This keto chocolate cake has a delicious, rich chocolate flavor. Sugar-free chocolate chips for an extra gooey chocolate bite. A moist, fudgy keto cake for anyone who loves authentic cocoa!
The Best Keto Chocolate Cake
- Moist, fudgy texture unlike any other.
- Uses real chocolate not just cocoa powder.
- Taste like real cake!
How To Make Keto Chocolate Cake-Step By Step
- Start by melting chocolate and butter together. Set aside and allow it to cool.
- Prepare all dry ingredients and mix well.
- Next, for the wet ingredients combine all wet ingredients excluding the melted chocolate, butter and vinegar.
- Using a hand mixer, mix the dry and wet together. Excluding the melted chocolate, butter and vinegar still.
- After you finish with mixing now pour in melted chocolate with butter. Mix well and even throughout. Then proceed with folding in sugar-free chocolate chips.
- Lastly, pour in vinegar and evenly fold through, then place in preheated oven and bake. Allow to cool when done.
Helpful Recipe Tips
- Room temperature eggs help the cake to mix easier and rise properly. Cold eggs tend to result in a far more dense cake than normal.
- Do not mix heavy cream into melted chocolate. There is a reason they are separated this way. The water in heavy cream will cause the chocolate to seize.
Dutch Process Or Regular Cocoa
So, for the cocoa powder either can work. Keep in mind dutch process is more alkaline than traditional. This will transfer over to whether you use baking powder or baking soda. If using regular cocoa follow the recipe normally. Dutch process on the other hand remove the vinegar and swap out baking soda for baking powder.
Chocolate On The Keto Diet
Which chocolate should you use to melt? This is simple there are a few options I will list them below. There are other brands out there such as Lidnt that you can make work in this recipe as well. Always check your macros and ingredients.
- 100% chocolate (Bakers, Ghirardelli)
- Lily’s (Dark chocolate, milk chocolate chips, semi-sweet chips or one of their bars)
- Kiss My Keto
- Bake Believe (Only at Walmart)
Macros
The macros in this keto chocolate cake are great. Coming in at only 4 net carbs per slice it keeps the recipe keto and paleo friendly. Nutritions facts done via Cronometer.
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Keto chocolate cake
Equipment
- Hand mixer
- 9 inch cake pan
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup blanched almond flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 3 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sweetener
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 ounces Melted Chocolate (Measure before melting)
- 3 tablespoon Butter
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon liquid stevia or liquid monk fruit
- 1 teaspoon vinegar or lemon juice
- 1/4 cup sugar-free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F
- Melt 2 oz of chocolate with butter
- Mix all dry ingredients together
- Beat eggs, heavy cream and liquid stevia or monk fruit together. Excluding the melted chocolate, butter and vinegar.
- Combine your dry ingredients and wet ingredients. Excluding the melted chocolate, butter and vinegar.
- After you have mixed dry and wet evenly now pour in melted chocolate and butter and mix.
- Lastly, fold in vingar then place in 9 inch cake pan and put in preheated oven for 35 minutes. Checking around 25 minutes due to ovens varying.
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Notes
Helpful Recipe Tips
- Room temperature eggs help the cake to mix easier and rise properly. Cold eggs tend to result in a far more dense cake than normal.
- Do not mix heavy cream into melted chocolate. There is a reason they are separated this way. The water in heavy cream will cause the chocolate to seize.