Homemade chocolate chip keto cookies – deliciously soft, flourless, and completely sugar free!
Chewy Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies
A recipe for chocolate chip keto cookies has been the hands-down most popular request I’ve been getting over and over again from readers this past month.
On one day in particular, I received four separate requests within hours of each other – and that was when I knew the recipe needed to go to the very top of my to-make list.
It took just a couple of tries to perfect these cookies, and the results are like something between a traditional chocolate chip cookie and a butter cookie. Their texture is so rich and buttery, it’s almost like eating chocolate chip shortbread!
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Above – watch the video how to make keto cookies.
Keto Cookies With Almond Flour
The two types of flour used most often in keto cookie recipes are coconut flour and almond flour.
I chose almond this time, mostly to be different because I’ve already made brownies with coconut flour.
Almond flour (also called almond meal; it’s not really flour at all) is much easier to find nowadays than it was even just a few years ago.
I’d recommend looking in the natural section of a regular grocery store, or at Target, health food stores, or online.
You can also make your own almond flour at home by adding raw almonds to a food processor and pulsing until they reach a flour-like consistency. Be sure not to pulse too long or they’ll turn into almond butter, which is delicious… but not what you want if you’re making these cookies!
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Can Sugar Free Cookies Actually Taste Good?
Growing up, whenever we’d go to my grandparents’ house there would be two sections of treats in the cabinet.
One was the regular, full-of-fat-and-sugar junk food section specifically for us kids. The other was comprised of sugar-free JELL-O, granola bars, and low carb cookies for my grandfather who had Diabetes.
One afternoon, I was curious and snuck off with one of the sugar free peanut butter cookies in the “not for children” stash.
All I remember of that cookie was an artificial aspartame taste that lingered long after the first bite was gone. And I definitely didn’t take a second bite!
Thankfully, sugar free desserts have come a long way, and you have numerous options from which to choose if you need to bake without sugar.
For this particular recipe, both powdered erythritol and Sugar Free Powdered Sugar will work. The photos in this post are of keto cookies made with the former.
If I’m making the cookies for myself or to serve a crowd not on the keto diet, I’ll just use regular powdered sugar or powdered coconut sugar, both of which work fine here as well.
(If you want them to be paleo cookies, use powdered coconut sugar, which can be made by simply pulsing regular coconut sugar in a blender until it turns to powder.)
*For a coconut flour version, make these Coconut Flour Cookies.
Keto Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup finely ground almond flour
- 2-4 tbsp chocolate chips or sugar free chocolate chips
- 2 tbsp powdered sugar or powdered erythritol OR stevia equivalent
- scant 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2-3 tsp milk of choice, as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 F. Stir dry ingredients very well (so you don’t end up biting into a clump of baking soda!). Add wet to form a dough. Shape into cookies – I used a cookie scoop to first form balls and then shape into cookies. Place on a cookie tray, and bake on the center rack 10-12 minutes. Let cool an additional 10 minutes before handling, as they are very delicate at first but firm up completely once cool. If you try them, be sure to leave a comment or rate the recipe below!View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
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Not only are they delicious but they make the BEST COOKIE DOUGH EVER! With no raw egg to worry about! The next batch I make I might do a small amount of white chocolate chips with macadamia nuts. I’ll have to do the Keto math.
Is the actual printable recipe for Keto chocolate chip cookies not available any more? I’ve looked everywhere and cannot find it.
Is the actual printable recipe for Keto chocolate chip cookies not available any more? I’ve looked everywhere and cannot find it.
The video doesn’t give the measurements of the sweetener – and other ingredients.
Hi I’m confused by your comment. The recipe is further down the same post as the video 😉
These cookies were delicious!! To me, they taste just like regular white flour cookies, but so much healthier! I will definitely be saving this recipe as my new go-to!
Have you ever tried to freeze this dough?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t work! Be sure to report back if you try!
Jason
I would like to try this recipe but I’m allergic to coconut. What can i use as a substitute to coconut oil?
Unfortunately we haven’t ever tried a different oil here or subbing nut butter, but if you experiment definitely be sure to report back on how it goes!
Thank you for making this meal plan! I have the WORST time sometimes coming up with meal plans so I love when it’s already made up for me. I was getting frustrated and bored.
Just made these Keto choc chip cookies – wonderful. I am new to Keto, and this is just what I need to feel ‘normal’.
Can you use butter instead of coconut oil?
These are absolutely fantastic. Made them last night. Ate one, then put the rest in the freezer to see if they would freeze well. They were gone in an hour. Oh well, I’ll make and eat – I mean ‘freeze’ – another batch tonight!
So fun (or dangerous? lol) to know they freeze well!