European cookies recipes with 400 or fewer calories

Hazelnut mantecados

Typical Christmas biscuits, crumbly and brimming with hazelnut flavor.

Italian Pepper Cookies

Sometime you may have had some Italian cookies and wondered about the piquant taste. They may have been pepper cookies which come from the far…

World's Best Shortbread Cookies

This recipe has been in our family for many years and is a tradition at Christmas

Italian Red Wine Cookies

These are so quick and easy you can bake them anytime, and people will think you spent all day just baking for them !!

Guilt free Lemon Oat Cookies

These are butter, sugar and flour free so you can eat them without feeling guilty! Makes 10-12 cookies (2")

Regina Cookies (sesame Biscotti)

Crispy Italian Cookies...

Sparkling Sugar Cutout Cookies

A great recipe for holiday gift giving!!!They turned out really well. Make sure to keep the dough really cold and well floured.

Scottish Shortbread Men

A quick and tasty alternative to Gingerbread Men!

Danish Cookies

Danish Cookies ... Vanilla flavored cookie dough, extruded nicely with cookies press / piping bag and chocolate chip on the top as 'the crown'.…

3-2-1 and an egg

This is my childhood butter cookie. An easy Danish treat! an who can't remember 3-2-1 and an egg? I think that being in the kitchen with kids at…

Healthy Fruit and Nut bars

Homemade version of Nak'd bars. Easy to make, very versatile. If you love the taste of Nak’d bars, but you’re not so keen on the price, try…

lebkuchen copyright 2011 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati

This is a recipe I discovered visiting the Alto Adige Christkindlmarkts…

Almond & Chocolate Chips Jumbles

British 'Flapjacks'

A very simple and underestimated cookie I am including in my Christmas cookie gift boxes this year. In order to feel less guilty about how nutrious…

Chocolate Coconut Sandwich Hearts

Makes 12 'sandwich' hearts and 12 mini hearts…