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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Does the coconut oil need to be melted?
Yes use it melted 🙂
Just made these and they came out pretty good. I will definitely make them again. Thank you for the recipe. But I do miss the buttery flavor. Can I substitute the coconut oil for soft butter? Or maybe do 1 Tbs of butter and 1 Tbs of coconut oil?
Some readers have just subbed it in a 1-to-1 replacement and said it still yields good results!
I would like to know this as well! I liked the recipe, but I prefer my dough a little sweeter than this recipe. But I don’t know if it’s the coconut oil that gives this cookie its better consistency than other keto recipes I’ve tried.
I though these cookies were very good. I’m new to Keto and was pleased with these cookies. I did add an egg to the recipe.
This is the BEST keto chocolate chip cookie I’ve ever tried. Thank you so much for sharing it! It was an instant success here!
I am skeptical about keto recipes for chocolate chip cookies, but since I love so many of Katie’s other recipes, I gave this a go. The recipe did not disappoint! Closest keto version of a chocolate chip cookie I have tried. I ran out of coconut oil and subbed half butter and it seems to have worked well.
I read cookbooks like others do novels and I’ve really enjoyed reading your different dessert ideas for Keto and Low Carb diets. I too, believe desserts should be enjoyed daily and love dark chocolate more than anything. My biggest hangup with everyone’s idea of baking is the flour options. I’m allergic to tree nuts, nut based flours, and coconut anything. Rice flour, well let’s face it, it horrible to work with and taste really bad. It’s really sad, I know, but what do I substitute for these items and still get a good cookie, brownie or dessert in general. From one sweet lover to another. I’ve got to figure out how to tempt my sweet cravings without going off the deep end.
They are awesome!
Perfect to satisfy my sweet tooth and low carb
Love these cookies! I am new to keto and just starting to learn to cook/bake certain things for myself. Desserts like this make me feel like I will succeed with this diet! So yummy (husband thinks so too)! Making mire tonight. Thanks for the recipe!!
Hi Katie! I’m just getting into keto cooking. I just made a batch of your keto chocolate chip cookies. Definitely the best consistency of the keto recipes I’ve tried!! I am wondering if I want to make the dough itself a bit sweeter, would I increase the erythritol and milk? Or the erythritol and coconut oil? Or would I not need to increase the liquid if I add more erythritol? Thanks!!
Hi, you should be able to add sweetener without adding anything else! 🙂
How many carbs
Hi! Nutrition facts are linked under the recipe/instructions in the post 🙂