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Low Carb Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie with crispy, buttery edges and a sweet and fudgy cookie dough centre!
Browned butter skillet cookie? YES! A low carb, dairy free, gluten free with a VEGAN option KETO indulgent Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie.
KETO (LOW CARB)
Providing you with indulgent low carb dessert recipes (like these Low Carb Zucchini Brownies or this chocolate mousse) has been AWESOME! Because a low carb lifestyle shouldn’t mean we can’t enjoy indulgence…right? I mean, we can’t live on salads and meat forever. We need cookies, and cakes, and cheesecakes.
I think you’ll prefer this skillet cookie instead of our Nutella Stuffed Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie. Yes. I’m serious.
HOW TO MAKE A LOW CARB (KETO) COOKIE
This cookie is made with easy to find ingredients, or perhaps ingredients you already have in your cupboards:
- Almond flour (make sure you use fine almond FLOUR — light yellow in colour — and NOT almond MEAL).
- Brown sugar substitute/sweetener
- Your preferred low carb white granulated sweetener, like Swerve or Natvia for baking. (Natural sweetener can be subbed with coconut sugar or regular white sugar if you like. You will need to recalculate nutritional macros.)
- Sugar free chocolate chips (we use Lily’s). You can also use Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips for a dairy free alternative or just add in your fave chocolate chips if not following strict KETO.
For a vegan option, replace the egg with 1 flax egg
The cookie dough! It’s so good you may begin eating it out of the bowl.
Thick and creamy with the nutty flavour of rich browned butter. A slightly different cookie dough texture than my other skillet cookies… this one is pressed it down into your already brown buttered pan.
If you don’t have a cast iron skillet, you can brown the butter in a normal pan and use a pie dish to bake the cookie.
A low carb skillet cookie. Yes, this is real life.
For more skillet desserts:
Nutella Stuffed Reese’s Peanut Butter Choc Chip Skillet Cookie
Ferrero Rocher Deep Dish Skillet Brownie Cookie
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Low Carb Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 egg large
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons sweetener brown sugar substitute, or coconut sugar if not strict KETO
- 1/4 cup natural granulated sweetener (Swerve Granular or Natvia Baking Blend)**
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 cup sugar free chocolate chips Lily's Dark Chocolate Premium but you can use Enjoy Life chocolate chips for a dairy free option
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (176°C). Heat the butter in a 9-inch cast iron skillet over high heat until bubbling. Reduce heat down to low; cover pan (optional but prevents butter spitting everywhere), and continue to cook while stirring occasionally until the butter begins to brown. (Be careful when lifting the lid off the pan as the butter may spit.) Once browned, remove from heat and allow to cool for about 5 minutes.
- While butter is cooling, whisk together the egg and vanilla extract. Add the sugar and sweetener and whisk again until combined. Add the butter once it has cooled and mix well.
- Sift in the almond flour (press any lumps gently over the sieve to sift quicker); add the salt and half the chocolate chips; mix through gently until the batter is well combined and creamy. It will be a little thicker than cookie dough. Spoon batter into skillet; top with remaining chocolate chips.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until set on the top when pressed lightly and a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cookie comes out clean.
- Serve with No Sugar ice cream or frozen yogurt and enjoy!
Notes
- Replace egg with 1 flax egg for VEGAN substitute
- Natural sweetener can be subbed with coconut sugar or regular white sugar if you like. You will need to recalculate nutritional macros.
- Make sure you use fine almond FLOUR (light yellow in colour) and NOT almond MEAL.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Natasha! It will be fine with a sugar sub!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe! I just made it for the first time and though I cooked it about 5 minutes too long (which resulted in a slightly dry finished product) it was DELICIOUS. I will be making this one regularly!
For those asking about subbing the Swerve with Truvia baking blend, I just did this with outstanding results. I also used 2 T of Truvia brown sugar instead of the coconut sugar.
THANK YOU!!! for an awesome recipe . I too react to sugar with a blood sugar dump….even “natural sugar” in fruit. I’m anxious to try coconut sugar and this looks like a treat my grandchildren will love!! Our bodies can certainly throw us a curve ball, but there are a lot of things we have control over and what we put in our mouths is one.
I didn’t think coconut sugar was low carb….. I’m going to have a have a go at it using xylitol (naturally occurring sugar from beech trees) looks amazing! TFS!
This looks amazing, found you via Pinterest-I can’t eat nuts though, would coconut flour work do you think or maybe spelt flour? x
I would lean more towards spelt flour (light spelt if possible!)
I missed the instructions for adding the remaining half of the chips.
Hi Eunice! I’ve just fixed that up. Thank you for noticing! 🙂
Sunflower seeds meal worked great. You caused an emergency grocery trip for chocolate chips!
I am LCHF, and sugar is a big no because of the fructose/insulin reaction. I do use swerve. Have you tried replacing the sugar in this recipe with all swerve?
I Naomi. I’ve used swerve in this with success, but to replace the coconut sugar, I use a brown sugar substitute 🙂
Hello,
These cookies look amazing! However I’d like to make them completely with out any kinds of sugar. Have you tried using just truvia and if yes, how much? I’m a complete THM and want to avoid all sugars. Thank you!
Hi Debbie. I haven’t substituted with Truvia but I have used a natural sweetener that measures a cup for cup with sugar. If Truvia measures a cup for cup with sugar, I’d suggest following the the measurements in the recipe 🙂
Kudos for beating the Stage 4B Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer. I just made your great cookie, thanks for sharing it with us. I’ll never again be without a Low Carb Chocolate Chip Cookie, Instead of butter I used low cal. margarine. Next time I’m going to use sunflower meal, to see how it works, instead of almond meal.
Thank you so much Earl! Please let me know how you go with the Sunflower meal. I’d love to hear of it works out with the same result!