Low Calorie Lemon Cookies
Simple and delicious recipe for guilt free, low calorie lemon cookies!
LOW CALORIE TREAT DAY! ? I’m always trying to create recipe that will fit into a low calorie diet. Counting calories is the best way to be flexible with your eating plan, while still able to maintain a healthy weight.
Spring is the perfect time for lemon cookies!
The Low calorie swap
The only swap I made here to save calories was in the butter. Most cookies like this are packed with butter and therefore, have many calories that come with it!
I haven’t browsed the butter/margarine selections at the grocery store in quite some time. I remember the rise and fall of margarine and their very harmful trans-fats, and never looked at options for butter again.
That was until one day when I thought about looking for low-calorie butter options to use for cookies. I did find one, and the low calorie lemon cookies turned out DIVINE! The butter I used was Country Crock light, which is just a blend of oils, water, and salt. No hydrogenated oils or artificial stuff in it.
Low Calorie Lemon Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup cake flour
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 6 tablespoon light butter (35 cal per tablespoon)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 tablespoon lemon rind
- 1 medium egg lightly beaten
Instructions
- In a food processor, mix all ingredients until a dough forms.
- Chill in fridge for 1 hour.
- Drop by tablespoon onto a sprayed cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar and more lemon zest.
Notes
14 g carbs
1.4 g protein
1.6 g fat
Nutrition
Modified this for AIP- 1.5c gluten free flour all purpose mix (2 tbsp of it was coconut flour to reduce gummy texture), 1/2c honey instead of sugar, 4 tbsp of coconut oil instead of 6tbsp of the low cal butter (yes, this increases calories significantly but it’s a cookie), zest from 1 lemon (juice from half), and one egg substitute from Bob’s red mill. Cookies needed to be pressed into flatter shape. Cooked great. A tiny bit dry. But not bad considering all of the substitutions. Thanks for a tasty treat.
Glad you tried it and made it work for you Kristi! Thanks for the recommendations!
Can these Low Calorie Lemon Cookies be frozen? I want to make them ahead of time for Christmas.
Bonnie! Hi. Sorry, I haven’t tried to freeze them before.
These look yummy. Do you have a fitness site? I would love to follow. I am in PT for my shoulder and would love to improve my flexibility and range of motion and strength.
Hi Faith! I don’t have a fitness site! So sorry 🙂
I could munch on these cookies all day! They are so delicious! Thank you for the recipe
I loved these cookies! My kids couldn’t stop eating these!
I love a buttery lemon cookie! These sound absolutely delicious.
Who doesn’t love cookies? And these lemon cookies are so delicious, but also low on calories. I say this was a win-win!
Can you use monk fruit sugar? Can you use almond or oat flour?
Oh!! I bet you could. I was making these before I started using monk fruit sugar, and I have plenty to start testing it on these cookies. I’m sure they’d turn out great!
Are the 71 calories per cookie?
Yes- each cookie!
These were so easy to make and are delicious. Thank you.
Gotta make these!