These quick and super healthy low carb keto blueberry muffins are easy to make, and the recipe is impossible to stop eating!
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Healthy flourless blueberry muffins
Looking for a basic muffin recipe that is gluten free, oil free, low carb, paleo, dairy free, sugar free, and vegan?
The homemade blueberry muffins can be all of the above.
And their irresistibly soft and buttery texture will immediately make you fall completely in love at first bite.
It’s the perfect healthy recipe for blueberry season!
Also be sure to try this Chocolate Keto Cake Recipe
Earlier this month, I traveled up to Baltimore for the annual Natural Products Expo, which is basically a foodie’s dream weekend.
Imagine a giant convention where thousands of your favorite healthy food companies all offer you free samples of their newest products, many of which haven’t even hit stores yet.
I spent the weekend sampling nut butters, brownies, breakfast bars, paleo waffles, Cauliflower Pizza Crust, raw chocolates, Vegan Mac and Cheese, and at least seven different brands of dairy free gelato or oat milk ice cream.
Two weeks later, I’m still seeing mocha Oat Milk Ice Cream in my dreams…
There were three predominant food trends I noticed at the conference: packaged food products with cauliflower, snacks made with Oat Milk, and everything keto.
Keto blueberry muffin recipe video
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The best keto blueberry muffins
The keto trend reflects increased consumer demand for low carb or sugar free products, and I’ve recently been receiving a similar demand from readers to post more keto friendly recipes.
I know the keto diet can be a super polarizing subject.
People either love or hate it, and therefore today’s healthy flourless muffin recipe can easily be keto or non keto, whichever you prefer.
If you do choose to make keto muffins, they can have just over one net carb per serving and one single Weight Watchers smart point each.
Keto blueberry muffin ingredients
The muffin recipe calls for almond flour, sweetener of choice, milk of choice, an egg or flax egg, baking powder, salt, an optional pinch of cinnamon or cardamom, and of course fresh blueberries.
For completely flourless blueberry muffins, you may use fine almond meal instead of the almond flour.
Sweetener options that work include granulated or powdered erythritol or xylitol, an erythritol monk fruit blend, or regular sugar or coconut sugar for non keto muffins.
If using frozen blueberries in place of fresh ones, be sure to thaw them fully and pat off excess ice crystals and moisture before using.
Pretty much any milk of choice can be used, including nondairy coconut milk, almond milk, or oat milk (not keto).
How to make almond flour blueberry muffins
Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grease a mini muffin tin or a regular size muffin tin, or line the tin with cupcake liners. I personally prefer to make mini muffins because of their lighter texture.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together the almond flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and sweetener.
Stir in all remaining ingredients except the blueberries to form a batter.
Scoop the muffin batter into the prepared muffin cups, then press a few blueberries into each muffin.
For mini muffins, bake thirteen minutes on the center rack of the oven. Or increase the baking time to eighteen minutes for large muffins.
Remove the tin from the oven, and let the pastries cool.
Once firm, carefully go around the sides of each muffin with a knife before popping them out onto a plate.
If you use liners, they should peel off easily after a day.
Store muffins in an airtight covered container for up to four days. I recommend refrigerating them after a few hours for optimal freshness.
Keto vegan blueberry muffin recipe
These low carb muffins are easily vegan if you use one of the numerous vegan egg options on the market.
I’ve successfully made them with Bob’s Egg Replacer, or you can make your own two or three ingredient flax eggs.
If you go with the Bob’s version, simply stir together one tablespoon of the powder with three tablespoons of water. Use this as the egg called for in the recipe.
The vegan muffins will rise and look just like they would if you used a real egg!
Leftover almond meal? Make this Almond Flour Banana Bread
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The recipe was adapted from these Keto Muffins.
Keto Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup fine almond flour
- 4 tbsp powdered erythritol, or 3 tbsp sugar or stevia equivalent
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- 1 large egg (or the vegan option listed above, or 1 flax egg)
- 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup blueberries
- optional pinch cinnamon or cardamom
Instructions
- *Mini muffins will have a lighter texture, but you can definitely make regular-size muffins if you prefer. The recipe yields 4 regular-size muffins.Preheat oven to 350 F. Line or grease a mini muffin tin very well. Stir all dry ingredients very well, then add all remaining ingredients except berries. Scoop into the muffin cups – I added a little batter, placed a few berries per muffin on top, then covered with more batter. You could also just press a few berries into the top of each muffin after filling with batter. Bake 13 minutes on the center rack (or 17-18 for regular-size muffins). Remove from the oven and let cool an additional 10 minutes, during which time they continue to firm up. Carefully go around the sides of each muffin with a knife and pop out. Or if you’ve used liners, they peel off easily after sitting for a day.View Nutrition Facts
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Katie, are you no longer vegan?
Katie is still vegan 🙂
LOVE LOVE LOVE these muffins!! Made them the first time tonight and they are so easy to make and taste great! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I’m allergic to almonds. Any suggestions for an almond flour alternative?
Pecan flour works! https://amzn.to/2uzWJ3T
Soy milk
Sorry I thought you were asking for milk alternative *argh*
Seems like the cook time for the larger muffins is a bit off. 18 min, still gooey in the middle.
I think it just depends on your oven, climate, specific ingredients used, etc! Mine always take less than 18 minutes but I am at low elevation and have a calibrated oven.
Jason
Hi Jason, how does one get the oven calibrated? Ours is all over the place :(. Thanks!
Baked my full size muffins (6) 21 minutes.
I made these today, and they were delicious! I will definitely make again, doubling the recipe, because they went fast. Thanks for sharing!
We made these and they came out salty tasting. Do you know why???
Hi, I have never noticed that with these so the only things I can think of are – either a mismeasurement of the salt (happens a lot to me with ingredients!) or maybe you are just more sensitive to the taste/flavor of salt than some others like me? If that’s the only issue and you otherwise liked them, it’s perfectly fine to use less salt next time, because it wouldn’t affect the texture of the recipe 🙂
Jason
I left the salt out of her banana bread, but could still taste baking. Maybe that is what people are tasting. But I love her recipes, and will try this in a 9 x 9 pan like the banana bread which turned out great as a cake! (Added additional keto sweetener, also used 1/2 tsp. Xanthan gum to hold together well).
I’m thankful for her website!
These came out great when made exactly per the recipe. Almond flour has a way of making things grainy which is what my kid didn’t like but I made them into mini muffins and filled them with blueberries and others with chocolate chips. I thought they were quite good.
I’m new to gluten free cooking and baking. I’m trying sweeteners to see which ones really gives me the taste of sweetness. I tried this recipe with Swerve Granular, put extra Swerve and still they weren’t sweet enough. I am tasting from badly trained tastebuds so I’ll try the recipe again using a different sweetener. Other than the sweetness debacle, the muffins were great.
Can u use frozen berries?
You can! Thaw first 🙂
Hi, have a question re calories. In the nutrition ingredients section, it says 16 servings and 40 total calories per serving. I tried adding it to myfitnesspal automatic load from the web. And it shows me 4 servings (like in recipe) and 188 total calories per serving and 12g carbs. Is this correct?
The recipe is amazing and very tasty. Which I’m very greatful for sharing it. But i wish to know the exact intake of calories and carbs in this case as I’m following a diet and the ingredients list is very misleading (16 servings are not even possible from that small amount of dough).
Please, if 188 calories is the correct number per serving.
Hi Lily, I think maybe you are trying to make full size muffins? The nutrition facts are for the mini muffin version (the size of the ones in the photos). Hope that helps!
Jason
Hi Jason, thank you for your reply. I was doing exact measures like in the recipe. And it comes 4 small madffins.
Hi Jason, thank you for your reply. I was doing exact measures like in the recipe. And it comes 4 small madffins.
Hi yes, the recipe will make 4 regular sized muffins or a whole batch of mini muffins the size of the ones shown in the photos. Hope that helps!