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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My husband and I just started eating keto, and we felt like we were missing out on desserts! I found your keto chocolate chip recipe, and we’re hooked!! We love them!! Thank you!!
Super delicious! I made 8 cookies. I used 1 TBSP Monk fruit sweetener and Hershey sugar free chocolate chip cookies. Would definitely make again!
Ok, I made these tonight after reading all the reviews. I used 1.5tbsp coconut oil and same for powdered erythritol. I wanted some nuts in them as well and had some brazil nuts on hand, so thought I would try to chop them in the magic bullet, which turned them into brazil nut flour, lmao, so just added that to the almond flour, maybe 1/4 cup more. I did chop some brazil nuts by hand, maybe 5-6. Anyways, baked them a total of 14.5 minutes and I was so pleased. I do not like overpoweringly sweet and they fit the bill. This is absolutely my go to for cookies from now on!!! Thank you for the recipe!!!! I am curious though if anyone has put an egg in it. Wonder if they would turn out even better!
Hi what is the net carbs and calorie content of these cookies ?
Thanks!
Linked under the ingredients and instructions in her post. Look for the words “view nutrition facts” 🙂
Just made these cookies. They taste fantastic if a bit dry. I made a double batch and used 1/2 c coconut flour and 1 1/2 c Almond flour. The problem I encountered is in the finished product. The cookies are so soft, they do not stand up to storage and transport at all. I am wondering if adding an egg, or two would help bind them and also add some moisture?
Coconut flour is much dryer than other flours and it’s usually not able to be subbed in a 1-to-1 ratio in baking. That would be the reason yours are dry! Glad they still taste good 🙂
I am new to keto, so I tried these cookies. However, I am not finding a way to make them only have 2 net carbs per cookie. The almond flour, sugar free chocolate chips, and Swerve I used make them about 4 net carbs per cookie. What am I doi g wrong? I did divide the batch into 10 cookies as suggested.
I’m not on keto, but does swerve have net carbs? What if you use the stevia version instead? And are you using the sugar free chocolate chip recipe linked, or one by Lily’s (which may have more carbs)?
Hi Katie,
Greeting from Japan!! My partner and I have just recently started the Keto diet and when we first found out we couldn’t have sweets I almost immediately wanted to quit the diet.
Luckily I found you and these Keto cookies!
Although not all the ingredients were exactly the same but I managed to find similar ingredients and these cookies are to die for! Delicious! So decadent and I might have added a bit to much chocolate….. (Don’t feel bad about that at all)
Thank you for the recipe!! We will keep making it here in Japan and let you know how we go!!
Haha too much chocolate, no such thing 🙂
New to the Keto diet and needed a sweet fix! This recipe did the trick! These cookies are so good!!
Can you list the nutrition facts?
Hi! All nutrition facts for Katie’s recipes are always included in her posts right under the ingredients, where it says “view nutrition facts.” ? Hope that helps!
These are amazing! First, for the texture and taste but followed by a very close second for how EASY they are to throw together. Good thing because the first batch was immediately devoured!