15+ Keto Christmas Cookies to celebrate without carbs!
These 15+ Keto Christmas Cookies are 100% sugar-free and perfect for celebrating Christmas without guilt. Bonus, all these keto cookie recipes are gluten-free with some dairy-free and vegan options to make sure you can share them with the whole family and friends!
You know how much I love sugar-free cookies sweetened with natural sweeteners, right? As Christmas is coming, it is time to share my favorite recipes of diabetic Christmas cookies. I had pre-diabetes, my mum is a type 2 diabetic, and we enjoy diabetes-friendly cookies for Christmas every year.
So first, let me tell you what makes a Christmas cookie diabetes-friendly?
Low-Carb flours
Low carb flours are rich in fiber, which means they will slow down your body’s sugar absorption. Fiber is very fulfilling, and you won’t overeat cookies. On top of that, fiber is also amazing for your gut health! In my low carb cookies recipes, I love to use these low carb flours. Below is a list of delicious healthy low carbs flours (or meal) that can be used in diabetes-friendly cookies (affiliate links).
Read my Keto Flour Guide to learn some more!
- Almond flour
- Coconut flour
- Unsweetened desiccated coconut – not quite flour, but it binds ingredients very well and doesn’t add carbs.
- Flaxseed meal or any seed meal like pumpkin seed meal.
- Psyllium husk
- Unsweetened cocoa powder – not flour, but this binds the ingredients without adding sugar or carbs.
Healthy fat
Great options for low carb keto baking to make delicious healthy low carb cookies:
- Extra virgin coconut oil – or use refined coconut oil for neutral flavor or if you are not a big fan of coconut flavor.
- Peanut butter – no added sugar, no added oil.
- Almond butter – no added sugar, no added oil.
- Sunflower seed butter
- Ripe avocado
- Grass-fed butter
Natural sugar-free sweetener safe for diabetics
Stay away from artificial sweeteners and focus on natural sugar-free sweeteners. All these natural sugar-free sweeteners contain almost NO carbs, just a few calories, and they won’t impact your sugar levels while tasting good!
Read my Keto Sweetener Guide to learn some more!
1. Sugar-free Crystal sweeteners
Great to use as a white sugar replacement, usually these brands can be swapped 1 cup for 1 cup.
- Swerve: Sugar-free crystal sweetener made of a blend of erythritol and stevia. Exists in sugar-free confectionery crystals.
- Lakanto: Monk fruit and erythritol blend.
- Erythritol: 100% natural erythritol.
2. Stevia drops
Perfect for adjusting the sweetness of your baking without impacting the texture or for enhancing drink sweetness. Drops don’t add bulk in baking, so I never use them as a whole recipe sweetener.
- Sweet Drops, Flavored stevia drops: delicious to add chocolate, caramel, coconut, or vanilla flavor to your baking with no sugar.
- Sweetleaf, Pure stevia drops, no flavor.
3. Liquid maple-flavored syrup
The best way to replace liquid sweeteners like honey or maple syrup. This natural liquid sweetener is made of Monk fruit. It is a low-carb, sugar-free fruit like stevia. It adds sweetness without the carbs.
- Lakanto Maple Flavored Sugar-free syrup, a sugar-free natural liquid sweetener made from Monk fruit.
- Choc Zero, maple-flavored syrup, no sugar, no sugar alcohol sugar-free syrup.
That is all you need to know to make delicious diabetic Christmas cookies this year. So now that you have all the ingredients, let’s have a look at my top 15+ diabetes-friendly Christmas cookies recipes.
About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.
I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!
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Your snowball keto cookies are delicious! Made them yesterday. Surprisingly easy and perfect. Thank you so much! Your recipe will become a must in our French home sweetketo home.
Merci beaucoup! Happy to have more French readers around here. A bientot, Carine
Can’t wait to start making some of these cookies for Christmas. Will let u know how they come out
Thank you so much for all the great recipes. Thanks in part you have helped my husband put his diabetes into remission and he has maintained his weight loss.
Happy Christmas to your family from mine
That is th mot beautiful thing I read this morning! I am so happy that your husband is getting so much better. Enjoy all the recipes on the blog, Merry Christmas and lots of love, XOXO Carine.
Hi,
I just needed to Thank You. I came across this as I want to be able to have my dad enjoy those Christmas cookies he so loves withoutpaying the price of a diabetic. This was so resourceful, educational and I truly learned a lot. Again Thank You from bottom of my heart. I’m sure these recipes will not only fullfil his sweet tooth but wi be 100% healthier for him.
Happy Holidays????
Oh thank you! I am so glad you will bring some of easy diabetic cookies recipe to your dad Christmas table. All my recipes on the blog are diabetci friendly. Enjoy and Merry Christmas, XOXO Carine