These fudgy chocolate keto cupcakes are so unbelievably delicious, they might be one of the best chocolate cupcake recipes you ever try!
In the past 30 days, I’ve suddenly been getting a ton of requests to come up with a basic keto cupcake recipe that can be used for birthday parties, holidays, or any time you’re craving a healthy chocolate snack you can pick up with your hands.
These classic chocolate cupcakes are perfect for all of the occasions above, and they can easily be gluten free, grain free, low carb, sugar free, egg free, dairy free, flourless, vegan, and there’s NO coconut flour required!
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Keto chocolate cupcake frosting ideas
For the chocolate cupcakes in the pictures, I used this Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting recipe.
Feel free to ice the cupcakes however you wish – some easy ideas include chocolate or vanilla buttercream or cream cheese frosting, whipped cream or homemade Coconut Whipped Cream, or even Keto Chocolate Mousse.
Or you can skip the frosting entirely, and instead top your cupcakes with sliced strawberries, almond butter, or this Keto Ice Cream.
If you prefer brownies –> Keto Brownies
How to make keto cupcakes
Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a mini muffin tin or regular muffin tin, and set aside. Stir all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, then stir in wet to form a batter.
Scoop into the prepared muffin tins, going about 2/3 of the way up. Then bake on the oven’s center rack for ten minutes (or fifteen minutes if making large cupcakes).
Let cool completely, as they firm up while cooling. Go around the sides of each tin with a knife, then pop the cupcakes out. Frost if desired.
Leftovers can be covered and stored out on the counter for a day, or refrigerate three to four days. They can also be frozen for up to two months.
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For vanilla keto cupcakes: use the following recipe for Keto Muffins, and simply increase the erythritol or powdered sugar to 3 tbsp. Frost the cupcakes with your favorite homemade or store-bought frosting.
Vegan keto cupcake recipe: The cupcakes work with flax eggs. Or stir together 2 tbsp Bob’s Red Mill egg replacer with 6 tbsp water, and use in place of 2 eggs. Other commercial egg replacers that we haven’t yet tried here may also work. If you experiment and find a good one, be sure to report back.
Craving a non-chocolate dessert? Make Keto Lemon Bars
Above, watch the keto cupcake recipe video
The recipe was adapted from this Vegan Chocolate Cake and my Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes.
Chocolate Keto Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup fine almond flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp powdered erythritol or powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- 2 large eggs, including the vegan options listed earlier in the post or 2 flax eggs
Instructions
- I like to make mini cupcakes because they have a lighter texture, but regular cupcakes also work! Feel free to double the recipe if desired. To make the cupcakes, preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a regular or mini muffin tin. Stir dry ingredients well. Stir in remaining ingredients. Fill tins about 2/3 of the way up. Bake 10 minutes for mini or 15 for regular size. Take out and let cool completely, because they firm up as they cool. Carefully go around the sides with a knife and pop out. If you can wait, they are even sweeter the next day! I listed a few frosting ideas above in the post, or you can use your favorite. View Nutrition Facts
Video
Notes
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It’s very hard to mix ingredients together is there any oil or fat in the recipe? Also I don’t see the link for the frosting in instructions and ingredients
It definitely shouldn’t be – the almond flour is enough fat. What brand of almond flour did you use? And what other ingredients?
If I want to use Monk fruit as the sweetener, how much would I use? Thank you.
What is the exact dosage of baking powder please?
Hi Eva, if you scroll down to the recipe box it lists all of the ingredient amounts 🙂
Hi Katie,
My cupcakes started collapsing in the middle as they were cooling. Does that mean I need to add more time to the bake time? I did full sized cupcakes (not mini) and 15 mins as per the instructions.
Delicious! Super Yummy & No butter or oil, either, crazy!! 🤗
Nutritional information for all your recipes would be appreciated.
Hi Sheila! Katie has full nutrition facts for all of her recipes 🙂 Just click the “view nutrition facts” link in the recipe box for each recipe.
This recipe saved me in a pinch as a base when a diabetic friend came to hang out and told me he didn’t have any kind of treat for his birthday because of the diabetes! I made a few changes with this as the guide.
1) I added 1 tablespoon of Xantham Gum powder
2) Added 2 tsp of vanilla
3) 3 eggs instead of 2.
The mix looked really weird but it baked up beautifully!
Hi,
In the nutrition facts you don’t say whether it is based on mini muffins or cupcakes so could you please let me know as I would love to bake these.
thank you
The nutrition facts are for the cupcakes 🙂
Hi there! What’s the best way to travel with these? Freeze them? Thank you!
You can definitely freeze them 🙂
I’ve made keto/lo-carb cupcakes before but this was 10 years ago – needed to try and remember how to do it, so I googled and found this recipe. I used splenda instead of the erythritol and used the splenda guide on the box for sugar replacement, about 5 packets for 3 tbsp (6 packets recommended for 4 tbsp or 1/4 cup) and ended up adding 2 more packets for a total of 7 packets to make it sweet enough for my taste, which isn’t too sweet. Tasted excellent, especially with the recommended cream cheese chocolate frosting (used 36 packets of splenda and then topped off with 2 more packets to convert to the minimum 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar recommendation which was plenty)
These are very good but there is conflicting information in the review questions about the size of cupcake for the nutritional information. Once the answer was the larger cupcake and another time it said the mini. Please clarify.