You will fall in love with this low carb keto muffins recipe, even if you are not on the keto diet. That’s how good they are!Â
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Super easy keto muffins
The muffins are super soft, fluffy, and so delicious!
They are quick to make, naturally gluten free, and can be customized to create unlimited new flavors.
The recipe also gives you no dairy, no sugar, and flourless options.
And they taste so good, it’s hard to not eat the entire batch at once. I seriously cannot stop making these muffins.
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Flavor suggestions
So far, I have used the base muffin recipe to make plain, blueberry, strawberry, banana bread (adapted from these Banana Muffins), and dark chocolate flavors.
For blueberry keto muffins, simply add a handful of blueberries right before baking. Only stir very gently, so as not to break the berries.
Or use this sugar free muffin recipe:Â Keto Blueberry Muffins.
Try adding a pinch of cinnamon or orange or lemon zest to the batter. You can make your own keto coffee cake muffins by topping each individual muffin with a nut based flourless streusel before baking in the oven.
What toppings will you add to your dream muffins?
How to make keto muffins
Gather all of the ingredients, and preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grease a mini muffin tin very well so the muffins will pop right out after baking.
Stir together all of your dry ingredients until the sweetener, baking powder, and salt are evenly incorporated. Whisk in your wet ingredients, then fill each muffin cup around two thirds of the way full.
You should get around fourteen or fifteen mini keto breakfast muffins.
Bake the pan for minutes on the oven’s center rack. Then take the mini chocolate chip muffins out of the oven and let them cool for another ten minutes.
Go around the sides of the muffins with a knife and pop them out.
Leftover almond flour? Whip up this Almond Flour Banana Bread
How to eat keto muffins
These homemade muffins are fantastic pretty much every way I’ve tried them.
They’re great plain or topped with butter, cream cheese, or Coconut Butter.
I especially love to stir chocolate chips or a handful of dried fruit or shredded coconut into the batter.
Or spread the muffins with this keto friendly Homemade Nutella Recipe.
The flavor and texture of these paleo muffins are somewhat similar to corn muffins, so they are great to serve alongside savory recipes, such as Lentil Soup, Tofu Scramble (for a protein packed breakfast), or Cauliflower Casserole.
For vegan keto muffins
While keto muffin recipes traditionally call for eggs, it turns out that making them vegan is easy! Simply use one of the numerous vegan egg substitutes on the market, such as Bob’s or Ener-G, or you can also make your own flax egg.
If you go with the flax option, the muffins will look more rustic (i.e. less domed and paler in color, with flecks of flaxseed dotting the muffins), but they are definitely just as delicious!
Low carb and sugar free muffins
To achieve the best keto muffin recipe, I’ve tested the muffins using numerous different sweeteners. Mostly I just wanted an excuse to make more batches of muffins!
Erythritol, xylitol, and stevia all work in the recipe.
Or if you are not on a ketogenic diet, white sugar, brown sugar, or unrefined sugar (such as coconut sugar) are also fine to use. Even if using regular sugar in these, you only need one tablespoon for the entire recipe!
The muffins are also free of coconut flour, heavy cream, oil, dairy, and protein powder, although I’m sure you could add some if you wanted to experiment.
And they have less than 1 net carb per muffin.
If you try the recipe, I hope you love them as much as we do!
Step by step recipe video
Above, watch the keto muffin recipe video
Keto Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond flour or almond meal
- 2 tbsp powdered erythritol or 1 tbsp sugar or stevia equivalent
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- 1 large egg or the vegan options listed earlier in the post or 1 flax egg
- 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- optional mini chocolate chips (or sugar free chocolate chips), crushed walnuts, pinch cinnamon, etc.
InstructionsÂ
- *I like this recipe best as mini muffins because they have a lighter texture, but you can definitely do regular-sized muffins if you prefer. The recipe will make 4 regular sized muffins, so feel free to double it!Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a mini muffin tin very well. Combine all dry ingredients (stirring well), then stir in wet. Scoop into muffin cups, filling about 2/3 of the way up. Bake 10 minutes on the center rack (or 15 minutes for regular-sized muffins). Remove from the oven and let cool an additional 10 minutes, during which time they will continue to firm up. Carefully go around the sides of each muffin with a knife and pop out. If you try them, be sure to rate the recipe below!View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
More Keto Breakfast Recipes
(Hey, why not??! With cream cheese, yogurt, and no sugar, the recipe has protein and healthy fats; and it’s certainly a healthier choice than some sugary breakfast cereals or pastries!)
Vegan Cream Cheese – 4 Flavors, NO Tofu!
More Healthy Breakfast Ideas
(Or this Keto Lemon Bread)
Healthy Banana Bread – with an oil free option
Breakfast Meal Prep – 20 Healthy Recipes
Erythritol is poison.
• Liver damage — Too much sugar can damage your liver similarly to alcohol consumption by taxing and overloading the organ.
• Metabolic dysfunction — Sugar can affect several biological processes throughout your body, causing a myriad of problems such as weight gain, abdominal obesity, elevated blood sugar levels and high blood pressure.
• Increased uric acid levels — High levels of uric acid are considered to be a risk factor for heart and kidney disease.
Plain regular sugar is fine to use in these too 🙂
Done!!!! Easy recipe, I used 2 individual stevia packets and blueberries instead chocolate chips, delicious.
How much blueberries did you use? And did you do frozen or fresh? Did you have to adjust baking time? Thanks!
I made these with ground sesame seeds instead of almond meal. 2 different batches, one with cinnamon and one with chocolate chips. I couldn’t wait for them to cool! So delicious. This will be my go to recipe for sure.
I’m also grateful that Katie included an egg version of this recipe. My husband and I are vegetarian but not vegan because we do eat eggs. We keep a flock of beautiful, spoiled hens that we love like our own children. The girls lay eggs almost every day and we would hate to waste the eggs. I’m very happy to use them when I bake. Thank you, Katie! These muffins are wonderful!
Any tips on how to not make then come out so grainy and dry? I cooked them at 14 minutes so i know i didn’t overcook them.
They definitely shouldn’t be dry. Can you write more specifics as to the ingredients you used? Otherwise it’s impossible to guess what might have happened.
Jason
Did you try adding a bit more milk? I cooked them for 13 min and they turned out fine.
I’ve made these mini muffins several times. Love them! Made a double batch for an early morning tailgating party and everyone loved them. No one knew they fit into my keto lifestyle. Thank you for a quick, simple and delicious recipe.
Tripled this batch and made 12 instead. YUMMMMY.
Added 3/4 tsp of vanilla and they smelled and tasted delicious. Yumm!
Thanks!!
Can you guide me on how to make these as chocolate muffins? How much cocoa powder should i add? Should i reduce the amount of liquid – eggs or milk- instead?
Thanks.
Just a few minutes back, my mom commented on how my (triple batch) muffins tasted a teeny weeny bit salty. If I triple the batch, arent I supposed to triple the amount of salt too? Or maybe should I go for x1.5 or x2 instead?
Thanks.
Sometimes you do have to reduce things like salt when doubling or tripling a baked good recipe. There’s no exact formula so the only way to know for each recipe is to experiment!
They are just okay. The claim that you would eat these were you not doing Keto is definitely not true. The texture was okay, no weird aftertaste with the sweetener I used. I might use more sweetener if I made these again and also add in some vanilla. In a few of these I stuck a sugar free mini peanut butter cup and they were pretty good. I got about 10 mini muffins out of my batch.