Berry-Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies

Enjoy these thumbprint cookies with dairy-free, sugar-free healthy updates. Using a sugar-free, low-glycemic jam is key when choosing stable blood sugar levels over spiking insulin. Almond flour lends a tender mouthfeel in this cookie and keeps it paleo and keto due to being grain-free. Almond milk based cream cheese keeps in dairy-free and anti-inflammatory. Healthy, nutritious and delicious are the key takeaways baking these Berry Thumbprint cookies for the kids.

Serves 21 cookies

Ingredients

  • Berry jam- I use @goodgood stevia sweetened jams- they have more flavors, my Berry Chia Jam recipe or any jam you have

  • 1 container Kite Hill almond milk plain cream cheese

  • ½ c. Powdered erythritol, stevia or monk fruit

  • 2 eggs

  • 2 ¼ c. almond flour

  • ¼ c. unsweetened shredded coconut (optional)

  • ¼ c. ghee

  • Vanilla extract

Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 350.

  • Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

  • Cream Cheese filling:

  • Mix 4 oz. cream cheese

  • 2 T. powdered erythritol

  • ½ t. Vanilla

  • 1 egg

  • Beat until smooth.

  • Set aside.

  • Cookie dough:

  • In a bowl, using a hand-held mixer or stand-up mixer, mix butter, 1 oz. cream cheese and ½ c. erythritol until creamy.

  • Add in vanilla and egg.

  • Then add in almond flour and coconut.

  • Make approx. 21 (2”) balls and place on your cookie sheet.

  • Using your thumb, make an indentation in the center of the ball creating a well.

  • You may have to shape the well and the walls of the well to keep round.

  • Place a small dollop of the cream cheese filling inside each well.

  • Then a smaller dollop of the jam on top.

  • Bake for 15-18 minutes

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sweetsKristin Smith