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.
I’m loving this recipe. I make it every week for my husband. I started adding decaf coffee instead of water and it pops up the chocolate flavor.
It’s been a great recipe for my 65 yr old husband who has a very sensitive digestion and has lost lots of weight on a thin frame so we’re trying to get some weight on him and this has got a good source of protein and yet healthy too so that I feel I can indulge.
Thanks!
These are so chocolatey and good! I added slivered almonds to the top before baking as well. I imported the recipe into MyFitnessPal and changed the number of servings to 9 as I knew 1/25 of the recipe wouldn’t satisfy my chocolate cravings lol!
For those interested in macros, here’s what 1/9 of the recipes is (using large eggs, monk fruit w/erythritol) Dutched cocoa, and the water, no almonds on top):
Calories: 129
Total fat: 9.7 g
Total carbs: 19.6 g (fiber = 2.3g so net carbs = 17.3)
Protein : 5.2 g
At 1/9 of the pan, for those on strict keto may find the net carbs too high which may be why the original recipe had a much smaller serving size – enough to get a bite of chocolate without many carbs).
Always happy with the CCK recipes and her advice for substitutions and the potential disasters by swapping ingredients are always spot on! 🙂
Truly best browniest. I love them
thanks
I usually love Katie’s recipes but this one not so much…The taste is good but it’s very grainy I texture…woud not make again.
These Keto brownies are amazing and so delicious and my go to Brownie recipe. I’ve been on Keto for 2 months and it has changed my life and for the first time in my life I can eat a sweet treat without worrying about my weight or blood sugar. My family agrees these Brownies are actually better than non-keto Brownies. Best of all they are so easy and fast to make. I added walnuts to mine which was brilliant. I also forgot to use the baking powder on one occassion and they were still fantastic !
Thank you all for trying them 🙂
How come at the top of the page the rating 5 dress from 4 votes but at the point of the recipe list it has 4.88 out if 5 from 270 +? Bit confused
Hi Jenn, sorry for the confusion. One is the amount of people who pressed “rate this recipe” and the other is people who left a rating with their comment. We just added that as an option recently, which is why there are fewer of those.
Delish!!!
I used 1/4 cup Truvia and baked my brownies in an 8×6 glass pyrex for about 21 minutes. Other than that, followed the recipe to a T. I just started experimenting with keto and I was pleasantly surprised with these brownies! They were a little fluffy and cakey for brownies, but other then that, they were pretty good! I’m going to add a little more Truvia next time to get them a little sweeter. I may also try drizzling a little peanut butter on top tomorrow too!
This recipe is best for a mini-muffin pan. The yield is just not accurate, I agree with a similar post that 22 is more accurate. Some modifications I made (incidentally, I’m a ACF Certified Pastry Chef) so believe me or not your choice. No fault of the maker of the recipe. I opted for Splenda over alcohol sugar (erythritol) which gives me a headache- I used a double boiler with 85% Cacau Morsels and for just a bit more fat Cacau Butter Chips. Added Dutch Chocolate powder. Plugra Salted Butter. (Therefore extra salt isn’t necessary) Ripple Pea Milk instead of water. Baking Powder. Almond and Flax Seed Fine Meal. These mods made the recipe a bit more traditional in design and punched the flavors a bit. It also increased fat by 30% and protein by 12%. I wouldn’t use it for a fat bomb but definitely after a massive ribeye.
Hi, do you mean splenda baking mix or plain splenda? If you used splenda, that will change the bulk of the recipe so yours would definitely have a smaller yield.
Holy Smokes! These are sinfully yummers! Actually they need a sign that says DANGER HANGING ON THE FRONT! Even my hubby was begging for seconds.
Thank you both for trying them 🙂