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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Thanks for the recipe. These turned out really good. I added about 2 Tablespoons of finely chopped pecans which added a nice flavor. I used Lily’s pumpkin flavored sugar free chips that I had just bought to try. I was disappointed in the Lily’s pumpkin flavored chips though. They have a strange taste and they are way to sweet. My granddaughter liked the chips although she thought they tasted like cherry. But these cookies were very good. Next time I’m going to use the sugar free chocolate chips. Like others have said you need to flatten the cookies before baking because they hold the shape they are when you put them in the oven.
I really liked these. My grandson tried them. He doesn’t like coconut oil so I may try the recipe again using butter. He also suggested more chocolate chips, lol but he is a kid and not on the keto diet. I will use this recipe again. Thanks.
Thank you so much for making them!
I used half coconut oil, half butter and Allulose as the sweetener. They came out great.
This was amazing. I had no almond meal so i used oat flour. Perfect. I make this every single time i’m craving something. I love it!
I did not like these. They overwhelmingly taste like coconut oil and the texture feels like almond meal.
Well it is almond meal lol. And coconut.
What type of coconut oil did you use? Refined or Unrefined?
Really delicious! I sometimes use a tbsp of peanut butter or cacao powder in the mix also for variation. These never fail to disappoint, thanks 🙂
Great cookie recipe. The only thing I did differently was to also add 2 Tbsp packed brown sugar erythritol. Very good nice sweet taste with no cold taste from the sugar.
These are insanely good. Use coconut oil!!! The first time I made them, I had a crazy craving but no coconut oil, so I substituted with butter. They were pretty good. The next time, I used coconut oil and oh my god, they are NEXT level. Used coconut oil, stevia, almond milk, and regular chocolate chips. New staple recipe.
I am new to the low carb lifestyle and these were AMAZING!!!
Thank you so much!
These were delicious! I only used 1 Tbsp of Swerve confection sweetner. I have found that by halving the qty in the recipe that it is just right and leaves no weird aftertaste. Thank you for sharing this. I would like to know how many carbs are in it? I made 15 cookies.
Hi Jackie! Katie always includes nutrition facts for her recipes, linked right under the ingredients/instructions 🙂