These ultimate keto brownies are back! Its fudge-y, dense, mouthwatering AND delicious, but best of all, its only 2g net carbs per brownie.
Keto chocolate bronies are one of those recipes that when you find the right one, you’ll throw every other brownie recipe out! While I hope you’re able to try other recipes out, this keto brownie is your one-stop shop to taste town.
Making nut free keto brownies
These keto brownies are easy to make nut free. The most interesting part is that many people who avoid almonds also avoid coconut just out of caution, and that’s totally fine, so I have two versions for you:
- Switch the almond flour out for 1/4 of a cup of coconut flour (nut free, drupe version)
- BETTER-> switch the almond flour out for sesame seed flour, at a 1:1 ratio (just grind up sesame seeds in a food processor until it looks fine enough to use.
Low carb brownie frosting
These chocolate keto brownies I made don’t technically have frosting on them, but they do have a chocolate ganache that you can drip over the brownies to make them extra special.
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 50g sugar-free dark chocolate (I use lindt variety, but use whatever you can find)
Heat the cream over a double boiler until hot, then drop your chocolate into the hot cream and leave it for 3 minutes before stirring. It will create the most delicious chocolate sauce you’ve ever dreamed of.
Keto Brownie with Walnuts
While this keto brownie doesn’t technically have walnuts in the recipe, but if you wanted to add them, chop up 1/3 cup of walnuts, and mix them into the full batter in step 6 of this recipe.
If you don’t have xanthan gum, don’t worry
I’ve used xanthan gum in this recipe to emulate the binding properties that “gluten” has in regular flour. Since these brownies are gluten-free, no gluten is allowed… but you still want your brownies to hold together right?
Xanthan gum plays a role in this, but don’t worry if you don’t have any. Here are some suggestions on how to make it without xanthan gum:
- Use same amounts guar gum (1:1 ratio)
- Use 1 tablespoon of psyllium husk powder
- Simply omit, but you’ll have to wait until these bad boys are totally cool before you try one.
Don’t overcook your brownies, this is the secret fudge
When you take the brownies out at 20 minutes, you’ll wonder if I’ve gone crazy. Trust me, they are only slightly undercooked, and this is what makes them so gooey and delicious.
Once the brownies sit out of the oven for 10 minutes to cool down, you’ll have a much easier time picking one up, but don’t pick them up when they are still hot, otherwise, you’ll have molten mess all over you beautifully clean…. floor.
Cream Cheese Keto Brownies
If you wanted to add cream cheese to these keto brownies to make them suuuuuuper fudge town, then I suggest the following substitutions:
- Add 1/4 cup of cream cheese to the mixture, and reduce the butter by 1/2 (please ensure you use xanthan gum in this instance
- Add 1/4 cup cream cheese to the mixture, without altering the recipe otherwise (super fudge town).
I hope you love this recipe as much as I do. Leave me a comment below if you think I’ve missed anything.
Other recipes you will love
- Raspberry Brownies
- Cheesecake Brownies
- Keto Rocky Road
- Keto Nutella
- Keto Ferrero Rocher
- No-Churn Keto Ice Cream
Keto Brownies
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp instant espresso
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 block sugar free dark chocolate 100g / 3.5 oz
- 1/2 cup butter unsalted, melted
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Erythritol (SoNourished)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C (350F)
- In a mixing bowl, sift together the almond flour, cocoa powder, xanthan gum, salt, espresso powder and baking powder. Mix until it is uniform in colour.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, vanilla extract and erythrtiol until well combined. Set aside.
- Next, in another bowl, melt the butter either for 90 seconds in the microwave or over a pot of boiling water (double boiler). It needs to be hot.
- Cut up the dark chocolate, and place the chopped pieces into the hot butter. Let this sit for 5 minutes, then stir with a spoon. The mixture will become like molten chocolate
- Slowly combine the almond flour mixture and the butter mixture into the erythrtiol and egg mixture. Do this slowly, otherwise your brownie mixture will turn solid, and not liquid.
- Pour into a 22cm X 22cm baking tin (8.5" X 8.5") lined with parchment paper. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, remove and let cool
- Slice 4 lengths width ways and length ways to make 16 brownies. Store in the fridge for up to 5 days, or freeze for up to 1 month.
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Tips & Notes:
- Switch the almond flour out for 1/4 of a cup of coconut flour (nut free, drupe version)
- BETTER-> switch the almond flour out for sesame seed flour, at a 1:1 ratio (just grind up sesame seeds in a food processor until it looks fine enough to use.
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 50g sugar-free dark chocolate (I use lidt variety, but use whatever you can find)Â
- Use same amounts guar gum (1:1 ratio)
- Use 1 tablespoon of psyllium husk powder
- Simply omit, but you’ll have to wait until these bad boys are totally cool before you try one.
- Add 1/4 cup of cream cheese to the mixture, and reduce the butter by 1/2 (please ensure you use xanthan gum in this instance
- Add 1/4 cup cream cheese to the mixture, without altering the recipe otherwise (super fudge town).
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Stacy Read says
These are delicious!! I had one with some no added sugar icecream. Yumbo!! Thank you for the recipe Aaron 🙂
Nora says
It is the first time I try to make a keto recipe…and i am not a very good cook:)))) i tried this and follow your steps exactly ..just it turned very hard..like really really hard:( I added some milk but still didn’t came up right…the final result is something that looks like an overcooked brownie with a soap taste:))) I think your recipe is ok …just maybe i’ve done something wrong…i think the soap taste comes from baking powder- is there something i can use to replace that? Thanks Aaron! ( My name spelled backwards :P)
Naomi McMaster says
Hi just wondering, your Keto Brownie says 2g net carbs but when I add it into my Fitness Pal app it say 3.6g. Is that because the app is adding fibres or sugars too? Just want to get it right. Cheers.
Lydia says
Hands down the best keto brownies I’ve made! I tried about 5-6 brownie recipes from other sites but this batch definitely turned out the best.
FatForWeightLoss says
Thanks SO MUCH Lydia 🙂