Marbled Christmas Sugar Cookies (gluten free, low sugar) (Edit recipe)

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These gorgeous and whole sugar cookies are a must for your holiday baking! They're naturally dyed, and the marble affect is way easier than you'd think, too! These cookies are totally gluten free, have a dairy free option, and are low sugar, too!

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PREP TIME

20 minutes

COOK TIME

12 minutes

INGREDIENTS

Serves: 12

Ingredients

.25 cup Unsalted Butter, Softened, or ghee, or vegan butter
2 Tbsp Coconut Oil, Softened
.25 cup Swerve Granular (sugar substitute), +2 tbsp Or organic cane sugar
1 whole Egg
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
.25 tsp Almond Extract
1 cup Almond Flour, +2 tbsp
.25 cup Coconut Flour
.25 tsp Baking Soda
1 pinch Sea Salt

Royal icing

1.5 cup Swerve Confectioners (powdered), Or organic powdered sugar
2.5 Tbsp Almond Milk, Any milk should work
1 pinch Artificial Dye-Free Food Coloring

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Note, these instructions are written assuming the standard serving size, since you have modified the number of servings, these steps may need to be modified for best results

Beat butter, coconut oil, and sugar together
Add egg & extracts and beat again
Add remaining ingredients until smooth
Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for half hour
Dust a surface with coconut flour and roll out dough
Use cookie cutters of choice to cut your dough, then place cookies on parchment paper lined baking sheet
Freeze for 10 min
Then bake at 325 for 12-13 minutes. Allow to cool several minutes on baking sheet, then move to cooling rack
Prepare icing by whipping sugar and milk together until smooth
Divide into 3 bowls. Add natural green dye to one bowl & natural red dye to another bowl (Watkins or go supernatural are good brands)
In a bowl add your plain icing, then drizzle red and green. Swirl together with a toothpick lightly (alternatively you can use just green and white as seen in half the cookies)
Dip sugar cookie in icing, then lift straight up and allow excess to drip off for 10-15 minutes
Quickly flip over and place on cooling rack
Refrigerate for icing to set

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This is our estimate based on online research.
Calories:	84
Fat:	8 g
Carbohydrates:	2 g
Protein:	3 g
Cholesterol:	10 g
Sodium:	69 mg
Fiber:	1 g
Sugars:	1 g
Calculated per serving.