Just like the original, expect from these keto oreo cookies a scrumptious vanilla cream sandwiched between two (properly crisp!) dark chocolate cookies… but at just 1g net carb a pop!
Gluten Free & Keto Oreo Cookies
Nice ‘N Crisp!
Let’s face it, who doesn’t love separating these classic sandwich cookies and dunking them in milk?! There’s a reason classic become classics, and oreos are a prime example.
And for real, not much (if at all) is lost in this gluten free and keto version. If anything, you’re gaining freshness and flavor and losing all the processed junk.
Plus, think 1g net carbs a pop! And feel free to think of the vanilla cream filling as a mini fat bomb; i.e. these cookies are an ideal keto macro situation!
p.s. the base recipe for the cookies is very similar to my grain free and keto thin mints. So you can always whip up a batch and add vanilla cream filling to half (i.e. Oreos) and dip the rest in peppermint chocolate (ie. thin mints). Double win!
The Deets
Creaming the butter properly with the sweeter is paramount here to build a nice structure for the cookies (think rise and crunch!). And creaming with sweetener, in case you haven’t done it before, takes a bit longer to incorporate than with good-old sugar. But don’t give up, and keep going until you’ve got the sweetener well incorporated into soft and fluffy butter.
The other indispensable thing, is that the dough be thoroughly chilled before rolling and baking. Why? The butter in the dough has to solidify once again before you can roll it out and cut it up. Think 1 to 2 hours (or overnight).
And if the dough becomes too sticky while rolling and cutting, just pop it in the freezer for a few (and a sprinkle of cocoa powder always helps too).
The Chocolate
Without fear of stating the obvious, Oreos are one dark chocolate cookie. As in actually black. Such hue (and resulting taste) is the result of partially replacing Dutch-processed cocoa with a black cocoa.
Having said that, you can always just use all regular cocoa. Simply expect a lighter hue.
For the Dutch-processed alkaline cocoa I always highly recommend Valrhona, known to be one of (if not the) best cocoas in the world.
The Flours
Oreos are traditionally a wheat cookie. To make them gluten free and keto, I found that super fine almond flour did a killer job (solo!). Add a touch of xanthan gum, and we’re golden.
In terms of brands, for the almond either Anthony’s or WellBees work great. Both are super fine grinds.
The Sweetener
Erythritol lends a very similar crunch and chew to sugar for crisp cookies, and no other low carb natural sweetener does that (xylitol takes up to a day to crunch up and will result in chewy cereal!).
My current favorite for these guys? Lakanto without a doubt. The added monk fruit means the least cooling effect (in my opinion!).
Just note that erythritol takes a while to crunch up post baking. So give your cookies ample time (think anywhere from 2-4 hours) to get nice and crisp.
Also keep in mind that, as much as I’m a fan of allulose and xylitol in general, they result in chewy rather than crisp cookies here (as it takes up to a day or two to go back to its solid state!). So no xylitol or allulose please. And in case you’re wondering about Pyure, I’m never a fan of stevia (in any shape or form) coming in contact with chocolate (a not-so-nice aftertaste). But if you’re immune to it, technically Pyure also works here.
For the vanilla cream filling, however, you can pretty much use whatever sweetener floats your boat. But it must be powdered.
So get your blender out, make sure it’s completely dry, and process your sweetener of choice until powdered. Just make sure you wait a few moments for the dust to settle before opening the blender or food processor.
Or you can always grab a bag of Lakanto powdered or Swerve confectioner’s.
And if using xylitol, make sure to be careful if you have a pup around the house, as it’s highly toxic to the little guys! 🐕
Gluten Free & Keto Oreo Cookies
Ingredients
For the keto oreo cookies
- 144 g almond flour
- 37 g cocoa powder
- 13 g black cocoa powder or simply more regular cocoa
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon espresso powder or instant coffee (optional)
- 80 g unsalted grass-fed butter at room temperature
- 128 g erythritol
- 1 egg
For vanilla cream filling
- 56 g unsalted grass-fed butter
- 14 g coconut oil *
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch kosher salt
- 63-125 g powdered erythritol or powdered sweetener, to taste (we use
Instructions
- Add almond flour, cocoa powder, xanthan gum, salt, baking soda and espresso powder (optional) to a medium bowl. Whisk until thoroughly combined and set aside.
- Begin to cream butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer, 1-2 minutes. Add in sweetener and continue to beat until thoroughly mixed and much of the sweetener has dissolved (3-5 minutes).
- Add in egg, mixing until just incorporated. The mixture will appear slightly 'broken' (i.e. not thoroughly smooth).
- With your mixer on low, add in half of your flour mixture- mixing until just incorporated. Mix in the rest.
- Wrap cookie dough with cling film (saran wrap) and refrigerate for 1 hour (or overnight).
- Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Roll out the dough between two pieces of parchment paper until nice and thin. Cutout the rounds (Oreos are roughly 1 3/4 inches in diameter).
- Transfer cutout cookies onto prepared baking tray and place in the freezer for 15 minutes prior to baking.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes. Since the cookies are dark already and you can't guide yourself by color, we suggest doing a trial with one cookie if possible. When ready, the cookies will have puffed somewhat and smell amazing (this is our best cue here), but you'll want to push the baking time to get them nice and crisp. So just keep an eye out for them.
- Allow to cool for ten minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Allow to cool completely, as they'll continue to crunch up (because of the sugar alcohol, this may take a few hours!).
- To make the vanilla cream filling, cream butter and coconut oil (or more butter) in a medium bowl with an electric mixer. Add in vanilla extract and a pinch of salt, and mix until fully incorporated. Add powdered sweetener to taste and mix until fully incorporated and light and fluffy in texture.
- Spread or pipe vanilla cream onto a cookie and sandwich between a second one. Refrigerate until set.
- The cookies themselves keep well, stored in an airtight container at room temperature, for 5 days to a week. Once you add the filling, keep them refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 3 days. The shaped dough can be frozen for up to 3 months, and they can be baked straight from the freezer (adding 2-3 minutes more to the baking time).
Notes
Nutrition
Do u know if an Allulose/Monk fruit blend would work as a sweetener? Can’t wait to try these!
no, allulose has a distinct property that’ll make them come out soft :/
These turned out great. The cream inside wasn’t exactly what I was looking for flavor wise so I may tweak that part next time but otherwise these were awesome. I used my tortilla press to get the dough super thin and then a small biscuit cutter to get them completely identical in shape. It worked PERFECT! I will be making these again.
I am extremely sensitive to the cooling effect and it ruins everything for me. Can stevia (powdered or liquid) be used ?
Unfortunately no Diana, but if it helps I’m incredibly sensitive too and the chocolate def helps to tone it down xo!
I’m wondering if your coconut oil was solid? It’s hot and mine is liquid 😂
It’s just because of your room temp, coconut oil will be liquid if its warm enough 😉
I made these slightly bigger circles, a bit thicker..and then made your no-churn vanilla ice cream.Ive made that ice cream many times, and i love it. I froze half the ice cream in a cookie sheet with edges, made it like half inch thick or so.. when it was frozen i cut out circles in the ice cream and sandwiched them with the oreo cookies. Re-froze them individually. The cookies was a bit chewy when eating, and thats how the “real” oreo ice cream sandwich is like also. The scraps of ice cream after cuttouts, i saved in a small container to indulge on another day LOL. I made some regular sized and thickness oreos also with the butter cream. Nice and crispy kept in fridge . Lot of work that i spread over two days, but o.m.g it was worth it.
Best ever me to recipe!!! Quick to make and really do a great imitation of an oero. I froze half of the dough. I thought afterwards (and re-read the instructions which said they could be baked from frozen) that I should have rolled it into a cylinder before freezing..
Thank you so much! X
I use this recipe for my cheesecakes that require a chocolate crust like my peppermint bark cheesecake. I just mix up the recipe, press it into a pan, bake it , break it up in pieces and run through my processor.
Do you think the cookies could be used as chocolate wafers in an icebox cake?
Can these be made with coconut flour instead due to allergy?
Would this work well with another butter? I can’t have butter butter and really miss oreos. 🙁
IN ALL keto oreo recipes I have tried . THIS IS THE BEST ONES
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Hi. The biscuit came out crunchy after being cooled down for an hour but went soft after 3 hours. What’s the possible reason ?
Are you having a super humid summer Tracy? If so, might want to put them in an airtight container asap. And if they go soggy, you can always pop them back in the oven for a few minutes to get the humidity out of them again 😉 xo!
I just made the cookie part – chilled 2 logs in frig, then sliced and baked – wonderful! I used monkfruit erythritol and had NO aftertaste, just great chocolate flavor!!! I plan to always have these logs in the freezer ready to slice and bake.
AMAZZINNNGG!!!! (But so are ALL of your recipes!) and the thorough way you always, always breakdown everything and the WHYs and WHY NOTs for specific ingredients! Very appreciative!!
I am attempting to make animal crackers and this looks like it will also serve well as a base to get the crispiness. Since I will be leaving out the cocoa, do you think I should decrease the amount of butter and sugar?
Awww thanks Milena, so happy you enjoy the blog!! For animal crackers I would actually check out either the graham crackers or the shortbread cookies (they’re similar to this one, but I already adjusted them without the cocoa ;)!) xo!
I’m actually afraid to burn it if I cook in the oven… ( As I always do)
So can I cook it in the microwave!!??
I’m giving you a thumbs up for this recipe! The cookies turned out nice and crunchy and the filling is way better than the filling that is in an Oreo! I used Lakanto classic in the cookie, then made my own powdered Lakanto for the filling. These are very good and I’m even passing some of these on to my friends! Thanks for another great recipe!
How do you make tour own powdered Lankato if you don’t mind me asking?
Just take the regular lakanto and run it through a food processor or high speed blender.
I Put the granulated Lakanto in a little coffee grinder ( cheap black and decker I got at Walmart) and blend till powdery. Easy!!
put it in the blender or a coffe grinder
Just out granulated sweetener in a blender or use a mortar and pestle and just powderize it
Thanks so much for all your wonderful recipes! My guy has given everything I’ve made from your site rave reviews!
I absolutely love these recipes but I will say it took me three hours in the kitchen. but you know what these came out so delicious and I have never had anything like this in my life and I will be making these more than once in my life. Trust me I don’t care if I have to stay in three hours in the kitchen it is beyond worth it!
I wish I could post pictures it would make it easier, but since I don’t think I can I will simply try to explain .
when I made these I did 52 individual cookies circles and I believe it said here 40 and then waved I got so Many is I followed a strict idea my mom came up with you cut out a piece of parchment paper about 6×6 in size. and Ulei a regular size on the bottom and you basically get a 1 inch ball of dough or make a log and once frozen cut slices half inch thick and you stepped between the parchments.
once you do so take a one cup measuring scoop bottom to flat in between parchments and then carefully peel the smaller parchment off without breaking your cookie dough. then take a champagne flute because you want small enough and cut a circle from your flat dough. and then with champagne flute still over your circle take off excess do not discard leave it on the side because you will be using it to make more cookies at the very end when you have nine cookies put it in the freezer for 15 minutes and then in the oven for eight minutes.
that is how I got 52 because I was able to flatten them really flat and cut out the perfect size and I still had enough dough because I saved the straps . It was amazing I got bees were super good and I will say I made the minimum amount of icing it calls for in the recipe and I didn’t want to make more it was extremely sweet but I wish I had because even though it’s almost too sweet you want it that way because the cookies are so dark tasting. so if you want to do double stuffed Oreos I would say go for it. I just thought I would post my information if anybody would like photos I have photos for each step if it helps. I can email them but there is the steps it really helps to use parchment paper to flat in between and get it really thin. like thinner than half inch and then use a champagne flute top not bottom to make your circles and save the scraps for more cookies until you literally have none left.
I will say these were very time-consuming but don’t let that scare you off because it is worth spending three hours in the kitchen literally and I know they’re supposed to last three days in the fridge once you put that icing in but I may not eat them that long I may eat them in one day LOL. I was thoroughly satisfied. four