These easy delicious Sugar Free Coconut Macaroons are Dairy Free, Keto, Gluten Free, Low Carb and super easy to make!
Coconut Macaroons
If you're a fan of coconut, these little cookies will be right up your alley! Coconut macaroons are a delicious and light cookie made with only a few ingredients. The best part of course, they are sugar free! Adding a little melted unsweetened carob chips drizzled over the top makes these the perfect little non guilty pleasure!
Using an ice cream scoop will ensure the perfect little size for you cookies! Once completely cooled on a wire rack the cookies can be coated with melted, unsweetened carob chips orsugar free chocolate chips, like the brand Lily's. Place a baking pan underneath the rack to catch all the yummy drippings.
Macaroons versus Macarons
Macaroons (Mac-a ROON) and macarons (Mac-a- ROHN) are two very different types of cookies. A macaroon is a chewy coconut based, mounded type of cookie often dipped in chocolate, while a macaron has two almond based wafers that are filled with ganache or jam. I love both types of cookies, but haven't yet tackled a keto low carb version of a macaron. So this recipe is my low carb version of a Macaroon.
A macaroon is one of my dad’s favorite cookies. It’s more like a biscuit, a bit chewy, kind of delicate, and not too sweet and that’s how my dad likes them. You can certainly make them sweeter by adding more stevia or adding more of your favorite sweetener.
Enjoy with a drizzle of melted chocolate and toasted shredded coconut on top, or leave plain, that's just fine as well!
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Keto Coconut Macaroons
Coconut Macaroons
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ¼ cup coconut butter melted
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon coconut liquid stevia
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups unsweetened shredded coconut (About 290 grams)
- 2 ounces sugar free chocolate chips
- optional: toasted coconut flakes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Place the egg whites in a stand mixer with the cream of tartar and blend until frothy. Set aside.
- Place the coconut butter in a microwavable bowl and microwave 1 minute until melted. Set aside to cool.
- Add in the salt, stevia, vanilla extract, and shredded coconut into the stand mixer and blend until just combined. Pour in the melted coconut butter and blend again.
- Using a large cookie scoop, scoop batter and pat down into the scoop to pack it in well. Release these onto the sheet pan, spacing each macaroon about one inch apart from each other.
- Bake 20-25 minutes until lightly golden. Cool 5 minutes then transfer to wire rack. Once completely cooled, you can melt the chocolate chips and drizzle over each macaroon. Top with toasted coconut flakes if desired.
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.
Eileen Pappas
How large is the scoop. I have a set of three. The small list one is 1.57 inches, about 1 1/2 tablespoons. The medium is 1.97 inches, and the large is 2.36 inches.
JenniferLynn
I made these yesterday and they look beautiful but came out very dry. I followed the recipe exactly. Any suggestions on how to make them moist and chewy like I hoped they would be?
Brenda
Maybe try adding an additional egg white.
Anna Jarvis
Can I use Coconut oil instead of the butter?
Brenda
No coconut butter is a different texture and not the same as using the oil so they cannot be swapped. You could swap coconut butter with a nut butter or sunflower seed butter or tahini.
Sonia Lunas
These look delicious! I love the addition of coconut butter, which seems like it would lake them more stable and less likely to crumble as some homemade macaroons often do. And I always have some on hand.
QUESTION: I have some SweetLeaf stevia but it's plain not coconut flavored. I think I could use it plus some coconut flavored extract, but I'm unsure of the amounts of each. Would that be a 1/2 tsp of each or a tsp of each?
Brenda
I think just use 1/2 tsp so it doesn't overpower.
Natalie
Didn't see the oven temperature anywhere. Is there a substitute for coconut butter?
Thank you
Brenda
Sorry about that. It's 325 degrees F. All updated now.
Bryan
Excellent! I add 1 tsp vanilla as well. Tip: use a 1/4 cup measuring cup instead of the ice scream scoop to deliver exactly 12 macaroons!
Carol Simoes
I'm very disappointed with your site---I've never seen it before and won't be looking at it again. First, I wanted a recipe for the sugar-free macaroons, and tried to use your link to get to it on Sweetleaf Stevia, but I was redirected to Wal-Mart's site. I don't shop Wal-Mart. If you're not going to make the recipes available, say so, and just admit you're just another deceptive site trying to sell me stuff I don't want.
Brenda
That's very upsetting to here. The coconut macaroons link is working just fine for me. The Sweetleaf company and I have been long time partners for over 4 years and no one i trying to deceive anyone here. Sometimes broken links do happen as they had their website redesigned. Here is the link again which works for me:http://sweetleaf.com/coconut-macaroons/
Melissa
It says 5g of sugar per serving. How many in a serving? I can do about 6g in one sitting without getting on the sugar roller-coaster.
Thanks!
Brenda
So happy you said something because I recalculated my nutritional info and realized there was a mistake! I had mistakenly used sweetened coconut flakes in the site I use to figure everything out instead of unsweetened which made a huge difference! It's all accurate now.
Melissa
Is that .3 grams of sugar per cookie now or 3 grams per cookie? Thanks!
Brenda
It's point 3 per cookie.
Diane
Hoo boy! Making these goodies for my Mom in a nursing home whose diet is restricted for sweets- they will be perfect and she will be so happy! Me too, as macaroons are one of my favorites. Thanks!
PennyX
These were delish in spite of the fact that I accidently doubled the amount of coconut oil! (I didnt have coconut butter, and didn't realize there was a difference!)
Next time I will pay attention better. I also used large flake coconut which got caught in the cookie scoop. Next time also I will chop up the coconut or use smaller cut.
Happy accident though, still edible because I love coconut.
PennyX
I tried these and used coconut oil and they were just fine. Sooooo delicious! Quick and easy too. The only thing is I used large flake coconut and the large shreds got stuck in my cookie scooper. Next time I will chop up the large flakes a bit or get some smaller shred coconut. Almost forgot, I didn't have the sweetener called for so I used splenda (had to guess at the amount) and they were good. I have also used splenda sugar blend, which of course makes them NOT sugar free, but they were a batch I was making for someone else. She declared them the best ever, so I guess it worked. Thanks for this great recipe!
Brenda
thanks for sharing Penny!
Amanda M.
From all I have read on bags of carob chips, carob is NOT gluten free. They have barley, which contains gluten.
Brenda
Caron chips that are sweetened are sweetened with barley malt. Unsweetened carob chips do not have barley malt in them and therefore are gluten free.
raylene
email was wrong in the last comment... this one is correct, sorry!
raylene
i do not have coconut stevia liquid... i just have the powdered stevia.... any ideas as to amounts? or what i could add to make it coconut stevia? i have everything else.
thanks
Brenda
I think the powdered would still work for you. I would probably add a tablespoon. I purchase all my flavored stevia online through iherb.com and you can use my coupon code, YAJ035
Kat
Just made a batch, and I absolutely love them. Vanilla Creme flavoured though, because I don't have Coconut Stevia. I also don't have coconut butter, so just used coconut oil, and it still worked fine!Great recipe!
Kyle
I was wondering about substituting coconut oil for the coconut butter. I was going to try that, and I'm glad that it worked out for you. I'll give it a shot!
christine.c.good@facebook.com
Why do use carob instead of unsweetened chocolate?
Brenda
Using unsweetened chocolate will require adding sweetener because it's so bitter which of course you can do. But using unsweetened carob you won't need to add anything to it and can melt it as is. Carob has a natural sweetness to it and is not bitter at all so I prefer to use that to drizzle over things.
The Better Baker
Fabulous recipe. Printing to make very soon. OH MY! Just lovely.
cathy turpin
i wanted to save it as well bbut not possible where cani find the link to save as my pdf files Help
Brenda
Because the recipe is on the Sweetleaf website, I have no control over saving it here on my website. Why not leave a message for them on their facebook page to ask about printing. https://www.facebook.com/sweetleafstevia?ref=br_tf
Pat B
Good morning. I went to the sweet leaf stevia site and saw the recipe. Sounds wonderful. I wanted to put this recipe in my ZipList recipe file but was not able to. Is there a link somewhere to do this? The sweet leaf page has several recipes so it won't capture it either :0( Thanks...
Brenda
Since the recipe is on the Sweetleaf website, if they don't have a Ziplist button then you won't be able to save it like that. I believe they have a print button though. I just left a message for a person I'm in contact with to see what the problem is but you can ask them on their Facebook page if you like as well:https://www.facebook.com/sweetleafstevia?ref=br_tf