Lower Carb Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Allow eggs and butter to sit out and come to room temperature before beginning.
Unwrap 3 bags Hershey Extra Dark chocolate kisses (I only had two on hand, and  as you can see, I ran out and used broken pieces of a Lillies chocolate bar for the rest).

Cream together in very large bowl with electric mixer:
6 cubes butter softened
4 ½ cups unsweetened peanut butter
1 cup xylitol
½ cup erythritol
½ cup allulose
½ cup brown sugar (if I substitute a different sweeter for this ½ cup, it doesn’t seem to brown right).
4 tablespoons vanilla
12 eggs

Mix these dry ingredients together well by hand, in a separate bowl:
1 cup Vital Proteins Collagen Protein Powder unflavored (you can insert an extra cup of almond flour here if you prefer.)
7 cups almond flour
½ cup psyllium powder
½ cup oat fiber
4 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons salt

Mix dry ingredients into previously creamed wet ingredients with electric mixer until well combined.
Line two Jelly Roll pans with parchment paper.
Spread cookie dough into two jelly roll pans on top of parchment paper.
Sprinkle top of cookie dough in each jellyroll pan lightly with xylitol.
Bake in 350-degree oven for 30 minutes or until done. 
Cut with a pizza cutter into one inch squares while still warm.
Place one unwrapped Hershey’s kiss in the center of each square.

Once fully cooled, I store these by putting two cookies in a snack baggie, putting as many filled snack baggies as will fit in a gallon bag, labeling the gallon bag, and then putting the gallon bags of cookies in the freezer.   We pull out a baggie at a time for dessert.

Note:  With the exception of the ½ cup brown sugar, you can use the low carb sweetener of your choice.  You could play with substituting for the brown sugar too and let me know if you have more success than I did with that.

I have tried several different chocolate options for this instead of Hershey’s Kisses to make the chocolate sugar free.  My husband just doesn’t like any of the other options nearly as much as he likes the dark kisses (and I agree with him).  He finds that these cookies have no effect on his blood sugar even though there is a tiny amount of brown sugar and a regular Hershey’s Kiss.  I don’t know if it is because they have lots of protein in them or what, but they don’t bother me either and I am super sensitive to sugar.

Because of the fiber and protein, these seem to satisfy us rather than being one of those goodies you could just keep eating (insert gluten free shortbread here since we just got back from Scotland). 
 

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