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My keto chocolate chip cookies are super popular for a reason, and you might just want to eat the low carb sugar-free cookie dough straight… but since it contains raw eggs, try to resist. 😉 Instead, make this keto cookie dough recipe with almond flour in just 10 minutes! Not only is it safe to eat raw, but it tastes like little bites of heaven and won’t blow your carb limit on a keto diet.
Although this is sugar-free edible cookie dough, it definitely doesn’t taste like it. That’s because these keto cookie dough bites are made with a combination of Besti Powdered Monk Fruit Allulose Blend (for a smooth texture) and Besti Brown Monk Fruit Allulose Blend (for brown sugar flavor). These sweeteners are a zero calorie, have zero net carbs, are 100% natural, and taste just like the real thing. You won’t be able to tell the difference!
Why You’ll Love This Keto Cookie Dough Recipe
- Buttery cookie dough texture
- Hint of brown sugar flavor
- Chocolate chips — need I say more?
- 10-minute no bake prep
- Just 1.5 g net carbs per bite
- Easy keto dessert or snack
- Low carb, gluten-free, and sugar-free treat, with a dairy-free option
Ingredients & Substitutions
This section explains how to choose the best ingredients for gluten-free sugar-free cookie dough bites, what each one does in the recipe, and substitution options. For measurements, see the recipe card below.
- Unsalted Butter – Let the butter sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes to soften before using. Softened butter will cream properly instead of leaving little chunks. If you need a dairy-free substitute, try butter-flavored coconut oil.
- Sweeteners – I use a combination of Besti Powdered and Besti Brown for the right texture and flavor. These sweeteners dissolve effortlessly, so there’s no gritty texture in your keto cookie dough. If you need to use a different keto sugar substitute, be aware that anything that contains erythritol (which includes most brands labeled “monk fruit” or “stevia”) may result in a gritty teture. If you still want to try something ese, see my sweeteners conversion chart for exact amounts.
- Vanilla Extract – Use a high quality pure vanilla extract for the best flavor.
- Wholesome Yum Blanched Almond Flour – I highly recommend blanched almond flour for making almond flour cookie dough, as this will prevent a grainy texture. If you need a nut-free option, you may be able to substitute 1/3 to 1/2 cup coconut flour in place of the 1 1/2 cups almond flour (note a big difference in quantity!), but I have not tested this to verify.
- Sea Salt – Balances the sweetness.
- Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips – This brand is my favorite!
How To Make Keto Cookie Dough
This section shows how to make easy keto edible cookie dough, with step-by-step photos and details about the technique, to help you visualize it. For full instructions, including amounts and temperatures, see the recipe card below.
- Prep. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream butter and sweeteners. Combine the unsalted butter, Besti Powdered, and Besti Brown in a large mixing bowl. Beat with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Then, beat in the vanilla until well combined.
- Mix in flour. Beat in the blanched almond flour into the wet ingredients, until a crumbly dough forms. It should stay together if you pinch it with your fingers. (If it doesn’t, you can beat in an extra tablespoon or two of softened butter.)
TIP: Adjust sweetness if needed.
You can adjust the sweetener at this point to your liking. Use a spoon and taste a small amount of the dough. If it isn’t sweet enough, add a bit more Besti Powdered until it reaches your desired sweetness.
- Add chocolate chips. Fold in the sugar-free chocolate chips. If the dough is sticky, chill it in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes (this is usually only necessary if your kitchen is warm).
- Make balls. Use a small small cookie scoop to make small balls, about a tablespoon each. Place the balls onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
TIP: Press some chocolate chips into the outside if you like.
This is optional, but if you want to make the keto cookie dough balls prettier, you can press some chocolate chips onto the outside so that they are more visible.
- Enjoy. You can eat the keto cookie dough right away, or chill for an hour if you like a firmer texture.
Variations For Keto Cookie Dough
- Add protein – If you want to get a boost of protein, replace 1/4 to 1/2 cup of the flour with your favorite protein powder instead.
- Make it dairy-free – Substitute butter-flavored coconut oil in place of the butter.
- Make it creamy – If you like the kind of cookie dough that you can eat with a spoon, simply thin out the dough with heavy cream after adding the almond flour. Add one tablespoon at a time until it reaches your desired consistency.
- Peanut butter cookie dough – Replace half of the butter with unsweetened peanut butter, or just make these peanut butter protein balls instead.
- Add to ice cream – Make smaller keto cookie dough balls and churn them into keto ice cream.
Storage Instructions
- Store: Keep the keto chocolate chip cookie dough in the refrigerator for 7-10 days.
- Freeze: You can also freeze sugar-free cookie dough. Place the balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet and freeze for 1 hour. Once they are solid, transfer them to a zip lock bag and keep in the freezer for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge or on the counter before eating.
More Sweet Keto Snack Recipes
If you like this keto cookie dough recipe, you might like some of my other sweet keto snacks — perfect for those sweet cravings!
Tools To Make Sugar-Free Cookie Dough
- Baking Sheet – My favorite pans, made in the USA.
- Hand Mixer – For creaming the butter and mixing the keto cookie dough. I have this one and like that it comes with storage for the attachments.
- Small Cookie Scoop – This one is the perfect measurement to make sure your low carb cookie dough bites are just the right size.
Keto Cookie Dough Recipe
Keto Cookie Dough (Sugar-Free, 1.1g Carbs!)
Make 10-minute keto cookie dough with almond flour, butter, sweetener, & chocolate chips. Sugar-free cookie dough is edible & irresistible!
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Ingredients
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Instructions
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Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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In a large bowl, combine the butter, Besti Powdered, and Besti Brown. Use a hand mixer to beat until fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and sea salt, until well combined.
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Beat in the almond flour, until a crumbly dough forms. Taste and adjust sweetener if desired.
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Fold in the chocolate chips. If your kitchen is warm and the dough is sticky, refrigerate for 10-15 minutes.
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Use a small cookie scoop to make small balls, about a tablespoon each, pinching or rolling as needed to form a uniform ball. Place on the cookie sheet.
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Enjoy right away, or refrigerate for 1 hour for firmer keto cookie dough.
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Recipe Notes
Serving size: 1 cookie dough ball
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55 Comments
Lisa strubberg
0My chocolate chip cookie dough is crumbly I did the recipe right
Tara
0What happened to this recipe? I made this before and it was delish. I’m realizing that it used to have collagen powder. I may have to throw this out! no one is too thrilled with the texture and aftertaste.
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Hi Tara, Sorry to hear you had issues with it. Did you use Besti or did you substitute the sweetener? This is typically the reason there can be an aftertaste or offputting texture. I did have a version with collagen but simplified the recipe after getting requests from people that wanted “regular” cookie dough without. I still have instructions in the post above (in the Variations section) for adding collagen (like the older recipe) if you want to add it.
Tara
0Ok good to know. Yes i used powdered besti and another brand for the brown but my daughter and i taste tested before adding the flour and she liked it at that point. I do admit i dont have your almond flour so texture wise it couldve been that but she just doesn’t enjoy the almond flavor apparently. Just out if curiosity bc it has been a while since i made it before… was almond flour it in previously as well as the collagen? If i follow the variation will it be just like the old version? I personally loved it! And so many other recipes out there include coconut flour and i have an intolerance to coconut.
Another added question is i read on my package not to eat raw flour?? It needs to be heat treated. Wondering your thoughts on that. Anyway i ended up trying to salvage by adding an egg and baking soda and popped in the toaster oven and made tiny cookies! 🙂
Thanks for the quick response
Wholesome Yum D
0Hi Tara, Almond flour is just finely ground almonds so I am not sure where you read about not eating raw flour. Maybe that applies to regular flour only.
Julia
0My girls and I made this recipe to put into ice cream. It turned out so good!! So much better than store bought! We ended up using white chocolate chips as well. Super tasty!
wilhelmina
0I already need to make another batch. I just couldn’t stop popping these delicious treats!
Katie
0I love this low sugar option! Still such a great treat.
Julie JOY
0Trying to figure out if I can do this with ingredients on hand. I have finely granulated collagen, and I have plain protein isolate powder. Will either of these work for the Vital Proteins Vanilla Collagen Peptides?
Wholesome Yum D
0Hi Julie, I have never done that but it sounds like those would be good substitutes for the vanilla collagen.
DR
0In the description it says 1.5 carbs, in the nutrition information it says 3 carbs. Which is it?
This sounds wonderful!!
Wholesome Yum D
0Hi, These bites are 1.5g net carbs each, the nutrition information is for 1 serving, which is 2 bites, equaling 3g net carbs.
Jacqueline
0We love these balls and actually don’t mind granulated sugar instead of powdered. 😉 Have you tried this recipe with PB or Cashew Butter instead of butter?
Wholesome Yum D
0Hi Jacqueline, I have not tried that but if you do please let me know the results.
Melinda Hunnings
0These are delicious! I cute the sugar down to 1/4 cup to make healthier Also used unflavored collegan. i did add some extra vanilla and vanilla creme liquid stevia to make it sweeter.
Holly P
0I made this twice – once with coconut oil and whey protein isolate. The flavor was good but the texture, not so much. Very crumbly and even adding in more coconut oil and even some maple syrup didn’t help 🙁 I think the whey isolate is very absorbent, I’ve had issues using it in other recipes, it behaves similarly to coconut flour and soaks everything up. I also think my coconut oil was too melty and I didn’t really get it to be “fluffy”
The second time I used butter and some unflavored collagen protein I had sitting around. I didn’t have molasses so I added a pinch of brown sugar. This time I made sure to really get the butter and sweetener fluffy – and it turned out much much better! Only small downside was that my butter was salted, and I added extra salt so it was a bit saltier than I wanted but overall good! I also used Lakanto sugar free chocolate chips – mmmm. I just put this in a tupperware and eat it with a spoon like I would want to with normal cookie dough but I’m thinking for my next batch I will actually make the balls (portion control) and melt some chocolate chips and coconut oil and cover them with chocolate. Thanks for the recipe!
Diane
0Thank you Maya! This is the 2nd recipe of yours I’ve made in the last week and both were delicious. (The other was Keto Low Carb Protein Bars). I made minor modifications based on what I had in stock. I tried to follow your affiliate link for the Vital Proteins Vanilla Collagen Peptides so that you’d get credit for my order, but the link results in a blank page. I tried a few different browsers so I don’t think it’s my system. Anyway, thanks for the great recipes!
Wholesome Yum M
0Hi Diane, I’m sorry the link didn’t work for you. If you would still like to use my link, you can order it through Amazon here: Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides.
Ashley
0So easy and delicious! Thanks for this delicious recipe. We loved them.
Jenn
0I had no idea these were so easy to make! Awesome keto snack recipe!
Shadi Hasanzadenemati
0I tried your recipe last night and loved it! Can’t wait to make it again!
Jessica
0These were awesome as a post workout snack. Kids loved them too. Will make again.
Amy
0These look awesome! I can’t wait to try them. The printable recipe link is broken. (I tend to print recipes out because I’m known to spill and don’t want any electronics getting destroyed in the process.)
Thanks for sharing!
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Thank you, Amy! Sorry to hear you had trouble printing. The print link is working for me right now, but if you’re still seeing an issue, please contact us using this form with a screenshot of what happens when you tap “Print” and what device/browser you are using. Happy to help!
Grace VanderRos
0Best cookie dough balls I’ve ever had, and I even left out the molasses because I had none! Thanks for an amazing recipe!!
Georgeann
0These sound delicious! I only have unflavored collagen though, so should I double the vanilla?
Wholesome Yum M
0Hi Gerogeann, That’s up to you. If you prefer a strong vanilla flavor, then yes, double the vanilla. If you don’t mind a neutral cookie dough flavor, then it’s fine without the extra vanilla.
Mia Bleyman
0Hi! If I don’t have the molasses can I use a lil pure maple extract?
Wholesome Yum M
0Hi Mia, Yes, that will work nicely.
Lorraine Burnham-Levy
0These are the first “Fat Bombs” I have made and WOW, so good! I used chocolate protein powder by Orgain Keto so they are Double Chocolate!
Linda Nix Young
0This recipe didn’t work out so well for me. Even after placing the dough in the refrigerator for an hour, the dough was too crumbly to make into balls. I tried this twice. I wish I knew what I did wrong because these sound like what I need after a bad day.
Wholesome Yum
0Hi Linda, I’m so sorry to hear that! If needed, you can mix in more butter, or even coconut oil or your favorite nut butter to hold them together better.
Christina
0Hello! I’d like to try making these but I am not yet sure what alternative powdered sweetener I might use. Can you please tell me what/if any adjustments I might need to make if I use the powdered versions of xylitol, stevia or allulose instead of powdered erythritol? Also, if I replaced the collagen with keto bone broth protein, made by Ancient Nutrition, would I need to make any adjustments? Thank you!
Wholesome Yum
0Hi Christina, check my sweetener conversion calculator for help with those substitutions. That protein should work fine, though you may need to adjust for sweetness or add more butter if the mix is too crumbly.
Ahmad
0Excellent. I made these with marine collagen and vanilla flavor.
Thanks
Dan
0Wow! Cookie dough bites that are low carb?? Sign me up. These were SO good and filled that sweet treat craving I had. Betcha can’t eat just one! LOL Thanks Maya
Debbie
0OMG! So good!!I had to change some of the ingredients to use what I had in the pantry, but they are still delicious! I didn’t have sugar free chocolate chips, so I broke up two small choc zero bars- equal to about two squares and blended them in. I could have eaten the whole batch before it was even chilled, it is so good! Now to just let them chill and hide from my hubby!!
Leann
0Tried this today! They are soooooo good. Definitely doing this recipe again!
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0I am so happy to hear that, Leann! Thank you!
diharrell@aol.com
0How many of the fat balls can we eat in a day? I have such a sweet tooth. I don’t like PB so I use almond butter and coconut.
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0This will depend on so many factors – your height, weight, gender, macro requirements, activity level, what else you’re eating, what your goals are, etc. Our Facebook support group is a great place to ask questions like this!
Sunshine
0Hi. I don’t want to use collagen, whey, or any protein powder is there something else that I could substitute this ingredient for?
Thanks,
Sunshine
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Hi Sunshine, Is there a particular reason you don’t want to use those? They are protein bites and designed to be with a protein powder. You could possibly try a finely ground almond flour but the texture would be different and I can’t say for sure if you’d need to adjust the amount.
Angela
0Hello, I was wondering if I could sub unflavored collagen since that is what I have on hand and add some vanilla extract to help with the vanilla flavor. I completely agree with you that the collagen has huge benefits. I honestly didn’t know it came flavored so I’m excited to hunt for it soon but I wanted to try this recipe out this weekend.
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Hi Angela, Yes, you can definitely do that!
Jenny
0What if you don’t have any collagen peptides powder? Is there a substitute?
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Hi Jenny, I love collagen for its many benefits, but any kind of protein powder will work.
Jenn
0Can you use regular whey protein powder instead of the Vital Proteins Vanilla Collagen Peptides?
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Hi Jenn, Yes, you can. I just prefer the benefits of collagen and the vanilla collagen peptides add a really nice flavor, too.
Bill J. Miller
0I can’t wait to try these! I love cookie dough! I appreciate your kindness and time in sharing your recipes!
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Thank you so much, Bill! Let me know how you like them.
Elveta Verhoeve
0Can I substitute protein powder instead of the collagen?
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Hi Elveta, Yes, you can. The vanilla collagen peptides have great flavor and benefits, though. I hope you’ll give them a try!
Roberta
0Thanks Maya for all the options provided, dairy free included 🙂 ! I’ll try this recipe (with ghee instead of butter, think could be ok too), with unflavored Vital Protein collagen first of all because I don’t have the vanilla one you presented, but even if I had it I’d use it for drinks and cool foods/sweets because containing bacillus coagulans I’d like to have benefits from it, while it would die with cooking as all the probiotic… just to consider this. Great recipe as always 🙂
Maya | Wholesome Yum
0Thank you, Roberta! Yes, ghee would work great. The probiotic should survive with this recipe since they are no-bake cookie dough bites. 🙂 Come back and let me know how you liked them!