We are fans of quick to make dessert recipes in this house and that includes this Low Carb Chocolate Mousse, which is also a part of our Dessert Every Night series! When you’ve had a long day and already eaten your meal prepped dinner, but want dessert, what to do next? You can always make mug cakes, but those get boring after a while. So, with just four ingredients and additions of your choosing you can have something new, creamy, rich and sweet any night of the week! Watch me make it below.
We Love Simple Meal Ideas, Too.
Simple meals are great for big families and singles alike. Although cooking up an elaborate dinner can be nice once in a while or on a special night, for the most part simple and delicious is our preferred route. When it comes to meals you can give our egg roll in a bowl, buffalo chicken skillet and cauliflower fried rice a try, all great for meal prepping too!
Our Favorite, Low Carb Desserts!
Many of our favorite low carb desserts are easy and take under ten minutes to make like our pumpkin mug cake, while we also have some favorites, that are guilt-free, but take a little more work like our protein cakes! The beauty about keto becoming more and more popular each day is that more and more low carb recipes are popping up to make this lifestyle more sustainable. Just remember you can always count on ketoconnect to satisfy all your cravings!
Easy, Low Carb Chocolate Mousse
Some days you just need dessert and lucky for you this low carb chocolate mousse can be made in bulk and stored in the fridge all week. That means dessert all week without the guilt of sacrificing your macros! You can even make the base we’ve provided and add your own toppings each night. Monday hit it with some almonds, Tuesday go for some blueberries, Wednesday add in some shredded coconut.. you get the idea. Customized desserts like this low carb chocolate mousse make this a great recipe for the entire family that can be eaten every night!
Recipe can be quickly added to MyFitnessPal – Search “KetoConnect – Low Carb Chocolate Mousse”
Low Carb Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients:
- 8 oz Mascarpone Cheese
- 1/2 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 2 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 25 drops Liquid Stevia
Instructions:
- Add the heavy whipping cream to a medium bowl and whip it to soft peaks using a hand mixer. Set aside.
- Add the mascarpone cheese to a large bowl and microwave for 20 seconds. Mix using hand mixer.
- Sift the cocoa powder and add the liquid stevia into the mascarpone and combine using the hand mixer.
- Fold the soft peaked whipping cream into the mascarpone mixture. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until chilled.
- Store in a sealed container in the fridge up to 1 week. Enjoy!
Can you use Cacao power versus cocoa, since I already have it?
This is so delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Any guesses on a measurement for the stevia that’s not drops? The liquid stevia I have really doesn’t drip. It just shoots out in a stream. Would you guess that 25 drops would be a teaspoon? Half a teaspoon?
Thanks! It looks so good, I can’t wait to try!
Yours is probably less concentrated than the one we use. I’d go with like 1/2-3/4 of a teaspoon.
This came out great! Thanks ?Question how do you count the carbs in this. None of the items have any carbs except for the cocoa powder and that is just 2 for the whole recipe. I’m new at keto so still trying to figure it all out.
The mascarpone cheese has a small amount of carbs which contribute to the total.
Hey guys love your channel and your blog. Quick substitution idea: I used cream cheese in place of the mascarpone and swerve instead of stevia, put it in the nutribullet with ice and made chocolate ice cream. Thanks for all inspiration!
Can I replace the cheese with cream cheese?
Ya that will work perfectly
OMG this looks so good! Thanks for posting right before Valentines – I know what I’m having while my kids scarf their chocolate 🙂
Made this and really enjoyed it. Do different stevia drops have different sweetness cause I think it needs a little more sweetness. Love you guys though. You’re my favorite Keto site!
Ya, the one we use is the most concentrated. There is another version that is about half as sweet. The one we use is linked in the description.
I don’t have a sifter. Is there another way to sift the cocoa, or will it work with unsifted cocoa?
It will work unsifted, just might have a couple clumps.
When I added the stevia drops it caused the Marscapone to split and become grainy. Final product tastes good, but the texture is awful
I was not fond of the cheese, can cream cheese be used instead?
Yes it can
Do you think it will work if my Stevia drops are vanilla flavored?
Ya, that will be tasty.
I’m trying to figure out how you come up the carb count. Using My Fitness Pal and other sources the only carbs in this should be from the cocoa powder which should be 4 total minus 2 fiber or 2 net carbs for the entire batch. So .5 net carbs per serving. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
There are carbs in heavy whipping cream and mascarpone cheese. Are you adding all of those up as well?
According to My Fitness Pal the mascarpone has none in 8 ounces and the heavy whipping cream can be 0-3 grams depending upon the brand. So if we say 3 it’s a total of 5 for the batch or 1.25 per serving. Is there a better calculator to use than My Fitness Pal?
My container of mascarpone also has zero carbs and zero sugar. The net carbs should be much less than what is stated.
Can I use Erythritol instead of Stevia?
You sure could, just make sure it is powdered.
Instead of cocoa powder, can I use the Walden’s grove chocolate syrup?
That might give it a bit of a different consistency, but probably still very good! Let us know what you think.
Should be fine, but I’d recommend putting the granular sweetener in a coffee grinder to make it powdered.
Can I use granular sweetner like Stevia instead of liquid drops? For the chocolate mousse.
Also curious about this as my fiance really doesn’t like the taste of stevia and somehow always knows when it’s in a recipe.
Do not buy stevia in the grocery store as it is not pure and leaves an aftertaste. I learned this the hard way. I bought pure stevia on amazon and I use a toothpick to add it to my whipped cream desserts. It is amazing! I use erthrythitol for recipes that call for cup measurements and liquid malt it’ll for crime brûlée.
Probably not. In my experience, the granular sweeteners don’t disintegrate and leave the desserts with a crunchy texture. Maybe powdered erythritol would work instead?
If you use erythritrol just grind it to make it confectionary sugar. No more grit!
I use Stevia packets, and add 4 and I feel that it is about the max sweetness to me. I have been making a variation of this recipe for awhile now. The recipe I have been using is .25 C heavy whipping cream, 2 containers of the Mascarpone Cheese, 4 packets of Stevia, 1TBSP of the cocoa powder and this makes 8 servings. I have played with the order on adding ingredients quit a bit and the consistency I like best is whipping cram until soft to medium peaks, add Stevia packets for 30 seconds, one container of Mascarpone until beaten smooth then the cocoa until mixed, then add the last container of Mascarpone and beat until smooth.
Probably could, but might give it a “gritty” taste, know what I mean?
Maybe if you added a powdered version… like powdered swerve… to the mixture before it’s warmed it would be less “gritty” because it will dissolve. Perhaps this was tested though???
Ya, granular erythritol doesn’t really dissolve unfortunately.
Thanks Megha! You are awesome. Any substitute
to Mascarpone cheese?
Cream cheese would be great!
Equivalent amounts?
What Can I substitute if dairy free??
You could try coconut cream/milk!
Can I use erythritol in this recipe? It looks delicious!
Yes you could, just make sure it is powdered!
How much powdered swerve should I use in place of the stevia?
Check out our sweetener conversion chart here to find out.