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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Made these tonight and AMAZING!!! This is my new favorite KETO dessert!!! Thank you for posting this!
I just made these for my husband (keto) and myself (vegan) to share. I didn’t have any unsweetened milks in the house; replaced it with aquafaba and they came out really well! Oh and I accidentally bought granulated erythritol instead of powdered. They did need a bit more baking than the recipe calls for- I turned off the oven at 12 minutes and let them sit in the hot oven about 10 more minutes and the bottoms firmed up nicely.
I love the idea to use aquafaba!
I had done something wrong when I made these, not sure what though. I did everything on the video and they came out like coconut cookies. They didn’t even bake! Oh well…
Hi, what do you mean they came out like coconut cookies? And what was the texture that they didn’t bake? What sweetener, oil, and flour did you use?
Jason
I make this choc chip cookie recipe weekly, but I just spread it in a slice tine, slide a knife along to cut into squares, and when cooked, while still warm, go over the same lines again. Once cooled, they easily divide into the portions I drew. It’s an excellent recipe regarding both taste and ease of making; just a bowl and a spoon required-joy!
That sounds so brilliant!
I made this recipe 2 days ago and it’s still soft
Non keto frinds liked it ??
Really delicious and simple .
I tried this and while they tasted delicious, they didn’t bind very well. Any advice? I could add a chia egg and cook on higher for longer as that seemed to work for some. Anybody else had this issue?
Hmm, I haven’t heard of anyone else listing that issue, but maybe you just got super dry almond flour? Or live in a dry climate? What specific ingredients did you use?
I used all of the ingredients listed and used coconut milk for the milk. The almonds were chopped blanched though so I had to put them in a blender and for the sugar I used xylitol. I will try again tonight.
Hmm, maybe the xylitol? Did you pulverize it to make it powdered first?
Is it normal no egg? Just checking! Thanks
No egg needed 🙂
This is one of my favorite go to chocolate chip recipes. I have to double the batch because we eat them up so fast!
ummm…where is the video or the recipe? i don’t see it anywhere on this page.
There’s a video about halfway down the blog post
I made this tonught as i was craving simething sweet..they were so good, i used almond meal as i dont have almond flour and they were fine. I would definitely make this again
.thaks for bthis recipe