Low fat chocolate cookies?? YES!! No added fat in the way that there’s no butter, oil or dairy in these (except sometimes I cheat and add M&M’s). And these cookies are still DECADENT! Sometimes in a cookie all you taste is the butter and it masks the other flavors. So without any butter in these babies, the chocolate really shines!There is a small amount of fat in cocoa powder (depending on the brand you use) and there is obviously fat in chocolate, if you choose to add any type of chocolate chips to your cookies.
The Good Chocolate is a chocolate company in San Francisco that makes the BEST zero sugar, keto-friendly chocolate. Like you can’t even tell the difference in taste between the chunks of The Good Chocolate I used in these cookies, versus regular ol’ semi-sweet chocolate chips!
Chocolate cut into chunks….And now I can’t stop using this chocolate in these cookies, which I make weekly. And I am supposed to be using the chocolate to create other recipes with too! Struggle is real! But I do have a few more recipes coming at ya using this sugar free chocolate!
Here are my LARGE cookies ready to go into the oven. Feel free to use a standard cookie scoop to make a dozen or so standard sized cookies. Bake time will still be between 6-7 minutes.
Low Fat Chocolate Cookies
Print RecipeIngredients
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup egg substitute (or 1 egg)
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 cup chocolate chips or chunks (optional)
Instructions
In the bowl of your stand mixer, affixed with the paddle attachment, add the white sugar, brown sugar, egg substitute, water and vanilla extract and mix on medium-high speed until combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Change the mixer speed to low and slowly add the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and cornstarch and mix until barely combined. Remove the bowl from the mixer and use a rubber scraper to ensure all ingredients are incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chunks. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and scoop desired sized cookie balls onto the cookie sheet and place in the refrigerator to chill for at least 45-minutes to an hour.
Once your dough has chilled, preheat the oven to 350-degrees and bake cookies in 350-degree oven for 7-minutes. Cookies may appear underdone, but they continue to bake on the cookie sheet after you remove them from the oven. Let cookies cool on the cookie sheet until set, and then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.
Notes
Store cookies at room temperature in an airtight container. See notes in blog post about making standard sized cookies to yield more than four.
So yes there’s chocolate in these. There’s also flour and real sugar and a little bit of fat. But by using the egg substitute, water and leaving out the butter and oil, these cookies save a bit on the calorie front, while still feeling indulgent and of course DELICIOUS!!
XOXO,
Kelly
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7 Comments
Katherine | Love In My Oven
May 19, 2020 at 1:25 PMFat free chocolate cookies!? That’s an oxymoron! These look absolutely perfect and fudgy!!
Lala
January 30, 2021 at 12:46 PMIsn’t there fat in most cocoa powders and chocolate chips? Is “the good chocolate” that’s used in the recipe also fat free?
Kelly
January 30, 2021 at 5:15 PMThe fat free I was referring to was the lack of butter or oil. Yes there is a small amount of fat in cocoa powder and there is fat if you add the optional chocolate.
Maria Doss
May 19, 2020 at 7:46 PMWow, can cookies possibly be fat free?? This is a brilliant recipe Kelly, a perfect guilt free treat!
Kim Lange
June 8, 2020 at 8:39 AMFat free and chocolate? These look so delectably delicious! xo
LA
August 13, 2021 at 10:44 AMThese are NOT fat free. There is fat in the cocoa and the chocolate chips. And if you use the egg that’s 5 grams of fat right there. Call these low fat. But they are not fat free and should not be advertised as such. As someone that medically cannot eat/process fat, it’s SUPER frustrating that recipes like this are so misleading.
Kelly
August 14, 2021 at 1:51 PMThanks for your comment! If you had read the blog post and the actual recipe, you will see that I did note that there is a small amount of fat in cocoa powder (the amount depends on the brand you use…it varies) and I used an egg white = no fat there. I changed the title of the recipe to low fat cookies just for you though. Enjoy the free recipe!