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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I love baking cookies. My handsome and I have changed over to the keto diet. I miss baking and keep looking for alternatives. I’m sorry to say this was not a good one for me. The almond flour and coconut oil are not a combination we enjoyed. I couldn’t even finish the bite. I’ll have to try it with butter and add some almond extract. The vanilla isnt enough flavor with the almond flour.
What is the Nutritional content of the keto chocolate chip cookies? I don’t see it listed underneath the recipe.
Full nutrition facts for her recipe are listed right under the ingredients/instructions 🙂
I tried the keto chocolate chip.cookoes and they were delicious! the first ones I added a few fresh raspberries, so they had to cook longer. I also tried the regular recipe, and they were awesome, but again, I did have to.cook them a little longer at a higher temperature 🙂 (I’m in a higher altitude?)so so delicious!!!!
They’re cooking as we speak! Yummy!,,,,
I loved how these turned out. They taste great. Instead of almond meal, I used almond pulp leftover from making a batch of almond milk. I did not add the “milk of my choice” since my almond meal was already wet.I was looking for a vegan recipe that would help me use my almond pulp. I think I will save all my pulp to make more of these.
What is the net carb count for the entire recipe?
After I found this recipe I’ve made it several times and tried it with different ingredients. I’ve substitute coconut oil with vegan butter and it still works great. I’ve also tried adding 1tbsp od peanut butter and 1tbsp with vegan butter and it still worked great. The dough was a little bit dry but I didn’t mind as I want my cookies to be crunchy. I also tried it with hazelnut flour instead of almond flour and OMG… Best cookies I’ve made. I think I will be making these cookies with hazelnut flour from now on. Highly recommend.
Thanks for this easy and great recipe.
Great recipe.. if you leave these out for 24 hrs after cooling, they will have a much better texture!
I never post anything but I needed to post about these chocolate chip cookies! I started Keto back in Jan and I am having fun trying new recipes. These cookies were so easy and delicious! The coconut oil gave them an almond joy flavor with the chips. The swerve powdered sugar was the perfect sweetener. Thank You for the recipe.
Absolutely LOVE this cookie – my favorite no sugar! Although I don’t lead a keto diet per say, I have just always hate protein and lots and lots of vegetables so I’m so glad for the Keto Plan which is allowed easy access to no sugar products and recipes such as this! Love your recipes Katie!
I’ve loved these for months since I started doing keto! I change mine up some since vegan or non dairy isn’t an issue, I always make double batches. I split the coconut oil and use half butter, and for the sugar I use half swerve and half the truvia brown. I did want them to hold together a bit better so added one egg for the double batch. They’re my go to now and everyone loves them :). Thanks Katie!
I tried the chocolate chip cookies and the flavor and texture are good! I added some roasted pecans which I had made the other day too. (Roasted pieces in a cast iron pan with a few drops of liquid sweetener.) I recommend really flattening these cookies out before cooking, as they don’t spread out. I used classic coconut oil at semi-solid room temperature. I recommend really mixing in the coconut oil as I had a few little blobs in my cookies.
But I also have a very difficult time watching videos of someone cooking “diet foods” when she looks so emaciated. Somebody feed Katie a carb, please!
https://lett-trim.today/2014/07/14/chocolate-covered-katie-anorexic/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Has anyone tried using xylitol instead of the recommended sugar?
I haven’t but I don’t see why that wouldn’t work since there’s no yeast or anything that would specifically need it to be sugar. Be sure to report back if you try it!
Jason
I made these last night and they turned out great. We have had NO sweets for almost 9 months and not having treats kinda took its toll on us with all the stress of what’s going on in the world.
I didn’t have any milk but I did have sour cream so I used that as the milk substitute and they turned out just fine. I was able to make 10 equal size cookies using a cookie scoop and then flattening them out with my hands before cooking.
Definitely will be making these again! (Probably tonight XD)
I am wodering about the baking soda, i cant find an acid ingredient so shouldnt that be baking powder?
These cookies are amazing I made them with 85 percent chocolate chunks, cause that’s what I had in the house and they were bitter, sweet awesome. I loved the texture the most and try not to eat a lot of chocolate, so today I made another batch and switched out the chips for cinnamon baked apple bits and added about a teaspoon of cinnamon to the dry ingredients. Oh my goodness. It’s apple pie in cookie form. These cookies are so easy and good, I’ll have to control myself or I’ll be making them everyday!
Your version sounds SO good!