Healthier Czech Christmas Cookies

Gluten-Free • Butter-Based • Organic Nuts • Clean Sweeteners

Traditional Czech Christmas baking (cukroví) is restrained and rich. Cookies were small, deeply flavoured, and built from butter, nuts, cocoa, spices, and preserves — not flour and excess sugar.

This collection keeps that tradition intact while removing gluten and modern fillers.

Principles

• Butter always
• Organic nuts
• Cocoa over candy chocolate
• Monk fruit, berry sugar, or organic pesticide-free sugar
• Richness over sweetness

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Clean Sweeteners (Brief)

Preferred:

• Powdered monk fruit (pure, no fillers)
• Berry sugar (finely ground freeze-dried berries)
• Organic powdered cane sugar

Use less — choose better.

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🐾 Kakaové Pracny (Traditional Czech Cocoa Bear Paws — Egg-Free)

Ingredients

• 1½ cups finely ground organic walnuts (very fine)
• 2 tbsp organic cocoa powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• ¾ cup grass-fed butter, very soft
• ⅓ cup powdered monk fruit, berry sugar, or organic icing sugar
• 1 tbsp dark rum (traditional, optional)

Method

1. Cream butter and sweetener until smooth.
2. Mix in rum.
3. Combine dry ingredients; fold into butter mixture.
4. Press firmly into buttered, cocoa-dusted bear paw molds.
5. Bake at 350°F / 175°C for 10–11 minutes.
6. Cool briefly, unmold, dust lightly.

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❤️ Linecké Cukroví (Gluten-Free Linzer Cookies)

Ingredients

• 1½ cups organic almond flour
• ¼ cup tapioca starch (optional)
• ¾ cup grass-fed butter
• ½ cup powdered monk fruit or organic icing sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• Zest of 1 organic lemon
• Pinch sea salt
• Fruit-only jam (raspberry, apricot, or plum)

Method

1. Cream butter and sweetener.
2. Add yolks, zest, and salt.
3. Mix in flours.
4. Roll, cut, bake at 350°F / 175°C for 8–10 minutes.
5. Cool and sandwich with jam.

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🟫 London Squares (Nut-Rich Holiday Bars)

Base

• 1½ cups organic almond flour
• ½ cup grass-fed butter
• ¼ cup powdered monk fruit or organic sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• Pinch sea salt

Filling

• ¾ cup fruit-only jam
• ¾ cup finely ground organic walnuts
• ½ tsp cinnamon

Topping

• 100 g organic dark chocolate (70%+)
• 1 tbsp butter or coconut oil

Method

1. Press base into lined pan.
2. Bake 10 minutes at 350°F / 175°C.
3. Add filling, bake 15 minutes more.
4. Top with melted chocolate.
5. Cool and slice.

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