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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Jennifer, I’m so sorry this didn’t work out for you. I too tried this recipe and at first glance, it seemed that there wouldn’t be enough moisture in the recipe, but there is if you mix it a little more. The only thing I wanted to point out is that even though I doubled the recipe I was only able to make 17, 2 1/2 inch cookies. Also, my cookies didn’t flatten out either, which is usual when cooking with Almond flour, but they tasted fabulous anyway. One last thing I wanted to point out is that the cooking temperature may be too low. I had to cook them longer then stated and for the second batch I turned up the temperature to 375 and baked them for 10 minutes and they came out fine. Don’t give up, try again and good luck.
I love the picture!
Just wondering why eggs are not in this receipe. Had to leave them for more time and did not flatten I did it with a spoon
I have the same question!
Super good but I added everything up and I got 8.2 carbs a cookie for a serving size of 10, did I do something wrong?
Hi Jaimie, it could just be a difference in specific brands or ingredients used, or it might be a misprinted ingredient in an online calculator. Or if you used 4 tbsp chocolate chips, the carbs would go up. Erythritol is also not included in net carb count on keto 🙂
I just tried this recipe and added a healthy tbsp of peanut butter and they turned out great!
Love the idea to add peanut butter!
Just wondering. Maybe I missed it in the recipe but how long should I bake?
These are *fantastic*! They whip up so fast. I did not have sugarless chocolate chips so I chopped up 2 squares of 92% cocoa chocolate instead. Seriously, I can’t even imagine a better keto chocolate chip cookie. I did buy sugarless chocolate chips so will use those next time. It makes a small batch, but I rolled the dough into little balls about 1′ in diameter and flattened them by hand – it made 15 cookies that are about 1.75″ across. I will *totally* make these over and over again. Thank you Katie, for the recipe. I have also made your Fat Bombs on this page, sooooo good too. 🙂
ooops, 1″ in diameter. lol
Very very nice. Will definitely be making again. They went so quick with guests.
Used butter instead of coconut oil as I don’t like it. Didn’t have chocolate chips so used 70% dark chocolate, which I chopped into little squares.
Thank you for commenting that you used butter instead of coconut oil. I was scrolling thru the comments to see if anyone did that because I wanted to use butter instead of coconut oil since coconut oil doesn’t agree with my stomach. So glad they still turned out good!!
I melted my butter before mixing liquid and dry ingredients. If you use butter and melted I would not put the chocolate chips in until last after everything is mixed together so that the warm butter doesn’t melt them
Thanks!! I prefer butter to oil and wanted to know it works using butter instead!!
Thank you! Also wondering if I could use butter instead, because it’s midnight and I want cookies NOW and butter is all I have! 🙂
We have seen commenters use it before with good results.
I came straight to this recipe since I can’t use regular flour and it calls for Swerve (I’m diabetic so I always keep Swerve in the house for baking); but then I noticed it uses almond flour. Is there any other flour that can be used (I’m allergic to tree nuts)?
Hi, I’m confused. If you can’t have flour but don’t want to use almond flour, what flour would you want to use? If you’re ok with oat flour, these are really good: https://lett-trim.today/2018/05/21/vegan-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
There’s coconut flour too
Doesnt coconut count as a tree nut? Its a nut and it grows on a tree 😅
I’ve made 2 batches of these cookies so far. I follow the recipe and they turned out perfectly both times and so delicious. One thing I did that is not specifically mentioned in the recipe is I heated up the coconut oil and mixed it in when it was liquid. The cookies in the first batch were kinda fat because I assumed they would spread a bit while baking so I didn’t flatten them much before they went in the oven. But they stayed pretty much the same shape. So my second batch I just shaped them into cookies and flattened them out more.
Dessert snob turned Keto. Excellent recipe! Thank you, CCK! …I subbed butter for the coconut oil and hand-mixed until the wet ingredients were well incorporated into the dry. After dropping by tablespoon full, I flattened the cookie balls with the back of a glass. Cooking time with my oven was a little longer. MUST let the cookie cool completely do it won’t crumble. Nice and soft Keto cookie perfection.
Glad to know they work with butter too!
Did you melt the coconut oil before mixing?
I do
I never leave comments but I loved these so much I had to. I used avocado oil, added a little extra powdered stevia and 1/4 tsp of molasses and they turned out so good I couldn’t believe it. They were eaten immediately by my family and then I started making more. I love that you can eat the dough raw. Thank you so much for this recipe!
I love your idea to add molasses so much. It sounds like gingerbread.
These were VERY tasty. Used walnut meal instead of almond and granulated Swerve. And Lily’s chocolate. Worked fine. And husband liked them!
Walnut meal sounds amazing!
My husband has started the Keto Diet and he is such a picky eater. He loves all the horrible things. He hated healthy versions/substitutions of any sweets. We made this today and he did enjoy them… a lot!
The most BEAUTIFUL keto cookie I have tried. I too will make these over and over and over and over again! Thanks so much Katie. You are quite the genius in the keto kitchen. Best wishes from Germany.
has anyone tried subbing applesauce for oil?
These are pretty good keto cookies and I rated them as such. They taste more like a snowball cookie than a shortbread cookie to me. They’re definitely not like a regular chocolate chip cookie, but they’re a very good “healthy” cookie. I love cck for the “healthy” version of my favorite desserts, but I don’t live on healthy baked goods. I’m not accustomed to all these nut flours, nut milk, xylitol ect. that are commonly used in Katie’s recipes. If healthy baked goods are your thing, then you won’t be disappointed.
These are good. Used butter and chopped up baker’s chocolate. I would increase the sweetener by a tablespoon next time.
I absolutely love these cookies. Quick and easy sweet fix. Thank you so much for sharing!!! ?❤️
I make a batch at least 2-3 nights a week ?
this is SO COOL
Keto Chocolate Chip cookies with Almond flour and Coconut oil and milk instead of butter and eggs are different texture and taste than I’m used to, but none-the-less quite yummy! Thanks for making it simple for someone like me to convert my ways!