Today's delicious low carb vanilla crescents. This quick recipe for cookies without carbohydrates simply always succeeds.
Christmas is cookie time. Yummy. Fortunately, it's also possible with few carbohydrates. So it's easier for us low carb eaters to snack a little too. Because honestly, what would winter be without snacking? :)
With these delicious Low carb vanilla crescent we start the pre-Christmas season.
If you like things uncomplicated and quick like me, you'll love this recipe.
The ingredients for the low carb vanilla crescents are simply put in a bowl, kneaded with your hands and the dough is ready. Great, isn't it?
Small tip: The best taste the Low carb vanilla crescentwhen they are still a little warm.
Table of contents
Bake Kipferl with a mold, or not?
I am for individuality and say no. :) Handmade each cookie looks different and you are also finished much faster. While in a finished tray fit only a few cookies, you can use the handmade low carb vanilla crescents better arbitrate and finish faster.
The appearance is debatable. But I think the handmade cookies are simply more beautiful.
In short, there's nothing wrong with using a baking tray. However, you won't be much faster that way.
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What makes these vanilla crescents so special?
They do without flour and sugar. This can not be said of the traditional recipe. Of course, you notice a small difference when eating - compared to the classic Kipferln. But that's not so much because they don't need carbs, but because there are so many different recipes.
Some like it crispy and sweet, the others soft, crumbly and not so sweet. I am more at home with crumbly croissants and have experimented for a long time until I finally found the perfect recipe for low carb vanilla croissants.
Per piece they come to only 1 gram of carbohydrates.
This recipe is
- Low carb and keto suitable
- gluten free
- suitable for beginners in baking
- super nutty with a hint of vanilla
- crumbly and soft
What ingredients do I need for low carb vanilla crescents?
Yes, but what actually makes the Kipferl now low-carb? It is the nuts and the Birch sugar*. In other words: we do without wheat flour and household sugar - which is found in classic recipes.
Swapping these two ingredients makes low-carb cookies really quick and easy.
Let's take a look at the key ingredients:
Birch sugar and erythritol
You can argue about the sweetness. It could be that these low carb vanilla crescents are not sweet enough for you. I always use very little sweetener when baking. Even if Birch sugar* is supposed to be healthier, it is still a kind of sugar. And I try to avoid it as much as possible.
If they are not sweet enough for you: You can either take more sugar or you sprinkle at the end Powdered sugar about the low carb vanilla crescents.
Whether you Birch sugar* or Erythritol* is up to you. Erythritol* has the advantage of containing no calories, so if you want to snack without a guilty conscience, you should opt for this sugar alternative.
Nuts instead of flour
Low carb vanilla crescent taste nuttier than normal croissants. No wonder, they consist exclusively of nuts. Flour is not used, which has a big advantage. This makes the croissants not only low in carbohydrates, but also edible for all who do not tolerate gluten.
In the classic recipe comes a lot of white flour. Sometimes also spelt flour, but that makes the vanilla crescents also not low carb suitable.
For the nuts, you can choose from almonds or hazelnuts. You can also combine both. Hazelnuts have a little more flavor and taste more like nuts. Almonds have a sweet note after baking.
If you like, you can replace 1/3 of the nuts with whey powder.
Butter
Butter is used in "real crescents" as well as in low carb vanilla crescents. It is important that it is really nice and warm. I usually leave it at room temperature for an hour. This allows it to be processed wonderfully.
If you like, you can also use margarine - but in my opinion the cookies taste better with butter.
Vanilla
What would vanilla crescents be without vanilla? Simply nut crescents that lack that certain something.
Only one question remains: Vanilla flavoring or real Vanilla bean? Definitely vanilla beans! This tastes worlds better and more intense.
You will definitely notice the difference. Just try to bake half with flavor and the other with real vanilla. Then you can see the difference best. Once you've discovered real vanilla beans, you'll never go back to flavoring.
Powdered sugar
Vanilla without powdered sugar? No, that's not possible at all. :) But because classic powdered sugar is out of the question, there is a delicious alternative called powdered sugar. This is nothing different than Birch sugar* (or sometimes also Erythritol*), which is ground. This makes it look like classic powdered sugar.
You can use as much of it as you like in low carb cooking.
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Important ingredients that you need for the recipe, I have picked out for you. You can find them on Amazon.
- Birch sugar*
- ground almonds*
- Baking powder*
- Powdered sugar
Depending on the size of the croissant you get 35-40 pieces.
Low carb vanilla crescent
Ingredients
- 100 g Almond flour
- 60 g ground almonds
- 100 g soft butter
- 40 g Birch sugar
- 2 Egg yolk
- ½ TL Baking powder
- 1/2 Vanilla bean scraped out
Equipment
- Kitchen scales
- Bowl
- Baking tray
Anleitung
- Put all the ingredients in order in a bowl.
- Knead them with your fingers to form a dough. The vanilla crescent dough must rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 160°. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Bring the dough into a roll shape. Cut 1-2 cm thick slices from the dough with a knife.
- Shape it with your fingers to no croissants. Caution: Do not make the ends too thin, otherwise they will darken during baking!
- In the oven, the low carb vanilla crescents need 10 minutes.
Nährwerte
Then take the tray out of the oven and sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar while they are still warm. This way, the biscuits absorb the sugar best and it does not fall off immediately.
What is the shelf life of low carb vanilla crescents?
So at least 4 weeks you can store the Kipferl without hesitation. Provided you do it right. That is: Cool and airtight in a Tupperware or cookie jar.
If you leave the cookies in the room, they will dry out quickly. If you want to prevent this, take them out into the cool.
If the cookies are already very dry, I have a great trick for you: The Low carb vanilla crescent become juicy again if you give them a half hour into the open air the lid. Preferably without a lid. So they take the humidity of the air.
This works best when it's raining, snowing or foggy outside. If you do not have the opportunity: Dipped in coffee, the cookies without carbohydrates also taste great :)
Our conclusion
It is mega easy to bake cookies without carbohydrates. You simply replace household sugar with Xylitol* or Erytrith and white flour with nut flour or ground nuts. Done.
I promise you: low carb vanilla crescents are much better than those made with white flour. They taste much nuttier.
Good luck and enjoy it!
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