Keto Muffins are a great little snack when you’re on the road, or trying to have a healthy little dessert bite that kills those sugar cravings. Because everyone loved the keto chocolate chip cookies so much, I thought these would be a great variation to try. These keto chocolate chip muffins are much easier than the cookies and bake much easier as well.
Keto Chocolate Muffins
When you think of muffin flavors, what are the main types you think of outside of a chocolate chip muffin? I dream of blueberry muffins, lemon, and poppyseed muffins, or chocolate muffins, or even cupcakes… yes, cupcakes are very similar, but they have icing, so its a whole other world of flavors to get into.
I like to think that these recipes help people enjoy a healthy snack or healthy dessert whilst doing the ketogenic diet. It makes it much more bearable if you know you can have your “cake” and eat it too. I do have plenty of keto dinner recipes as well, just I enjoy making these types of desserts and snacks a little more because so many people just eat bacon and eggs, get sick of eggs, and look for recipes that are not your ordinary borning style keto recipes… I hope that makes sense 😀
Make These Chocolate Muffins with Coconut Flour
You can certainly make these without almond flour, using coconut flour instead. Since coconut flour absorbs liquid easily, you need less of it to make the same amount of muffins.
Substitute 1 cup almond flour for 1/3 cup coconut flour.
Other Chocolate Muffin Flavours
You could add some cinnamon to make these chocolate muffins truly sensational, or simply remove the chocoalte, use this muffin recipe as a base, and put whatever you like in them. Some suggestions would be:
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 3 Tbsp poppy seeds with 1/4 cup lemon juice
Expert Tips
Now, I’ve got some tips for you that will prevent you from making the chocolate chip muffins look amateur. The best way to get chocolate chips through a muffin is to literally pierce long sections of chocolate into the muffins before you cook them. How do you do this? Let me show you:
You need to chop the chocolate into 1 cm approx pieces like this, then shove them right down the keto muffin when you come to throwing them into the oven.
So I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I liked making them. Hit me up if you have any questions in the comments below, and I’ll see you in the next recipe post!.
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Keto Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Almond Flour 90g / 3 oz
- 1/4 Cup Erythritol (SoNourished) 40g / 1.2 oz
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 40 g Butter Melted (1.2 oz)
- 40 ml unsweetened almond milk (1.2 fl oz)
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 50 g Unsweetened Dark Chocolate (1.8 oz)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C (355 F)
- Mix the almond flour and the baking powder together in a bowl. Crack 2 eggs into the mixture and mix until well combined.
- Melt 40g (1 1/2 oz) butter and mix into the almond flour and egg mixture.
- Add the remainaing ingredients (except the chocoalte) and pour into a 2 X 3 muffin tray lined with muffin holders.
- Cut the peices of chocolate into long thin slices 1 cm apart, and peirce them through the top of the muffins. There should be around 4 - 5 long peices each.
- Bake for 20 mins. Let them cool and enjoy.
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Delicious, moist, great texture, great taste. I love that it’s so versatile. Thank you for the recipe! I can tell you really took the time to produce a high quality recipe. I appreciate that.
Thanks so much Verna 🙂
Congratulations and thanks for the recipe! The best keto muffins I have ever eaten!!!
hi there! how many cups is the almond milk? also if i used heavy whipping cream how many cups will it e? please answer in cups as i am confused with ur measurements. thank you!
Hey Carol, 40ml is 1.2 fl oz > You could use 1/4 of a cup, this is the closest.
I made these today and they tasted AMAZING !! I tweaked it alittle by adding some cocoa powder. Best keto muffin recipe I’ve ever tried !! Thank you so much !!
I’m excited to try this recipe but am confused on the amounts. Some are in U.S. measurements and some metric. When I convert 40ml of almond milk to ounces, it’s only 1.35 ounces. Is this correct?
Its 40 grams converting to 1/3 a cup
Turned out super good and yummy. However, the recipe was very hard to follow with the g and ml and cups…
These are by far the BEST keto muffins! I have made the original recipe version and have also adapted the recipe by adding blueberries, almond extract and a few sliced almonds on top to one batch, strawberries and sugar free chocolate chips to another. I’m now on my 4th batch using zucchini and walnuts. OMG so good that no one knew the difference. Thank you!
I used unsweetened dark chocolate (99 percent cacao) and it’s crazy bitter in these muffins. What am I supposed to use instead?
Try stevia sweetened chocolate.
I made these the first time using all ingredients from the recipe, expect I substituted blueberries in place of the chocolate, and they were really good. The second time I added a 1/2 tsp of salt, and they were perfect ?.
I love these. I did make some changes from the first time, because the recipe as written was a bit dense for me, and one of my kids didn’t LOVE it. The results were so freakin’ fluffy, I couldn’t believe they were Keto. I didn’t change any ingredients, just how I mixed them. I softened the butter on the counter, then creamed it with the sweetener for a couple of minutes. I whipped the eggs for a couple of minutes before adding to the creamed mixture. Then I added the dry ingredients to it little by little. They were super fluffy and I actually think they could pass for regular muffins! Thank you SO much for this recipe!
The dough comes out way to firm. What should i use more of? Butter, almond milk or an extra egg? THX
These are so good! My kids scarfed them down. They also seem so adapable! I made as written, then made a lemon poppy seed version that is also really good.
Can I substitute coconut flour?
Thanx crystal
No, it doesn’t work the same for this recipe.
MAKE THESE CHOCOLATE MUFFINS WITH COCONUT FLOUR
You can certainly make these without almond flour, using coconut flour instead. Since coconut flour absorbs liquid easily, you need less of it to make the same amount of muffins.
Substitute 1 cup almond flour for 1/3 cup coconut flour.
I made these for a hiking trip because I wanted something sweet to share with my friends (who are not doing LCHF or keto), but which would also give us some energy for the long day. I’m doing LCHF not keto and wanted large muffins, so I doubled the recipe muffins (6x6g carbs each, which easily fits into my goals), and I also substituted almond milk with full-fat unsweetened coconut milk. I have to order Lilys online and postage is so expensive, so I used a chocolate substitute I recently stumbled upon in Coles in Australia: a no added sugar dark chocolate which I chopped up roughly and mixed in, and which worked a treat.
The muffins came out really well – lovely and soft inside, slightly crispy on the top, and very delicious. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe!
That’s so great to hear Ryleigh! Thanks for the awesome feedback 🙂
We love your recipes, and these were not only delicious…so simple!! My daughter is 14 years old (an elite athlete), loves to bake, and has adopted the keto lifestyle. And she is thriving! It was very cool to see that you are a “sports exercise nutritional therapist”, because you get it. All the other sports people are encouraging the kids to “carb load” but I see way better results with keto.
Thanks so much!!
Hey Amy! this is fantastic!! That’s so amazing your daughter is an elite athlete and is adopting a ketogenic diet. You watch, 10 years down the track we’ll wonder why we ever used carbs for athletes.
Baked up a mini muffin size batch of these last night as I brought in breakfast for my non-healthy eating bosses and they were a huge hit!! Absolutely delicious!
That’s so awesome! Thanks for sharing Jennifer 🙂
Hi! If I wanted to sub heavy cream instead of almond milk, how much would I use? Thanks!
Hi. Is it possible to change the butter to coconut oil?
Sorry no, they won’t flatten
Hello I wanted to know how many net carbs in each muffin please?
Hi,
Can I substitute almond milk with water?
Thanks
These look great!
Just wondering if I can use cocoa nibs instead of chocolate, and achieve the same taste, and carbs.(or lack there of)
Thanks!
Kristin
Hi,
Can I substitute chocolate chips with raw cacao nibs?
Thanks!
Sure! It won’t be as sweet though.
Can’t wait to try these. Will let you know how they turn out. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
What’s the calories like if I leave out the chocolate part?
Very good receipe ! Can I use monk fruit sugar instead ! Is it the same amount ?
Hey Josie,
If its monk fruit erythritol, then yes 🙂
These look great! If I am using stevia extract instead of the sweeteners you have mentioned, how much should I use? Since it is so concentrated I assume a tablespoon or 2? Thanks so much!
I think I should probably do a video on the sugar subs 🙂
I don’t have Erythritol. Can I use an artificial sweetener like Splenda or Equal instead? Would that still be keto?
Hi! I just started so I don’t know if it’s possible to use Stevia or Xylitol as substitute for erythritol?
I would use stevia, instead of xylitol 🙂
Why? Is xylitol not Keto?
Because it registers as 30 on the Glycemic index, which raises your blood sugar readings and kicks you out of ketosis.
What about Splenda?
Quick question. I have all the ingredients to make these -except the almond milk. Can I replace that with heavy whipping cream? If so, what would be the measurements? Or is it just not possible. Being a little lazy this Sunday and would prefer not to have to go out to the store haha.
I’d make a milk substance using the HWC. 1 part HWC, 7 parts water. Hope that helps
you mean 1 ml HWC and 30 ml water? or i am undertsnading wrong??
i see you use 40 ml Almond mild so if i need replace with heave cream how ml HWC and how ml water? thanks
So I just made these using HWC and OMGGGGG they came out AMAZING – I wouldn’t use almond milk moving forward even if I had it. They were soooooo moist.
What was the ratio you used?
I am REALLY enjoying your recipes, thank you so much! Just to clarify for the serving size and nutritional calculations …. are these regular size muffins or minis? It’s hard to tell from the photos and the description. Thanks!
Hey Lori,
They are kinda small in size, but they pack a punch! (So filling 🙂 ) Thank you so much!
Could i just use chocolate chips? Thanks
Sure! not keto though
Even if we have sugar-free chocolate chips we made ourselves from cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate and Swerve?
Im not big fan of almond flour. How much coconut flour do i need as replacement ? 1/4-1/3 cup?
Use 1/4 of the amount 🙂
If I want to substitute almond flour for coconut would it still be the same measurements? Thanks 🙂
1 Cup almond flour = 1/4 Cup Coconut flour
Hello!
Thanks for the recipe. These are my favorite keto snack! 🙂
I was wondering if there’s any way to make these and save them for later – do you know if you could freeze the muffins? Or maybe follow all the steps up until putting them in the oven, then freeze the unbaked “muffins”? If so, how long would they stay good for?
Of course! I’ve kept them in the fridge for a week and they were still good 🙂
Or… you can freeze them and defrost overnight
I made 3 muffins to try them out — love how you can put in the number of muffins you want to make and the recipe adjusts. With 3 muffins, all measures come out pretty sensibly — for example, 3 muffins uses 1 whole egg.
I put blueberries in 1 muffin, choc zero mokn-fruit sweetened 70% chocolate in another, and the chocolate plus pecans in the last one. I used swerve for sweetener and used a little less than called for because of liking things best that are only slightly sweet. The blueberry one was good but slightly lacking in flavor. But the chocolate chip muffin was SO GOOD. And the chocolate chip pecan was just ridiculous. I’m going to have to make dough for 3 chocolate chip pecans tomorrow and only cook one because it is impossible not to eat them.
Thanks so much for this delicious recipe!
Thanks Sanna 🙂 Great idea with the pecans 🙂
First of all thank you so much for so many amazing recipes! As a newbie having so many options has made the transition so easy! I just want to verify do the nutritional postings which say “per serve” mean for ONE or is it for the “servings” amount posted in this case six? This seems like a stupid question but I really just want to make sure. Thanks again!
I was wondering the same!
Wondering the same?
VERY new to keto and was already really missing carbs. Made these today. They are AMAZING. I really dislike sweeteners like natvia and upon the first bite I immediately thought that they tasted too “fake sweet” and that I would need to use less of that next time BUT THEN I got a bite that had the chocolate in it (I used 100% unsweetened Cacao) it the bitterness of that it balanced it out perfectly. I will definitely be making these on a regular basis. A game changer for sure. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I can’t wait to try some more out.
Thank you so much Amber 🙂
Can you use normal milk?
Of course! but it would no longer be keto friendly 🙁
We made these without brunch today. They were yummy! thanks for the recipe, I look forward to using this bass to try different variations each week.
What is the ratio replacement of Erythritol to Coconut sure for the most recipes including this one?
Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend coconut sugar in this recipe. If you’re going use coconut sugar…. just use normal sugar because it’s not keto friendly. I hope that helps.
Can i use coconut milk
Hello
Can i substitute blueberrys for the chips or would they be too big for minis?
Hey Dee,
These are mini anyway, so you could perfectly do what you are thinking with these 🙂 Blueberries! YUM!
Aaron, you’re so sweet to think of tasty desserts! I made the chocolate chip cookies yesterday and they are so very delicious! I will be trying these muffins and let you know how fast they go!
Thanks KC 🙂
OMG I just made these as dessert tonight. Beyond delicious!! This is now my new favourite keto dessert recipe, thankyou sooo much. I made mini muffins (16) and it took 15 mins in oven at 180 degrees.