Classic Keto Snowball Cookies
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Introduction
Snowball cookies are a Christmas tradition in a lot of houses, and they are one of the easier ones to make keto. Crunchy without being dry, and short enough that the ingredient list fits in a sentence: almond flour, butter, vanilla, salt, and powdered monk fruit.
The Powdered Sweetener Does Two Jobs
It is in the dough, and then the baked cookies get dusted with more of it. That second part is the whole look — a snowball cookie without the white coating is just a round cookie.
Which is why the recipe calls for powdered rather than granular, at least for the coating, where the texture is the whole point. We use Lakanto’s powdered monk fruit, which has the texture and consistency of powdered sugar, so it behaves like powdered sugar in both places.
The Chopped Nuts Are Optional. The Almond Flour Is Not.
Worth being clear about, because the two get confused. The recipe as written has no chopped nuts in it and works exactly as it is — but the dough is two and a half cups of almond flour, so this is not a nut-free cookie and it is not the recipe to make for someone with a nut allergy.
If you do want them, a cup of chopped nuts goes into the dough — walnuts, almonds, macadamias, whatever you have. Pecans are our favorite of the lot, enough that the pecan version has its own recipe. There are chocolate snowball cookies too, if you would rather change the flavor than the texture.
Classic Keto Snowball Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 ½ cups almond flour
- 4 oz butter, unsalted
- ¾ cup lakanto powdered monkfruit sweetener
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp salt
Coating
Nutrition Facts
24 servings per recipe| Per Serving 110 | Per Recipe 2630 | |||
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 75 | 1799.99 | ||
| 4 oz of butter, unsalted | 33.75 | 809.99 | ||
| 1 ½ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.75 | 18 | ||
| 10g | 13% | 249g | 319% | |
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 6.67 g | 160 g | ||
| 4 oz of butter, unsalted | 3.71 g | 89.1 g | ||
| 3g | 14% | 67g | 333% | |
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 0.42 g | 10 g | ||
| 4 oz of butter, unsalted | 2.36 g | 56.7 g | ||
| Trans Fat | 0g | 0% | 0g | 0% |
| 10mg | 3% | 243mg | 81% | |
| 4 oz of butter, unsalted | 10.12 mg | 243 mg | ||
| 25mg | 1% | 590mg | 26% | |
| 1 ½ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.03 mg | 0.6 mg | ||
| ¼ tsp of salt | 24.58 mg | 590 mg | ||
| 8g | 3% | 181g | 66% | |
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 2.5 g | 60 g | ||
| ¾ cup of lakanto powdered monkfruit sweetener | 3.75 g | 90 g | ||
| 1 ½ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.03 g | 0.75 g | ||
| ¼ cup of lakanto powdered monkfruit sweetener | 1.25 g | 30 g | ||
| 1g | 3% | 20g | 71% | |
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 0.83 g | 20 g | ||
| 1g | 21g | |||
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 0.83 g | 20 g | ||
| 1 ½ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.03 g | 0.75 g | ||
| 5g | 120g | |||
| ¾ cup of lakanto powdered monkfruit sweetener | 3.75 g | 90 g | ||
| ¼ cup of lakanto powdered monkfruit sweetener | 1.25 g | 30 g | ||
| Allulose | 0g | 0% | 0g | 0% |
| 2g | 41g | |||
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 1.67 g | 40 g | ||
| 1 ½ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.03 g | 0.75 g | ||
| 2g | 5% | 60g | 120% | |
| 2 ½ cups of almond flour | 2.5 g | 60 g | ||
About these numbers: We are home cooks, not certified nutritionists. Nutrition is shared as a courtesy. We pick a representative product for each ingredient, and our recipe system works out the totals from the amounts in this recipe, so please treat them as a helpful estimate rather than a guarantee. The brands you buy, any swaps you make, and how generously you portion the recipe will all move these numbers.
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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In a large mixing bowl, mix to combine almond flour, Lakanto powdered monk fruit, and sea salt. Add butter and vanilla and mix until a soft dough forms.
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Use a small cookie scooper to scoop dough; roll into 24 balls.
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Place on 2 baking sheets, spacing dough 1-inch apart.
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Bake 10 minutes and let cool a bit before transferring to a cooling rack.
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Dust the cookies with powdered monk fruit.
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Cookies are best served at room temperature; let cool completely before serving.
Can You Make Them Ahead?
Yes, and this is a good cookie for it — there is no frosting to set and nothing to assemble. Keep them in an airtight container, in the fridge or the freezer. No keeping window is given here.
One thing to remember either way: these are best at room temperature. Straight out of the fridge they are firmer than they should be, so take them out ahead of whenever you plan to eat them.
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Correction — October 5, 2026: The baked cookies are dusted with the powdered sweetener rather than rolled in it, and the article now says so along with the recipe card.
