Best Chocolate Keto Mug Cake
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Introduction
This chocolate keto mug cake is ready to enjoy in about 90 seconds. Once you try it, you may not need another keto mug cake recipe!
Chocolate Keto Mug Cake
This mug cake is every chocolate lover’s dream on keto. It’s for anyone who knows that “I NEED chocolate NOW!” feeling. We all get that craving from time to time, and when it hits, you want something chocolatey in front of you in minutes, not an hour from now.
That’s exactly what this is. The butter melts in the mug, everything else gets stirred in on top of it, and the whole thing cooks in the microwave in about a minute and a half. There’s no oven to preheat and no pan to grease, and it makes one cake, so there’s nothing left over to go stale on the counter.
It’s a proper chocolate cake, too: almond flour and a little coconut flour for the crumb, unsweetened cocoa for the chocolate, and an egg holding it all together. Honestly, we don’t think you’ll miss the sugary version.
Cooking With Mom Series
This chocolate mug cake is another one of my mom’s recipes. Many of you already know her Low Carb Apple Crisp, Keto Zucchini Banana Bread and Low Carb Carrot Cake.
She comes up with a lot of our low-carb and keto recipes, and I love that she wants to share them with me and with all of you.
How To Make Chocolate Keto Mug Cake
There’s not much to it, and the recipe card below has all three steps, with photos of the first two. A couple of small things are still worth knowing before you start.
The butter only needs 10 to 15 seconds in the microwave, and it melts right in the mug the cake cooks in, so there’s just the one mug to wash.
The spoonful of cream is Nestlé table cream, the canned, shelf-stable kind you’ll find next to the evaporated milk rather than in the chiller. Our papas rellenas post has a little more on what it is.
Once everything else is in, keep stirring until all the lumps are out. Then give it 90 seconds, and treat that as a starting point rather than a rule: microwaves don’t all cook at the same speed, so yours may need a little more or a little less.
Best Chocolate Keto Mug Cake
Ingredients
All Ingredients
- 2 tbsp butter, unsalted, melted
- 1 large egg
- 2 tbsp almond flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder, unsweetened
- 2 tsp coconut flour
- 1 tbsp lakanto classic monkfruit sweetener, or your preferred sweetener
- 1 tbsp nestle table cream
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
Nutrition Facts
1 serving per recipe| Per Serving 440 | Per Recipe 440 | |||
| 2 tbsp of butter, unsalted | 200 | 200 | ||
| 1 large egg | 60 | 60 | ||
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 90 | 90 | ||
| 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 30 | 30 | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 20 | 20 | ||
| 1 tbsp of nestle table cream | 40 | 40 | ||
| ¼ tsp of vanilla extract | 3 | 3 | ||
| 41g | 52% | 41g | 52% | |
| 2 tbsp of butter, unsalted | 22 g | 22 g | ||
| 1 large egg | 4 g | 4 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 8 g | 8 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 2 g | 2 g | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 0.67 g | 0.67 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of nestle table cream | 4 g | 4 g | ||
| 19g | 96% | 19g | 96% | |
| 2 tbsp of butter, unsalted | 14 g | 14 g | ||
| 1 large egg | 1.5 g | 1.5 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 0.5 g | 0.5 g | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 0.67 g | 0.67 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of nestle table cream | 2.5 g | 2.5 g | ||
| Trans Fat | 0g | 0% | 0g | 0% |
| 280mg | 93% | 280mg | 93% | |
| 2 tbsp of butter, unsalted | 60 mg | 60 mg | ||
| 1 large egg | 210 mg | 210 mg | ||
| 1 tbsp of nestle table cream | 10 mg | 10 mg | ||
| 490mg | 21% | 490mg | 21% | |
| 1 large egg | 70 mg | 70 mg | ||
| 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 80 mg | 80 mg | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 9.33 mg | 9.33 mg | ||
| 1 tbsp of nestle table cream | 10 mg | 10 mg | ||
| ½ tsp of baking powder | 320 mg | 320 mg | ||
| ¼ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.1 mg | 0.1 mg | ||
| 26g | 9% | 26g | 9% | |
| 1 large egg | 0.99 g | 0.99 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 3 g | 3 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 6 g | 6 g | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 2.67 g | 2.67 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of lakanto classic monkfruit sweetener | 12 g | 12 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of nestle table cream | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| ¼ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.13 g | 0.13 g | ||
| 7g | 25% | 7g | 25% | |
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 4 g | 4 g | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 2 g | 2 g | ||
| 1g | 1g | |||
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 0.33 g | 0.33 g | ||
| ¼ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.13 g | 0.13 g | ||
| 12g | 12g | |||
| 1 tbsp of lakanto classic monkfruit sweetener | 12 g | 12 g | ||
| Allulose | 0g | 0% | 0g | 0% |
| 7g | 7g | |||
| 1 large egg | 0.99 g | 0.99 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 2 g | 2 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 2 g | 2 g | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 0.67 g | 0.67 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of nestle table cream | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| ¼ tsp of vanilla extract | 0.13 g | 0.13 g | ||
| 12g | 23% | 12g | 23% | |
| 1 large egg | 6 g | 6 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of almond flour | 3 g | 3 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 2 g | 2 g | ||
| 2 tsp of coconut flour | 0.67 g | 0.67 g | ||
About these numbers: We are home cooks, not certified nutritionists. Nutrition is shared as a courtesy. We pick a representative product for each ingredient, and our recipe system works out the totals from the amounts in this recipe, so please treat them as a helpful estimate rather than a guarantee. The brands you buy, any swaps you make, and how generously you portion the recipe will all move these numbers.
Directions
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Melt the butter in a microwave-safe coffee mug, about 10 to 15 seconds.
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Add all the other ingredients and stir well until all the lumps are out.
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Cook in the microwave for 90 seconds. You may have to adjust the cooking time, since all microwaves cook at different speeds.
The Best Keto Mug Cake Toppings
Honestly, this mug cake is tasty all on its own, but it’s more fun with a topping or two. I’m a total chocolate lover at heart, so of course I put more chocolate on my chocolate mug cake. The one in these photos has a drizzle of sugar-free chocolate syrup and a dusting of powdered sweetener.
A few keto-friendly ideas:
- Sugar-free chocolate syrup, drizzled over the top while the cake is still warm.
- Crushed sugar-free chocolate bark, for a little crunch.
- Sugar-free chocolate chips, either stirred into the batter before it cooks or scattered on top afterwards.
- Berries. Any berries go well with chocolate.
- Powdered sweetener, dusted over the top.
- Whipped heavy cream.
The Nutrition Facts are for the cake alone, so whatever you pile on top is extra.
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Enjoy!
