the cookie dough into heart shapes and place them onto a parchment-covered cookie sheet with ½ inch between cookies.  Form the remaining dough into a ball, roll it out and cut out more cookies.

    Step 9.  Bake time will vary, depending on how large the cookies are.  Start checking the cookies at minute 10, and remove them from the oven when the edges are just beginning to brown.  Repeat with the second ball of dough.

    Step 10.  Cool cookies for at least 1 hour before topping with chocolate.

    Step 11.  Add chocolate chips to a small bowl and microwave in 30-second increments, stirring each time, until completely melted, 60-90 seconds.

    Step 12.  Use a knife to spread chocolate over one side of each cookie.

    Step 13.  Shake the sprinkles over the chocolate side.  The chocolate will harden as it cools.      

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    Notes

    You can use white chocolate chips to top the other half of the cookies if you'd like.  Use ¾ cup of ChocoZero or Lily's White Chocolate Chips or equivalent.

    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: 1 cookie
    • Calories: 160
    • Fat: 13
    • Carbohydrates: 6
    • Fiber: 3
    • Protein: 4

    Keywords: Keto Heart Cookie, Gluten-Free Heart Cookie, Low Carb Heart Cookie

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    1. Brenda says

      March 03, 2020 at 5:32 pm

      Made this for my husband and I because we just started Keto in February. Good cookie!

      ★★★★★

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      • EmilyKrill says

        March 03, 2020 at 5:38 pm

        Thanks!

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