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These sugar free cookies are soft, chewy, and need just 3 ingredients to make! I love how they bake in just 10 minutes.
Want more sugar free desserts? Try my keto blondies, sugar free condensed milk, and sugar free fudge.
Having a father with diabetes means I am regularly making dessert for him without sugar. He has a few favorites up his sleeve, but when he requests a diabetic-friendly cookie, I make him my famous sugar free cookies!
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Why I love this recipe
- 3 Ingredients. No flour and no grains are needed, just pantry staples!
- Quick and easy. With less than two minutes of prep and ten minutes of cooking time, these could not be any easier.
- Low in carbs. Not only are these completely sugar-free, but they are also keto-friendly.
- No bitter aftertaste. Sugar substitutes are known for leaving desserts with a slightly bitter taste but not these ones!
Ingredients needed
- Peanut butter or almond butter. Smooth and creamy with no added sugar (just look for one with a touch of salt).
- Sugar substitute. I like to use allulose, but you can try a brown sugar substitute, or powdered sugar substitute.
- Egg. Always use room-temperature eggs. It prevents the cookies from crumbling once cooled.
How to make sugar free cookies
I’ve included step-by-step photos below to make this recipe easy to follow at home. For the full printable recipe instructions and ingredient quantities, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
Step 1- Make the dough. Start by creaming together the peanut butter, sugar substitute, and egg until a thick and sticky dough remains. Be sure to mix everything very well, to ensure the peanut butter is completely immersed.
Step 2– Shape the cookies. Next, using a cookie scoop, scoop out portions of the dough and place them on a lined baking sheet. Press down on the balls of dough into a thick cookie shape.
Step 3- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges just begin to firm up.
Step 4- Let them set. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool completely.
Recipe tips and variations
- Do not over-bake the cookies as they continue to firm up as they are cooling down. Once they begin to brown around the edges they are ready to be removed from the oven.
- If you’d prefer thicker cookies, add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and refrigerate the dough for 40 minutes. This will also help them from over-spreading.
- You can make the dough up to 48 hours in advance. When ready to bake the cookies, let them sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Use a liquid sweetener. Instead of a granulated sugar substitute, use half a cup of sugar free maple syrup.
- Add chocolate. For sugar free chocolate chip cookies, add 1/2 cup of sugar free chocolate chips to the batter.
- Make it eggless. Follow a vegan diet or don’t have eggs on hand? Try using an egg substitute.
Storage instructions
To store: Leftovers can keep at room temperature, covered, for up to one week. If you’d like them to keep longer, store them in the refrigerator for up to four weeks.
To freeze: Place the cookies in a ziplock bag and store them in the freezer for up to six months.
More sugar free cookie recipes
- Keto chocolate chip cookies
- Coconut flour cookies
- Almond flour cookies
- Keto shortbread cookies
- Keto sugar cookies
Sugar Free Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Almond butter can sub for any nut or seed butter of choice
- 3/4 cup allulose * See notes
- 1 large egg room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and line a baking tray with parchment paper or a cookie sheet.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all your ingredients and mix until well combined.
- Using a cookie scoop or your hands, form small balls on the cookie sheet, spread 3-4 inches apart. Press each ball into a cookie shape and press down with a fork. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until cookies are 'just' golden brown but still soft.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
Notes
Nutrition
Originally published November 2018, updated and republished March 2024
These were so easy and very nostalgic!
No one could tell these were sugar free cookies! SO GOOD!
I like the recipe for this. Have not yet gave it a try and would like to ask a question please.
Can the sweetner be regular splenda? thank you
You could try- I don’t really use it!
I love these cookies- I used almond butter instead and it was perefect!
I’m giving 5 stars to my version of the recipe.
Instead of using sweetener, I substituted 2 mashed bananas.
I added a teaspoon of vanilla, 1/4 tsp salt & 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
Lightly sweet and delish!
I like getting one
Just made these with 1/2 c almond butter and 1/2 c peanut butter and used Surkin brown sugar substitute and the 1 egg. They are delicious! It made 17 instead of 12 so next time I’ll make them a bit larger.
Love these sugarless cookies!
Love these sugar free cookies. Even non-sugar-free friends love them.
These are such good cookies!
Easy. Delicious treat. I made these for a diabetic neighbor & now they are a family favorite!
Hello! A few years ago this was different. I think you wrote you can subbstitute the egg with ground chia seeds. Would you please tell me how much chia seeds?
Looking for sugar free cookies means no sugar or chocolate or peanut butter .
Make these with almond butter.