We bake low carb gingerbread. Filled with jam and nuts and covered with dark chocolate. A dream!
Christmas without gingerbread? That's like summer without sun. It just doesn't work at all! But if you're trying to cut down on carbohydrates, it's a little difficult with gingerbread.
But do not despair! We have a delicious and light Low carb gingerbread recipe without flour, without sugar and without eggs.
It's incredible how good cookies can taste without sugar and without flour. And the very best: Most do not even realize that they eat low carb gingerbread. :) There our recipe gets a clear plus point.
So you can fool one or the other colleagues and all who roll their eyes over annoyed at the word low carb. :)
You can hardly tell the difference. Only that the low carb gingerbread pieces taste a little nuttier.
Today we show you how you can bake gingerbread without flour and without sugar. And quite simply without much hocus-pocus. Let's start right away with the recipe.
If you want more information about low carb gingerbread, scroll down a little further. There I tell you everything about the ingredients, storage and what else you need to pay attention to.
Low carb cookie dough for cookie cutting
Low carb gingerbread ingredients
I love the smell of gingerbread. Cinnamon*, aniseed, cloves, Cardamom* and nuts are an unbeatable combination - the smell fills the whole house and when you close your eyes you immediately feel transported back to your childhood. At least that's how it is for me :)
The great smell gets gingerbread from the spice mixture. You can either make it yourself or just buy it ready-made. If I decide on the purchased variant, I take a jar. So you can keep the spice and store best dry.
Although I'm usually a big advocate of making it myself, this time I simply lacked the time. But even the ready-made mixtures taste wonderful.
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Exchange flour for nuts
In conventional gingerbread recipes, rye flour is used. After all, this is already much healthier than normal white flour. However, rye flour also contains a lot of carbohydrates. To be exact, there are 71 grams of carbs per 100 grams of rye flour.
So we just swap it out. Instead of rye flour we take for our low carb gingerbread ground hazelnuts*. They have a wonderfully nutty flavor and provide healthy fats and minerals. The hazelnuts are mixed with ground almonds. And you have the perfect flour substitute.
You shouldn't miss out on these low carb cookies!
Gingerbread without sugar
We also do without sugar in the dough, the chocolate and the filling. Our low carb gingerbread is made with Birch sugar* sweetened. The filling consists of candied orange peel (in Austria: Aranzini) without sugar.
The filling is mixed with nuts and with apricot jam. For this I take jam with Birch sugar* instead of household sugar.
And for the chocolate I use sugar free dark chocolate*. I melt it in a bain-marie and then coat each gingerbread with it. This way, the gingerbread dominoes don't taste so sweet on the outside, but the full flavor unfolds when you bite into them.
Exchange eggs for oranges
A friend of mine is not allowed to eat eggs. Because she loves cookies but still, I bake at least 2 varieties without chicken eggs. Then you also get really creative. For gingerbread without eggs, I simply use orange juice as the liquid. This brings fruity flavor into the recipe at the same time.
And my girlfriend, she's happy :)
Important ingredients that you need for the recipe, I've picked out for you. You can find these two on Amazon.
Low carb gingerbread without eggs
Ingredients
- 1 Orange
- 80 g Butter
- 250 g Almond flour
- 50 g Xylitol
- 2 EL Gingerbread spice
- 30 g chopped almonds
- 30 g chopped hazelnuts
- 1/2 TL Cocoa powder
- 1/2 TL Baking powder
For the filling
- 1 Pkg Candied orange peel (Aranzini)
- 10 EL Apricot jam
- 10 EL finely chopped hazelnuts
Anleitung
- Grate the zest from the orange. Squeeze out the juice. Melt the butter together with the orange juice in a pot.
- Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Now stir in the butter-orange mix. Knead the ingredients with your hands to form a dough.
- Form a ball and wrap the dough in cling film. Leave to rest in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 170° and line a tray with baking paper.
- Knead the dough very firmly after resting. Roll out the dough on a floured surface until it is about 2 cm thick. Cut the dough into two equal parts.
- Prepare the filling. To do this, finely chop the candied orange peel. Then mix it with jam and nuts. Depending on the consistency, you can use more jam or nuts. The mass should be nice and spreadable.
- Spread the filling on the bottom dough. Place the second dough on top and flatten the edge a bit with your fingers.
- Put it in the oven. The dough needs about 20-25 minutes.
- Let the dough cool and then cut it into cubes. Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Dip the small low carb gingerbread cubes into the chocolate and decorate them with grated nuts.
If you like, you can sprinkle a few nuts on the chocolate. So the gingerbread dominoes look visually even more beautiful. Enjoy it! Here is some more info about the ingredients and why we have decided for or against some ingredients.
Making dominoes out of normal low carb gingerbread is a bit laborious. You can save the filling and the chocolate. Then you just roll out the dough thicker.
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Our conclusion
Gingerbread also tastes simply wonderful without carbohydrates. The oranges in the dough, the sophisticated filling and the chocolate coating make our low carb gingerbread pieces something very special.
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