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?
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- 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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Christina Davison says
Made these for myself and a diabetic friend over the holidays, and had a hard time keeping the rest of the family from eating them up in preference over all the “regular” cookies and treats we had, both homemade and otherwise. These were some of the best cookies I’ve ever tasted!
Paula says
These are the Best 💜
Mine smoke while baking, but don’t burn, any ideas?
Lisa K. says
These are really good. I doubled the recipe and added 1/2 cup chopped pecans. The confection part of my oven stopped working so I baked them just under °350 for about 9 minutes.
PAULA Grassi says
My favorite cookie recipe. I make them with cinnamon, salted caramel & dark chocolate chips. The only issue is they smoke during the cooking process & My cookies aren’t burnt. I flatten mine before baking, allow them to sit on the pan for about 5 minutes after they are done, & loosen them from the pan a few minutes after baking.
MMoore says
I have been looking for a good chocolate chip cookie recipe that didn’t have a zillion ingredients. These are awesome. I made 24 cookies and gave 6 away on a give tray to my neighbor. I did notice that the pan also makes a difference as to the browning of them. I also like your different ingredients sample list.
NR says
I agree. Coconut flour has the taste of the husk if it was mixed with cardboard and concrete. This recipe is lovely though!
Annie says
Amazing!!!!!!!!!
Patricia Diane Carpio says
I made these today and they are legit! I baked them longer, 15 mins. When they came out of the oven, they were soft. But once they cooled down, they firmed up and the exterior became nice and crispy. I added 1/4 cup chopped pecans which I toasted for 5 minutes on a pan, and I reduced the chocolate chips by half. I also added sea salt crystals on top. Don’t eat more than one or you will become gassy from the Erythritol.
Mel says
Seriously good. Way better than ANY baked keto treat I’ve tried.
mgh says
wow. great recipe. i wasnt expecting much, because let’s face it, people’s standards go way down when theyve been on a diet for a while. but these were genuinely delicious….my sister and my husband both said so too (neither are on keto). i did use fine almond flour -turned out find. and i used mostly monk fruit. also great. however…guys…i ate like 4 out of the 12 over the course of the evening…i was sooo craving cookies…so…yes i ate 4…
people…dont do that. please avoid this mistake…im quite crampy and gassy now. i forgot about the effects some of these sweeteners/ lilys chocolate chips can have.
my conclusion is that you wont want to eat just one….but your future self and anybody you live with will thank you if you do. sorry for the overshare. the end.