Keto Frosted Animal Cookies
A sugar-free, gluten-free version of your favorite childhood cookie! These keto frosted animal cookies are bright, colorful, delicious and will bring back memories of your favorite white and pink coated circus animal treat.
36
Servings
74
Calories
6.3g
Fat
0.8g
Protein
0.7g
Net Carb
3.4g
Total Carbs
Keto Frosted Animal Cookies Recipe Video
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Keto Frosted Animal Cookies Ingredients
1 1/2 cup almond flour
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1/4 cup coconut flour
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
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1/2 cup monk fruit or erythritol
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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1 (7 oz) bag ChocZero White Chocolate Chips
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sprinkles (rainbow multicolored nonpareils sprinkles) or sugar free sprinkles
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pink or red food coloring (optional)
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small animal cookie cutters
Keto Frosted Animal Cookies Directions
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Sift dry ingredients
Sift together almond flour, coconut flour, and salt in a small bowl. Set aside. I recommend using a sifter because it creates a fine, delicate cookie texture.
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Mix wet ingredients
In a medium bowl, cream together butter, monkfruit and vanilla extract.
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Combine dry with the wet ingredients
Slowly add dry ingredients to the butter mixture. Mix until combined using an electric mixer.
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Refrigerate dough
Move cookie dough to a sheet of plastic wrap. Mold into a flat disc shape and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until stiff. Okay to store overnight in the refrigerator at this point or in the freezer.
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Roll out cookie dough
Place cookie dough in between two pieces of parchment paper. Using a rolling pin, roll out dough until it is ¼ inch thick. Cut out animal shapes with cookie cutters and place about 1 inch apart on a parchment lined baking tray. Return to the refrigerator to cool for another 10-15 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Bake it
Once the dough has chilled, bake cookies at 350 degrees for about 6 minutes or until edges start to turn golden brown. Remove from the oven and let cool on the baking tray for 2-3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.
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Melt chocolate
Melt sugar free white baking chips in a small microwave safe bowl for 30 second intervals until melted, stirring in between. Add food coloring to half of the melted chocolate. Dip cooled cookie in melted chocolate and place on the wire rack to set. Add sprinkles.
These keto cookies will stir up fun childhood memories when you baked them. Keto frosted animal cookies recipe tastes just like the kind your mom used to pack in your lunchbox. The bright, colorful circus cookie made such an impression on me growing up that I had to recreate a sugar free verison of this favorite cookie.
These sugar-free frosted animal cookies have a delicate crunch to them and are coated with a keto white chocolate frosting and dipped in sprinkles. The flavor is unreal! This is one treat that my kids can get on board with because the animal shapes are so fun. Plus they love cookies that are colored and have sprinkles on them! I love that I can pack a few in their lunchbox when they go to school and not have to worry that they will have a sugar high later on.
The sugar-free frosting used in this recipe is actually melted white chocolate. But when you dip the animal cracker in white chocolate, it tastes just like frosted animal cookies!
The sugar free white chocolate I like to use is by 
Sprinkles are a must have when making low carb frosted animal cookies! You have a couple of options when selecting sprinkles. Unfortunately, the traditional rainbow, multicolored nonpareils sprinkles you see sprinkled on store bought circus cookies are not available as a sugar-free option.
If you are going for an authentic looking animal cookie, then just use these 
To make keto animal crackers, you need to have 
Frosted animal crackers have a delicate crumb since they don’t contain egg to help bind the cookie together. To achieve a texture similar to store bought animal cookies, I highly recommend 
Sometimes your cookies can still spread when baking even if you refrigerate your cookie dough. However, I have an easy fix for you, but you have to act fast before your animal cookies cool. Using a knife, you can push the edges of the cookie in and mold the cookie to return to the desired shape. You must do this step immediately when they come out of the oven since the dough will still be pliable.
Let the cookies cool completely on the baking tray before transferring them to a wire rack. The cookies are very soft and delicate when they first come out of the oven so don’t try to pick them up! Once the cookies have completely cooled, they will be hardened and easy to pick up.
Can I use an alternative to ChocZero White Chocolate Chips if I can’t find them locally? Would a sugar-free white chocolate bar chopped up work the same way when melted?
Yes, a white chocolate bar would work the same. Kudo’s for finding one that is sugar-free too. ChocZero is hard to source locally at grocery stores, but my local store carries the brand Lily’s so that’s what I have been using lately. I actually prefer it to ChocZero in terms of flavor and macros.