Keto chocolate chip cookies are one of my favourite keto cookies. These low carb cookies are the perfect recipe for any occasion; make them for keto workplace treats, a sneaky treat for yourself, or a sneaky healthy treat for the kids.
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- What Are Keto Cookies?
- This Recipe Won Best Keto Dessert Of the Year!
- How To Make Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Where Can I Purchase Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips?
- Can I substitute Any Ingredients In This Cookie Recipe?
- Can You Use Coconut Flour To Bake Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies?
- My Cookies Aren’t Flat Like Yours? What Did I Do Wrong?
- Related Recipes
- Baking Tip!
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
What Are Keto Cookies?
Low carb cookies are just like any other chocolate chip cookie recipe, but instead of using wheat flour, they are made with almond flour. Regular sugar is substituted with erythritol, which is a keto friendly sweetener. I recommend using 100% erythritol which you can find in the recipe ingredients. Do not use liquid stevia or liquid monkfruit in this recipe. (see recipe notes)
This Recipe Won Best Keto Dessert Of the Year!
As voted by you, this keto cookie recipe won Best Keto Dessert of the Year in 2018. How amazing is that? It really is delicious and super simple.
How To Make Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies
There are a few tips to making these keto choc chip cookies super perfect. First, make sure you mix all the dry ingredients before adding to the butter mixture. This will help evenly disburse the xanthan gum and baking powder throughout the batter.
Tip: You need to melt the butter. If you don’t like melting the butter in the microwave, you can also do it in a saucepan. You want your cookies to melt in the oven. Melted butter helps this process, as well as using 100% erythritol.
Your cookie batter should look like the photo above before you proceed. If the cookies don’t melt into cookie shapes in the oven within the first 5 minutes, it either means that you’ve added too much flour or you’ve not melted the butter. If they don’t melt, though, you can easily press them down with fork midway through cooking.
Where Can I Purchase Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips?
Lily’s do a great quality sugar-free chocolate chip which works great in this recipe. However, if you don’t have access to those specific chocolate chips for the best keto chocolate chip cookies, you can always just use:
- Chopped up 90% Lindt chocolate
- 100% bakers chocolate
Can I substitute Any Ingredients In This Cookie Recipe?
In the image below, I have showcased different ingredients to show you how using alternatives might affect the quality of the cookie.
- Fine Almond Flour: It works, but results in a too flat of a cookie for my liking.
- Coconut Flour: It’s pretty bad, so don’t try it.
- Coconut Oil: It also doesn’t work that well. The cookies melt too quickly and stay in more of a ball shape.
- Without Xanthan Gum: Too flat. If you baked the cookies for a little less time, it could definitely work. I suggest 8 minutes.
- (You can also substitute Xanthan Gum with Gelatin.)
- Liquid Stevia: The cookies came out hard as a rock.
Can You Use Coconut Flour To Bake Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies?
I wouldn’t use coconut flour for these cookies as they will not flatten out during baking.
Why Do Macro Tracking Apps Show More Carbs Than This Recipe Shows?
Some people might be freaking out because of the number of carbs in this recipe once they plug it into myfitnesspal or cronometer. The net carbs are indeed accurate on this recipe and I’ll show you why those measurements seem inaccurate. Net carbs are calculated by removing both fibre and sugar alcohols. Fibre and sugar alcohols have no effect on insulin or blood glucose levels, so you will be fine to eat these cookies on the ketogenic diet.
The total carbs for this recipe are 19 g, fibre is 2.7 g, and the sugar alcohol content is 14 g. This means that 2.3 g of net carbs is absolutely correct (if using Lilly’s sugar-free chocolate chips).
My Cookies Aren’t Flat Like Yours? What Did I Do Wrong?
Some reader’s cookies didn’t flatten in the oven when making this recipe. If you are not using 100% pure erythritol, your cookies will not flatten. I use 100% erythritol in this recipe and it works every time.
If they still don’t melt into cookie shapes in the oven within the first 5 minutes, it either means that you’ve added too much flour or you’ve not melted the butter as shown above. But don’t worry! You can easily press them down with fork midway through cooking.
Health Benefits Of No Sugar Cookies:
Sugar-free cookies are great for keto snacks or keto treats because they contain so much butter. Make sure you use a good quality butter that is grass-fed. Grass-fed butter contains up to 6 times more CLA which can help your body burn fat properly and cleanly.
Whether you want to call theses almond meal cookies, almond flour cookies, low carb chocolate chip cookies or even keto cookies, it’s all the same! They are all one of the same family, and much like the ketogenic community, love to help each other out!
Related Recipes
If you love keto desserts, keto cookies, and specifically, keto chocolate chip cookies, you should also try the following recipes:
Keto Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookies
Low Carb Chocolate Chip S’mores Recipe
1 Minute Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies
Keto White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Baking Tip!
If cookies have not flattened after 6-7 minutes in the oven, press down with the back of a fork.
Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 3.5 oz Salted Butter (3.5 oz – 1/2 cup)
- 4.5 oz Erythritol (SoNourished) (4.5 oz – 3/4 cup)
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 large Egg (50g / 1.7 oz)
- 6 oz Almond Flour (6 oz – 170g) by weight, equals about 1 1/2 cups, depending on your almond flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 3 oz Sugar Free Chocolate Chips (90g – 3/4 cup)
Instructions
- Preheat a fan forced oven to 180C (360F).
- Melt the butter in saucepan until melted and hot over medium heat. Place the melted butter and erythritol in a mixing bowl and beat until combined. Add the vanilla and egg, and beat on low for another 15 seconds.
- Add the almond flour, baking powder, xanthan gum and salt. Beat until well combined.
- Press the dough together and remove from the bowl. Knead in the chocolate chips with your hands or a silicone spatula.
- Use a small ice cream scoop to divide and shape the dough into 12 portions and place on a lined baking tray. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 180C (360F). The cookies will look a little undercooked when removing from the oven, but after cooling they will harden.
- **baking tip** If cookies have not flattened after 6-7 minutes in the oven, press down with the back of a fork.
- Allow to cool for 15 minutes before serving. Keep in an airtight container for up to 7 days.
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Tips & Notes:
- Fine Almond Flour: It still works, but results in a too flat for my liking.
- Coconut Flour: It’s pretty bad, so don’t try it.
- Coconut Oil: It also doesn’t work that well. The cookies melt too quickly and stay in more of a ball shape.
- Without Xanthan Gum:Â Too flat. If you baked the cookies for a little less time, it could definitely work. I suggest for 8-9 minutes.
- You can also substitute Xanthan Gum with Gelatin (1 tsp).
- Liquid Stevia: The cookies came out hard as a rock.
- Chopped up 90% Lindt chocolate
- 100% bakers chocolate.
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G King says
These were delicious! Even better on day 2 and 3 after the flavors melded and the “cooling sensation” of the sugars lessened. They don’t make u feel “gorged” like traditional cookies. I weighed my ingredients on food scale, had to mash them to flatten. I modified the recipe using brown sugar swerve, adding 1Tbsp milk (I was afraid they may be dry) and a little cinnamon.
FatForWeightLoss says
Sounds great! Yes substituting the sweetener will require pressing down during the baking time, but that’s okay 🙂
Maria says
This is my first time baking anything keto and I loved these cookies! I used less swerve than the recipe calls for and my cookies didn’t flatten out at all. They seem to be a little raw/mushy in the center but I liked that texture, but next time I make them I will definitely flatten them out by hand. I also hand mixed everything and it worked out great. Thanks Aaron!
FatForWeightLoss says
Hi Maria,
The reason why your cookies didn’t flatten is that you used less sweetener 🙂 The cookies cook all the way through if they flatten, so please follow the recipe as suggested for next time 🙂
Bet says
I LOVED these cookies! I was also confused about the measurements but somehow they worked out. I used 1 1/2 cups of flour and not as much swerve as the recipe called for.I also just hand mixed them then I flattened the cookies before I cooked them and had no problems. They were great!!
I will definitely make these again!!
Marie says
SO SO good. These are the best chocolate chip cookies we’ve made! We use allulose, as most of the family doesn’t enjoy erythritol’s cooling effect. Our batter turns out a bit wetter than your pictures and that may have been why. We also found it necessary to let the batter cool before adding our chocolate chips! oops chocolate cookies. Nuts make an excellent addition, we love pecans or macadamia nuts in this recipe.
Sunnyday says
Omg! No joke these are absolutely the best keto cookies I’ve had. I make them with the chocolate chips for my husband and leave out the chocolate chips for myself as they cause migraines for me, and wow you guys have to try them without too!!! It’s just as good without the chocolate chips, my husband also agreed! Anyway thanks for the amazing recipe!
Debbie Kay Cook says
I made these tonight because I was craving a major sweet and I’m on two weeks on and four weeks off Keto diet. I used unblanched, super fine natural almond flour and it gives a wonderful texture similar to oatmeal cookies. I loved it! My husband who is very picky about his sweets loved these too. Just so everyone knows, I used a ½ inch cookie scoop and got 22 cookies. I baked the first dozen in a conventional oven and the second batch I used the convection oven. I think next time I will bake in the convection oven. They are soft and chewy and just the right amount of sweet. I weighed each ingredient and discovered that 3.5 ounces of butter was actually seven tablespoons instead of eight. That may have been why the cookie didn’t flatten. Next time I will use the full eight tablespoons. Thank you for this recipe. It looks like It’s going to be part of my recipe collection.
Maria says
This really turn out really Great!. My go to Keto Choco Chips Cookie Recipe. u need hand mixer or mixer to make it fluffy. I didn’t try w/o yet.
Thanks so much.
Doreen Cavazza says
I just started keto, again, and I needed something to help me with the sugar withdrawal. I found this recipe on the web today and, since I had all the ingredients on hand, I tried them. I followed the directions exactly, measured the butter and almond flour using a scale for weight. I usually have a lot of Kerrygold butter on hand, but I was out of it today. I used the Isigny Ste Mere unsalted butter I had on hand. They taste great, but I noticed I did have to press them since they didn’t flatten on their own. I made these in two batches in my toaster oven. The first batch I pressed with a fork after 7 minutes of cooking. The second batch I pressed on the cookie sheet before baking. They both came out tasty. I wound up with 14 good sized cookies. Will be making again!
Donald says
I’ve tried other keto cookie recipes, and this one by far is the best. I will make this again and again. Can’t wait to try some of the other recipes for cookies on this site– but for now, I see a long road ahead paved with keto chocolate chip cookies. P.S. The only change I made was to add 1/2 cup of roasted, salted pecans into the batter as I’m one of “those” people who love them in a cookie. It gives the finished cookie a bit of texture and crunch which is also nice, along with some additional fat grams.
FatForWeightLoss says
Thank you so much Donald!
Britt says
I just made these and they are delicious. However I’m a bit confused on how many calories they contain. Does a batch of 12 cookies contain 180 calories? Or does one individual cookie contain 180? There’s two different descriptions. I honestly can’t see how one cookie can contain that many lol. I found these to be absolutely delicious! I substituted with PureCane sweetener and used less than called for due to it being very sweet to begin with. They cane out wonderful!
FatForWeightLoss says
Hi Britt,
1 cookie contains 180 calories. Hope that helps.