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
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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.
Made it with monk fruit sugar, turned out fine
I made these brownies for my boyfriend’s birthday and he loved them! So decadent and moist! This was my first keto baking experience, and I’m thrilled with how it turned out. Thank you for the great recipe!
Thank YOU for making them 🙂
Is the powdered cocoa th non sweetened baking cocoa powder or sweetened like Nestles Quik sweetened cocoa. I’m sure it’s unsweetened but wanted to check.
Unsweetened cocoa for baking. I have used both Ghirardelli and Nestle and both have worked out beautifully. If you use the sweetened cocoa it won’t be keto or low carb.
Will these work with ground almonds
I tried to make these cookies and they came out really good, they also tastes delicious! I love these recipes!!!
Made to take to a grandchild’s birthday party , turned out great & was so easy to make
Thank you for making the brownies 🙂
I made the brownies and followed the recipe exactly. My brownies tasted good but were very crumbly. I have no idea what happened. Any thoughts?
Hi! Thank you for making them! What specific ingredients did you use?
Can you use raw, unsweetened cacao powder instead of unsweetened cocoa powder ?? I can’t seem to find Dutch processed cocoa powder in Canada either.
I was convinced by my boyfriend to try keto for a few months as a way of resetting our diets after the holidays and all the quarantne stress eating. It’s been great, except for an issue – I am a baker and have a huge sweet tooth. I made these last night and was SO PLEASED with the outcome. They tasted just like regular brownies, but their texture was lighter and they really dissolve in your mouth. I cut them into 1″x1″ squares and 1 of those for dessert a day is pretty reasonable. Also, I used granulated stevia (and sour cream instead of cottage cheese). They were a bit on the sweet side, but I know I’ll need to adjust for alternative sweeteners so I’m not sure if that was just because it was stevia or not. I’ll cut it down a little bit next time around and maybe add some more dutch cocoa.
Still have to get used to this keto baking thing but I’m excited to try more of Katie’s recipes – like the avocado chocolate mousse and the chocolate cupcakes. I’m enjoying trying more out-of-the box recipes and growing as a baker, it’s making keto a lot easier. 🙂
Love your idea to use sour cream!
Holy crap these were amazing! I got scared at first reading the comments but felt better when people pointed out that most of the issues were with people substituting. I couldn’t find Dutch cocoa and I used butter instead of coconut oil, but otherwise followed everything precisely. Biggest problem I had was that they’re super crumbly, but so long as you don’t mind going after brownie crumbs with a spoon, who cares? I also cut mine into 14 pieces rather than 25 which helped a little.
My husband also loves them. My first batch is more than halfway gone and I just made them yesterday!
Can’t wait to check out the other recipes.
Thank you so so much for making them 🙂