Keto Peanut Butter Mug Cake ready in 60 Seconds!
By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 10/07/2019 - Last updated on 11/06/2022
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Keto Peanut Butter Mug Cake is an easy 60-second almond flour mug cake recipe with a delicious bakery-style muffin texture. Plus, it’s gluten-free and dairy-free!
Who doesn’t love simple keto recipes? And what’s more simple than a recipe done in a microwave!
So be ready for this peanut butter mug cake recipe ready in just a few minutes.
Is Peanut Butter Keto?
All-natural peanut butter made with no added sugar is low-carb and keto-friendly.
The main thing when you buy peanut butter on a keto diet is to look at the ingredient list.
In fact, many peanut butter brands include added sugar or added vegetable oils that are not keto.
The best peanut butter to buy should include only one ingredient, peanuts. And perhaps a pinch of salt, but that’s it!
How Many Carbs Are There On Peanut Butter?
One tablespoon of peanut butter made with 100% peanuts contains 2.5g of net carbs.
Depending on your keto daily macros, it may look high, but it’s better to have your carbs from keto-friendly food rather than indulging in one huge amount of non-keto food.
That’s why one tablespoon of peanut butter won’t take you out of ketosis while that bakery muffin will!
This being said, this keto peanut butter mug cake is your safe option to indulge and stay on track.
How To Make Keto Peanut Butter Mug Cake
This is a recipe for two that you can share or meal prep for your next day’s snack or breakfast.
Keep reading for meal prep and storage but first, let’s see the ingredients you need to make this simple almond flour mug cake with peanut butter.
Ingredients
- Peanut butter – no added sugar, no added salt.
- Coconut oil – I used unrefined coconut oil, which has a slight coconut flavor. Otherwise, use refined coconut flour or butter.
- Egg – don’t replace by flax egg, I tried, and it doesn’t come out great at all.
- Almond flour – thin, blanched, or almond meal, but the mug cake will come out slightly drier.
- Baking powder – or half the amount of baking soda if preferred.
- Sugar-free crystal sweetener – as always, I am using Monk fruit stevia blend, but erythritol or xylitol will work well too. Read my review of keto-friendly sweeteners to learn some more!
- Unsweetened vanilla almond milk – or unsweetened almond milk or unsweetened coconut milk.
Storing Mug Cakes
This recipe makes two mug cakes, and you may want to serve the second mug cake later. If so, I recommend storing half of the uncooked batter in a ramekin.
Film the ramekin with plastic wrap, and store it in the fridge.
The next day, remove the plastic wrap and microwave straight out from the fridge. You may have to microwave for slightly longer.
An extra 20 seconds may be needed to achieve the same texture as the batter is very cold.
Another option is to bake both servings at 350°F (180°C) on fan-forced mode for 10-12 minutes.
The baked mug cake will store at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Serving Peanut Butter Mug Cakes
Mug cakes can be dry on their own, and I always recommend a dollop of cream on top.
The good thing with that extra tablespoon of cream is that it doesn’t add carbs to the recipe! Your keto toppings options are:
- Unsweetened whipped cream
- Unsweetened whipped coconut cream
- Sour cream
- Cream cheese
- Warm peanut butter – careful. This will add a few carbs to the recipe.
More Keto Mug Cake Recipes
If you love fixing your sweet craving quickly with mug cakes as I do, I also recommend trying:
I hope you enjoy this new easy keto recipe. If you make it share a picture with me on Instagram!
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Keto Peanut Butter Mug Cake
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Natural Peanut Butter no added sugar, no added oil
- 1 tablespoon Coconut Oil or butter
- 1 tablespoon Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 3 tablespoons Almond Flour
- 1 large Egg beaten, at room temperature
- 1 ½ tablespoon Granulated Sweetener monk fruit, erythritol or xylitol or 6 stevia drops
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
Instructions
- In a small bowl, add peanut butter, coconut oil, and almond milk. Microwave for 30 seconds or until the coconut oil is soft and almost melted. Whisk to combine until all the ingredients come together into a cream.
- Stir in the sugar-free crystal sweetener, baking powder, almond flour, and beaten egg (at room temperature) with a spatula until it forms a cake batter.
- Transfer the mug cake batter evenly into 2 ramekins or microwave-safe mugs.
- Microwave each ramekin individually for 60 seconds.
- Serve immediately with unsweetened whipped cream or an extra drizzle of warm peanut butter (will adds some carbs!)
Notes
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About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.
I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!
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I have a 700W microwave so will the timing be the same as this recipe? Also, it’s hard for me to time as mine is not digital but with a timer that has minute increments
It will probably require 10 sec extra baking, just return to the microwave by 10 sec burst until set in the center.
Is the net carbs and 258 calories for the whole of the two servings, or is it per 1 mug cake? If I make it, do i have to half the macros if I only have one of the servings?
The nutrition panel is always for one serve, this recipe yield two serve it means you make 2 mug cakes with the recipe and the nutrition is for one of them
It’s good! I tried it with coconut oil and with butter. I strongly prefer the coconut version. So moist and cake-like. I don’t add anything on top. I just don’t think it needs it.
I’ve tried several other keto mug cake recipes – this has the best, most cake-like texture than any other I’ve tried. I used the Lakanto brand monkfruit sweetener but found 1.5 tablespoons hurt my throat with its sweetness. Next time will either try 1 tabl of the monkfruit sweetener, or maybe 1.5 tabls of Swerve, which is less sweet. Still, it was excellent – this will be my new go-to!
Can you substitute almond butter for the peanut butter?
Yes sure, make sure you are using fresh almond butter jar with oil on top or the mug cake will come out dry. Enjoy, XOXO Carine.
Hi!
I input all of the ingredients with the products I have via my carb manager app, and this comes to 12 net carbs versus the 8. Why the difference?
What count is net carbs total carbs takeaway fiber and usgar alcohol. Carb manage total carb shows sugr alcoho, my nutrition fact doesn’t because they don’t count in the keto equation. I am sure that if you compare net carbs, it will be the same. Enjoy, XOXO Carine
my net carbs come to 12net, sugar alcohols not included….
This is what I get:
Cal 247
Net Carbs 12
Fiber 2.7
Sugar 1.7
Protein 9.4
Fat 21.9
I provide nutrition panel as an information, using the ingredients I am using in my country. It is totally possible that your peanut butter brand selected in the app has different net carbs explaining the variation. You should always calculate the net carbs using the exact brand of ingredients you use for precision. Enjoy, XOXO Carine.
Great tasting, quick snack or breakfast!
I am so glad you enjoy it ! Have a lovely time trying the recipes around here, XOXO Carine
OMG! This mug cake is absolutely the best I have ever had. It tastes like real cake with no sweet aftertaste. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much !!! I hope you will try my other mug cake recipe on the blog too. XOXO Carine
Hi Carina, i love your recipes so much. I was trying to make your homemade peanut butter but it seems like my food processor is not strong enough as after nearly half an hour it still didnt go smooth. Could you please tell me which food processor is the best for nut butter ? Thank you..
Hello! Thanks so much for trying so many of my recipes it makes me very happy ! Of course, the power of the food processor is what turns nuts into butter and you need a very strong blade nd high power. I use either a Kitchenaid pro blender on Amazon. This is my favorite so far because it has a tamper to tackle tough ingredients and turns nuts into nut butter in about 1 minute. Or I use my 11 cups kitchen aid food processor, it takes longer with this one as you need to stop and scrape bowl many times to achieve the right texture. Those tools are expensive at first but long warranty and I don’t nut butter any more so it is very nice ! I hope this is helpful, Enjoy, XOXO Carine.