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Baked almond flour biscuits
Crisp biscuits from a cup of almond flour, butter and stevia, ten to a batch. Each biscuit is about 89 kcal, 2.8 g protein and 2.5 g net carbohydrate.
Why this dish works
A shop-bought digestive is about 70 kcal and 10 g of carbohydrate. These are slightly more calories and a quarter of the carbohydrate, and the difference is that the flour is ground almond rather than wheat.
Almond flour has no gluten, so there is nothing to develop and nothing to hold the dough together on its own. The egg is doing that job, and leaving it out is why almond flour biscuits crumble.
They come out of the oven soft and they crisp on the tray as they cool. Take them out when the edges have coloured, not when the middles feel firm, or they will be hard rather than crisp.
What you need
Makes 10 biscuits:
- 1 cup almond flour, about 100 g
- 2 tbsp butter, softened
- 1 egg
- Stevia, to taste
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp vanilla or cardamom powder, optional
How to make it
Heat the oven to 175 C and line a tray with baking paper.
Cream the softened butter with the stevia, then beat in the egg until the mixture is smooth.
Fold in the almond flour, baking powder, salt and the vanilla or cardamom. The dough will be soft and slightly sticky, which is correct. Chill it for fifteen minutes if it is too soft to handle.
Roll it into ten balls, place them on the tray with space between them, and flatten each one with the back of a spoon.
Bake for 12 to 14 minutes, until the edges are golden. Leave them on the tray for ten minutes before moving them, because they firm up as they cool.
Nutrition per biscuit
| Calories | 89 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 2.8 g |
| Fat | 7.8 g |
| Net carbohydrate | 2.5 g |
| Fibre | 1.3 g |
Figures are per biscuit, from a batch of ten. The whole batch comes to 890 kcal, 28.4 g protein, 78.2 g fat and 24.5 g net carbohydrate, calculated on 1 cup of almond flour, 2 tbsp of butter, one egg and stevia.
Who this suits
This is the biscuit to keep in a tin on a weight loss plan, for the four o’clock gap that otherwise gets filled with something worse.
Two point five grams of carbohydrate a biscuit also makes it one of the few baked things that fits a prediabetes plan. Two with tea, not six.
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More from Priyanka’s kitchen
Every published recipe is listed on the low-carb recipes page, with macronutrients listed for each.
If this one worked for you, these are close cousins from the same plans:
- Devilled eggs with green chutney
- Keto peanut butter muffins
- Broccoli and egg bhurji
- Capsicum egg rings
Recipes work best inside a plan built around your history and your routine. To start there, book a Discovery Call with Priyanka.
These meals come from the same plans Priyanka builds for PCOS, thyroid, prediabetes and fatty liver support.
Written by Priyanka Chanana, nutritionist, practising since 2021. Nutrition support runs alongside medical care rather than replacing it.