These Sugar Free, Low Carb, Keto, Nut Free Cream Cheese Cookies need just 9 ingredients and are pillowy soft and scrumptious keto cookie recipe! Be sure to read my helpful, fool-proof tips in the post below.
Keto CREAM CHEESE COOKIE Recipe
If you have never added cream cheese to cookies before, you are in for something magical!
The addition of cream cheese in a cookie adds just the right amount of moisture and tang and creates this beautiful, puffy -pillow- like cookie, which magically melts in your mouth!
When I created this classic keto vanilla wafer back in 2015, I knew was finally perfecting my coconut flour recipes! I've had to avoid using almond flour for family keto recipes since my youngest son has a tree nut and peanut allergy.
These classic keto vanilla wafers were nice and crisp, just like I remember eating from my pre sugar free life!
That recipe uses egg yolks to create a crisp cookie so I adapted from there with the addition of cream cheese making these delicious cookies soft, pillowy and cloud like using coconut flour as my keto flour of choice!
I promise you there is absolutely no flavor of coconut in these soft cookies.
Carbs in Traditional Cream Cheese Cookies
Cronometer is the app I use for nutritional information. One classic cream cheese cookie has 7 total grams of carbs and will spike blood sugar and most likely cause cravings and kick you out of ketosis if you are following a ketogenic diet.
If you're on a low-carb diet you want to avoid including foods that spike your blood sugar even if you aren't focused on ketosis. Any foods that have added sugar will raise blood glucose will cause unbalanced blood sugar and constant cravings.
Our tasty cookie is perfect for a sweet treat because it has just 2 g net carbs so when you're sweet tooth is calling, make these easy keto cream cheese cookies.
Store them in your freezer and enjoy whenever you need and easy keto dessert
Nutritional data is at the bottom of this page in the printable recipe card.
Tips for best results low-carb cream cheese cookies
Cream Cheese and unsalted Butter both need to be at room temperature in order to be mixed smoothly with all other ingredients.
Lumps from your cream cheese is not what you want for any type of cream cheese cookie recipe, so please make sure your cream cheese has been out of the fridge sitting on the counter for at lest 1 hour or 2.
Room Temperature eggs incorporate better into the batter than cold eggs from the fridge.
Use a cookie scoop to get the perfect amount for each cookie, which ensures they will all bake evenly in your oven.
Use parchment on your large cookie sheet pan so the cookies won't get overly browned on the bottom while cooking.
Use my Sweetener Guide & Conversion chart if you want to swap out the sugar free sweeteners I used in this recipe.
FREEZE cream cheese keto cookies for one hour before baking or they will flatten like a pancake due to the amount of butter and cream cheese in the cookies.
COOL COMPLETELY BEFORE HANDLING! This is a super important tip because warm or hot out of the oven cookies made without gluten and binders will crumble!
They will still cook slightly once out of the oven, but do not remove them from the baking sheet pan. Just let them cool completely on the pan they were baked on.
HOW TO MAKE KETO CREAM CHEESE COOKIES
Add softened butter and cream cheese to a stand mixer or a large bowl and hand electric mixer and blend until smooth. Blend in your eggs, vanilla extract and sugar substitute.
PLEASE NOTE***If you are unsure about the sweeteners being used, wait to add your eggs, just add the granular sweetener and taste and see if the mixture is to your sweetness level. If not add more, then mix in your eggs.
Whisk your dry ingredients together then add just half of this mixture to your cream cheese mixture. Blend on low speed until incorporated. Add in remaining dry ingredients and blend once again until combined.
Scoop batter using a large cookie scooper and place onto a parchment lined baking sheet pan. Roll each mound of batter into a nicely shaped ball. Flatten slightly, but not too much so you keep the puffy, pillow like shape.
FREEZE for one hour before baking so they keep their shape! Then Bake for about 20 minutes until the edges are golden brown and the center has some cracks.
COOL COMPLETELY or they will crumble! That is just the nature of gluten free, sugar free baking since there is no gluten being used.
TOOLS TO MAKE SUGAR FREE COOKIES
BEST SUGAR FREE FROSTING FOR KETO Cream cheese COOKIES Recipe
You can simply sprinkle on a dusting of powdered sugar-free sweetener if you don't want to take the time to make frosting, but you have a couple of options if you prefer frosted cookies.
I would not recommend a granulated sweetener for frosting as it will become grainy and unpleasant.
Try my Cream Cheese Sugar Free Frosting.
Try my Buttercream Sugar Free Frosting.
Dip the cooled cookies in a simple sugar free vanilla icing.
More delicious Sugar Free Keto Cookies:
- Air Fryer Lemon Slice and Bake Cookies
- Keto Tagalong Cookies
- Keto Thumbprint Cookies
- Sugar Free Keto Sugar Cookies
- Keto Chocolate Coconut Cookies
- Sugar Free Pecan Snowballs
- Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies (Nut Free)
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SUGAR FREE KETO CREAM CHEESE COOKIES
Sugar Free Keto Cream Cheese Cookies (Low Carb, Nut Free, Gluten Free)
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter room temp
- 3 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- ½ cup Better than Sugar Granular
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup coconut flour
- Optional: sugar free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place your softened butter and cream cheese into a stand mixer or large bowl and use an electric hand mixer to combine until smooth. Blend in your eggs, vanilla extract and vanilla stevia.
- Whisk together the remaining dry ingredients and add a half of this to your stand mixer. Blend until smooth then add remaining dry mixture and blend again.
- Place a piece of parchment paper onto a large baking sheet pan. Use a large cookie scoop, or 2 tablespoons to measure out cookie batter and place onto baking pan about an inch apart from each other. You should be able to make 15 large cookies. Use your hands to roll the batter into balls then flatten each ball slightly but keeping a puffy pillow like shape.
- Freeze the cookies for 1 hour. Once out of the freezer, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Bake 18-22 minutes until slightly browned around the edges and bottoms are browned. Allow to cool completely. Do not attempt to remove them from the baking pan until they are cooled. Enjoy!
Storage
- Best if kept refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Joy
Just made these. They came a little "limp" and taste a bit salty. Recipe didn't specify unsalted butter but next time I'll try it with 1/4t salt vs 1/2. Are they suppose to break apart when picking them up. Mine seem to spread out a lot and were more flat after they cooked. I thought I was following directions but they don't look like yours. Help!
Kim Davis
Any idea how to make a chocolate version? Would I add cocoa powder?
Brenda
I'd have to do some testing, it took me a few times to get just the right texture of these so I don't want to just guess on cocoa powder.
Ellen Lipp
Hmm I love baking. I would substitute the vanilla extract for chocolate extract. I would also put in just 1-2 Tbs of cocoa. One at a time. Other than an extra Tbs of your preferred sweetener it should work.
Bev
Can I use monk fruit instead of better than sugar?
Brenda
Yes
Catherine Hunt
Can I substitute all purpose flour in your recipes calling for coconut flour or other types of flour?
Brenda
I think so but I've never tested it so not really sure on the amount you would need.
Patricia
I don’t have Vanilla Liquid Stevia, just liquid stevia. Will it make a difference? Should I increase the vanilla extract?
Thanks.
Patricia
Brenda
Yes I would increase vanilla extract by 1/4 teaspoon.
Ida Marinello
Hi, salted or unsalted butter please.
Brenda
Unsalted but I've also used salted too and it was fine to me, or reduce salt if you're worried about using salted butter.