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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Love these cookies! The first time I made them I used cacao nibs in place of chocolate chips, worked great! Now I have to avoid chocolate too so I added 1/4 t of almond extract, left out the chocolate chips and topped with a whole raw almond. Didn’t flatten them just left them as little balls. Super yummy – they don’t brown like regular cookies following the directions given but I like the way they turn out.
Love your idea to add almond extract!
Katie, these c00kies are delicious, and if someone wants to try it, be sure to follow the cooling direction, they will stay firm. My husband loves them too!
I made these today using swerve sugar, baked in 10 mins. I kade 10 small cookies. Turned out so good and no BS ingredients!
That cookie looks delicious!
Not keto!! We cannot have milk!! To many people are posting recipes labeled as Keto, using ingredients that Keto eaters cannot have.
Milk of choice means any milk you wish. Katie likes unsweetened almond milk. Coconut milk is also fine.
OMG I can have cookies!!! I used granulated stevia instead of powdered sugar and I could eat the whole batch. Thank you so much for this recipe. I am already thinking of variations to try.
Wow!! I just made these just now and they are PERFECT! I won’t lie though, I didn’t bake the cookies. I like dough more than cookies themselves, so this worked great for me! I had everything on hand. So these are very quick and easy to put together.
I love that they are dairy free and that there’s no eggs in this recipe so I don’t have to worry about getting sick from eating just the dough (not that I’ve ever gotten sick from eating any type of dough-but still). I have printed this recipe and this will now be my go-to for cookies! Thank you!!!
Now I want to try them not baked too! That sounds brilliant ?
Jason
This was really good. My husband and I were both impressed.
Absolutely awesome! These are so yummy and delicious. I made my own chocolate chips, which was a lot easier than I thought. I also made my cookies slightly smaller, so I got a full dozen from the recipe. Thank you so much for this treat!
Made these using avocado oil,and monk fruit granulated sugar and they turned out great!
I need to try them with avocado oil! That sounds delicious 🙂
Jason
Awesome cookies. Was looking for something that isn’t a replacement but tastes awesome on it’s own as a cookie. This is perfect. Crispy, yummy, and so easy and quick to do! Wow ! Thanks!!