For those following a ketogenic lifestyle, finding satisfying desserts that align with dietary restrictions can be a challenge. Look no further than the keto chocolate frosty. This recipe is a low-carb, guilt-free alternative to traditional frozen treats, offering a creamy, chocolatey experience without the sugar overload.
What is a Frosty?
A frosty is a unique frozen dessert that falls somewhere between soft serve ice cream and a milkshake. While a soft serve consistency resembles fluffy, less dense ice cream, a frosty is even softer than that. It's known for its thick, smooth texture and is typically served cold, making it a perfect option for a hot day.
Why Keto?
The ketogenic diet focuses on high fat, moderate protein, and very low carbohydrate intake. This metabolic shift forces the body to burn fat for energy instead of glucose, leading to weight loss and other potential health benefits. Traditional frosty recipes are loaded with sugar, making them unsuitable for a keto diet. This keto chocolate frosty recipe provides a delicious alternative that won't derail your ketogenic goals.
The Magic of 3 Ingredients
What’s awesome about this keto friendly chocolate frosty recipe is that you only need three ingredients. This recipe focuses on simplicity without sacrificing flavor or texture.
Here are the key ingredients:
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- Heavy Cream: Heavy cream is the base of this recipe, providing a creamy, rich flavor. This ingredient will give your low carb chocolate frosty all the flavor.
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: Cocoa powder delivers the signature chocolate flavor without adding any sugar.
- Powdered Erythritol: For this recipe, powdered erythritol to make sure both the consistency and texture will be smooth. Monkfruit is delicious alternative sweetener that is completely natural, is zero glycemic, and of course tastes great! Lakanto’s Powdered Monkfruit sweetener is the best substitute for powdered sugar!
Recipe and Instructions
This frozen chocolate smoothie is super easy to make and can be ready, freezing and all in less than an hour. This is also a great low-carb recipe to make with the kiddos, especially in the summer months, as it’s easy enough with no special tools required.
- Combine Ingredients: In a large bowl combine heavy cream, unsweetened cocoa powder and powdered sweetener.
- Whip the Mixture: Take out your hand mixer or if you don’t have one, use a stand mixer with the right tool to beat the heavy whipping cream until stiff peaks form. If you’d prefer, this can be made in a stand mixer such as a KitchenAid.
- Freeze: Take a spoon and place your keto frosty mixture in a glass. Scoop into glasses and serve, or freeze for up to 3 months.
- Achieve Frosty Consistency: Once frozen, the mixture will become stiff. In order to get the right consistency, you will need to either stir the mixture with a spoon, or use a blender to soften the Frosty and give it that not-completely-frozen/not-too-melty consistency. Remove from the freezer and stir until its consistency resembles a keto chocolate frosty.
A Healthier Choice
This keto chocolate frosty not only tastes great, but is also high in fats and low in net carbs! This keto chocolate frosty recipe has both good nutrition and an awesome taste. Stanford Medicine’s research from 2019 suggests that a high percentage of saturated fat in low carb diets doesn’t raise cholesterol levels!
Variations and Add-Ins
Interested in adding more ingredients to your recipe? Or maybe you want to find out if you can make it without dairy?
- Flavor Enhancements: You sure can! Grab a spoon of sugar free peanut butter, almond butter or even add a few drops of vanilla extract.
- Texture Tweaks: Want to make it even smoother? Megha’s favorite version of this keto frosty recipe is with coconut flakes and sometimes shaved low carb chocolate.
- Dairy-Free Option: Yes, but not by using unsweetened almond milk or coconut milk instead of heavy whipping cream. In order to make this recipe dairy free you’d have to use crushed ice as a base and then add a nut milk of your choice and probably some nut butter to replace the consistency. Again, this is just my theoretical idea and I haven’t tried it myself.
Sweetener Substitutions
Yes you can! We’re only using 3 tablespoons of powdered erythritol here so adding a different kind of low carb, keto sweetener will be just fine.
Other Keto-Friendly Frozen Treats
If you're looking for other keto-friendly frozen treats, here are a few options:
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- Chocolate Keto Ice Cream: This recipe is not a chocolate frosty, here you’ll get full blown low carb ice cream that tastes delicious and smooth. At less than 5g of net carbs, it’s perfect for whenever you want a sweet keto treat.
- Keto Mason Jar Ice Cream: What we love about this low carb recipe is that prep time takes only a few minutes! With a hint of vanilla thanks to the vanilla extract inside, you’ll get a yummy treat without all the sugar.
- Keto Strawberry Smoothie: Wasn’t this supposed to be a list of low carb, keto friendly frozen treats? Yes, but did you know you can turn this smoothie into a frosty as well?
Keto Copycat Wendy's Frosty
This keto chocolate frosty recipe is literally a copycat of the Wendy’s frosty! This keto Chocolate Frosty Copycat tastes so much like the real thing! If you miss that creamy chocolate dessert too, here’s an easy way to make a copycat Wendy’s keto frosty at home that tastes very similar to the real deal! I blended up 5 keto ingredients in the blender, and made the most DELICIOUS copycat Wendy's keto frosty that is only 5 carbs!
Dairy-Free Keto Frosty
I prefer this made with full fat coconut milk (or even coconut cream) in a can. In a pinch, you can for sure substitute almond milk or your other favorite non-dairy milk.
Instructions
- Blend the ice first in your high speed blender. It only takes 10 seconds, and turns it into snow.
- Add in the coconut milk, cacao powder, almond butter and monk fruit. You can substitute other non-dairy milks.
Nutritional Information
This entire bowl has only 5 net carbs! Plus, tons of healthy fats and amazing keto macros. It's super thick. Sweet and chocolatey. Nutritional Disclaimer: We are not certified nutritionists. Nutritional data is provided as a courtesy. The information provided is calculated through a free-web based nutrition calculator and is not guaranteed to be accurate. Per Carb Manager, there are 350 calories in a small chocolate frosty, with 58g of net carbs!
Conclusion
This keto frosty copycat is the perfect treat to keep you cool this summer. Even though this keto frosty copycat is excellent for summer, there really is never a bad time for keto ice cream! This keto chocolate frosty recipe is literally a copycat of the Wendy’s frosty! The good thing is that our 3 ingredient keto frosty recipe does not use any artificial ingredients and is low in net carbs, which makes it a perfect keto dessert. The best part - it whips up in just a few minutes. It’s a very rich dessert, so the serving size is small. I love that it’s a creamy and smooth dessert idea.
The Creators
Matt is a former college basketball player turned computer engineer who discovered his passion for health and nutrition after cutting sugar from his diet in 2016. That year he founded KetoConnect with Megha in order to share their ketogenic lifestyle through recipes, videos, and educational content.
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