A single serving keto mug cake recipe so soft, so rich, so chocolatey… and definitely not meant for sharing!
Low Carb Chocolate Mug Cake
This is possibly one of the most indulgent chocolate mug cakes you will ever try.
A brownie-like chocolate cake in a mug, made without flour, eggs, dairy, or oil.
It will completely solve all of your chocolate cravings… in less than 1 minute!
Ever since I posted my original Vegan Mug Cake Recipe –which is one of the biggest reader favorite recipes from this blog—people have been asking me to come up with a low carb or flourless version.
Over the years, I’ve experimented with coconut flour, peanut flour, and almond meal; and finally I’m happy with the results.
This chocolate healthy mug cake is everything I’d hoped it would be. You won’t miss the flour one bit!
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The Best Keto Cake In A Mug
Honestly, this cake is so rich that it might be more fitting to call it a chocolate mug brownie instead of a cake.
The taste reminded me of the Ultimate Unbaked Brownies, so if you like that recipe, you will probably like this one too – it’s like eating a batch of unbaked brownies with a spoon!
You can choose to use nuts or almond flour for this keto mug cake with no egg, whatever is easier.
I’ve listed the three variations below that I’ve tried (almonds, pecans, and almond flour), but I bet others could work as well.
If anyone tries the recipe with walnuts, cashews, or cashew flour, definitely be sure to report back!
If you need it to be a keto dessert, be sure to use a keto-friendly sweetener such as xylitol or erythritol, and choose a sugar-free variety if including chocolate chips. I’m not on the keto diet, so I just added some regular chocolate chips to the top and let them melt into the warm chocolate cake.
Sometimes I make really good decisions.
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Keto Mug Cake
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup almonds or pecans, or 6 tbsp almond flour (nut-free version here)
- 1 tbsp + 2 tsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp granulated erythritol or sugar or sweetener of choice
- pinch stevia, or additional 2 tsp sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp milk of choice, or 2 if using liquid sweetener
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- optional chocolate chips or sugar free chocolate chips
Instructions
- *If using almonds, grind them in a blender or food processor to achieve a flour-like consistency. It will be coarser than if you use almond flour (hence the almond pieces you can see in the photos), but both versions work.Combine all ingredients in a greased ramekin or small mug. Either bake in a preheated 350F oven for about 10 minutes, or cook in the microwave. If microwaving, time will vary depending on wattage and desired gooeyness. I started with 30 seconds, then added two 15-second intervals after that. The cake will look a bit gooey when it comes out, and it firms up as it cools. But there’s no need to wait for it to firm up too much – this cake is meant to be eaten straight from the mug!View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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Made this while on my keto journey. Second night making it and I’m in love!!! I use almond meal and top it with a small scoop of sugar feee low carb vanilla ice cream… hits the spot!
Fantastic! I have made this several times now and it is the best mug cake. I love that it had no eggs. So many I have tried tasted like chocolate scrambled eggs. This recipe is a keeper! ♡♡♡
Probably the best Keto Mug cake I have had. It didn’t rise much but was very gooey brownie.
Looks tasty! What are the best sugar/sweetener options? Thank you!
To keep it keto, erythritol works. Or I know some people have used monk fruit sweetener. If no need to be strictly keto, I like coconut sugar. Xylitol also works. And of course regular sugar works as well!
My almond flour says 2 Tbsp is 90 calories, so per the recipe 6 tbsp almond flour would be 270 calories. When I put 1/3 cup almonds in my food tracker app it says 272 calories. This recipe is more like Calories 316, Total Carbohydrates 15g, Dietary Fiber 6.8g, Total Fat 25g. Net carbs 8.2g (this assumes you used no carb sweetener, if not total and net carb will be higher). If you made it into 2 serving it would be better.
Protein would be 11g. (This all assumes you are using unsweetened almond milk) Definitely need to fix the nutrition facts on this recipe.
I got 305 calories using 6 Tbsp almond flour unsweetened chocolate almond milk, cacao powder and stevia. It was very good but I was so disappointed the calories were so far off after eating it.
Hi! Try plugging it in with whole almonds (Calorie Counter from VeryWell). I got close to Katie’s numbers that way.
Just started keto this week and am pms’ing hard and craving chocolatey sweets! This SAVED me. I didn’t feel like using a food processor so I crushed some walnuts using the base of a glass. I used heavy whipping cream for the milk and added 15 semisweet chocolate chips and baked for 12 minutes. It came out AMAZING. Fudgy, warm, gooey and oh so satisfying.
I will definitely make again and think next time I will try halving the recipe! It was so rich and satisfying I was content with just half. Thank you for sharing!
If you are on Keto just be aware that this has ALOT of carbs!
It’s only 8 net carbs
Delicious mug cake recipe!
I made this many times using Almond Meal/Flour, and it turned out great! I thought it was one of your best mug cakes yet. However, I made this tonight using pecans ground in the food processor. The cake did not turn out well at all. The batter was extremely liquid-y and the cake was basically an inch of pudding-like sludge in the bottom of the mug. I would definitely make this again using Almond Meal/Flour, but not the ground nuts version.
Omg thank you!!! I have been searching for a cooey chocolaty desert since on keto that didn’t tasty eggy or too difficult!! This is the best by far!! Used cream instead of milk!! Delish!!
I was dying for something sweet and easy on keto, and found this recipe. I didnt have any sort of milk nor vanilla, so i used coconut oil and water. It was still amazing! I can only imagine what this recipe will hold for me when I get the vanilla! Thank you!
Mine never got to a brownie/cake like batter. Didn’t have almonds or almond flour so used coconut flour; did that make the dramatic difference? I microwaved it anyway but it was just a hot mug of granular stuff. I still ate it!!?.
Coconut flour is different from other flours and can’t be substituted in a 1-to-1 ratio because it soaks up liquid like a sponge. Also in any recipe, using any flour not listed in the ingredients as an option is an experiment – it might be good, but you never know unless you try!