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A bowl full of low carb chocolate frosting made with a hand mixer.
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Keto Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe

This keto chocolate frosting is simply off the charts! Super easy to make and the best low carb buttercream frosting recipe you'll ever make! Sweetened with erythritol and stevia, it's the best sugar free chocolate frosting!
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, French
Keyword buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream, keto frosting, sugar free chocolate frosting
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 16 servings
Calories 162kcal
Author Mira

Equipment

  • stand mixer
  • hand mixer

Ingredients

  • ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
  • ¾ cup powdered erythritol *See note 1 for different sweetener option
  • 12 oz cream cheese 1.5 Philadelphia cream cheese black (COLD)
  • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • ½ tsp stevia extract powder *See note 1 for different sweetener option
  • ½ cup heavy cream COLD

Instructions

  • Make sure the cream cheese and heavy cream are cold, straight out of the fridge.
  • Add the cream cheese to a large bowl and cream until soft with either a hand mixer or stand mixer.
  • Add the butter and cream together.
  • Add the erythritol, stevia, vanilla and cocoa powder. Mix well until the entire frosting is brown.
  • Add in the heavy cream, a little at a time to avoid splashing all over the place, and continue mixing for another 2-3 minutes until the chocolate frosting has considerably thickened.

Notes

  • Make sure your heavy whipping cream and cream cheese is cold,  straight out of the fridge cold! Room temperature will not work.
  • Make sure your butter is at room temperature or else you won't be able to whip it.
  • Use unsweetened cocoa powder and not the sweetened kind!
  • Make sure to add in the heavy whipping cream a little at a time to avoid splashing the cream all over the able and your clothes.
  • If you want to pipe the frosting using piping bags, let the frosting rest at room temperature beforehand so that it's easier to pie.  If it's too cold, you won't be able to push it through the piping tip.
  • Make sure you use powdered erythritol or allulose and not the granulated kind or it'll be like eating sand.
Note 1:
Here are other possible sweetener options you can use.
  • ¾ cup powdered erythritol + ½ tsp stevia extract powder
  • ¾ cup powdered erythritol + ½ tsp monk fruit extract powder
  • ¾ cup powdered allulose + ½ tsp stevia extract powder
  • ¾ cup powdered allulose + ½ tsp monk fruit extract powder
  • ¾ cup powdered blend like from So Nourished, Besti, Swerve, and so on.