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.
Excellent! Followed the recipe (using Splenda and Meyer lemon flavor Two Good yogurt),it turned out great. I’m putting it in the fridge over night to firm up a bit👍👍
In the oven right now: I am balking at 2/3 cup of sugar. Can I sub maple syrup? If so, in what amounts? I love the black bean brownies, but trying to lower the carbs. I hope this works!!
Hi Diane, many people like to use a sugar free sweetener here instead of sugar, to lower the carbs and keep the brownies keto 🙂
Very good tasting recipe for those on keto. My only suggestion would be to cook them longer than 20 minutes.
Hello,
This at the first time I am leaving the review, I have to do it because these brownies are amazing.
You are a genius to create something so delicious, simple and really low on carbs.
Thank you very much!
Please keep doing what you doing and keep me posted.
They came out good but a little grainy. How do you store these?
Brownies have always been my favorite dessert.
I’ve tried a few other low-carb/keto brownie recipes but I have to say, this is by far the best. I was not disappointed!
Thank you so much for making them!
I doubled the recipe for a 9 x 13 pan, and for the options listed, used regular eggs, butter, 3 Tbsp of water, and only regular cocoa powder (could not find dutch cocoa at either of my local grocery stores). The only variances I made were putting in a pinch of salt and 1 cup of Monk Fruit sweetener vs. 1 1/3, but otherwise I followed the recipe as written. The batter was ah-mazing! I cooked the brownies an extra 10 minutes because of doubling the recipe, and they came out set on the edges but soft and a little shaky in the middle, so I was a bit concerned (I love to cook but am definitely not a baker) — but trusted our chef, Katie. And of course she was right! They firmed up while cooling and in the fridge.
My brownies cooled in their pan for about an hour and then went into the fridge for 2 hours before being iced with Katie’s chocolate cream cheese frosting. The frosting was easy to spread and the iced brownies cut beautifully. Even for 4 dessert-loving, adult-sized eaters, I could have gotten away with not doubling the recipe, because these babies are RICH. However, a big pan of leftover brownies is not the worst thing in the world!
Back to the frosting – wowza. Definitely worth the ingredients and 5 minutes it takes to whip up (it’s fast, but you do need to prepare in advance, though, in order to have room temperature cream cheese and butter). This frosting is such a great addition to these brownies. The brownies are deep and rich, and the frosting is the creamy cool lightness they need on top. We were in keto chocolate heaven!
A keto/low salt variation that taste pretty dang good!
1 cup Sunset Keto Friendly flour
8 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt substitute
2/3 cup granulated Swerve
2 tbsp zero sugar chocolate chips
1/3 cup melted coconut oil
3 tbsp unsalted melted butter
2 eggs
1 tsp imitation vanilla
Everything is just what I think regular folks on a budget, like me use. For example, raw unsweetened Hershey’s cocoa powder and Walmart GV ingredients. That especially goes for the salt substitute as the GV brand is much less bitter. 🙂 Also, regular almond flower is too chunky/grainy. Lastly, I ate some warm! Who has the time and patience to let them cool fully! (-:
Love love love this! The whole family devoured it. So rich and most.
I made these tonight, instead of the water I used coffee that was brewed strong. When I tasted the batter it was good but I wanted a bit more sweetness so I melted 3/4 of a 7 ounce bag of ChocZero milk chocolate chips and added that into the mix, took the rest of the bag of chips and sprinkled over the batter. They came out absolutely delicious and decadent, such an amazing chocolate flavor and texture. My husband who doesn’t do keto tasted them and couldn’t tell they were sugar free or low carb! I will continue making these FOREVER!!