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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Well, I’m not sure how this works chemically because I’ve never seen a one-minute-muffin without oil or egg, but I’ll be damned. It was easy, worked well, and was delicious. I was about to succumb to a late night craving for an ice cream sandwich from Insomnia Cookies and found this instead… it absolutely satisfied the craving and saved me about 1000 calories.
oops, the above was intended as my review for the keto mug cake.
I made these last night. I used Swerve confectionery sugar & my milk of choice is coconut/almond blend.
They came out great! Even my co-workers liked them.
Can I use monk fruit blend for the sugar for the choc chip cookies
Hi do you mean like swerve? If so, many commenters have tried it here and say they got good results! 🙂
I used Monkfruit and they were devine
These hit the sweet spot. Don’t expect a regular gooey, chewy, hot chocolate chip cookie. If that’s your expectation you will be disappointed. These do have a more granular texture, crumble quite a bit, the chocolate isn’t sweet but it gets the job done. I love sweets & this is my go-to, along with the chocolate cake & cream cheese frosting recipe when I need a treat. I’m new to keto but finding it easier to do with these recipes! So thanks!
Made these with cashew flour and added slivered almonds and pecan pieces. Super yummy! I make these every weekend so I can have a sweet everyday”. Thank you for such a great recipe. I do cook mine lower and slower – it seems my oven runs a bit hot. Figured it out after the first batch now they at golden every time.
Cashew flour?? So intrigued right now!
Made these for Mother’s Day 2020 with the kids, so easy and my wife was very surprised they were keto friendly. Just delicious!
Thanks for a great recipe for a sometimes Keto treat. 🙂
Can I use butter in place of coconut oil?
You can!
Hey, just made these but my oven not being great, 10min was already a bit too long (https://ibb.co/2W8KvNM). I added psyllium husk (1 tsp) as my experience with almond flour is that it doesn’t stick together and tends to crumble – and it worked. They taste great, despite the overcooked edges 🙂
Made these and omg so far the best keto chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made. So good. Chewy and just the right amount of sweetness.