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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Can i use stevia
THESE COOKIES NEVER TOOK SHAPE. THEY WERE SO CRUMBLY THEY FELL APART AND NEVER BAKED PROPERLY. NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED
Hi, what specific ingredients did you use? There are over 700 successful reviews from people who love the recipe so it definitely doesn’t have a typo and does work as written. We’d love to help troubleshoot so you can love it too, but can’t help without more information.
I went by the recipe except I spilt the flour between almond and coconut (half and half). I used swerve as the sugar (half white and half brown sugar). Once I put the liquid ingredients in it was so dry you couldn’t even form a ball. I had to add more milk so that it would at least stick together. So not sure how to change it. Didn’t this the changes I made should have made a difference.
Coconut flour soaks up liquid like a sponge and is not a substitute that can usually be used in a 1 to 1 ratio. That is definitely the reason yours did not turn out. Katie does have a coconut flour cookie recipe if you want to use coconut flour: https://lett-trim.today/coconut-flour-cookies/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Ok Thank you. Im sure to try this again. If at first you don’t succeed try try again.
These cookies are easy to make and my whole family loved it.Thank you so much!!!!
Great cookie recipe! Tastes similar to the Famous Amos cookies in my opinion. I used granulated erythritol and have made double batches with no problems. The entire family loves them! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for making them 🙂
So good! And super easy 👌 the best Keto snack I’ve had so far 😁
What’s the liquid stevia equivalent? I’ve made these twice and they’ve either come out too sweet or zero sweetness at all. You can’t say “powdered sugar or stevia equivalent” that is not a well written recipe!
Delicious! Following another commenter’s directions we used only Allulose for the sweetener and it worked great. We’ve made them a couple of times now.
Wow, these are delicious!!
The cookies tasted good. When you need something sweet this will help you
OMG these are absolutely amazing I just made these I did tweek them a little I don’t like almond flower or coconut flower so I used cashew flower instead I also used real butter instead of coconut oil I also put 1 egg in and some brown sugar let me tell you they rose very well and very moist on the inside
Did you use the same amount of butter as the recommended coconut oil amount: 2tbps?
Very easy to make and are delicious
I love these cookies. Some of the best cookies I’ve ever had whether their sugar-free, keto, or just plain old full of fat and sugar.
EGGS! They actually don’t crumble into the original ingredient list if you use EGGS!
Delicious! My kids’ exact words: “These are the BEST cookies ever.” They had no idea it was made out of almond flour and coconut oil. Easy to make, too. Thanks for a wonderful recipe!
Are delicious. Previous I tasted keto chocolate chips cookies but nothing like this ones. 100% recommended
Made these several time. Awesome Everytime, but this time used Almond extract…WOW