Keto Chocolate Frosting
This keto chocolate frosting is an easy healthy frosting for cakes or to snack on and fixes your chocolate craving in a sec! Plus, you will love that one serving contains only 100 kcal and 0.8 grams of net carbs!
So keep reading to learn how to make this paleo frosting recipe now!
Who is craving chocolate frosting in the middle of the day? I do! and this keto chocolate icing is my go-to keto chocolate frosting for those days.
A 5-ingredient healthy keto frosting
The good news is, this frosting recipe is not only keto-approved but also a paleo frosting for cake! In fact, the recipe is made of 5 easy healthy wholesome ingredients approved for both diets. Let’s see what you need to make this easy healthy frosting recipe.
- Grass-fed butter – a perfectly keto-friendly dairy product.
- Almond butter – salted or unsalted as you like.
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Unsweetened almond milk
- Chocolate stevia drops
How to store this keto chocolate frosting?
This recipe makes many servings, 36 of them to be precise. And each serving represents 2 tablespoons.
Of course, you can store your keto chocolate icing in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. But, you may not eat all this paleo frosting recipe in 4 days so I recommend you freeze your frosting in an ice cube tray.
Fill each ice cube tray with 2 tablespoons of frosting and freeze. When your chocolate frosting craving is coming, defrost 1 ice cube, it will take just 1 hour to get soft at room temperature. Another option is to defrost your snack the day before in the fridge.
Note that this recipe is not soft straight out of the fridge! It softens at room temperature as butter solidifies in the fridge.
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What to do with keto chocolate frosting?
There are many options to use this paleo frosting.
First, on its own as a keto snack to reach your fat macros. In fact, 2 tablespoons of this healthy frosting will get you 10 grams of fat for only 100 kcal and 0.8 grams of net carbs!
It means this is the perfect healthy keto sweet snack.
Then, you can use this recipe to frost any keto birthday cake like my keto vanilla cake or keto chocolate cake.
Finally, you can use this frosting on top of a keto chocolate mug cake!
Let me know in the comment section below how you love to eat your keto chocolate frosting and if you make some share a picture with me on Instagram! I love to hear from you.
xoxo carine.
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Keto Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter soft, cubed, at room temperature for 3 hours
- 1 cup Almond Butter
- ⅓ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- ¼ cup Unsweetened Almond Milk at room temperature, add up to 1/4 cup to reach your favorite consistency
- ¼ teaspoon Chocolate Stevia Drops adjust up to 1 teaspoon to taste
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add the cubes of soft butter. Your butter must be very soft and out of the fridge for at least 3 hours. It is easier to first cut your cold butter in small cubes. Then, pack those cubes into a measuring cup. Finally, transfer the cubes of cold butter into a bowl and wait 3 hours at room temperature or overnight until soft.
- Add almond butter and with an electric beater, beat the butter, and almond butter until a light brown cream form. It shouldn't take more than 40 seconds on medium/high speed.
- Stop the beater, add stevia drops, unsweetened cocoa powder, and unsweetened almond milk.
- Beat again at slow speed at first to prevent the cocoa powder from bursting out of the bowl, then increase to medium speed. If the frosting is too thick to your liking, add more almond milk (at room temperature, not cold!), 1 tablespoon at a time, beat, and add up to 1/4 cup extra milk until you reach your favorite texture. The more you add, the fluffier it will be. However, it won't affect your net carbs per serving very much (around 0.1g extra net carbs).
- Adjust stevia drops if the frosting is not sweet enough for you. Always add stevia 2 drops at a time as it is very strong in flavor. Otherwise, add powdered erythritol but note that this option thickens the frosting a lot!
- Serve as a snack, 2 tablespoons at a time, on top of a keto mug cake or on its own as a fat bomb snack. You can also frost a keto birthday cake with this recipe.
Storage
- Store the frosting in the fridge in an airtight box for up to 4 days. The frosting gets hard in the fridge because the butter hardens at cold temperatures. Simply remove the frosting from the fridge for 3 hours to get it soft and creamy again.
- Freeze in ice cube tray, 2 tablespoons in each cube hole, and defrost at least 2 hours before, at room temperature to soften.
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Is there a substitute for the chocolate stevia drops. Thanks for the recipe! Can’t wait to try it!
Sure! You can add 2-3 tablespoons of powdered erythritol like Swerve. It will be very good too. Enjoy, XOXO Carine.
HiCarine, thanks for all the recipes I have so far tried from you, most have turned out quite well and my husband is always grateful as he loves anything sweet. I cannot find almond butter in my local supermarket would it be ok to just use butter for the chocolate frosting or cream cheese.
Thanks again for all the time you spend helping us less knowledgeable than yourself
Thanks so much for making so many of my recipes ! The best substitute to almon butter in this recipe will be first peanut butter (unsweetened, unsalted), sunflower seed butter or cream cheese. All the options will work well and taste delicious. Enjoy the treat and any question just ask as always I love to help you, XOXO Carine.
Hey Carine, Your recipes are really delicious!????
Thanks for sharing constantly with us some great ideas! I’m a bit lazy but your photos have me on my feet plus now I am hungry , haha!????
For a long time, I use to struggle with getting myself into a good ketogenic routine! omg, I felt so lost!
I took a quick keto test (if it helps someone here is the test http://bit.ly/simple-keto-test ) and I started getting better! Plus now I have more recipe ideas from you Carine, thank youuuu!
Can’t wait to try your keto frosting recipe!!!
Thank you so much for such a beautiful message ! I am so happy you find me here and I can’t wait to read your feedback on my recipes. XOXO Carine.