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Low Carb Berry Cookie Bars (FM)
Recipes | April 26, 2016
*yields 8 equal portions
You guys have been asking me a lot about these delicious bars, so I decided to post this recipe sooner than I planned. Just because I want you happy 🙂
The portions are the size of the palm of my hand, which is a great portion for me and girls of my sizes, but if you’re going to feed a grown man, you really want to give him at least two of these 🙂
Ingredients for the crust
- 6 tablespoons butter melted
- 2 cups almond flour
- ½ cup granulated sweetener (I use Swerve)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
For the topping
- 1 cup frozen raspberries and blueberries
- 1/4 cup sweetener (Swerve)
- ¼ teaspoons xanthan gum
- 1 tbsp butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- In a bowl mix together melted butter, almond flour, sweetener and vanilla extract. Form a dough and press 3/4 of the dough into a 9 x 5 inch parchment paper lined loaf pan. Leave the 1/3 for the topping.
- Do the toping: Melt the tablespoon of butter in a sauce pan over medium heat and add the frozen berries. Cook until berries are thawed, soft and hot. Then add the sweetener and xanthan gum, take it off the heat and mix well until the berry sauce thickens.
- Pour over the dough in the loaf pan. Crumble the remaining dough over the berry sauce layer. Place in the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes. Let it cool down before slicing and serving.
Macros Per Bar:
Calories: 259.3
Carbs: 7.7 g
Net Carbs: 4.1 g
Fat: 24.1 g
Protein: 6 g
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québec, canada
Thanks for posting this! Looks delicious!
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yum yum… thank you. Making this right away!
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I can’t wait to make these for my breakfast/snacks next week! This week I did the blueberry coffee cake sooooo yummy!
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These sweet recipes are my favorite 😀
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tx
I can’t wait to try this. Thanks for posting!
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Please, could someone tell me – if I do not have access to grass fed butter, can I use coconut butter? What IS the substitute? Does using the regular butter make these cookies unhealthy?
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You can use regular butter, grass-fed butter is just of higher quality due to the cow’s diets. I use regular butter anytime a recipe calls for grass-fed because I can’t afford the grass-fed variety.
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Thank you for our input…I literally do not have the grass fed butter to buy…maybe if I have a chance, I may go to the farm/village in mountain area, to an old lady who traditionally makes the butter, and traditionally feeds her cows on meadows. In the meantime… 🙂
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lake tahoe, nv, usa
You can use regular butter if you don’t have access to grass fed butter, or you can use Ghee which is better for those who are lactose intolerant.
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Dear Zuzka, tnx for the reply…I just realized that the butter I may have access to (the one traditionally made on the farms) is the Ghee…could never figure out how to explain it in English…will try that when I have the time, but I must make these immediately!
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You are the best. Thank you!
My husband asked me to make this for him so glad you posted the recipe 🙂
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switzerland/, france
Zuzka, could you kindly include the conversions in your recipe ?
I know we all have access to it, but it would make it more customer-oriented to include directly in the recipe the heat in Celsius and dimension in centimeters as well.
For cups and spoons it is OK I think as we can nowadays find everywhere those utensils in super-market ( I used to buy one in the US when I traveled there 20 yr ago as it was not available yet…things change)
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So excited to be back following you Zuzka!! I used to follow you way back in the days of your past life and I learned so much from you. Fast forward a few years, moved to NYC, joined Crossfit and have dealt with a “chronic” wrist injury since 2013. I quit Crossfit last year, when I moved to Hawaii and took over surfing. No more wrist problem, but I found myself with a soft body. Bummer! Yesterday I decided to follow you and learn more about the postural therapy you had been talking about and joined the ZGym. I was thrilled to find the wrist excersice and will start doing them today. I cannot wait to go back and workout with you again! You were my workout buddy for so many years, since your very beginning, when I used to think you were the hottest thing out there, and look at you now!! Funny how perspectives change the more we improve. You’re rocking and I’m so happy for you and all your achievements and success and steel solid body. I will take a picture before I start the workouts and will do progression pictures to share with you later. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe! I will try to make it tonight and will use dates for the crust and honey for the berries instead of sugar substitute and will let you know how it turns out. 😉
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lake tahoe, nv, usa
Hey buddy!! Lucky you, chilling in Hawaii and surfing 🙂 good for you. I hope the postural therapy workout will help with your wrist. It helped me a lot with my back. Can’t wait to see your before and after photos 🙂 XO
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I will take you out surfing when you come visit Hawaii. It’s the ultimate balance exercise – you’re going to love it! 🙂
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belgrade, serbia
Made these exactly as recipe described. They do taste like cookies! I left them in the oven exactly 30 minutes & they turned out golden brown with a nice little crunch that goes very good with bulletproof coffee! THANZKS!