Hershey’s Cocoa Powder Keto Recipes (2024)

This complete collection of Hershey’s Cocoa Powder Keto Recipes is packed full of amazing and decadent recipes that use my favorite cocoa powder, all in one convenient place. Featuring tons of brownies, cookies, cakes, and so much more!

Perfect for those who LOVE all things chocolate but still want to enjoy the benefits of the keto diet.

Here’s the good news, just because you’re on a keto diet doesn’t mean you can’t have delicious, baked (or no-bake!!!) goods. Cocoa powder is a perfect addition to tons of recipes that involve chocolate!

Let’s not forget that Hershey’s makes the BEST cocoa powders! I am partial to the special dark cocoa powder but you can use the classic or dark.

Now, I’ve made countless keto recipes but these have been made specifically to work perfectly with Hershey’s cocoa powder.

If you’re looking to make a keto dessert that features chocolate, trust me when I say, you’ll love Hershey’s cocoa powder.

Want to understand keto baking better? Learn more by reading my keto baking tips!

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Cocoa powder is actually a crucial ingredient when creating keto chocolate desserts. It gives any chocolate dessert a deep and rich chocolate flavor with just using a little.

The possibilities and uses for cocoa powder are limitless as you’ll find below.

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It’s cookies and brownies and cakes, oh my! A keto chocolate lover’s dream! And did I mention, all of these recipes are a breeze to make?!

I am sure that you’ll find many of your new favorite keto chocolate desserts in my collection below.

Just to name a few, there’s Keto Hershey’s Chocolate Cake, Keto Hershey’s Chocolate Donuts, brownies, cookies, fat bombs, fudge, and so many more!

I’m positive that just scrolling through this collection will make you smell the chocolatey goodness baking!

Is Hershey’s Cocoa Keto-Friendly?

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If you are wondering if Hershey’s cocoa powder is keto-friendly, you can be sure it is.

Great news, right?! Cocoa powder has no sweeteners and can, therefore, be used in keto baking. This means you can absolutely use Hershey’s cocoa powder while doing keto!

Let’s start off by saying that my love for Hershey’s cocoa powder is two-fold. First, it’s super easy to use AND second, it gives a rich, decadent chocolate flavor.

I can’t say for sure, but I’m pretty sure that the recipe on the back of the Hershey’s cocoa box was the first chocolate cake my mom (Hilda) made way back when. And she hasn’t stopped making it since!

Now, don’t get me wrong I know that there are some fancier, new brands of cocoa powder out there. But, Hershey’s brand has been a staple in my pantry always and has never disappointed me. Not once!

It’s the perfect cocoa powder for all your chocolate keto needs!

Best Sugar-Substitutes For Cocoa Powder Recipes

I have several sugar substitutes you can use when making keto desserts with cocoa powder. If you’re looking for a sweetener that reminds you of real sugar, I’d recommend you try Lakanto Monk Fruit.

It’s hands down my favorite sugar substitute.

The texture of this all-natural sweetener is spot on, plus it barely has an aftertaste. I’m also partial to Swerve which is an erythritol blend.

You could also use the stevia and erythritol-based brand Pyurebut I find that stevia-based sweeteners tend to intensify the aftertaste of stevia.

If you do go this route, be sure to use half the amount listed in the recipe since it is twice as sweet.

Lastly, if you can’t easily find a more natural sugar substitute, you can also use Splenda with great success.

Hershey's Cocoa Powder Keto Recipes

This complete collection of Hershey’s Cocoa Powder Keto Recipes is packed full of amazing and decadent recipes that use my favorite cocoa powder, all in one convenient place. Featuring tons of brownies, cookies, cakes, and so much more!

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Keto Hershey’s Chocolate Cake

It's a recipe for a low carb keto-friendly version of the classic Hershey's chocolate cake recipe found on the back of the Hershey's cocoa powder box.

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Keto Chocolate Cream Cheese Muffins

Rich, decadent keto chocolate cream cheese muffins! These moist keto chocolate muffins are sure to satisfy your craving for dark chocolate. A recipe for keto chocolate cream cheese muffins is what you can expect from your favorite keto pound cake enhanced with chocolate as the star and adjusted to bake into amazing keto muffins.

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Keto Red Velvet Donuts

These keto red velvet donuts are, moist, spongy baked donuts that feature the classic red velvet flavor minus all the carbs. It's topped with a cream cheese icing and a sprinkling of crumbled donut that makes it a delicious keto treat!

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Keto Red Velvet Trifle

This keto red velvet trifle is filled with layers of moist red velvet cake, homemade whipped cream, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. This trifle recipe is not only low in carbs but also grain-free and gluten-free.

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Keto Red Velvet Cake

Keto red velvet cake- moist, rich layers of velvety smooth cake frosted generously with cream cheese frosting. This recipe allows you to enjoy all the flavors in traditional red velvet cake minus the carbs.

This keto chocolate bread is rich, moist, and not too sweet. Featuring bold chocolate flavor and a subtle sweetness, this low carb chocolate bread is easily made with only wholesome ingredients like almond flour, eggs, cream cheese, and of course cocoa powder

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Keto Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

This keto chocolate sour cream cake is rich, fudgy, and moist. It's got the perfect dense, moist cake crumb and has all the flavor you love about a rich chocolate sour cream pound cake minus all the carbs and sugar!

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Keto Triple Chocolate Scones

These keto triple chocolate scones make the perfect on-the-go breakfast or snack. It's a no-roll delicious keto recipe that makes chocolate the star! It features cocoa powder, baking chocolate, and sugar-free chocolate chips.

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Keto Chocolate Bundt Cake

This keto chocolate bundt cake is a moist rich-tasting chocolate cake that's perfect for when you are craving chocolate on keto! It's a showstopper of a cake that chocolate lovers will embrace.

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Keto Donuts {Hershey's Chocolate}

This is a keto Hershey's Chocolate donuts recipe. It is low in carbs, sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten-free and keto-friendly.

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Keto Hershey's Chocolate Flaxseed Flour Cake

A recipe for low carb chocolate flaxseed flour cake

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Peppermint Cream Cheese Fat Bombs

These peppermint cream cheese fat bombs are like frozen bites of chocolate mints! With only 0.4 carbs per a delicious and minty after-dinner treat. They're keto Andes mint fat bombs!

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Coconut Flour Keto Brownies

This delicious recipe for keto coconut flour brownies makes rich moist, sugar-free brownies everyone will enjoy.

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Keto Marble Cheesecake

This keto marble cheesecake is a delicious low carb, no added sugar, gluten-free, grain-free cheesecake that everyone will enjoy. Perfect for when you want to impress your family and friends with a keto dessert.It's a chocolate and vanilla marble option!

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Keto Skillet Brownies

These Keto Skillet Brownies are the perfect dessert to end a meal. Intense chocolate flavor, the perfect texture, and a richness that will satisfy any craving are what you can expect from these low carb brownies in a skillet!Made with coconut flour for a tree nut-free option

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Keto Brownie Cupcakes

Keto Brownie Cupcakes- Are the perfect, rich chocolate cupcake for anyone doing a keto diet that is missing chocolate. These keto cupcakes are cross between chocolate cupcakes and brownies are moist, sugar-free, grain-free, gluten-free and keto-friendly.

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Rich Keto Cranberry Brownies

Keto Cranberry Brownies feature the combination of rich chocolate and cranberries for a Keto Holiday treat. These brownies are grain-free, sugar-free, gluten-free and Keto-friendly.

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Michelle’s Rich Keto Brownies

Keto Brownies are made with rich dark chocolate cocoa powder and baking chocolate. It's a delicious low carb brownie that it grain-free, sugar-free and Keto-friendly.

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Keto Mocha Blackout Brownie

This recipe for keto mocha blackout brownie is a dark, rich and decadent low carb brownie that can satisfy the strongest of chocolate cravings easily.

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Keto Chocolate Bark (Fat Bomb)

This recipe for keto chocolate bars acts as a fat bomb but tastes like a chocolate bar. Enjoy a flavor treat and gain the benefits of healthy fats.

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Keto Chocolate Marble Fat Bombs

A recipe for keto chocolate marble fat bomb recipe. These keto chocolate cheesecake fat bombs

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Keto Chocolate Peanut Butter Fat Bombs

This recipe forKeto chocolate peanut-butter fat bombsis an easy and delicious way to get healthy fats into your diet.Stop your sugar cravings and control your appetite with a fat bomb that tastes like a Reeses peanut butter cup!

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Keto Ice Cream Cake

This deliciousKeto Ice Cream Cake is grain-free, gluten-free, nut-free. Plus if that's not enough the ice cream layer is churn-free.

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Easy Keto Fudge

It's a recipe for easy keto fudge. It's made with a combination of baking chocolate, cocoa powder, sugar-free confectioner's sugar, butter and cream cheese.

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Dreamy Keto Cream Cheese Chocolate Pound Cake

This delicious keto cream cheese chocolate pound cake is a rich, moist, decadent cake that features a chocolate ganache that takes it to a whole nother level. It's the one recipe that is sure to silence your chocolate cravings while doing keto.

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Red Velvet Keto Cookies

This rich and decadent recipe for red velvet keto cookies is sure to become a holiday favorite. The addition of cream cheese makes them a soft-batch cookie and their bright red color makes them a festive choice.

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Keto Peanut Butter Chocolate Pie, No Bake

This keto peanut butter chocolate pie is one rich, creamy, dreamy dessert. It's not only low in carbs, sugar-free, grain-free, gluten-free, but also a no-bake pie.

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Keto Red Velvet Ice Cream Cake

Keto red velvet ice cream cake all the flavor we love about this classic dessert minus all the carbs. It's grain-free, gluten-free, sugar-free and deliciously easy.

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Keto Bacon Fudge

Keto Bacon Fudge? Is that even a thing? Well, yes it is. You can make a delicious low carb fudge recipe that combines the flavor of chocolate and bacon for one delicious unexpected treat.

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Keto Pumpkin Chocolate Pound Cake

This keto pumpkin chocolate pound cake is a rich dark chocolate low carb cake that has a subtle pumpkin flavor and makes a great seasonal treat.

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Keto Triple Chocolate Cookies

These Keto Triple Chocolate Cookies are the perfect low carb treat when you are craving a dark rich chocolate cookie. They are decadent chocolate cookies that also happen to be grain-free, gluten-free, sugar-free and keto-friendly.

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Ultimate Keto Fudge Flourless Cookies

A recipe for keto fudge flourless cookies. The recipe does not use any flour or flour substitute making it a great gluten-free, nut-free option. It's a rich chocolate cookie that is not only delicious but keto-friendly.

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Festive Keto-Friendly Tiramisu Cake

Enjoy a decadant Keto Friendly Tiramisu Cake recipe. It's a low carb version of the Italian classic. The recipe makes two 9X5 pans of Tiramisu.

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Keto Cream Cheese Chocolate Cookies

A rich and decadent recipe for Keto cream cheese chocolate cookies. The addition of cream cheese makes it a soft-batch cookie and a perfect keto treat.

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Luscious Keto No-Bake Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake!

A luscious yet simple recipe for keto no-bake chocolate strawberry cheesecake. It features a chocolate "oreo" crust and a rich chocolate cheesecake filling. Topped with fresh strawberries and a chocolate ganache sauce for an unforgettable keto cheesecake.

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FAQs

Is Hershey's cocoa powder keto-friendly? ›

Beyond being keto-compliant, Hershey's Cocoa Powder is full of magnesium, an electrolyte most people are missing when doing keto. Deeply flavorful, healthy, and keto-friendly, Hershey's Cocoa Powder should be in your keto baking arsenal.

Can I use cocoa powder on keto diet? ›

Similar to dark chocolate, cocoa is definitely keto-friendly. Cocoa powder is very low in carbs and a great way to make your desserts chocolatey and indulgent. Read the labels carefully and make sure you purchase a cocoa powder that is sugar-free and unsweetened.

Can you use Hershey cocoa powder for baking? ›

Product Details

Give baking and hot chocolate-making 100 percent with HERSHEY'S Cocoa. From heavenly hot chocolate to fabulous frostings and gluten-free desserts, this 100% cacao is naturally unsweetened, highly versatile and 100 percent delicious.

What percentage of cocoa is keto-friendly? ›

Dark chocolate can fit into a ketogenic diet. However, it's important to monitor your portions and choose dark chocolate made with at least 70% cocoa to avoid exceeding your carb limit.

How many net carbs are in Hershey's cocoa powder? ›

Hershey's Cocoa 100% Cocoa Natural Unsweetened (1 serving) contains 57.9g total carbs, 24.7g net carbs, 11g fat, 19.6g protein, and 409 calories.

Is Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder healthy? ›

Yes! Unsweetened cocoa powder can be a healthier alternative to chocolate, as it contains fewer calories, less fat, and no added sugars while still providing the rich, chocolatey flavor you crave.

How to use cocoa powder to burn belly fat? ›

If you wish to use cocoa powder to burn fat, then make sure you buy a good quality, organic brand, which has no sugar in it. You can add the cocoa powder in small amounts to your warm glass of milk or your bowl of oats in the morning.

Is cocoa powder OK for weight loss? ›

Weight Loss and Control

Since cocoa is rich in phytonutrients but low in fat and sugar, the calories you get from cocoa powder will be packed with healthy chemicals. Studies have also found that cocoa helps to regulate energy use and metabolism while also increasing feelings of fullness.

How much cocoa powder per day is safe? ›

The European Food Safety Authority recommends 0.1 ounces (2.5 grams) of high-flavanol cocoa powder or 0.4 ounces (10 grams) of high-flavanol dark chocolate containing at least 200 mg of flavanols per day to achieve heart health benefits ( 42 ).

Does Hershey's cocoa powder go bad? ›

Does cocoa powder expire? Cocoa powder doesn't have an expiration or use-by date.

What's the difference between Hershey's cocoa and cacao powder? ›

Cocoa powder and cacao powder are very similar, the only difference being that cocoa is processed at a much higher temperature (and often packaged cocoa contains added sugar and dairy). Both start out as beans from the cacao plant (confusing, right?), which are separated from the fatty part known as cocoa butter.

Is it better to bake with cocoa powder or dark chocolate? ›

Cocoa powder is lower in fat and higher in nonfat cocoa solids than unsweetened chocolate. That means it's more concentrated with cocoa flavor, so to get the same final chocolate flavor in a recipe, you'll need less cocoa powder than unsweetened chocolate.

Does cocoa break ketosis? ›

Cocoa powder and cocoa butter contain no sugar – they are fatty ingredients, which makes them right at home in a keto diet. Yay!

How much chocolate will kick you out of ketosis? ›

It's unlikely that a small piece of chocolate will kick you out of ketosis; however, this depends on the amount you eat. Chocolate with a high sugar content will significantly impact your blood sugar levels and insulin response, potentially affecting your ketosis.

What chocolate puts you in ketosis? ›

What makes dark chocolate Keto: The high concentration of cocoa solids and lower levels of sugar make dark chocolate a better alternative to milk chocolate on a low-carb diet. Milk chocolate contains 10-50% of cocoa solids. For dark chocolate to be of good quality, more than 70% of cocoa solids are required.

What is a substitute for Hershey's cocoa powder? ›

Carob powder can be used in a 1:1 ratio as a substitute because it offers a similar texture and colour to baked goods without the caffeine content of cocoa, making it suitable for those avoiding stimulants. Unsweetened Chocolate: Unsweetened chocolate can be melted and used as a substitute for cocoa powder.

Can I eat Hershey dark chocolate on keto? ›

However, for those wondering if dark chocolate is keto-friendly, the answer would be a yes with a caveat. By consuming small quantities of dark chocolate on a keto diet, you can proceed to enjoy this dark and delicious chocolate treat.

Is Hershey's cocoa powder the same as cocoa powder? ›

It's 100% cocoa powder and doesn't have additives. Hershey's, Nestle and most US store-brands are natural cocoa powder. Note that Hershey's Special Dark is Dutch-process.

What kind of chocolate is OK for keto? ›

Specifically, you should aim for dark chocolate that contains a high percentage of cocoa solids - ideally above 70%. This is because high cocoa-content dark chocolate tends to have less sugar and lower carbohydrate content, which aligns with the low-carb requirements of a keto diet.

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