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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I followed your recipe and the cookies came out great. I am at a high altitude so I cooked 2 minutes more. I made these for me and regular chocolate cookies for hubby but I think he would eat these as well. I am not sharing.😊
I made these yesterday for the first time & they are delicious! I made two minor changes: I used brown sugar Splenda (instead of white sugar) & I used my 1-inch cookie scoop, making 26 mini cookies. After running it through a software program I have, they are 20 cal each with 1 carb!!! Of course I ate two, but who is counting???
I took a photo but didn’t see anywhere to post it.
Simple and delicious. I made these last night. I did not add chocolate chips because I didn’t have any. I was just in the mood for some kind of sugar cookie/sweet shortbread. I added about 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla but followed the recipe to the letter and just doubled it. It was soooo quick and easy. They were crumbly on the outside but still dense on the inside. I was very pleased. Will definitely use this recipe again!
So easy, so amazing. I’m trippling the recipe next time. Better than a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe. I feel good about giving it to my little one as well. Thank you!
Well I didn’t shape them into cookies, my fault for not reading carefully but I did add an egg. I don’t usually recipes but I was trying to use up some almond flour so I doubled plus half a batch. That might not make sense but they were still tasty mountains. I’ll make these again.
These cookies are amazing! I am so glad I found this recipe !
if you have a big family I would definitely double or triple it though .
I doubled the recipe so can you add that information on time & temp if we double it?
These cookies are fantastic. The perfect amount of sweetness. We used Lily’s No Sugar Added chocolate chips and I add a tiny amount of almond extract. We cooked 4 additonal minutes. It was great that the creator mentioned that they would be very delicate at first. Once cooled we put them the refrigerator. Yum. Everyone gobbled them up. Yes, double the recipe for you’ll only have 10 small cookies.
So eager to try these as i am diabetic and struggle with finding good “keepers” recipes for baked goods. Where can i find the written recipe? i must be missing it somewhere. smh. Thank you!
I was excited to try this based off of the amazing reviews, but only to find there’s no written recipe and I have to follow a video. This video doesn’t give all its ingredients measurements, and I’m a beginner level baker (or if there’s a level before beginner, I’m that), so I need to know how much of something needs to be put in and not just wing it. So I got lost after the video said “add sweetener”, but didn’t say how much to put in. I’ll be moving on to find a different recipe. Sorry! I hope this gets fixed.
You have to keep scrolling right to the bottom. I thought the same at first but if you keep scrolling down it’s there.