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 Miss Katie,
I have nots cooked with coconut flour, I’m a flexitarian. So I have tried a lot of eggs, but that just ends up with an eggy taste that is gross. SoI was wondering if there was some pointers you could give me? Like extra water, oil, I know avocado oil has a pretty neutral taste. But I don’t want to use more eggs and I have to maybe maybe flax eggs or chia seeds? I just really want to know how to work with coconut flour?
Hi Shannon, there are no eggs in this recipe 🙂
Jason
I just read this recipe, and it calls for an egg or flax egg.
Sorry for the confusion – the recipe has been updated since the time the previous commenter posted. The new recipe does call for either eggs or flax eggs as an egg free option.
Katie, I’d like to make these with the Keto Cream Cheese Frosting. There’s not a place to leave a question on that recipe. In it, you say 2 oz. melted chocolate. Is that unsweetened? semi-sweet? etc.?
Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Unsweetened or sweetened are both fine, or it’s also fine to leave it out completely 🙂
Jason (media relations)
What flour can be used other than almond flour with success?
We have only tried this one with almond. But she has other recipes that call for different flours if you want to use something else in–for example–this recipe: https://lett-trim.today/2019/05/20/almond-butter-brownies/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
These brownies look amazing! I totally need to try them asap!
Paige
Amazing! I love chocolate cake. Thank you for your information
These keto brownies were so good I wanted to cry. I’d tried a different recipe first (sorry) and yours was so much better ?
This is a great recipe for a healthier version of brownies and definitely one I will keep in mind for Valentine’s Day baking with my family!
I made this and love them.
I figured I could respond, as I did use Stevia instead of the erythritol (I only had powdered in the house at the time) but my stevia was granulated.
I used just under the 2/3 Cup you called for. Literally, used my ⅔C measuring cup but didn’t pack it and left a bit of space to the rim.
Worked beautifully!!!
Is the nutritional information using regular granulated sugar or erythritol? Also, the nutritional facts also state there are 25 servings in this, is that right?.
Hi, just curious why you specify using granular erythritol? Other keto brownie recipes I’ve seen recommend powdered erythritol because it dissolves better (apparently erythritol doesn’t dissolve into liquid as well as regular sugar does). Just curious if you had a specific reason for recommending the granular variety? Thanks!
She used granulated because granulated sugar is what’s in regular brownies, no other reason :).
The cocoa powder sounds great, but if you can find dutch for the optional part, it’s definitely recommended!
Can I use Splenda in this recipe? If so, what would you recommend for quantity?
We haven’t tried it so honestly don’t know if it would work or taste good. But if you experiment, I’d maybe look into a splenda baking blend instead of the powdered/packets so you’re getting the same texture as sugar or erythritol at least. Be sure to report back if you try!
I definitely do NOT recommend Splenda! It was unfortunately the only non-sugar sweetener I had in the house at the time and I was baking for someone on a sugar-free diet. I used approx. 1/4 cup Splenda but the flavor of the artificial sweetener was super strong and the texture of the brownies was super crumbly. I also used a flax egg, so I am not sure which substitution led to the texture issue but they did not stay together. I will certainly try the recipe again sometime (as written) when baking for myself and not a vegan sugar-free audience 🙂
Also the cocoa powder I have is this Organic Cacao Powder:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HES9CMS/
Will that work? Should I do anything different?
Thanks!