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Low Carb Cookie Recipes for Guiltless Snacking

One of the easiest and quickest snacks to make – as well as one of the most fun – are cookies. But regular cookies are made with regular white flour and sugar, which are off-limits to people on a controlled-carbohydrate diet. However, with the abundance of low carb cookie recipes online and in cookbooks, there’s no need to despair at the thought of having to give up these bite-size goodies for life – because you won’t have to.

On the web site AliciasRecipes.com, a recipe for Almond Sugar Cookies is given. Unbleached flour and saccharin or aspartame are used in place of regular flour and sugar, respectively, in compliance with the tenets of the low carb diet. You will find this to be the case in most other low carb cookie recipes you come across. This is because flour and sugar have a high carbohydrate impact, paving the way for fat storage and weight gain. However, other forms of artificial sweeteners, such as sucralose (Splenda) are recommended for sugar-free snacks by low carb diet experts because of health concerns about the effects of saccharin and aspartame.

A recipe for Old Fashioned “Sugar” Cookies is given on LowcarbLuxury.com, but instead of sugar, Splenda is used as a sweetener. The title of the recipe isn’t misleading because Splenda is a derivative of sugar, but it is approved by low carb diet experts because it doesn’t have the carbohydrate impact that regular sugar does. It’s just as sweet as regular sugar, but without the added carbs; this recipe contains only 2.3 net carbs per cookie.

You can make practically all kinds of cookies for any occasion, what with the innumerable recipes for these sugar-free snacks and the easy availability of ingredients. Feel like making chocolate chip cookies? No problem. But you would be better off using dark chocolate, to further reduce the cookies’ carb content. Want to give a batch of low carb cookies as a gift? That would be so thoughtful, especially during the holidays. That way, a friend or relative who is on a reduced-carbohydrate diet wouldn’t feel deprived despite the presence of starchy and sugary sweets that seem to multiply in number during the season.

Whether you want to make cookies for yourself and your family or to give them as gifts to friends and other people who are counting their carb intake, you can surely find inspiration from among the many low carb cookie recipes online and in print that are yours for the downloading or copying.