Chocolate, chocolate, nothing to see here but chocolate! Looking for the best keto chocolate cake? Well hold onto your hats because I’ve got dozens of them! All the best low carb and keto-friendly chocolate cake you could ever want.
Sometimes you just crave chocolate cake, and nothing else will do. Nothing but keto chocolate cake with rich chocolate frosting, or a drippy chocolate glaze. I feel you! You can tell because I have no less than 9 different chocolate cake recipes here on All Day I Dream About Food. And a few on some other sites as well!
And those are just the classic cakes that feature only chocolate and no other flavors. I have ever so many more that have additions like peanut butter, raspberry, peppermint, coffee, orange, hazelnut, etc. You get the picture, if it goes well with chocolate, there’s a good chance I’ve made a keto cake with it!
So let’s have some fun and indulge our chocolate cake obsession.
Classic Keto Chocolate Cake Recipes
Mini Keto Chocolate Cake with Whipped Ganache Frosting
My mini desserts have been immensely popular and this sweet little chocolate layer cake is no exception. It serves just 2 to 4 people so you don’t have to worry about the leftovers calling your name from the fridge!
My classic chocolate cupcakes made with coconut flour, and topped with a rich keto chocolate frosting. The batter for the cupcakes also makes a great two-layer round cake!
True to the original, with a boiled cocoa glaze, while still being totally keto-friendly. How’s that for magic?
Slow Cooker Keto Chocolate Cake
This is perhaps my most popular chocolate cake recipe and with good reason. It’s deceptively simple, unbelievably moist, and it needs no frosting. Perfection!
Keto Chocolate Zucchini Bundt Cake
Make the most of your summer zucchini harvest with this moist, rich chocolate bundt cake.
Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting
This is an oldie but a goodie and makes a fantastic keto birthday cake recipe. The slight tanginess of the sour cream frosting is wonderful with the rich chocolate flavour. Be sure to use quality unsweetened chocolate here for best results.
Cupcakes are cake, right? And this deeply chocolatey recipe could easily be made into a full layer cake, if one so desired. It also happens to be nut-free and made with sunflower seed flour (see how to make your own sunflower seed flour here).
A great all-purpose chocolate cake and low carb chocolate frosting recipe. Made to look like a Sara Lee cake…but much, much healthier!
Chocolate Layer Cake with Whipped Ganache Frosting
Don’t just make ganache and pour it over your cake. Whip it. Whip it real good! I created this recipe for my friends at Swerve and it has a special place in my heart. So delicious!
Other delicious flavors of keto chocolate cake
This is my latest keto cake creation and it features vanilla and chocolate cake batters swirled together, with a creamy sugar-free Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Pure heaven!
This cake went WILD when I posted it on Instagram. I wasn’t even intending to make it a recipe but I had so many requests, I had to share. It features two layers made with the coconut flour cupcakes recipe, and a whipped cream “cookie” frosting.
Mini Keto German Chocolate Cake
Another cute little keto cake with built in portion control!
A giant version of the junky ding dongs you used to love as a kid. Two delicious layers of chocolate cake with a fluffy, creamy centre, all topped off with a rich chocolate glaze.
Mixed up layers of chocolate cake, cream cheese filling, pecans, coconut and chocolate chips. It’s fun and delicious!
And check out these tasty keto cake recipes from some of my favourite bloggers!
Chocolate Crazy Cake from SugarFree Mom
This cake is free of all major allergens including eggs, dairy and nuts.
Chocolate Heaven Cake from Ditch the Carbs
Dense chocolatey flourless goodness!
Chocolate Brownie Mug Cake from I Breathe, I’m Hungry
Chocolate cake-y deliciousness in 5 minutes flat!
Milk Chocolate Ganache Cake from Keto Adapted
Lots of chocolatey layers with a creamy filling, all topped off with rich chocolate ganache.
Death by Chocolate Cake from Hey Keto Mama
What a way to go!
Cheesecake Swirl Fudge Bundt Cake from Sugar Free Sprinkles
It’s got cheesecake in the middle. What more could you ask for?
Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake from Peace, Love, and Low Carb
Dense fudgy perfection!
Chocolate Avocado Cake from Sugar Free Londoner
Dairy-free keto goodness!
Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake from Fit to Serve
A pound cake that won’t pack on the pounds!
Chocolate Walnut Cake from Low Carb Maven
Walnuts and chocolate are a match made in heaven.
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Monday is my birthday, and for possibly the first time in my dieting life, I am not saying “Oh, it’s my birthday, so I deserve to go off-plan.” I mean, it helps that going to a great restaurant is not an option, but in truth, I’m just as happy eating my low-carb food, which is delicious.
But birthdays, in my book, need a cake, so I’m making the chocolate cake with whipped ganache frosting that you developed for Swerve. In fact, I don’t like Swerve — Erythritol-based sweeteners linger in the mouth for me in a really unpleasant way — so I was delighted to see that this recipe calls for unsweetened cocoa and unsweetened chocolate, meaning I can use BochaSweet, which I like a ton. The ganache on its own is quite bitter (perhaps I needed to add more BochaSweet) so my plan is to us it to frost only the sides, and layer the insides with both the raspberry-chia jam that I made from your recipe — LOVE! LOVE! — and some vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. I think it will be delicious, and I will give the leftovers to my friend who has two ravenous (and skinny) teenage sons.
Chocolate Layer Cake with Whipped Ganache Frosting
This is an excellent recipe! It is now my go-to chocolate cake. I just used it for my birthday.
What a delicious cake collection!
I have got to try one of these out! The question is, where the heck do I start. I want a slice of each one. I’m a chocoholic through and through and am now craving cake…
Hi Carolyn,
Just wanted to tell you how impressed I continue to be with you and the ‘network’ of bloggers you know. An example:
I’ve had a bit of a crush on your Snickerdoodle Mug Cake lately, so it followed that the first recipe in this post that I opened was the Chocolate Brownie Mug Cake from I Breathe, I’m Hungry.. And there she’s praising YOUR Meyer Lemon version in the first line!
It just seems that there’s a great give and take among you, tempered with respect and even friendship, supporting all of us in a common goal…. It makes it a pleasure to visit every day. Thank you.
~Tory
Wow, what a timely post! Earlier this week I read that Jan 27 is national chocolate cake day. I can try all of these, then make my favorite again on the 27th to celebrate.
I just read through all the comments about your slow-cooker chocolate cake and think I’ll start with that one. ?
Thanks for your skill in the kitchen and your dedication to all your followers.
Thanks for the heads up on National Chocolate Cake Day!
Carolyn, I love your blog! Over the holidays, I made “death by chocolate cheesecake” three times for three separate Christmas parties. I thought the first effort was perfect. However, for the second and third cheesecakes, there was significant granularity and more of a cooling effect. I used swerve all three times. What can I do to avoid this problem in the future? Thanks for all your efforts for diabetes, Tess Nelson
I am not really sure why it would do that as it’s never happened to me. You may want to cut back on the Swerve a bit and use stevia to help sweeten.
Have you tried using the powdered swerve product? I have been told that the granular product does not dissolve as well. Personally, WE LOVE SWERVE, across the board!
Try Allulose. I use it when baking and prefer it because there is no cooking effect whatsoever. It’s 70% as sweet as sugar. May need a tad more than swerve or you may just like it as a 1:1 substitution. It’s keto approved but a bit more expensive. Carolyn’s suggestion does help a bit too.