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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Hey Katie (and Jason), thanks for the killer recipe. Any chance you’ll consider adding metric slash weight measurements to your recipes for precision slash people outside the US? Would love to know how many grams of almond flour I need, or how many grams of chocolate chips the recipe calls for. Big smiles from Germany from Lizi
Just made these…and they are incredibly delicious!
I just ran into an issue of them being too soft that they would crumble apart. Any suggestions what I could do differently next time? I’m not much of a bake :/
I used cocoa powder sugar free instead of the chocolate chips so they turned out to be more like a chocolate cookies, I added an extra tablespoon of coconut oil for extra moisture and they came fantastic!
Easy to bake and delicious!! Thank you 🙂
Hi Katie
Love your site!!
how much stevia equivalent do you use? Or what other sugar and how much can you substitute e.g. coconut sugar?
“2 tbsp powdered sugar or powdered erythritol, OR stevia equivalent”
These are the best Keto cookies I’ve ever made! Wow!
For those of you that substituted butter for the coconut oil, how much did you use?
It’s an equal sub, so the same amount 🙂
Hi, do you have to melt the coconut oil beforehand, or work it in to the mixture while it is firm? Thanks!
I always use it in liquid (melted) form 🙂
Not sure what I did wrong except I used coconut flour but mine was completely dry- no sticking at all so I add about 1 c. Of milk. Thinking I should of added butter
Coconut flour can not be subbed for other flours in most recipes. It is a completely different thing. And yes, it will make things VERY dry.
I can’t believe how easy these were to make once I gathered all the ingredients. The cookies are amazing. We are new to Keto and my kids ages 17, 11, 10 & 7 were getting tired of missing out on sweets so I knew I needed to do something quick. TY TY TY KATIE FOR THIS RECIPE! ITS PERFECT! I tried to upload a pic but it’s not allowing me to. I will post on your Instagram Page!!!