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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nope, sorry…wanted SO much to love them.
1. not enough sweetness – could have used at least 3 T swerve, regardless of granulated or powdered
2. still that same graininess from the almond flour. i realize there’s just no way to eliminate it, it’s just a feature of the “flour”
3. used lily’s s.f. chocolate chips…what a huge disappointment. they are SO expensive, and have no sweet flavor at all – just the bite of dark chocolate.
while i appreciate the work someone did testing and creating this recipe – it doesn’t make a wonderful, delicious, can’t-live-without-it, best-cookie-ever chocolate chip cookie. more like “ok, i had 1…i don’t have to have any more, do i?”
I think they are just not your thing, which is completely ok! Not everyone has to love every recipe, our tastes are all different. I actually LOVE lily’s sugar free chocolate chips! If you don’t like the chocolate chips themselves, there’s probably no hope for you to like chocolate chips cookies made with them, because chocolate chips are such a huge part of chocolate chip cookies. But on the bright side, your cookies LOOK pretty at least!
Jason
I made the sugar free chocolate chips to go in the cookies. I wasn’t crazy about the cookies, but the chips are wonderful! I made them with honey and then just froze them in a parchment paper lined baking pan. It satisfies my sweet tooth!
I made these the first time exactly like the recipe called for and loved them. I felt like they were pretty heavy still so the next time I doubled the recipe and added one egg for the doubles recipe. Ohhhh myyy goodness! They had the same wonderful flavor but definitely a lighter texture❤️
These are delicious. I added some
Orange zest and cinnamon and ate with the coconut ice cream recipe from this site too! Cookies aren’t my favorite sweet snack but these are so good!
Thank you so much for making them! I love your idea to add orange zest 🙂
I may have missed it but I don’t see any car info how many carbs and fiber are there in each cookie
Hi! Full nutrition facts are linked right under the recipe ingredients/instructions 🙂
Jason
Just made these. 13 small. Forgot the salt. Maybe should have baked them less than 10 minutes. Too dry.
Can these keto cookies be frozen?
Yes I’ve done it!
Love the keti chocolate chip recipe and have used it a few times now. I did make some modifications including using 1/4 cup baking soda and about four teaspoons of milk. Very good.
Those look so good!!!
Well, I thought I followed the recipe, but mine looked like some of those “fat bombs” I’ve been seeing. However, after 30 Keto days straight, they we DaBomb.com, baby! ?
Thank you so much for making them. I love the photo!
How long will these keep? I made them a couple days ago, and they’ve been sitting on the counter in an airtight glass container. Would you suggest putting them in the fridge or freezer?
I always just leave mine out, but I’ve always eaten them all by three days. I’d say you should store them just however you store any other cookies. Maybe fridge after three days?
So many positive comments that I feel guilty for not liking these. I’m on Keto and thought the sweet to salty ratio was fine but the cookies themselves were both too soft and crumbly. Maybe it’s just me, I like crispy cookies otherwise I would rather eat a muffin or something.