Keto Chocolate Mousse Recipe

This easy keto chocolate mousse recipe takes just minutes to make and with a few simple ingredients. It’s a rich and creamy, sugar free dessert that would be great for the holidays or for a special treat if you are on a keto diet. You can easily add various flavors like peppermint, orange or raspberry to change it up bit. Each serving has only 1.2 grams net carbs and 2.8 grams protein!

You might also like this keto peanut butter mousse recipe.

I don’t know about you but I love my sweets and I always have chocolate cravings. One day I wanted some sweet after shopping for Christmas and getting all my holiday preparations in order. So I whipped up this easy keto chocolate mousse recipe.

Oh my, it was sweet, chocolatey and creamy – pure keto comfort food – and it was so delicious! You only need 6 ingredients (no eggs) and just 5 minutes to make!

So next time you are craving a rich, creamy and chocolate but want to stick to your low carb diet, try this easy chocolate mousse recipe. It also may be just the perfect dessert for Christmas!

Recipe ingredients and substitutions.

As I mentioned above this recipe only needs 6 ingredients and that is cream cheese, heavy whipping cream, Swerve confectioners sweetener, unsweetened cocoa powder, SweetLeaf vanilla liquid stevia and vanilla extract. You can also add a pinch of salt if you want. Salt will enhance the sweetness.

• unsweetened cocoa powder – I love Divine cocoa powder because it’s lower in carbs than regular cocoa powder and has a rich color. I’m having a hard time finding it lately so I also like Ghirardelli Dutch Processed cocoa powder which also has 0 carbs. However if you don’t have it you can use regular cocoa powder.
• confectioners sweetener – Swerve is a natural sweetener with erythritol that I use for so many of my keto dessert recipes. For this recipe I prefer Swerve confectioners sweetener to granulated sweetener because I think it mixes better. But again if you don’t have it use regular keto friendly sweetener of choice though powdered sweetener is best.
• SweetLeaf vanilla liquid stevia – If you don’t have any liquid stevia, you could probably go without it. Taste the mousse and if you want it sweeter add a tablespoon more of the confectioners keto sweetener.
• cream cheese and heavy cream – These are the basis of the mousse and I would not substitute them but if you are dairy free you can try coconut cream in place the heavy cream. I’m not sure of a good substitute for the cream cheese.

What I love about this recipe is that it’s very easy to change up the flavor. Today I added a little peppermint extract and made this a chocolate mint mousse. But you can do this with a variety of flavor extracts and it won’t change the macros of the recipe.

How to make keto chocolate mousse.

Step 1: You want to use cream cheese which is at room temperature so make sure you take it out about 15 minutes before you make this recipe. And you need to use an electric mixer.

You can use a food processor or blender. However I find my blender is hard to clean and I like to get every last bit out so I use my mixer.

Step 2: Place the cream cheese in a mixing bowl and cream with the Swerve sweetener for 1-2 minutes. I might not seem like it’s going to come together but keep going and it will.

Step 3: Next add the cocoa powder, stevia and vanilla extract. Cream the chocolate mixture together and then add in the heavy cream. You want to beat this until soft peaks form. The consistency should be light and fluffy like that pictured below.

Step 4: Spoon or pipe the the creamy chocolate mousse into small dessert cups and refrigerate until ready to serve.

See below for ways to change up the flavor or add toppings like keto whipped cream or chocolate shavings. Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator. (Please scroll down to view and print the recipe card.)

How many carbs in this keto dessert?

This recipe made 6 small dessert which was perfect for us because they are very filling and perfectly satisfied our sweet tooth.

The nutrition facts for 1 dessert with chocolate garnish is 205 calories / 18.6g fat / 4.3g carbs / 3.1g fiber / 2.8g protein = 1.2g net carbs

Since there is only 1.2g net carbs per serving of this decadent chocolate dessert you could make this batch into 3 larger desserts and it would still be really low carb. Without the chocolate bar shavings garnish it has just 0.9g net carbs.

It also has a decent amount of protein for a dessert without using protein powder.

How to garnish and add different flavors to this mousse.

• Below you can see how I used these lower carb chocolate bars as a garnish on top of the mousse. You just need a vegetable peeler to make chocolate curls with a chocolate bar that is high in cocoa and therefore low in carbs.
• The Moser Roth bars I get at Aldi and the Lindt can be found at Target. You don’t need to use these as a garnish but it does look nice and you hardly use any of the chocolate to garnish all 6 desserts.
• Other low carb additions would sugar free chocolate chips (like Lily’s), toasted shredded coconut, chopped nuts, sugar free sprinkles, keto whipped cream, etc. Just make sure to account for their carb count.
• As for flavoring you can try adding flavor extracts that are used for baking and can be found in just about any grocery store. They don’t add any calories or carbs to the dessert and can add a lot of flavor.
• Recently I added peppermint extract but other extract flavors to try are orange, raspberry, almond, caramel, etc.

Other super easy keto desserts you might like.

Since I’m not much of a baker, I tend to like desserts like this one which are no bake and very simple. Here are a few more low carb sweet recipes you might want to try.

• pumpkin no bake keto cheesecake
• blueberry keto ice cream in the blender
• keto cinnamon sugar cookie dough fat bombs
• chocolate peanut butter freezer keto candy
• double chocolate keto fudge
• keto cottage cheese chocolate mousse

Well this keto chocolate mousse is definitely an easy and most delicious keto dessert. I hope you give this recipe a try. My family inhaled these! And because they are so easy I will be sure to make them again.

This sugar free mousse uses simple ingredients and takes little time to make so it’s the perfect dessert for the holidays. It’s also quite pretty and definitely tasty whether or not your are on a low carb diet. Enjoy!

I also have a similar recipe that uses avocados if you are interested. It’s an easy keto chocolate truffles recipe that just uses 4 ingredients.