Monk Fruit Chocolate Chip Cookies Made with Almond Flour (2024)

Looking for monk fruit recipes? Following a high-fat, low-carb keto diet? This post includes my monk fruit-sweetened chocolate chip cookie recipe, which is made with nutrient-dense almond flour and monk fruit sweetener. It works well for those on the keto diet or anyone looking to cut back on sugar and carbs. This post contains affiliatelinks. Please see my disclosures.

Are you looking to make a delicious, lightly-sweetened monk fruit cookie? If so, you’re in the right place because I have a delicious treat awaiting you.

My monk fruit chocolate chip cookie recipe is definitely one worth printing, making, and then making over and over again.

That’s because these monk fruit chocolate chip cookies are grain free, sugar free (except for the chocolate chips, which I’ll talk about more later), and gluten free too.

You might be wondering how this soft, gooey and sweet cookie is all of these things?

Well, it’s all about the ingredients, and I’ll walk you though what ingredients you need to make these beautiful and tasty cookies. These cookies are perfect for anyone following a gluten-free lifestyle for medical reasons (like me with celiac disease), or anyone following the keto or low carb diet fad.

Key Ingredients

To make these monk fruit chocolate chip cookies low-carb, low-sugar and keto-friendly, I used the following ingredients.

(1) Monk Fruit Sweetener

First, I use monk fruit sweetener in lieu of sugar for this recipe. Specifically, I used ZenSweet’s Monk Fruit Sweetener because it measures cup-for-cup for sugar, and I was adapting my almond flour chocolate chip cookie recipe to be keto friendly. If a recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, you can simply swap it for 1 cup of ZenSweet Monk Fruit Sweetener.

ZenSweet’s Monk Fruit Sweetener contains three natural ingredients:

• Erythritol
• Soluble prebiotic fiber
• Monk fruit

According to the ZenSweet website, “Erythritol is a naturally occurring sweetener found in some foods, including pears, grapes, and watermelon. Inulin is a soluble, prebiotic fiber. Monk fruit is a small round green gourd grown in China and northern Thailand, and is 300 times sweeter than sugar.”

These three ingredients ensure that ZenSweet’s monk fruit sweetener is low glycemic, low sugar, low carb and totally gluten free.

When I use monk fruit, I find my baked goods to be sweet, although they do taste a tiny bit artificial. I didn’t find that ZenSweet left any bad after taste, and I honestly enjoyed the cookies very much.

(2) Blanched Almond Flour

Almond flour is a wonderful, naturally gluten-free flour and results in a moist and soft baked good. Because almond flour is made from ground blanched almonds, it’s considered grain free and therefore okay to enjoy on a low-carb or keto diet.

If you’re looking for tips to baking with almond flour, check out my popular article titled, Can You Use Almond Flour in Place of Regular Flour? It includes all the information you need to successfully work with almond flour.

You can use any blanched almond flour you have on hand. I personally like Bob’s Red Mill Almond Flour and Kirkland Almond Flour from Costco. These almond flour brands have a nice texture and bake up well each and every time.

The great thing about almond flour is that it’s low in sugar and carbohydrates but high in fat and protein. This means it ranks low on the glycemic index, making it a great “flour” option for diabetics or others who need or want to watch their sugar intake.

(3) Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips

Because I don’t follow the keto diet, nor worry about carbs, I use regular chocolate chips. I personally believe carbs are fuel and should not be avoided. Plus most “diets” don’t work (including the keto diet, which isn’t sustainable long term) unless they’re medically necessary diets, like the gluten-free diet is a medically necessary diet for me with celiac disease.

Regardless if you’re following a keto diet or just trying to cut back on sugar, the good news is that there are plenty of sugar-free chocolate chips you could use in lieu of regular chocolate chips.

There are several brands that make sugar-free chocolate chips, including:

• Lily’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (sweetened with stevia)
• Lakanto Chocolate Chips (sweetened with monk fruit)
• Keto Factory Chocolate Chips (sweetened with stevia)

How to Make Monk Fruit Chocolate Chip Cookies

It’s easy to make my delicious monk fruit-sweetened chocolate chip cookies with a few simple ingredients and in a few simple steps.

Step #1: Make Your Cookie Dough

First you’ll want to blend all of your dry ingredients including the almond flour, monk fruit sweetener, salt and baking soda in a large bowl. Then add your wet ingredients, including the softened (but not melted) butter, egg and vanilla.You can soften the butter but pulling it out of the fridge an hour before preparing this recipe.

Combine all the ingredients in the bowl until mixed well. I often use my hands to do this (using gloves) but you could use a mixer or spatula too.

Next, fold in the chocolate chips and prepare your cookie dough balls into 1″ balls (do not flatten) for baking.

You can form the dough balls by using your hands or a cookie scooper, and placing each ball on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Step #2: Bake the Cookies

Now it’s time to bake up the cookies. Bake them for about 12 minutes or until they’re slightly brown on the bottom but only slightly brown on top. You want them to be soft and gooey. Just look at these beauties!

Allow the cookies a few minutes to cool before transferring them to a wire rack to finish cooling. Enjoy these cookies warm for the best results. They’re soft and sweet with no gritty or weird aftertaste.

The cookies store well in a sealed container or zip top bag and can be enjoyed for several days after baking. If they taste stale after a few days, give them a quick zap in the microwave to soften them up.

Other Recipes to Try

Try the following recipes made with monk fruit sweetener and/or almond flour:

• Healthy Apple Cranberry Crisp Made with Monk Fruit
• Fast and Easy Grain-Free Almond Flour Bagel Recipe
• Melt In Your Mouth Almond Flour Pumpkin Cupcakes
• More coming soon!