3-Ingredient Almond Flour Cookies

You are going to just love this low carb keto almond flour cookies recipe. They are gluten free, have only 3 (yeah 3 basic) ingredients and are so versatile. Don’t miss my tips and flavour variations below.

The Ingredients

Scroll to the bottom of this post for the amount of each ingredient needed to make these gluten-free almond flour cookies.

Just 3 simple everyday keto pantry ingredients.

• Almond Flour – Use blanched almond flour or almond meal. Unless you are nut free you are likely to have some almond meal in your pantry. We have a lot of keto almond flour recipes and this happens to be possibly my favourite. Scroll to the hot tips for my best substitutions. If you need a nut free recipe, you could try this coconut flour cookies recipe. I haven’t made any so far, but will get around to it one day.
• Powdered Erythritol – Make sure you use a sweetener that recrystallises in this recipe. Powdered erythritol or erythritol monk fruit blend or erythritol stevia sweeteners are best. Sweeteners such as allulose or xylitol do not crisp as much when they cool and will result in a soft cookie.
• Butter – honestly, I use salted or unsalted it is up to you! For a vegan almond flour cookie simply replace the butter with coconut butter. It does add a coconut flavour and a crisper, denser texture to the cookies.

Flavour Variations

Making your almond flour cookies recipes into new flavours is so easy. Here are just a few of my favourite ways to make them.

1. Choc Chip Sea Salt Cookies 🍫🧂

Fold in sugar-free dark chocolate chips and finish with a sprinkle of flaky sea salt before baking. The perfect balance of sweet and salty!

2. Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies 🍋✨

Add zest of one lemon and 1 teaspoon of poppy seeds to the dough. Drizzle with a sugar-free lemon glaze for an extra zingy touch!

3. Cinnamon Spice Snickerdoodles 🍪🔥

Mix in 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and ¼ teaspoon of nutmeg. Roll the dough balls in a blend of cinnamon and sweetener before baking for a warm, spiced treat!

4. Oatmeal cookies with almond flour are also a possibility with a low carb option. I use Lupin Flakes from Lupins For Life for the most amazing keto oatmeal recipes! Lupin flour (and flakes) are really low in carbs, gluten free and a great source of plant-based protein.

5. Almond Flour Chocolate Cookie 🍪🍫

Mix in 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder to the mixture. Add a handful of sugar-free chocolate chips and bake. I would dip half of these delicious gluten free cookies in some melted chocolate as well for a touch of extra decadence and yumminess!

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1. Add all the ingredients to a food processor or large mixing bowl. Pulse or mix until combined. To make the almond flour cookies in a Thermomix; mix the ingredients 15 sec/speed 6.

Optional step 2. To make almond flour chocolate chip cookies, fold in half a cup chocolate chips, nuts etc. that you want in your almond cookies.

Step 2. Roll the dough into a log and wrap it in cling film. You can roll as one large log or into smaller logs. I split the mixture and flavour it in different ways and wrap it individually. Freeze for 1 hour or more.

Step 3. Remove the cookie dough from the freezer and after 5 minutes rest slice with a sharp chefs knife into cookies. You can cut as thick or as thin as you prefer. Place onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Bake in a preheated oven for 10-12 minutes.

Step 4. These delicious healthy almond flour cookies are ready when they are slightly golden around the edges but still blonde in the centre. Leave on the tray to cool at room temperature and they will continue to crisp up.

Frequently Asked Questions

Lastly, you can substitute the dairy for coconut butter (not oil) as above for a dairy-free, paleo and keto almond flour cookie. If you want to use coconut oil, then try a different recipe like this Gluten Free Thin Mints Cookies recipe. You can still make them low carb, just swap the maple syrup for a fibre syrup.

More Recipes to Try

We have more than a few keto cookies that you can enjoy. Here are just a few of my favourite low carb cookies that might just go well with a coffee (and a chocolate chip almond flour cookie too).

1. Keto Monte Carlo Cookie
2. Keto Iced Vovo Biscuits
3. The Best Keto Brookies Recipe
4. Keto Nutella (just so you can make your own keto chocolate sandwich cookies like I have)!

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Keto Almond Flour Cookies

These Keto Almond Flour Cookies are so incredibly easy to make. Buttery, short and delicately sweetened. Only 3 ingredients and incredibly easy to bake.

5 from 110 votes!

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Prep Time: 5 minutes mins

Cook Time: 10 minutes mins

Freeze: 1 hour hr

Total Time: 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course: Dessert Snack

Cuisine: American, Australian Keto

Diet: Gluten Free

Recipe Category: Low Carb

Calories: 173kcal

Author: Megan Ellam

Servings: 12 serves (2 cookies per serve)

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Ingredients 

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• ▢ 1/2 cup unsalted butter 110g, butter must be chilled and cut into cubes
• ▢ 90 g (½ cups) powdered erythritol
• ▢ 2 cups blanched almond flour or almond meal 240g
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract optional

Instructions

CONVENTIONAL METHOD

• Place all the ingredients into a food processor and pulse until the mixture comes together.
• Transfer the dough to a silicone mat and shape the mixture into a log. Wrap in cling film and chill in the freezer for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 160°C.
• Remove the shortbread from the freezer and allow it to rest for 5 minutes. Using a sharp knife slice 1cm thick cookies and place them onto the prepared baking tray. The dough should still be frozen and firm.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes. The shortbread will be very soft when you remove it from the oven. Leave to cool down completely (1-2 hours) and the pastry will crisp up upon cooling. Refrigerate after the shortbread has cooled completely.

THERMAL METHOD

• Place all the ingredients into the mixer; mix 15 sec/speed 6. The dough is very soft at this stage. Follow from step 2 in the conventional method.

Notes

VARIATIONS

Flavour the shortbread with any extracts, zest, unsweetened cacao, spices, if preferred.

SUBSTITUTIONS

For a vegan and dairy-free alternative, replace the butter with coconut butter.

Use 2 cups almond flour or blanched almond meal. 1 cup weighs approximately 120g. Try other nut flours such as hazelnut or macadamia meal. Do not substitute coconut flour as the quantities will be very different.

For a nut-free keto pie crust try a 50/50 mix of pepita and sun flour (untested).

Any powdered sweetener with a ratio of 1:1 (to sugar) can be used. It is not recommended to reduce the sweetener as it does help the pastry to crisp.

STORAGE

Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 month or freeze in an airtight container.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1serve (2 cookies per serve) | Calories: 173kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 2mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 236IU | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 1mg | Magnesium: 1mg | Net Carbs: 1g

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Megan Ellam is an Australian keto recipes blogger living in Thornton, NSW. She is the author of amazing keto cookbooks such as Slow Cook Keto, Keto Loco, Simply Delicious, and Every Day Keto.

Megan has been following a ketogenic diet since being diagnosed with insulin resistance in early 2017. After a long cooking career Megan simply swapped her “foodie focus” to easy keto recipes. Her keto Australian recipes all include both metric and US customary measures so that everyone can enjoy them.

Megan also makes all the recipes suitable for conventional cooks, Thermomix recipes and thermal cookers e.g. Magimix recipes.

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