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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Just made these for the first time. They look and smell delicious. I used natures intent keto bombs for the chocolate portion. Am very excited for these to cool down so I can try them!
I made these cookies they are absolutely the best and definitely the closest I have ever come to the carb laden version . Absolutely love it. Will be making these regularly. Thank you
Thank you so much for trying them!
I’ve made these cookies twice now and love them! The second time I added a tbsp of unsweetened coconut, it was like a macaroon. I also found that if I use the Splenda brown sugar substitute it makes the cookies crunchy, which is what I prefer.
Love your idea to add coconut!
These cookies are fantastic. Much better than cookies made with regular flour. My whole family gobbled them up.
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Taste soooo good, everyone loved them at a recent gathering and I love that the batch size is small, just enough for my diabetic husband to have on hand but not too many!
Thank you so much for trying them!
Si easy and delicious, i added pecans and they turned out perfectly
based on the video they did not come out at all. what are all the ingredients and amount of each..
Hi Barbara, the recipe is written out in full in the post… guessing you just maybe didn’t scroll down far enough on the page? The full recipe is not included in the video, so I’m not sure what recipe you ended up making.
Very nice Keto chocolate cookie recipe.
Easy to make. I also put in cacao nibs.
The cookies have a great consistency.
A great snack. Thanks
These are to die for! Best keto cookie I have ever made. You are right when you describe them as shortbread. They are so soft and buttery but also a little crispy. I am in love and will be making them all of the time now! 10/10 would recommend. And extra points for how easy this was! Took me 10-15 min in total to get it in the oven.
Thank you so so much 🙂
I am a slowpoke that normally takes waaaa too long to prep before baking- and my oven ends up preheating 4x longer than it needs to! Not in this case since instructions and ingredients are so simple.
One tip is to err on that side of more milk vs too little:
I made two batches back to back- second batch accidentally added 2 Tbsp whole milk Instead of 2 tsp, but I liked it better!(puffier, softer). My Dad liked the original batch better but I thought it was a little too tough.
Yummy yums, that is again!