Keto Magic Cookies
These Keto Magic Cookies take all the flavors of my popular keto magic bars and turn them into a cookie that mixes up in only 5 minutes. With chocolate chips, coconut flakes, and walnuts these are my favorite easy keto cookie recipe.
I love simplifying recipes. When I created this recipe I had four kids with baby number five soon to arrive. Now, with 6 in the house simple is even more necessary.
I love my Keto Magic Cookie Bars and I consider them a fairly easy recipe but the prep for those is about 25 minutes when you consider having to cook the sweetened condensed milk. And then that’s an additional pot to wash. I wanted a simpler version for when I don’t already have a batch of condensed milk ready to go in the fridge.
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Since creating this recipe in 2017 a bunch of copycats of this keto dessert recipe have popped up. That’s how I know I had a creative, unique, delicious idea!
Ingredients in Keto Magic Cookies
Coconut Cream – Coconut cream is the thick part of coconut milk. It either comes in small cans or you can refrigerate a can of regular coconut milk and just use the solid part. I have had readers sub in heavy cream successfully.
Large Egg Yolks – This recipe needs egg as the binder. You could use a small egg instead of two egg yolks if you prefer. You only want a few tablespoons of egg.
Butter – I use regular salted butter in these keto cookies. If you have unsalted butter you will want to add a pinch of kosher salt.
Sugar-Free Sweetener – I like to use a blend of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia in my recipes. You can purchase this pre-mixed from the Trim Healthy Mama website or mix your own according to my recipe. By using a combination of sugar alcohols and stevia you can use half the amount required of regular sugar. Since these sweeteners can be more expensive this helps with my food budget.
Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips – I use Lily’s Chocolate Chips or ChocZero Chocolate Chips most of the time but any sugar-free chocolate chips will work.
Unsweetened Coconut Flakes – these are the larger coconut chips, not the finely shredded coconut. These have a chewy texture that is great in granola, cookies, and trail mix.
Walnuts – Or any other nut you like!
How to Make Keto Magic Cookies
I promise these really take just 5 minutes to mix up! One bowl, a spoon, some mixing, and then scooping and baking.
Step One: Stir together the liquid ingredients and sweetener is a medium to large bowl with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula.
Step Two: Stir in the chocolate, nuts, and coconut.
Step Three: Drop batter (heaping teaspoonfuls of cookie dough) on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Step Four: Bake the keto magic cookies until golden brown.
Note: Don’t be disturbed if there is a little runoff from the cookies coming out of the oven. Just trim off the excess and enjoy your keto cookies. And go ahead and eat what you trimmed. It tastes like vanilla custard. You can also bake these in greased aluminum cupcake papers to avoid this step.
UPDATE: Since posting this recipe I have had readers make these keto cookies in a muffin tin and aluminum cupcake liners to avoid the runoff of the custard.
Variations & Substitutions
Nuts – Any type of nuts is great in these! Pecans, macadamia nuts, almonds, and peanuts all work well.
Chocolate – You can use any type of chocolate you like: dark chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, or even white chocolate chips. Just choose sugar-free chocolate to keep this low carb and keto.
Dried Fruit – Most dried fruit is not keto-friendly but you can add some sugar-free dried cranberries.
Spices – Cinnamon is my top choice of spice to add but pumpkin pie spice, apple pie spice, or even a hit of spice like cayenne pepper or ground chipotle pepper can be a fun twist to try.
Extracts – Vanilla extract and almond extract are great choices. If you choose to add a teaspoon or so of extract cut back on the coconut cream by a teaspoon.
Common Questions
What are Keto Magic Cookies?
These magic keto cookies are so easy and flavorful. The taste exactly like Magic Cookie Bars without the crust. And that’s what they are. Crustless magic cookie bars. They are going to be my new go-to dessert to hide in the back of my fridge where my kids can’t find them.
Can I Swap Out the Nuts or Coconut?
Feel free to customize these keto cookies to your tastes. Don’t like walnuts? Use pecans. Don’t like coconut? Use extra nuts. The main thing is to have 1.5 cups of mix-ins for your keto magic cookies. I’m planning on trying these with white chocolate and unsweetened dried cranberries this fall.
Feel free to use different nuts, chopped milk chocolate, or any other type of yummy sugar-free sweet in these magical keto cookies.
Can I make this into a keto cereal?
Yup! If you cut back on the chocolate and sweetener you can also make this into a granola-type cereal. It is similar to my granola recipe here.
Other Recipes for Keto Cookies:
Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Triple Chocolate Cookies Recipe
Love these keto magic cookies? Try my new Caramel Magic Cookie Bars and my White Chocolate Cranberry Seven Layer Bars!
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Keto Magic Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp coconut cream ***
- 2 tbsp butter softened, not melted
- 1/4 cup Joy Filled Eats Sweetener (or see alternatives in recipe notes)
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup sugar-free chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup walnuts (or other nuts of your choice)
- 1/2 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
- 1 tsp coconut flour optional (see notes)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Stir together the butter and coconut cream until smooth. Add the sweetener and egg yolks. Mix well. Add the rest of the ingredients. Scoop onto a parchment lined baking sheet to form 12 cookies. Press down to flatten the tops.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until golden.
Notes
Nutrition
Originally Published August 17, 2017. Revised and Republished April 8, 2022.
Taryn,
Thank you for this recipe. I made it last night (with pecans and chopped 85% dark choc) in order to have something to eat instead of dessert at our church luncheon today. The cookies are delicious! My husband says they are better than regular (non THM) brownies!
Hi Taryn, these cookies look delicious. I am baking for someone who is dairy free, do you think they would work using coconut oil?
Yes, I think so.
Your recipes look awesome! I’m so glad you have low sugar , gliluten free and some dairy free options! I love that you do pecan pralines, toffee and other caramel type desserts low sugar!!!! Thank you for being so generous to share them!
Can you use Swerve instead? If so, how much?
I think swerve would work but I haven’t tried it. You will need more. Maybe twice as much.
These look great! Could I use honey for the sweetener instead?
I’m not sure that would work. If you decide to try cut back on the coconut cream and bake them in a silicone muffin tin or a baking dish. They’ll probably spread too much otherwise.
They were delicious!! Thx for the recipe! I made it into one rectangle and then cut it into 12 squares after baking. Really good!!
Mine didn’t hold together well prior to putting in oven. It was very liquidity. Maybe I’m doning something wrong?
Was your coconut cream pretty solid?
This is where I messed up. I used the coconut cream you buy beside the alcoholic drink mixes, not even looking at it! 49 carbs in 1/4 c!! Also, very liquidy, so my cookies didn’t even hold together well. I found myself thinking, “Flatten them? They are already flat!” lol I learned from my mistake, and will make these again as my husband and I loved the taste. Thank you for such a tasty recipe.
I found the recipe worked best for me to double the nuts and shredded coconut.
Look yummy, and I can’t wait to try! Would heavy whipping cream work instead of the coconut cream? Wasn’t sure of the cc consistency/thickness vs hwc. Thanks for the new recipe!
I don’t think heavy cream would be thick enough. They might work with 3 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp heavy cream. Or a nut butter could work but would change the taste and texture a bit.
I was really looking forward to trying these! However, when I put the ingredients into My Fitness Pal, it calculated that each cookie is 9 grams of carbs if the recipe makes 12 cookies. This is now to me – even using My Fitness Pal. Am I doing something wrong when entering it in the app? Thanks, Sharon
You have to subtract the sugar alcohols. My fitness pal doesn’t do that so I do it manually.
Is there a way I can modify your dessert recipes to only use Stevia? The other on plan sweeteners make me sick. Would I have to change the amount of liquids I add to it?
There is no easy sub to use stevia in all of my recipes. It might work to just use stevia in this one. I would cut back on the coconut cream to 1 tbsp. This sweetener chart might be helpful: https://trimhealthymama.com/#usefulinfo
Have tou tried the white chocolate an dried cranberries? ( thought we couldnt do dried fruit but sounds delicious!)
Not yet. Unsweetened cranberries are ok since their sugar content is pretty low.
I bought the coconut cream from a link on Facebook. I plan to use it in these bars and your Raspberry Truffle Bark both of which sound yummy. Can i use it in place of sweetened condensed milk in other recipes? Adding sweetener of course.
I think so. I haven’t tried yet. You might have to reduce it a little further by cooking it with the sweetener.
What can you substitute for coconut cream?
I have not tried with other ingredients yet. I don’t think heavy cream would be thick enough. They might work with 3 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp heavy cream. Or a nut butter could work but would change the taste and texture a bit.
Is coconut butter the same as coconut cream?
No, but I think coconut butter would work in this.
Oh my gosh! Brilliant idea. I love the simplicity and quickness. Thanks!
Taryn these look delicious and I have all the ingredients! Do I need to refrigerate the coconut cream or use at room temperature? thank you.
Mine was room temp.
What equivalent to sugar is this? It’s helpful to know so you can use whatever sweetener you prefer. I am not familiar with these sweeteners and I don’t want to purchase a different sweetener for every recipe I find. 🙂
It is twice as sweet as sugar.
Anything you can use to substitute for the coconut cream?
I have not tried with other ingredients yet. I don’t think heavy cream would be thick enough. They might work with 3 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp heavy cream. Or a nut butter could work but would change the taste and texture a bit.
Do you think they will bake ok without the sweetener?
I’m not sure. They get a little sweetness from the chocolate but probably not enough.
Can you use coconut butter instead of coconut cream?
I think so. I would warm the coconut butter a bit so it is easier to mix in.