The Best Keto Brownies Recipe

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This recipe for keto brownies is easy to whip together any time you crave chocolate and want to stay on track with your low-carb diet. The combination of almond flour and coconut oil is reminiscent of an Almond Joy bar. They’re a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth without sabotaging your diet!

Because they are made with almond flour, these decadent brownies are gluten-free as well as dairy-free.

Why You’ll Love These Brownies With Almond Flour

• You only need one bowl to make these fudgy chocolate brownies.
• Each serving is less than 25 grams of carbs.
• They taste just as good as “traditional brownies,” without the guilt. 

Ingredients

This sweet keto-friendly dessert is made with the following ingredients:

• unsweetened cocoa
• baking soda
• coconut oil
• boiling water
• Truvia Sweet Complete
• eggs
• almond flour
• vanilla
• salt

How To Make Keto Brownies

To make them, preheat your oven to 350 degrees (Fahrenheit) and spray an 8×8 baking dish with non-stick spray. You can use parchment paper on the bottom, if you’d like, but it really isn’t necessary.

Next, melt coconut oil. Place ⅔ cup coconut in a small, microwave-safe bowl, cover it, and microwave on HIGH for 30 seconds. Allow the coconut oil to cool before using it. (Although you could use fractionated coconut oil in this recipe, I don’t recommend it.)

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together unsweetened cocoa and baking soda. Add half of the cooled coconut oil and ½ cup of boiling water. Mix until it is all well blended.

Now it is time to add the remaining coconut oil, Truvia (stevia), eggs, and vanilla.

Whisk the almond flour and salt into the chocolate mixture and make sure the almond flour has been incorporated into the batter. (Break up any little lumps of almond flour that you see.)

The last step is to pour the keto brownie batter into the prepared pan and bake on the center rack for 25 to 30 minutes. It’s perfectly fine to check them at 20 minutes to get a gauge on how they are doing.

Because all ovens are different, if the brownies are not done at the 30-minute mark and the edges are starting to brown, take the pan out of the oven, carefully cover with aluminum foil, and continue baking.

Check every 5 minutes for doneness. You check by inserting a toothpick into the middle of the brownies. If it comes out clean, the brownies are done. If the toothpick comes out with brownie batter on it, continue baking them.

What are the macros for these brownies?

This brownie recipe creates 9 delicious brownies in each batch. Each of these keto-friendly brownies has:

Calories: 285 kcal
Dietary Fiber: 5.33 grams
Net Carbs: 22.44 grams
Fat: 14 grams
Protein: 6 grams

See below for more in-depth detail on how the dietary fiber and sugar alcohols (the sweetener) are subtracted from the total carb count to get to find out the net carbs.

Keto Brownies Nutrition Info

While technically sugar-free, these brownies are sweetened with Truvia Sweet Complete.

What is Truvia Sweet Complete? It’s a new sweetener from Truvia and they consider it “the once-and-for-all all-purpose sweetener.”  It’s a natural sweetener with zero calories per serving and that can be used like sugar, wherever you use sugar.

The ingredients in Truvia Sweet Complete are erythritol, chicory root fiber, and stevia leaf. Each 2-teaspoon serving has 2 grams of dietary fiber, 7 grams of total carbohydrates, and 5 grams of erythritol, a sugar alcohol.

According to the Truvia website, there are zero calories. I am not sure how that works out, considering that carbohydrates have 4 calories for each 1 gram of carbs. But since I am not a scientist, let’s just go with what the site says, okay?

Compared to Betty Crocker Fudge Brownie Mix, the keto brownies have 25.44 grams of carbs (not net) per brownie (1/9 of the pan). I know that the nutrition calculator says they have 33, but when you add up the carbs of the ingredients and then divide, it comes out to 25.44. [Unsweetened cocoa 35.02, Truvia Sweet Complete 168, eggs 1.2, and almond flour 24.76]

Assuming that the fiber calculation is correct, then each keto brownie would have 22.44 grams of carbs. (With Truvia Sweet Complete having 2 grams of fiber per serving, there would be 48 grams of fiber in the whole recipe thanks to Truvia. That would be 5.33 grams of fiber per brownie, not including the fiber from almonds.)

Betty Crocker’s Fudge Brownies have 22 grams of carbs. While that seems that they are about the same, the serving size for a Betty Crocker brownie is 1/20th of the pan. And those numbers might be only for the mix. Have you ever eaten 1/20th of a pan of brownies? Me, neither.

One nice thing about these keto brownies being baked in a square pan is that it makes it easier to cut them into nine servings. It’s like drawing a hashtag (#) across the pan and cutting.

Be sure to come back and tell us how your keto brownies turned out!