Keto Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe

Introduction to Keto Chocolate Chip Muffins

Our keto chocolate chip muffins make the perfect mid-day snack, or light breakfast to start the morning. They’re dense and full of rich chocolate chips to make a sugar-free treat that’s unmatched in the battle of keto baked goods.

Are Chocolate Chip Muffins Healthy?

For some reason, muffins have gotten a health halo, when in reality, they are just unfrosted cake. Granted they have less sugar right on top, they oftentimes have extra sugar mixed in to make them sweet enough. Muffins are also made with a lot of flour, butter, and sugar, meaning you’re combining fat and sugar, one of the most addicting combos that lead to overeating and weight gain. Plus, for many people, the flour alone can cause inflammation and cramping. It’s best to avoid traditional muffins at all costs. Each chocolate chip muffin has about 370 calories, 49 grams of carbs, 2 grams of fiber, 30 grams of sugar (7.5 teaspoons in one muffin!), 18 grams of fat, and just 5 grams of protein.

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Sugar-Free Low-Carb Chocolate Chip Muffins

Thankfully, our keto chocolate chip muffins are added sugar-free, and yes, that’s all the way down to the chocolate chips! Per low-carb chocolate chip muffin, there are just 4 net carbs and 1 gram of sugar. No need to worry about an insulin spike and then crash with this keto chocolate chip muffin recipe. So, how were we able to make sugar-free muffins? We used a keto-friendly sweetener blend that tastes just like sugar, but isn’t going to spike your blood sugar. A similar sweetener blend was used in the dark chocolate chips to ensure the recipe is fully keto.

Keto Sweetener Options

We chose to use the Lakanto sugar-free powdered sweetener. Their powdered sweetener is a blend of erythritol and monk fruit, so you can enjoy it guilt-free. Some other sweetener options are:

Erythritol – Erythritol is a keto sweetener that has not yet been mixed with other concentrated sweeteners. This means it will be less sweet than sugar, so you may need more of it in this recipe.
Swerve – Swerve is another company that makes their own keto sugar equivalent with erythritol.
Allulose – Allulose is a rare ketogenic sweetener that can be found in some keto chocolate chip companies and products.

Keto Chocolate Chips

As for chocolate chips, there are more and more companies coming out every day with keto-friendly chips. If you want to use the same brand we did, you will want to get the low-carb keto chocolate chips from Lily’s. Lily’s chocolate chips are our favorite because they are made with good quality ingredients and use a blend of stevia and erythritol as the sweetener. Some other good brands to make these low-carb muffins with are:

Choc Zero – If you want to make keto chocolate chip muffins, you’re going to want low-carb chips. Choc Zero is low-carb and low sugar to be both keto and diabetic friendly.
ChocoXO – These are a great option if you want a keto low-carb chocolate chip option, but can’t do a lot of sugar alcohols. These are made with 1 gram of cane sugar a serving, which isn’t technically keto, but a lot of people find it easier to digest.
Lakanto Chocolate Chips – Lakanto sugar-free chocolate chips are sweetened with monk fruit and erythritol to make the perfect keto muffin.

Can I Make Dairy-Free Chocolate Chip Muffins?

These keto muffins are made with almond flour, which keeps them gluten-free, but there is butter in the recipe that stops it from being dairy-free. You have two options to make this dairy-free. First, you can use clarified butter (ghee), which has the lactose strained and allows you to enjoy the buttery taste without as much stomach distress. Secondly, you can use coconut oil. This has less flavor than the ghee, so some people might prefer it, but it does have a slight coconut-ty sweetness.

How to Make Keto Chocolate Chip Muffins

Now that you know all about this sugar-free recipe, it’s time to make our almond flour low-carb chocolate chip muffins.

Ingredients

To make chocolate chip muffins keto, you will need butter, vanilla extract, salt, keto-friendly sweetener, blanched almond flour (not almond meal), eggs, baking powder, and chocolate chips.

Almond Flour vs. Coconut Flour

Our low-carb keto chocolate chip muffins recipe is made with almond flour, not coconut flour. Coconut flour behaves very differently and requires a lot less to make the same recipe that almond flour would. If you only have coconut flour, try our Lemon Poppyseed Muffin recipe, as these chocolate chip muffins should not be substituted for another flour.

Making Keto Chocolate Chip Muffins

To make these keto muffins, preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line a muffin tin with muffin cups, or set up a silicone muffin tray on a cookie sheet. Next, melt the butter and mix in the sweetener, vanilla extract, and salt. Make sure the butter is mixed well, so it starts to whip. Now, add in the almond flour, eggs, and baking powder. To make the best keto chocolate chip muffins possible, be sure to mix until there are no clumps. Fold in the chocolate chips and then distribute the batter evenly among your 12 muffin spots. The almond flour muffins should make 12 medium-sized muffins or 8-10 jumbo muffins. Allow the muffins to fully cool before removing from the pan.

How to Store Keto Chocolate Chip Muffins

Like most keto recipes, these muffins store really well. We’ve left these on the counter for about a week, and they were fine. If you do have the space, though, we always recommend the fridge just to make sure they last as long as possible. You can also freeze this recipe if you bag up the muffins in a freezer-safe zip-top bag. They should last about 3 months in the freezer.

More Keto Muffin Recipes

If you want to make more muffins low-carb, try a few of these delicious keto bakery-style recipes:

High Fiber Keto Muffins – These delicious keto muffins are one of our favorite healthy recipes because each one only has 0.6 net carbs and 14 grams of fiber!
Coconut Flour Muffin Tops – This recipe is a cross between muffin tops and coconut cookies. It’s pretty unbeatable, especially because it’s packed with juicy blueberries.
Blueberry Muffins – This is the almond flour variation of the recipe above. Except these ones taste just like a fluffy coffee shop muffin.
Pecan Muffins – These are a little more complex to make, but well worth the effort. Each muffin screams holiday feelings, so you can feel ready for fall before it arrives.
Keto Chocolate Muffins – These low-carb muffins are made with only a few simple ingredients, so you’ll love this easy chocolate treat.