The first step to making truly delicious low carb almond flour chocolate chip cookies is creaming together your butter and sweetener. This is the main reason why butter is highly recommended for this recipe, if you can. Creaming butter and sugar is a classic step in many traditional cookie recipes, because it creates air pockets and better texture.
A higher ratio of white to brown sugar is the secret to Alton Brown's The Thin Chocolate Chip Cookie, a crispy take on Nestle Toll House's cookie. So, what makes these chocolate chip cookies so thin and crisp? A higher white to brown sugar ratio lends crispness to the final product.
Make the chocolate chip keto cookie dough. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and blackstrap molasses, then almond flour, just a bit at a time, and finally xanthan gum. TIP: There is a right way to add the almond flour and xanthan gum. Add the almond flour gradually, 1/2 cup at a time.
This recipe was one of three chocolate chip cookie recipes that appeared in an episode of Good Eats titled “ Three Chips for Sister Marsha ,” in which Alton made a chewy chocolate chip cookie, a puffy chocolate chip cookie, and a thin chocolate chip cookie.