Sugar Free Clothespin Cookies
Sugar Free Clothespin Cookies, AKA lady locks or cream horns, delicious buttery dough stuffed with chocolate cream. No Added Sugar Recipe.
Servings: 12
Equipment
- Pastry Wheel
Ingredients
- 1 Puff Pastry -Thawed.
- 1 cup Butter -Softened to room temperature
- 3½ cups Sugar Free Powdered Sugar
- ½ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 3 tbsp Heavy Cream -Additional tbsp if needed for consistency
Instructions
- Prepare. Preheat your oven to 400f. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray the foil with nonstick spray.
- Pastry. On a clean and lightly floured workspace, unroll a puff pastry sheet. Use a pastry wheel or pizza cutter to cut the dough into strips. My dough was cut into 12 strips to make 12 cookies.
- Wrap. Wrap each of the strips around a clothespin. Start at the one end of the pin (smaller works best) and wrap the dough around the clothespin, slightly overlapping the dough (about a quarter inch) on each wraparound.
- Bake. Place the wrapped clothespins on to your prepared baking sheet from the first step, leaving about two inches between each wrapped pin. Then bake for 15-20 minutes or until the pastry turns golden brown.
- Cool. Let the cookies cool for five minutes on the baking sheet. Then carefully remove the pastry from the pin and allow it to fully cool in a cooling rack.
- Buttercream To make the buttercream frosting, start by beating the softened butter until smooth and fluffy. While the butter is beating, in a medium bowl use a whisk to combine together the powdered sugar alternative and unsweetened cocoa powder. Once the butter is smooth and fluffy you can gradually add the powdered sugar alternative and continue to beat until fully incorporated. Then add the vanilla extract and the heavy cream to the mixing bowl and continue to beat until you reach your desired consistency.
- Fill. Once your pastries have fully cooled, you can pipe them or use a teaspoon to fill them with the buttercream.
Recipe Notes
*Please check the nutritional labels to assure that you are sticking to your diet restrictions for any substitutions used.
Also, please see the actual recipe post for further details on this recipe. Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that are used. See thesugarfreediva.com for details on this recipe.
Also, please see the actual recipe post for further details on this recipe. Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that are used. See thesugarfreediva.com for details on this recipe.
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December 9, 2025*About Sugar Alternatives
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Nutrition
Calories: 271kcal | Carbohydrates: 48g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 174mg | Potassium: 76mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 0.4g | Vitamin A: 528IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 1mg
Please note: Nutritional data has been calculated using a tool that comes with this recipe card and not by me. This means that Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that you use. The accuracy of this tool may differ from other tools as expected. Also note that there is no instructional value to the video that may be attached to this recipe. It is only there for visual pleasure. For more information about the images in this recipe, please refer the the recipe instructions. Thank you!
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