Keto Snowball Cookies
Buttery almond flour snowball cookies with toasted pecans, frozen before baking so they hold a round dome, and rolled twice in powdered sweetener so the white coat stays. 24 cookies at 0.9g net carbs each.
Equipment
- Skillet for toasting
- Stand or hand mixer
- Baking sheet lined with parchment
- Shallow bowl for the coating
Ingredients
For the cookies
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter 113 g, softened
- 2/3 cup powdered erythritol-monk fruit blend 80 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 2/3 cups blanched almond flour 187 g, superfine
- 1/8 tsp fine sea salt
- 1 cup pecans 109 g, toasted and finely chopped
For coating
- 1/2 cup powdered erythritol-monk fruit blend 60 g, not allulose
Instructions
- Toast: Toast the pecans in a dry skillet over medium heat, stirring often, 4-5 minutes until fragrant. Cool, then chop finely.
- Cream: Beat the softened unsalted butter with 2/3 cup of the powdered erythritol-monk fruit blend for about 2 minutes, until pale and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla extract.
- Dough: Mix in the blanched almond flour and fine sea salt on low until a soft dough forms, then stir in the chopped pecans.
- Roll and freeze: Roll into 24 balls of about 1 tablespoon (20 g) and set 2 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Freeze 15 minutes while the oven heats to 350°F.
- Bake: Bake straight from the freezer for 12-14 minutes, until the bottoms are golden.
- Coat twice: Rest on the sheet 5 minutes, then roll each warm cookie in the 1/2 cup powdered erythritol-monk fruit blend for coating. Cool completely on a rack, about 30 minutes, then roll them a second time.
Notes
Freeze the balls before baking. Almond flour dough has no gluten, and warm dough spreads into flat discs. Fifteen minutes in the freezer keeps them round.
Roll twice, with an erythritol-based powder. The warm roll makes a base, the cold roll stays white. Powdered allulose absorbs moisture and turns tacky and clear.
Storage: airtight at room temperature up to 1 week, or frozen up to 1 month after the first roll. Give them the second roll after thawing.