This Keto Brown Sugar Cookies recipe uses Swerve’s brown sugar substitute to make delicious low carb brown sugar cookies.
Hi ho.
School’s out for the day, so my 10 year old son and I are eating brown sugar cookies and watching funny videos on Youtube.
We’re both big Studio C fans.
Studio C is this comedy troupe made up entirely of Mormons, so they are all about good clean fun. I love their sketches because they are completely safe to watch with my kids. One of our favorite new sketches is below. It’s a period piece about star crossed lovers. I won’t give any more away because you kind of just have to see it.
And not to brag, but the Keto Brown Sugar Cookies turned out really well.
The fact that my son is eating them should tell you something. (He almost never eats low carb diet food willingly.) But these little beauties passed the kid test. I used Swerve Brown to sweeten them. The base of the cookie is almond butter, so they are soft with a nice chew to them. And each cookie has just 2g net carbs, so you can afford to eat a couple.
Preferably while watching good clean Mormon comedy.
📋 Recipe
Keto Brown Sugar Cookies
This recipe uses Swerve's brown sugar substitute to make delicious brown sugar cookies.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 26
- Total Time: 41 minutes
- Yield: 20 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond butter*
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- ¼ cup Swerve or equivalent granulated sweetener
- ½ cup Brown Swerve or equivalent brown sugar substitute
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
Step 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and cover 2 large cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Step 2. In a large bowl, beat together almond butter, eggs and vanilla with an electric mixer.
Step 3. In a medium sized bowl, mix together coconut flour, both sweeteners, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
Step 4. Beat the dry ingredients into the wet.
Step 5. Scoop out tablespoon sized portions of dough and use your hands to roll them into balls. The dough will be oily. That's ok. Place 8 cookies per cookie sheet. It will take 3 cookie sheets for all the dough, so bake the first two and then reuse one cookie sheet for the remaining cookies.
Step 6. Bake for 11-13 minutes until bottoms begin to brown.
Notes
*If you take these cookies to a party, make sure to clearly mark that they contain nuts. Most people don’t expect a cookie to use almond butter, so people with nut allergies might inadvertently eat one.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 medium sized cookie
- Calories: 92
- Fat: 7
- Carbohydrates: 4
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 4
Keywords: Low Carb Brown Sugar Cookie, Keto Brown Sugar Cookie, Brown Sugar Cookie
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If you like low carb cookies like this one, then you might like my Compost, Molasses, and Keto Christmas Cookies.
Linda Russell says
Is this cookie frezeable?
EmilyKrill says
Sure!
E says
YUMMY!! Made these today and followed the recipe to a T...turned out PERFECT!!! They taste GREAT!! Thanks for the recipe, I will absolutely make these again!!
EmilyKrill says
Yay! Thanks.
Leslie N says
Does it need to be stir free almond butter?
EmilyKrill says
No, just make sure to stir the oil in as much as you can.
Mariah Cano says
Can you use regular butter instead of almond butter or coconut oil instead ?
EmilyKrill says
No, you need the almond butter to hold the cookie together.
Amanda Maloney says
Mine turned out green in the middle? Lol what could have happened?
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EmilyKrill says
Wow, this is a new one. I have no idea why that happened. I've used sunflower butter and had things go green before, but never with these ingredients. You got me.
Becky Champ says
Could you use almond flour instead of the coconut flour for this?
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EmilyKrill says
No, it was designed to work with coconut flour. Almond and coconut flour absorb liquid much differently so it’s a bit of a trick to convert a recipe from one flour to another.
k says
why do you use baking powder in keto desserts?
this is the second recipe i have tried and the cookies don't seem to rise.
just wondering
EmilyKrill says
Interesting point. I haven’t tried skipping the baking powder, so I’m not sure how it would be. Let me know if you give it a try.
If you’d like a fully Keto baking powder, you can mix it together yourself using one part baking soda and two parts cream of tartar. That cuts the carb count in half. Here’s a post I wrote about it.
https://www.resolutioneats.com/blog/diy-low-carb-baking-powder/
Christine Cannata says
Love these cookies
★★★★★
EmilyKrill says
Yay! Thanks.
Julie says
I've never heard of brown sugar cookies before, but they were really good. I used Sukrin Gold instead of Swerve Brown. Still worked fine.
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EmilyKrill says
Good to know. Thanks for telling me about that substitution. I've uses Sukrin Gold in the past and liked it too.