In The Kitchen With Kat: Low Carb Cookie Conjuring

As I yodeled out the aptly descriptive title lyrics I began working my kitchen creation groove. I've been craving a simple, yet delectable brownie lately, so I thought that my cookies should be brownie like.

So, I threw some cream cheese and some butter into my Kitchen Aid mixing bowl. I then added some Pyure, which is an erythritol and stevia blend. As I am not new to the no-sugar cooking corral, I also added some liquid stevia too, and then I whipped those ingredients like a too many espressos sipped French Pastry chef making meringue.

The final friends in the cookie dough pool were almond flour, unsweetened baking cocoa, and Himalayan pink salt. If I was a 1%er or slightly less busy I would have totally added some of those Lily's stevia sweetened chocolate chips or some stevia sweetened chocolate chips that I created, but alas, sometimes things just cannot be so.

Here's a little known Kat fact for you all, I am parchment paper challenged. I am sure that this tid bit of knowledge could be useful for the world to know, I just don't know how, why, or when, but since I had to fight with the special baking paper that I love, I thought you should know that it's totally the parchment's fault in every instance.

Baking sheet lined, I rolled out my lovely, cholatesque cookie dough into uniform little balls. They were even pretty awesomely spaced, so I must have knocked something right when I hit the ground at the ice rink! BONUS!

After pressing each cookie ball a bit, I popped them into the oven for thirteen minutes. Upon removing them from the oven I was cautiously optimistic about the cookies. You see, I have been burned by no-sugar, low carb cookies before. They might come out of the oven looking dandy, but they also might taste like used sawdust cat litter.

My potential tasting was interrupted by the Robin Hood Gang, all of the neighbor children came in my house and announced that they were going to shoot bows and arrows. During this invasion and subsequent arms race, as the weaponry is stored in my bedroom, I noticed that all of the rest of the chocolate chip cookies evaporated. One of the Merry Men was eyeballing my low carb cookies, I quickly informed the potential usurper that my loot was not part of their campaign, and the bandits went on their way.

By the time the invasion had ceased it was time to test a cookie. THEY ARE AWESOME! As anyone that cooks with alternative sweeteners knows, getting the sweetness level perfect can be a bit of a trial, but these cookies are just right, no weird stevia aftertaste, no mealy too much almond flour texture, they are chewy and chocolatey, and oh so sweet. However, they won't do any weird junk to your bloodsugar! YAY!

No-Sugar, Low-Carb Brownie Cookies

1/4 cup butter, softened
3 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup pyure (erythritol/stevia blend)
1/2 teaspoon liquid stevia extract
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups almond flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Cream together butter and cream cheese with Pyure and stevia in a mixing bowl. Add egg and vanilla and mix well.

Add almond flour, salt, and baking cocoa and mix until well combined.

Roll cookie dough into little balls and place onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Flatten the cookies slightly with your finger tips. Bake for 13 minutes. Let cookies cool at least five minutes before inhaling!

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