The recipe for easy and delicious Sugar Free Butter Cookies (2024)

How to make Sugar Free Butter Cookies .

This recipe is for those of us who enjoy that buttery cookie flavor but, without all of the sugar.

Sugar Free Butter Cookies

The sugar free version of a classic favorite cookie.
I love the buttery flavor of this cookie especially during the holiday season.

This recipe for butter cookies may remind you of my sugar free shortbread cookie recipes.

Both cookie recipe are classic and favorite cookie recipes for so many of us.
Also, both shortbread and butter cookie recipes are classic cookie recipes that have been around for a long time.

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You may be wondering are shortbread cookies the same as butter cookies.

As I just mentioned, both shortbread and butter cookies are a lot alike in both how they taste and how they look. Also, both shortbread and butter cookies are based upon butter.

Butter cookies and shortbread cookie recipes share the same basic ingredients as well.

Obviously, those basic ingredients include butter, flour, and sugar (or alternative). The difference between the two cookies really lies in the temperature that they are baked in an in the amount of each of the ingredients that are used in the recipe.

Here is what you can do with Sugar Free Butter Cookies.

Yes, you can simply roll them up into balls and press them into a circle for baking.
However, sometimes you may choose to use a cookie press and bake your cookies into fun shapes.

You can also add a bit of color or flavor to your cookies.

Adding a few drops of food coloring can give your cookies a colorful look. Or, you can substitute another flavor extract for your vanilla extract to add a different flavor to your cookies (I like almond extract or banana extract for this recipe).

Here are some tips Sugar Free Butter Cookies

I just mentioned that you can change up the color of these cookies by adding food coloring . Also mentioned that you can change up the flavor of these cookies by adding a different flavor to your cookies (I like almond extract or banana extract for this recipe).

Here are some more cookie baking tips for you.

1. It is really important that you use real butter in this recipe. I always like to give alternatives when I can in a recipe to inspire folks to tailor a recipe towards their needs. However, this is a butter cookie recipe and hence, the butter needs to be in it.
2. Using fresh ingredients is also essential for the success of your cookies. This is especially true for your dry ingredients.
3. For anyone using this recipe to make fun cookie shapes using cookie cutters or simply to roll out and cut into shapes, refrigerating your dough before doing so is almost always the best way to go. You can refrigerate the dough for as little as 45 minutes or a day or two ahead of actually making your cookies.

What is the best butter to use in this cookie recipe anyway?

Usually, a recipe with butter will state 'unsalted butter' as this will allow you to control the actual amount of salt that is actually in the recipe. However, this is one recipe where using salted butter and omitting the salt may actually work better. Also, using butter just out of the refrigerator may actually be better than using butter that has been at room temperature. This is because of how the butter reacts with the other ingredients in this particular recipe.

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The recipe for Sugar Free Butter Cookies

As mentioned,you can change up the color of these cookies by adding food coloring . Also mentioned that you can change up the flavor of these cookies by adding a different flavor to your cookies (I like almond extract or banana extract for this recipe).

Also, I mentioned that using fresh ingredients is also essential for the success of your cookies.

This is especially true for your dry ingredients. Also, using butter just out of the refrigerator is better for the dough than using butter that has been allowed to get to room temperature.

What you will need to make this recipe for butter cookies

• Flour - 2 ½ cups, all purpose. You can find keto and low carb all purpose flour alternatives here.
• Salt- ½ tsp. You can omit this if you are using butter that has salt added to it.
• Butter- 2 sticks plus 1 tablespoon. That is two sticks plus one tablespoon. The butter can be softened to room temperature or taken from the refrigerator and cut into cubes. Subbing in a butter alternative will take away from the 'butter taste' that is a part of these cookies.
• Sugar Alternative- ⅔ cup of equivalent to sugar. For best results, please use a granulated Sugar Alternative that measures 1:1 with sugar and is suitable for baking with.
• Egg-1.
• Vanilla Extract-2 teaspoons. You can sub in another extract for all or part of the vanilla extract. My choices include almond extract or banana extract .

How to make Sugar Free Butter Cookies.

• Use a whisk or a fork to mix together the flour and salt in a small bowl.
• Next, in a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar alternative. I set my mixer on medium and cream until the mix has become creamy in texture. If you are using butter that is still cool, please have it cut up into cubes first. Then mix on low speed for one minute before increasing it to medium.
• For the next step we will add the flour from the first bowl to the mixing bowl. Then beat in the egg and add the extract.
• Refrigerate your dough covered for at least 45 minutes if you are planning on rolling it out and using cookie cutters or cutting it into shapes.
• When you are ready to bake your cookies, preheat the oven to 350 and prep your cookie sheets with parchment paper. Place your cut, pressed, or dropped cookie dough onto the sheet and baked for 8-10 minutes or when the edges begin to turn a light brown color. Allow your cookies to cool on the cookie sheets so that they can set.

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updated 4/20
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