These low-carb chocolate chip cookies are completely grain-free. This cookie is somewhere in between a keto chocolate chip cookie and a chocolate chip fat bomb.
Made with hazelnut flour these cookies have a satisfying nutty texture. Plus, I'll even show you how to make them entirely keto if you don't want any sugar at all.
Why This Recipe Works
These grain-free chocolate chip cookies have a salty-sweet flavor vibe.
When I make a batch at our house the kids and the husband can't keep their hands off of them. I like knowing that my family is snacking on a healthier cookie.
Picking the right grain-free flour
You have a few options when baking with gluten-free flour.
Coconut Flour
Coconut flour is a solid option, especially if you can't eat nuts. However, I find coconut flour to be a little on the dry side in baked goods.
Nut Flours
Most commonly finely ground almond flour is used as a substitute when doing low carb or keto baking. Almond flour would work just fine in this recipe.
I chose hazelnut flour, more commonly marketed as hazelnut meal in this recipe because of its rich nutty flavor.
NOTE: Find hazelnut flour in most well-stocked grocery stores.
You can order it online here if you can't find it locally.
Low Carb Chocolate Chips
I used extra dark chocolate chips. Extra dark chocolate chips have a small amount of sugar. My favorite brand of baking chocolate is Guittard.
If you want to avoid sugar altogether you can use monk fruit and/or erythritol-based chocolate chip. Such as Lakanto's chocolate chips or Lily's chocolate chips.
Keto Sweeteners
There are a lot of keto sweeteners on the market. I chose the confectioner's sugar-style sweetener for baking.
Swerve is a great choice. Lakanto is also one that I use quite often.
Hungry For More Keto Cookies
- These Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies are divine.
- Or try my Keto Pecan Snowballs for your next Holiday Cookie Swap.
Traditional chocolate chip cookies
- Fleur de Sel Chocolate Chip Cookies - they have just enough dough to hold the chocolate together...topped with the perfect sprinkling of flake salt.
- Momofuku Milk Bar Compost Cookies - the most adventurous chocolate chip cookie I've ever made.
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Low Carb Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 3 cups hazelnut flour or almond flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
Wet Ingredients
- ½ cup coconut oil or butter, melted
- ½ cup sugar substitute confectioners sugar style
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Other
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips or sugar free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 ℉
- Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
- Beat wet ingredients together with a mixer or stick blender.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry and beat with a mixer until combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Drop balls of cookie dough (about 1 tablespoon in size) onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. You can press these so they are flatter and less ball shaped.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until just browned on the edges. Cool before serving.
