It’s Valentine’s Day, y’all, and because I like you, I’ve decided to share my best brownie recipe with you fine folks.
There might be no food more perfect than a fudgy brownie, and I spent several weeks working on this recipe so as to get it just right. Many keto brownies, even those that boast of being “fudgy,” tend to dry out as they stand, and my goal was to devise a recipe that would maintain its fudginess, even overnight. So, I enlisted the help of a few very willing beta-testers, and got to work on what is now officially my own favorite keto brownie concoction.
To prove my brownie-baking prowess, I personally tested this recipe out on a pretty hard crowd: a group of hungry, camping kids. I brought a big, double batch of these beauties on a family camp out, and came home empty-handed (they didn’t make it a full 24-hours, y’all). These non-keto kids and adults devoured them in short order, and were handing out brownie compliments left and right. I knew at that point I had a winner.
Notes: All of my beta-testers were thrilled with the end result and, funnily enough, one of them discovered (entirely by mistake) that you can turn this recipe into a cakey brownie (for those that prefer them that way) by making one simple substitution: replace the gelatin with collagen peptides. This particular tester liked it as a cake so much that she make it a second time for a family gathering, and topped it with some keto-friendly chocolate icing. She insists it reminds her of the Hershey’s chocolate cake and icing she used to make from the recipe on the back of the cocoa powder container.
Hey, if one of my recipes is being compared favorably to Hershey’s, I’ll take that in a heartbeat.
Another tester, on a successive bake, added some chopped walnuts and Lily’s baking chips (which is awesome, BTW). As always, I try to make my recipes flavorful, but as easily customizable as possible, so feel free to throw in your favorite brownie add-ins and make it your own.
PrintBasic Brownies
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 35 mins
- Yield: 16 brownies
- Category: Desserts, Baked Goods
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- Dry Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 oz (71 g) fine almond flour (I use King Arthur brand)
- 1.25 oz (36 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 (1/4 oz/ 7 g) packet plain gelatin powder (this is the same as 1 packet of Knox gelatin)
- 4 oz (113 g) Swerve granular (or your favorite granulated sweetener)
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp instant espresso powder (I use Café Bustello, which is easily located in the grocery store)
- 2 pinches salt
- Wet Ingredients:
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 12 tbsp (6 oz/ 170 g) unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 c (2 fl oz/ 59 ml) warm water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and prepare an 8×8 baking dish by lining it with parchment paper.
- Blend all dry ingredients with a fork or a whisk in a mixing bowl.
- With a hand or stand mixer, beat in the eggs and vanilla.
- Add melted butter and warm water and beat until smooth.
- Pour batter into the prepared baking dish, smooth the top so it’s all even, then bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the middle is set and does not jiggle.
- Remove and let stand to cool slightly.
- Slice into 16 squares and eat, as desired.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
If you like your brownies less gooey and more cakey, simply replace the gelatin with an equal amount of collagen peptides, and follow the rest of the recipe as written.
Per 1 brownie: 120 cal, 2.6 g protein, 12 g fat, 9.4 g carbs, 1.31 g fiber, 7.12 g sugar alcohol, 0.97 g NET carbs
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 brownie
Keywords: brownies, chewy, gooey, moist, chocolate, desserts
Beverly Eppler says
I do not have a scale. Can you convert the “ounces” and “grams” to cups, please?
Griffin Mekelburg says
You cannot convert oz to cups. Ounces is weight while cups are volume. For something finely ground like almond flour, you want to go by weight because the pockets of air between grains will make for different true volumes. You can google some conversions, but this is just what I know 🙂
Jo says
Actually, there are oz measurements for volume as well….
Christina M says
I need a Faux Hostess Snowball recipe 🙂 Gotta stop the hubby from bringing those home.
Penny W says
Are the ounces by weight or volume? Wasn’t sure since you also use grams in your measurements? So by 4oz do you mean 1/2 cup or 4 oz by weight?