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These Keto Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies are soft, chewy, grain-free, dairy-free, and low-carb!
Bake up a batch for an after-dinner dessert, holiday gathering, or work party and everyone who tries one is sure to be impressed!
Soft, Chewy Cookies
Previously, I shared one of my personal favorite recipes, Low-Carb Cookies, which has quickly also become a reader favorite. Using those cookies as inspiration, I developed this recipe to be just as soft and delectable as the original, plus the addition of THE BEST flavor combo: chocolate and sea salt!
Diet-Friendly Dessert Recipe
Made with simple and wholesome ingredients, these cookies are very diet-friendly, making them a great dessert option to bring to parties and gatherings so everyone is able to enjoy!
- Low-Carb and Keto: At only 1.6 grams per serving, there are minimal carbs in these cookies!
- Paleo: Grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and refined-sugar-free, these Keto Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies are about to be your new favorite paleo treat!
- Dairy-Free: Coconut oil is used in this recipe in place of butter or ghee. This makes these cookies perfect for someone with a dairy allergy or lactose intolerance!
- Gluten-Free and Grain-Free: Made with almond flour, these cookies are free from grains and gluten.
- Vegetarian: In addition to these cookies being low-carb and paleo-compliant, they are also vegetarian-friendly!
- Refined-Sugar-Free: These cookies are sweetened with keto-friendly and net-carb-free monk fruit sweetener!
Looking for more information on monk fruit sweetener? I wrote a post answering all of your most frequently asked questions… check it out here!
Net Carbs
With only 1.6g net carbs per serving, these cookies are perfect for your ketogenic diet!
Diets This Recipe Is Compliant With
This recipe is low-carb, keto, paleo, dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, vegetarian, and refined-sugar-free.
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These Keto Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies are soft, chewy, and totally irresistible! They are keto, low-carb, paleo, dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, vegetarian, refined-sugar-free, and only 1.6g net carbs per serving!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup coconut oil, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup golden monk fruit sweetener (use code “REALBALANCED” for 20% off Lakanto products)
- 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- 2 cups almond flour
- Flakey sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium-sized bowl, using a hand mixer, mix together coconut oil, eggs, and vanilla extract until well-combined.
- To the same bowl, add monk fruit sweetener, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, and cream of tartar. Mix using hand mixer until fully incorporated.
- One cup at a time, add almond flour and mix together with hand mixer.
- Form dough into balls and lightly press down and place on prepared baking sheet (NOTE: cookies will spread when baking so be sure to place them about 2-3 inches apart.)
- Add desired amount of sea salt to top of each cookie.
- One baking sheet at a time, bake cookies until toothpick can be poked into center and comes out cleanly, about 15-18 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
- Once cooled, carefully peel the parchment paper away from the bottom of the cookie.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Is 12.8g carbs per serving or total?
Hi, JZ! 12.8g total carbs per cookie, 1.6g net carbs per cookie. My recipes are developed based on net carb content. Please note that total carbs and net carbs are different. To calculate net carbs, subtract fiber and sugar alcohols from total carbs.
Mine also turned out flat as a pancake, even though I followed the recipe to a T. I also ended up putting them in cupcake cups, which definitely helped. Despite this, the batter and flavor are excellent. I will use the broken bits from the first few flat-broken ones to season my yogurt :).
Thank you for your feedback, Scot! I love the idea of adding the cookie pieces to yogurt! YUM!
This is a great tasting recipe. My first batch was super flat, so the second I put in a mini muffin pan. I think my dough was too smooshy from the warm coconut oil. My kids didn’t know they were made with fake sugar and almond flour and ate them all right away. This is a great recipe and I can think of so many ways to use this to make muffins, a cake, adding PB powder, chocolate chips, ice cream…. solid recipe.
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So glad you enjoyed, Brittany! Thanks so much for your feedback! And, rest assured, monk fruit sweetener is natural and not fake whatsoever! 🙂
Looks delicious! Can you sub coconut sugar for the monk fruit sweetener?
Thank you!!
Hi, Stacey! Yes, you can sub in coconut sugar here! Just note that the carb content will increase significantly. Enjoy!
Thanks so much! My 4 year old is very excited to make there! Will let you know how they turn out!!
Please do!!
Sounds delicious! I’m going to make these tonight.
Do you sprinkle the salt on top before they bake or after they come out of the oven?
great question! I just updated the recipe to reflect the instructions on that! Add the sea salt prior to baking (after the dough is shaped into a cookie and placed on the baking sheet). Thanks, Linda! Enjoy!
You’re a MILWAUKEEAN!!! Me too 🙂 I’ve been getting your emails for a while now, I can’t even remember how I signed up LOL. And I finally read the side of your page. So happy to see other midwesterners take to the Keto approach. I’d love to meet for coffee someday and pick your brain 🙂
HI! Yay for MKE! So happy to connect with you, Vanessa! Thank you for supporting my site!
Wow again YUMMMMMMMMMY
so yummy! Thanks!