12/19/2025
Are you pivoting?
This past week we tried out a sugar cookie recipe that I planned to use our cute nativity cookie cutters for!
But I came to realize the dough was really soft and it just stuck to the cookie cutters. So instead we just rolled the cookies and flattened them & hoped for the best while they baked!
To our delightful surprise we made a DELICIOUS take on a shortbread cookie made with almond flour & coconut sugar.
We were excited to try several new recipes that are low to no added sugar, more blood sugar friendly and all were gluten free made with coconut and almond flours! I’m really excited for the family to try all of our homemade treats!
It was just a reminder to me about PIVOTING when something isn’t working and sometimes it turns out better than you planned. I’m glad we didn’t throw out the dough and start over or start with a new recipe because we got amazing cookies out of it!
Here’s what we made this year!
🍪 Christmas Surprise Cookies - make with sunbutter in the batter that when baked, due to the chemical reaction with baking soda, the cookies turn green in the middle!
🍫Thin Mint Cookies - topped with melted chocolate. We did some with melted enjoy life chocolate chips which are dairy free, and a batch using Lily’s dark chocolate chips to keep it sugar free.
🎄Christmas Crackers - we made both batches with Simple Mills Almond Flour Sea Salt Crackers & they turned out delicious!
🧈Shortbread Cookies - these were made with almond flour and ghee primarily and were supposed to be like a sugar cookie but turned out like a shortbread cookie and I was so amazed!
These recipes are perfect if you’re trying to manage your blood sugar levels with insulin resistance, prediabetes, diabetes, PCOS, perimenopause/menopause, gestational diabetes or you just want to have less sugar and more balanced blood sugar levels!
Want the Christmas Cookie recipes?
I just uploaded our master recipe list to the Goal Getters Group Membership with nutrition information included!
https://your-life-nutrition-goal-getters.mn.co/plans/1821314?bundle_token=1724009ab3ed355237fdeeebd2fe1d9f&utm_source=manual