3-Ingredient Almond Flour Cookies

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

Why We Love this Recipe

These almond flour cookies are my absolute favourite keto cookie recipe.

Versatile – these can be flavoured in so many ways! Add any nuts, seeds, sugar-free chocolate and extracts.

Low carb – these are keto almond flour cookies with less than 1g net carbs per serve. Each cookie if made to the recipe is approximately 0.4g net carbs per serve.

Everyday ingredients – Made with everyday ingredients found in most pantries.

Quick and easy – ridiculously easy to mix and bake.

Thermomix friendly – these cookies can be mixed easily in your Thermomix, Magimix or food processor in no time and with easy cleanup.

Keep reading for more details on the ingredients, substitutes and step by step instructions on how to make them.

Related recipes: Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies / Homemade Keto Chocolate

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 – 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.
• Powdered Erythritol – I use Sukrin Melis. For me Sukrin’s sugar free icing mixture has no weird aftertaste. It is zero calorie and zero carb. Make sure you use a sweetener that recrystallises in this recipe. It is best to use brands such as Natvia, Lakanto or Sukrin. 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. I love this alternative as much as the original recipe.

Flavour Variations

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

• Dip them in chocolate or add a handful of sugar free choc chips for some almond flour choc chip cookies. There are so many sugar free chocolates available these days. Keto choc chip cookies should be in every cookie jar (in my opinion)!
• Extracts or zest. Finely grated lemon rind for a tasty keto lemon cookie. Or Cinnamon oil for a tasty low carb snickerdoodle cookie.
• 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.

Step by Step Instructions

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

Optional step 2. Fold in any choc 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 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 lined baking tray and bake in a preheated oven for 10-12 minutes.

Step 4. The 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 and they will continue to crisp up.

Recipe Tips and FAQs

Lastly, you can substitute the dairy for coconut butter (not oil) as above for a dairy-free, paleo and keto almond flour cookie. Nut-free substitutions are also in the recipe card below.

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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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, The Healthy Family Keto Cookbook 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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