Introduction to Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
You’ve definitely had chocolate chip cookies before, but have you ever heard of Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars? These delicious sugar-free, low-carb desserts will take your taste buds straight to heaven! All of that without raising your blood sugar or kicking you out of ketosis.
How to Make Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These keto cookie bars are everything you ever wanted in this reinvented version of a traditional chocolate chip cookie. Both chewy on the inside, and a bit crispy on the outside.
Ingredients
To make these keto chocolate chip cookie bars, we used the following ingredients:
- Almond flour: As one of the most popular keto diet flours to bake with, almond flour is used in keto recipes all the time. It’s high in fat, low in carbs, and gives any sugar-free keto treat a delicate texture. Remember, you can’t replace almond flour with coconut flour and vice versa.
- Coconut flour: We used a mix of both coconut flour and almond flour in this recipe to make our Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars to give them the consistency and balance we want.
- Baking powder: Remember to use baking powder and not baking soda – the latter needs an acid to be activated.
- Swerve: We used this low-carb friendly sweetener, but you can also use monk fruit sweetener if you like.
- Almond butter: Adding almond butter to any keto cookie bars is the ultimate key to a chewy yet delicious texture.
- Butter: The organic, grass-fed kind is the best butter you can get. It has lots of health benefits and it will help your Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie bars become tender and give them just the right amount of that “chewy” texture.
- Eggs: You want organic, room temperature eggs. In comparison to eggs right out of the fridge, warming them up a bit will help mix ingredients more thoroughly and evenly.
- Chocolate chips: There’s no Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars without chocolate, so pick one that’s keto and low-carb friendly.
- Vanilla extract: We’re opting for pure vanilla extract here. It’s one of those ingredients I can’t personally live without when it comes to keto dessert cuisine, and adding it to cookie dough is one of my favorite ideas as well.
- Molasses (optional): Although molasses is not keto-friendly, we’re only using a teaspoon in this keto chocolate chip bars recipe. You can leave it out, but we used it to elevate the taste and mimic brown sugar.
FAQs
Are Chocolate Chips Keto?
Not all chocolate chips are created equal. Make sure to get sugar-free chocolate chips, most preferably suitable for the low-carb keto lifestyle and low in net carbs. If you can’t find chocolate sweetened with stevia, erythritol, or monk fruit, go for sugar-free chocolate with the highest amount of cocoa inside.
How Do I Store Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars?
You can store them in the fridge for up to 10 days. Depending on your preference, you might even like them more after they spend a night in the fridge – that’s when they become a little chewier and a tad more dense. To freeze, put your chocolate chip cookie bars between parchment paper and then in a ziplock bag or some kind of an airtight container suitable for freezing.
Conclusion
Let us know how our keto chocolate chip bars turned out for you! Maybe you added some ingredients and the finished result tasted amazing? We’d love to get in on more ideas from your keto kitchen!
About the Author
Written by Matt Gaedke
Matt is a former college basketball player turned computer engineer who discovered his passion for health and nutrition after cutting sugar from his diet in 2016. That year he founded KetoConnect with Megha in order to share their ketogenic lifestyle through recipes, videos, and educational content. Matt is always seeking to grow and try new things, a passion he shares with his wife and two amazing sons.
