diff --git a/src/Http/Cookie/CookieCollection.php b/src/Http/Cookie/CookieCollection.php
index bef6997a54c..c02a4f3dc1d 100644
--- a/src/Http/Cookie/CookieCollection.php
+++ b/src/Http/Cookie/CookieCollection.php
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ public function addToRequest(RequestInterface $request, array $extraCookies = []
         foreach ($cookies as $key => $value) {
             $cookiePairs[] = sprintf("%s=%s", rawurlencode($key), rawurlencode($value));
         }
+        if (empty($cookiePairs)) {
+            return $request;
+        }
 
         return $request->withHeader('Cookie', implode('; ', $cookiePairs));
     }
diff --git a/tests/TestCase/Http/Cookie/CookieCollectionTest.php b/tests/TestCase/Http/Cookie/CookieCollectionTest.php
index 60637bf87cf..93a8c52fd36 100644
--- a/tests/TestCase/Http/Cookie/CookieCollectionTest.php
+++ b/tests/TestCase/Http/Cookie/CookieCollectionTest.php
@@ -356,6 +356,19 @@ public function testAddToRequest()
         $this->assertSame('blog=b', $request->getHeaderLine('Cookie'));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Test adding no cookies
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function testAddToRequestNoCookies()
+    {
+        $collection = new CookieCollection();
+        $request = new ClientRequest('http://example.com/api');
+        $request = $collection->addToRequest($request);
+        $this->assertFalse($request->hasHeader('Cookie'), 'No header should be set.');
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test adding cookies from the collection to request.
      *