The best and easiest low carb keto brownies. Even people who aren’t on a keto diet will love these unbelievably fudgy chocolate brownies!
8 Ingredients
Low Carb
Flourless
Gluten Free
Better Than Boxed Brownies
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The Best Keto Brownies – They MELT In Your Mouth!
These impossibly fudgy chocolate brownies are almost guaranteed to win you over.
It’s one of those must-try recipes, because you really need to try them at least once in your life to discover how shockingly good they are!
The simple recipe is so rich and delicious, you might never go back to boxed brownies again.
P.S. —> NO coconut flour, and less than 1 net carb per brownie.
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Almond Flour Brownie Variations
Feel free to stir a handful of chopped pecans, almonds, or walnuts into the batter.
Or throw in some shredded coconut, cacao nibs, or chocolate chips.
The brownies are perfectly sweet enough to serve on their own, but if you want keto brownies with frosting, I love this Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe.
Easy Low Carb Brownies
To come up with this recipe, I simply adapted my keto chocolate cake into brownies.
Since I know brownies have more fat, less flour, and less leavening than cake, I changed the ingredient proportions accordingly.
The first try wasn’t perfect, but recipe experiments are seldom perfect on the first try, and I quite enjoyed eating the fall-apart-gooey flourless homemade brownie rejects.
*For a brownie in a mug, use the Keto Mug Cake Recipe
Flourless Brownie Ice Cream Sundae = top them with a scoop of Keto Ice Cream.
Keto Brownie Ingredients
Instead of regular flour, these brownies use fine almond meal or almond flour (ground-up almonds), making them both flourless and gluten free.
If you can find dutch cocoa powder, I highly recommend using it here when called for, because that’s the type of cocoa typically used in boxed brownie mixes, so it’s what will make these taste the most authentic.
Most regular grocery stores should sell it – look for the words “processed with alkali” on the ingredient list, and that’s the type to use. (Regular unsweetened cocoa powder should be used for the initial 1/4 cup in the recipe.)
The moist chocolate brownies can be made with either regular sugar (for non keto) or granulated erythritol. If making them keto, be sure to buy granulated erythritol, not powdered. Or for paleo brownies, you can also use coconut sugar.
While I haven’t tried the recipe with allulose or stevia, feel free to experiment with a granulated stevia blend if you wish, and be sure to report back for other readers if you do.
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Above – watch the video of how to make keto brownies!
Keto Brownies
Ingredients
- 1 cup fine almond flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp dutch cocoa or additional regular
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup melted coconut oil or butter
- 3 tbsp water or additional oil
- 2 eggs, or 2 flax eggs
- 2/3 cup granulated erythritol or regular sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- *If you're a visual learner, feel free to watch the keto brownie recipe video posted above!Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease an 8-inch pan, or line with parchment. Mix all ingredients well. Spread evenly into the pan. Smooth down, using a second sheet of parchment if needed. Bake 20 minutes on the center rack, then let cool completely and they will continue to firm up. They also firm up even more if you refrigerate very loosely covered overnight. The brownies are delicious with or without frosting (for the photos, I used the keto chocolate frosting recipe linked above in this post). If you try the brownies, don’t forget to leave a comment or rate the recipe below!View Nutrition Facts
Video
Notes
More Chocolate Keto Recipes:
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Bars
Keto Muffins – 6 Ingredients
For more healthy brownie recipes, also check out these recipes for Sweet Potato Brownies, Vegan Brownies, or the popular Black Bean Brownies.
Hi. If you doubled the recipe how much longer would you bake it for? I’m thinking of using a slightly larger pan size for a thicker brownie.
Can an egg be substituted for the flax seed? Would I have to bake longer?
Can applesauce be substituted for the erythritol?
This is not keto! There is a half cup of sugar in it! How can you label this keto and screw up someone’s diet if they don’t know better?
Erythritol would be the keto option here. It is listed in the recipe.
if someone is on Keto then they know that…good grief give people some credit…
If you’re using a sugar substitute they are definitely keto
How about move along, troll??? @Dustin
The recipe doesn’t specify what kind of oil and what amount of chocolate chips?
Chocolate chips are optional, so just add a handful 😉
Oil can be melted coconut, canola, or vegetable oil. Or any neutral oil you prefer in general for baking!
If you want it to be truly keto, use either coconut oil, olive oil, butter/ghee, or avocado oil if you dont mind the flavor combo. Pecan, almond, or walnut oil would be awesome in there too, if you can afford them!
Are the nutrition facts for these with regular sugar? Do they include the chocolate chips or the frosting?
I dont have access to any non dairy yoghurt. what can I sub it with to still keep it keto?
Try coconut cream!
Hi Jason…Should I curdle the cream to make it acidic like the yoghurt?
I don’t think so because it’s not bread or cake that needs to rise so I think the yogurt is only there for moisture/texture. But I haven’t tried, just assuming. Would love to know if you try!
Is there any yogurt in the keto brownie recipe ? I has been wondering since I made it and it was delicious but a bit dry. If there’s yogurt in there please tell me how much I should use. Thank you.
No yogurt in these! Katie updated the recipe this year to use more common ingredients (such as almond flour instead of coconut flour), but the recipe that some of the earlier comments refer to still exists here: https://lett-trim.today/coconut-flour-brownies/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
hi Katie- this is my first ever bake with Coconut flour so I think it takes some getting used to ! the shape was fine and the taste was great , but it really fell apart while sering, so perhaps it needs a little xanthum gum or something to give it firmness and texture.. anyways, the family loved it, and heres a ping back thank you from my blog to yours…
https://www.sizzlingtastebuds.com/2019/07/flourless-pecan-eggless-brownies-low.html
Cheers,
Kalyani
When your recipes call for cocoa powder does this refer to unsweetened baking cocoa. I am on s Keto diet. Thanks!
Brandy
Hi, unless it specifically says “dutch” cocoa in a recipe then yes, use regular unsweetened 🙂
Jason
THE MOST DELICIOUS BROWNIES IVE EVER TASTED IN LIFE.
SERIOUSLY.
I substituted the yogurt with coconut cream in same quantity and followed the recipe to a T. Turned out moist, soft and totally delicious. The brownies were over within two days literally. This recipe should come with a “dangerously addictive” warning!
I dont know how to edit my previous comment so re-posting this again.
“THE MOST DELICIOUS BROWNIES IVE EVER TASTED IN LIFE. SERIOUSLY.
I substituted the yogurt with coconut cream in same quantity and followed the recipe to a T. Turned out moist, soft and totally delicious. The brownies were over within two days literally. This recipe should come with a “dangerously addictive” warning!”
Edit: I missed some points above! The above was when I used extra virgin olive oil and coconut cream for the recipe. When I used coconut oil, it tasted like having solid coconut oil and was a failure. When I used avocado oil, the taste was still delicious but there were bubbles all over the brownie surface and the baking time went up considerably. So my oil of choice would be extra light olive oil.
Hi, I was wondering if lakanto sugar substitute would be alright.
Yes! Be sure to use the granulated (not powdered) sugar replacement.