This Keto Chocolate Chaffle Recipe makes easy keto cheese waffles with a sweet, chocolatey, crispy texture to start the day on keto with only 2 grams of net carbs per serving.
Bonus, these chocolate keto chocolate waffles are also gluten-free and can be made nut-free.
What’s A Chaffle?
Chaffle means cheese-waffle. In fact, a chaffle is a low-carb waffle recipe made of egg and cheese, usually shredded mozzarella cheese.
Some recipes add a touch of keto flour for texture – it can be almond flour, coconut flour, or even sunflower seed flour.
You can also see different addons in chaffle recipes like butter, cream cheese, and sweetener to create a range of flavors and textures.
Most keto chaffle recipes are savory and sometimes sweet as they mimic wonderfully churros if flavored with cinnamon and dipped in keto sweeteners.
How To Make Chocolate Chaffles
A keto chocolate chaffle is a crispy chocolate waffle made of a few simple ingredients and minimal carbs.
It’s a wonderful breakfast or keto dessert to fix your sweet tooth with no guilt.
Ingredients
All you need to start making this keto chaffle chocolate recipe are:
- Large Egg– eggs are very much keto-friendly.
- Shredded cheese – the fun part with this chocolate chaffle is that you don’t actually need the cheese! Chaffles traditionally mean cheese waffle so you technically use cheese to add crispy texture to the waffle. But, if you want to make a softer chocolate waffle, skip it and make this dairy-free! Otherwise, for a crispy chaffle use a non-flavored cheese, hard mozzarella cheese, full-fat is the best option for a sweet chaffle recipe. It adds the crispy texture you need without the flavor of the cheese. Learn how to pick keto-friendly cheese.
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Erythritol– or any other low-carb crystal sweetener.
- Vanilla extract or vanilla monk fruit drops for an extra boost of sweetness.
- Melted butter
- Almond flour or coconut flour, or sunflower seed flour – you can use many different keto flours but not in the same amount! Please read the recipe card carefully to adjust the quantity depending on the low-carb flour you pick for the recipe.
Preparing the batter
In a mixing bowl, whisk all the liquid ingredients together: egg, vanilla, and melted butter. Then, whisk in dry ingredients and stir the cheese at the very end.
Baking in a mini waffle maker
You can bake chaffle in a regular waffle iron or mini waffle maker. A mini waffle maker is perfect to create small waffles and control your carbs per serving.
It means that with this recipe, you can form 3 mini keto waffles with 2 grams of net carbs each.
If you don’t feel like eating the entire recipe, you can freeze any leftover and eat only what match your keto macros.
Cooling Down
A chaffle is always soft when out of the waffle maker!
You must let it cool down on a cooling rack to steam out the moisture and give the cheese time to harden and add the lovely crispiness to the waffle.
Serving Chocolate Chaffles
These chocolate chaffles are keto, low carb, and to keep your plate that way, you must add keto toppings on top. The most delicious are:
- Unsweetened whipped cream
- Keto fruits – 3-5 raspberries marry very well with chocolate.
- Keto chocolate chips – add them to the hot chaffle to let them melt and create a double chocolate flavor.
- Melted chocolate chips
- Chopped nuts or seeds – like almonds, peanuts, hemp seeds
- Unsweetened coconut – toasted coconut flakes are delicious with chocolate.
Storage Instructions
Once cooked, the chaffles are best eaten immediately.
But you can freeze them in an airtight container and thaw them in the fridge the day before.
Rewarm in a bread toaster or waffle maker to get some crispiness back.
Allergy Swaps
If you are allergic to some of the ingredients, follow these instructions:
- Making it Nut-Free: replace the almond flour with coconut flour (1/3 of it).
- Making it Cheese-Free: skip the mozzarella altogether.
Unfortunately, you can’t make these chocolate chaffles egg-free.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Many Chaffles Can I Eat?
I recommend making mini chaffles rather than large chaffles. With this recipe, you will create 3 mini chaffles using a mini chaffle iron maker, and it will help you control your carbs per serving.
One mini chaffle contains 2 grams of net carbs, and the entire recipe with toppings makes a very fulfilling easy keto breakfast.
However, depending on your size and macros requirements, you may want to decrease to only 2 chaffles per meal.
How Do Chocolate Chaffles Taste?
This keto chocolate waffle tastes like any regular chocolate waffle.
There is no cheese flavor at all! The grated mozzarella adds a crispy texture to the waffle without adding carbs.
How Should I Bake Keto Chaffles?
A keto chaffle should be baked for 3 to 4 minutes max in a preheated waffle iron. If you overbake a keto chaffle, they get very dry, crunchy, and hard.
Can I Make Keto Vegan Chaffles?
No, you can’t! Vegan egg replacements wouldn’t hold the low-carb batter in this recipe.
Plus, vegan cheese is very high in carbs, flavorsome, and won’t deliver great results in chaffles.
More Sweet Keto Breakfast Recipes
If you love keto low carb waffle recipes, or simply a sweet keto breakfast, try some of the below as well!
Keto Coconut Flour Waffles
Cauliflower Waffles
2-Ingredient Chaffles
Almond Flour Waffles
Keto Cream Cheese Waffles
Keto Zucchini Waffles
Keto Crepes
Coconut Flour Crepes
Almond Flour Scones
Keto Dutch Baby
Keto Churro Chaffle
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Keto Chocolate Chaffle Recipe
2.7gNet Carbs
A crispy chocolate chaffle perfect for a sweet keto breakfast.
Author: Carine Claudepierre
Prep: 5 minutes mins
Cook: 4 minutes mins
Total: 9 minutes mins
Yield: 3 mini chaffles
Serving Size: 1 mini chaffle ( 3 tbsp batter)
4.88 from 273 votes
Ingredients
US Customary – Metric
- 1 large Egg
- 1 tablespoon Unsalted Butter
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 tablespoons Almond Flour or 2 teaspoons of coconut flour, if nut free
- 2 tablespoons Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Powder optional
- 1 tablespoon Granulated Sweetener
Optional – for a super crispy waffle
- ¼ cup Shredded Mozzarella or 1/3 cup for extra-crispiness
Serving suggestion per chaffle
- 1 teaspoon Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips
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Instructions
Preheat a mini waffle iron until hot – about 5 minutes and use a pastry brush to grease the iron with coconut oil.
In a medium mixing bowl, beat egg, melted butter, and vanilla extract.
Stir in almond flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and erythritol.
Now that the batter is smooth, you have two options, cook the waffle without cheese for a soft chocolate waffle or stir in shredded mozzarella for a crispy chaffle. I like to add 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella for a medium crispy texture, add 1/3 cup for super crispy chaffle
Pour enough batter to cover the iron's surface, leaving some space on the border to prevent the batter from overflowing when baking. I used about 2 1/2 tablespoons of batter for one mini iron waffle maker, as seen in my pictures.
Cook for about 3 to 4 minutes max to avoid dry waffles. Your chaffle won't be crispy at all when you open the iron, but it will be set, not runny, don't stick to the iron.
Use the tip of a knife or fork to release the border and remove it from the waffle iron. Yes, the chaffle is super soft, and that is ok! They crisp up when cooling down!
Place the chaffle on a cooling rack for 5 minutes to crisp. Meanwhile, bake the leftover batter to form 2 extra mini waffles.
Serving suggestions
Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of sugar-free chocolate chips on the hot chaffle. They will melt and add an extra boost of chocolate flavor! Or serve with a drizzle of sugar-free maple-flavored syrup, a dollop of unsweetened whipped cream.
Storage
You can freeze chaffle in an airtight container and thaw in the fridge the day before. Rewarm in a bread toaster or waffle maker.
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Serving Size: 1 mini chaffle ( 3 tbsp batter)
Yield: 3 mini chaffles
Serving: 1mini chaffle ( 3 tbsp batter)Calories: 133kcal (7%)Carbohydrates: 4.4g (1%)Fiber: 1.7g (7%)Net Carbs: 2.7gProtein: 6.5g (13%)Fat: 10.9g (17%)Saturated Fat: 4.9g (31%)Cholesterol: 80.2mg (27%)Sodium: 177.7mg (8%)Potassium: 73.8mg (2%)Sugar: 0.5g (1%)Vitamin A: 269.7IU (5%)Calcium: 90.1mg (9%)Iron: 1mg (6%)
About The Author
Carine Claudepierre
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.
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