Keto Low-Carb 4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies is a quick and easy, dairy-free, paleo, and gluten-free recipe with video. These cookies are low-calorie and have 100 calories and 1 gram of net carbs! This dessert is perfect for ketosis and the ketogenic diet.
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Here’s another healthy dessert recipe! Peanut butter cookies are my favorite cookie! Years ago, I was obsessed with the Peanut Butter Dream cookie from Panera. They got rid of and I have been secretly waiting for it to surface again.
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Calories: 102 Fat: 9G Net Carbs: 1G Protein: 5G
Macros are provided as a courtesy and calculated using MyFitnessPal. Calculate your specific macros using the exact brand ingredients you use and the macros calculator of your choice.
Net Carbs = Total Carbs – Dietary Fiber – Sugar Alcohols like Xylitol and Erythritol. Check out this post on How to Calculate Net Carbs for more information.
It hasn’t and maybe that means I should come up with my own recipe. One that is easy on the waistline!
A couple of weeks ago I made brownies using Swerve Sweetener. I was very pleased with the results! It measures like real sugar and doesn’t leave the aftertaste!
Swerve Sweetener is a zero-calorie sweetener with erythritol. I had to do some research about this. I had lumped erythritol into a bucket with the other sugar alcohols, but it actually appears to work differently. Erythritol is naturally found in some fruits and vegetables, and even some fermented food. Your body processes it a lot differently than other sugar alcohols. Bottom line, it’s a lot less gassy.
If you choose to use a zero-calorie sweetener other than Swerve, like stevia, you will have to convert this serving into a much smaller allotment.
Can you believe this recipe is only four ingredients? Here in Kansas City, we are experiencing our first dose of a warm weather spring weekend. My friends and I have plans to get out and have some fun. I was able to whip up the cookies in time to make it out to our plans.
I typically use unsweetened almond milk for everything. It pairs wonderfully with these cookies and is keto friendly.
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Here is a link to the zero-calorie sweetener used in this recipe. I highly recommend it!
Recipe Update
I added Lily’s Dark Chocolate Chips to this recipe and the cookies were amazing!
These chocolate chips are keto-friendly and sweetened with stevia. 60 chocolate chips is equal to 1 gram net carbs. Great macros!
Simply fold in the chocolate chips right before you mold the cookie dough into balls.
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Keto Low-Carb 4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookie
Keto Low-Carb 4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies is a quick and easy, dairy-free, paleo, and gluten-free recipe with video. These cookies are low-calorie and have 100 calories and 1 gram of net carbs! This dessert is perfect for ketosis and the ketogenic diet.
Ingredients
- 1 cup natural, unsweetened peanut butter I use Smuckers. Truly, natural peanut butter should have oil and require you to stir. You can also use nut butters, such as almond.
- 1/2 cup zero-calorie sweetener I used Swerve. Swerve measures cup for cup like regular, table, refined sugar. If you use something like stevia, you will have to convert this serving into a much smaller allotment.
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Combine the ingredients in a large bowl. Stir to mix well.
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Make 12-15 balls using the cookie dough. (If you prefer really flat cookies you should aim for 15. Slightly thicker cookies will result in about 12 cookies). An ice cream scoop works well, so does rolling the balls in your hands.
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Line a cookie sheet with silicone baking mats. You can also use parchment paper. Place the cookie dough on the cookie sheet. Make sure the cookies do not touch.
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Use a fork and press down on each ball of cookie dough. Create crisscross imprints in the cookie dough to flatten the balls.
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Bake for 12-15 minutes until the cookies are golden brown. Mine were ready around 13 minutes.
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Remove the cookie sheet from the oven. Allow the cookies to cool for 1-2 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing. The cookies will need to firm up BEFORE you handle them. If you handle them too soon they will crumble. Use your judgment on timing if 1-2 minutes does not appear to be enough.
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After 1-2 minutes place the cookies on a cooling rack to fully cool.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
I typically use unsweetened almond milk for everything. It pairs wonderfully with these cookies and is keto friendly.
If you would like cookies with chocolate chips use 1/4 cup and simply fold in the chocolate chips right before you mold the cookie dough into balls.
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Sandhya Hariharan
I totally adore Peanut Butter cookies.. Now that this is low carb and with mere 4 ingredients, I can have them all.
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry
Peanut butter cookies are a favourite here, I love that these only need four ingredients and are low carb too, super delicious
Mike @ ASaucyKitchen
These look so simple yet so tasty. I’ve been using erythritol in baking a lot more lately and it’s such a good substitute – thanks for posting!
Katie | Healthy Seasonal Recipes
I didn’t know that about Swerve. I should try baking with it. I have a bag of it, but have only used it to sweeten yogurt. Great cookie recipe too!
Natalie
I love peanut butter cookies and these look and sound simply delicious! I love how easy it is to make these and the fact it’s low carb, which is exactly my type of diet these days.
Amber Bennett
A recipe that calls for things I already have in the kitchen. My absolute FAVE!! <3
staysnatched
Yaaassss! I’m thinking about making another batch because EASY and DELISH!
Pat Marino
Made your low carb peanut butter cookies. Delicious. Thank you for your great recipes. I wish that I found your site sooner. Pat
staysnatched
You’re so welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed them! I hope you try more of my recipes.
Janee
Is the micros for 1 cookie? Loves these cookies so yummy
staysnatched
Yes. The macros are for one cookie.
Katie
Do they need to ne refrigerated to store?
staysnatched
You can. I store room temperature in Ziploc bags.
Brandy
I just made these and they were really good. I am confused by the calculation too. I also used the Smucker’s Natural Pb. The label reads 4 net carbs per 2 tbsp. 16 tbsp in a cup, that’s 64 net carbs in the recipe, divided by 15 equals 4.26 carbs. What am I missing?
staysnatched
Mine reads 1 cup is equal to 16 net carbs. You should always calculate your own macros and go with your calculation.
April Zahner
I used xylitol {it’s what I had on had} and added two tablespoons of almond flour. SO delicious…best low carb cookie I’ve tried and I’ve tried quite a few!
staysnatched
I love your variations. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Stephanie
Brandi! These cookies CHANGED MY LIFE. Seriously, it’s such a challenge to find a great cookie recipe that fits in my keto macros, but this nails it. The flavor and texture are spot on to the peanut butter cookies I grew up on, and for half a carb!? Incredible!
I even tried to make the dough for further on my second batch (because my 1 & 4 year olds were gobbling them up) by adding an extra eggs, but that didn’t turn out well (the Swerve dissolved and leeched out of the dough, so I was left with unsweetened cookies that were essentially fried in their own oil 😂😂😂).
You clearly put a lot of effort into perfecting this! Looking forward to trying more recipes on your site.
staysnatched
Your comment made me smile! These cookies are my favorite dessert recipe on the site. I am so glad you enjoyed them! I can’t wait to here what you think of other recipes.
Cathy Giddings
I was just thinking of adding an egg because they were so crumbly, so I am glad I read this. What can I do to make not quite so crumbly? Otherwise they were super!!!
staysnatched
Hi! You can try experimenting with different brands of peanut butter.
Candice
I have made these a few times and my husband told me tonight he likes these more than the traditional ones! Thank you for sharing your recipe with the world!
Anonymous
I tried it with almond butter they came out very crumbly fell apart when cooled.
staysnatched
Any opposition to peanut butter? That is my preferred ingredient.
Sharon hodgkinson
I used peanut butter and my cookies fell apart also. What am I doing wrong.
staysnatched
It could be the brand of peanut butter used, how long you baked the cookies, or how long you let the cookies cool. It took a lot of experimenting for me to get the cookies just right.
Tania
If I use stevia instead of swerve how much do I use?
staysnatched
Swerve measures 1:1 to real sugar. You will follow your standard stevia conversion.
Debbie Wood
Yum!! I made these with Almond meal x 2 tbspns & only 1/4 cup Erythritol & Tablespoon Coconut sugar & Awesome! I thought maybe too sweet with 1/2 cup! SO great Thank you (Aust 170C for 20mins) cooled
Maureen Drowsy
Your cookies and brownies recipes sounded so good, these are two things I’ve really been missing. I was so disappointed once I got to the ingredients and saw they include eggs for both recipes as I am allergic to eggs. Oh darn!! ☹
staysnatched
Hi there. Sorry about that! Most of my baking recipes include eggs.
Dee
Maureen, Chia eggs work great in recipes. Just take a teasspoon or tablespoon of Chia seeds and add a little water. You will notice it makes a substance similar to egg white but you get the same effect in the recipe as with regular eggs.
YOLANDA OROZCO
Hi! I just realized that I used powdered Swerve! They are awesome though! Now i’m afraid to try with granular Swerve.
staysnatched
Stay with it if it works!
Sara
Amy I bake with erythritol, I either use powdered or run it through my Ninja to powderize it. I find it helps with the grittiness.
Debbie
Hi there. Not understanding the carb count. If there are 48 carbs in a cup of peanut butter, how does that equal 1 carb per cookie when you’re only making 12-15? You would have to make 48 for tgem to be only 1 carb, right?
staysnatched
I count net carbs.
Laura
Maybe it doesn’t include the carbs in the sweetener? That’s the only way I can find a new of under 2g. The sweetener itself is 24 carbs total.
staysnatched
There are zero net carbs in the sweetener. Which sweetener are you using that has net carbs?
Karen
So I just tried making these using the powdered peanut butter with added water to measure out to one cup of peanut butter. Everything else was just like the recipe. It has turned into a liquid mess for some reason😳. I just put it in the fridge hoping it will harden up a little to form actual dough. I thought since the powdered peanut butter and water transitions well into peanut butter for sandwiches and celery, there would be no issue. Still not sure what caused it to become more like soup?! Anybody else tried this?
staysnatched
I wouldn’t use powdered peanut butter for a recipe like this.
Sherry
Great flavor but very crumbly and very dry. Had to have a drink nearby. Felt like sawdust in your mouth. What may I have done wrong?
staysnatched
What brand of peanut butter and what brand sweetener did you use?
Natalie
i used maranatha peanut butter because it was lower in carbs. i used Truvia. i wish i had used a little more to make them sweeter. I added 1tsp of “not xantham” and 1 T of almond flour as my first batch was crumbly. i folded in probably a 1/2 cup of sugar free chocolate chips. i have a convection oven and i started checking these cookies at 8 minutes because i burned my first batch.
Tonya
Did I do something wrong these cookies just fell apart. I did exactly what the recipe called for….
staysnatched
You may have not allowed them to cool long enough. When you remove them from the oven they will be too soft to handle.
Tania
I’m curious of how you come up with 4 g of carbs per 1 cookies, my Swerve has 4 gram of carbs per tsp.. and theirs 24 tsp in 1/2 cup so carbs are more like 9 g per cookie… please anyone correct me if I’m wrong. On the plus side they are lovely!
staysnatched
Hi, Swerve has ZERO net carbs per serving. Erythritol is subtracted from the formula for net carbs. I am documenting net carbs in this recipe.
Amy
I just wonder why anyone needs any sweetner at all? Peanut butter is naturally sweet!
staysnatched
I don’t find natural peanut butter sweet. Peanut butter with added sugar is. If you don’t want sweetener, modify the recipe to your taste.