Keto fat bombs are a tasty way to satisfy your sweet tooth on the keto diet, and they can be so easy to make! This recipe for Chocolate Fat Bombs uses avocado to make a truffle-like treat in under 10 minutes.
Want another keto dessert recipe? Check out these Chocolate Peanut Butter Keto Fat Bombs.
How to Make Keto-Friendly Chocolate Avocado Fat Bombs
This recipe for Chocolate Avocado Keto Fat Bombs is easy and foolproof, assuming you can pick a ripe avocado and use it in the small window before it turns brown. Even if it does turn brown, you’re combining it with chocolate so no one will ever know! Except for you. You will know. And you’ll have to live with that forever.
Either way, the recipe doesn’t involve any cooking, so you don’t have to worry about burning down your kitchen.
Chocolate Avocado Fat Bomb Tips
Here are some tips to put this recipe together with minimal risk of failure.
- Use a fork to mash avocado and coconut oil in a bowl until the two are fully combined. Add the remaining ingredients – cocoa powder, honey (or liquid stevia if you’re following the keto diet), vanilla extract, and cinnamon and mix until combined.
- Place the mixture in the fridge for 10 minutes to harden, then roll into 1” balls. Or, if you like bigger balls, go crazy and bump that up to 3 inches.
- To give them that pretentious sophisticated truffle look, roll the chocolate avocado balls in cocoa powder, then place them in a mesh strainer and shake off the excess. Because they’re nothing worse than going in for a bite of chocolaty goodness, only to be suffocated with chocolate ball dust, à la the cinnamon challenge.
- Store these bad boys the fridge until ready to enjoy for dessert, an afternoon snack, or until you forget about them like you did with that bag of wilted spinach you should have thrown away three weeks ago.
- One very important note: This fat bomb recipe uses honey. If you’re sticking to the keto diet, you’ll want to use liquid stevia.
What is the Keto Diet?
The keto diet might seem like the longest running April Fool’s Joke out there. How healthy can it be to eat a diet centered around fat, and how could anyone possibly survive on a mere 30 grams of carbs a day, AKA the amount of carbs in one measly apple? An apple a day might keep the doctor away, but an apple and a donut and a burger will keep my limited sanity in check.
But, crazy as it might seem, people have been jumping on the keto diet (full name: ketogenic diet) with the same excitement as a dog on a trampoline.
On a keto diet, you’re supposed to get your calories from 65-80% fat, 15-30% protein, and 5-10% carbs (max 30 grams). If you’re dying for a more detailed look into the keto diet, check out this article.
Despite some nutritionists who claim it’s really not great to put your body through this kind of shock (and that maybe you should eat some fruits and vegetables once in a while), some people use the keto diet to lose weight quickly before an important event like a wedding or a coffee date with your ex to “catch up” and “wish them the best for the future.” We think you’re beautiful just the way you are, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy these tasty chocolate balls.
The trick of the keto diet is you’re supposed to reach that 65-80% fat macro mark by eating healthy fats, not by chugging a cup of bacon grease. Not that you would do that, right? Right?
One way to do that is with keto fat bombs, like these avocado fat bombs. This keto avocado recipe makes bite-sized goodies that are loaded with healthy monounsaturated fats and some other ingredients that make them taste good, like chocolate. Because, well…chocolate.
Chocolate Avocado Keto Fat Bombs
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Ingredients
- 1 ripe avocado (mashed)
- ¼ cup virgin coconut oil
- 2 Tbsp. cocoa powder (plus ¼ cup for rolling if desired)
- 2 Tbsp. honey ((or 2 drops liquid stevia up to ¼ tsp. if following a keto diet))
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract ((sugar-free if following a keto diet))
- ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 Tbsp. heavy cream
Instructions
- Combine avocado and coconut oil until the mixture is smooth.
- Add cocoa powder, honey (or liquid stevia), vanilla extract, cinnamon, salt, and heavy cream. Stir until the mixture is smooth.
- Place the mixture in the refrigerator for 10 minutes or until the mixture has hardened slightly.
- Roll into 1″ balls, then roll in cocoa powder if desired. Place truffles mesh strainer and shake to remove excess cocoa powder.
- Store the fat bombs in refrigerator or freezer.
Notes
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Bookmarking this recipe to make these for later! I love that these are healthy and made with real food ingredients. They look and sound delicious!!
Not only do these “truffles” look delicious (I mean hey … avocado AND chocolate!), but any post that also includes pie chart humor and dogs on trampolines is automatically a definite win! Such fun to read – what a great post! Definitely pinning this easy recipe to share, too! Thanks bunches!
Thank you! Glad you dig our style 🙂 We think you’ll love the recipe too!
They really do look just like regular truffles! I confess I still haven’t wrapped my mind around avocado and cocoa together – but since I like the ingredients separately, they should be good together… LOL
My husband was doing Keto for quite a while – these look like such a good treat for that! And I think he’d still enjoy them even though he isn’t doing that diet anymore. And I love The Oatmeal comic that you included – ha!!
I’ve been working on Keto for a couple months now and I honestly love it. Sometimes though I still do get those cravings for something a little indulgent. Love these healthful bombs!
Haa! Haa! I LOVE the pie chart. 😀 These seriously sound like they would be really good though. It’s great when you can make something satisfying while still losing weight!
These are dangerous looking! i would eat the whole batch in one sitting! Looks like they would be perfect for an at work/school power snack!
I love that Oatmeal cartoon! If this is what the Keto diet involves, I’m all in! Can you go wrong combining avocado and chocolate?
I needed this recipe! I’m just starting to meal prep for keto and these fat bombs look right up my alley. Thanks for sharing!
This looks absolutely amazing! Super easy to make and great tutorial .. perfect flavor combination and very creative!
What a great grab and go snack. They look like something we’ll be making in our house over and over again!
Hello, I have a question. 😃. The review says makes 24, and the instructions say 2” balls, but with that size, I only have enough batter/mixture for 6-10 balls. Did I do something wrong? Or is the “makes #” incorrect? Thanks!!
Hi Amy, the instructions should say to roll them into 1″ balls. That should get it to about 24 for balls. Thanks for pointing that out!
Can I use grass fed butter instead of coconut oil?
You mentioned the cinnamon challenge and I thought I would try a light cinnamon dusting instead of the cocoa powder. Wow! Very Yummy! I also mixed a smidge of powdered Swerve in with the cinnamon and Holy Moly! 😋😋😋
Your recipe section does not mention adding the avocado 🙂
I made this exactly like the recipe and found the mixture way too oily and too slack to handle, even after more than 1 hour of refrigeration. I could only handle it after adding 1 tablespoon of coconut flour to absorb all the oil. Two drops of stevia were also nowhere near sweet enough so I added 8 more drops. Still too bitter, but it already had that weird stevia aftertaste, so I added 1.5 tablespoons of erythritol to balance the flavours. Also, I found one half teaspoon salt left too pronounced of a salt flavour. I suspected it was too much salt for such a small batch, but I believe a recipe should be followed to the ‘T’ first time round, before evaluating it. I should have added pinches in increments and tasted instead of following the recipe and just dumping in a quarter teaspoon, in blind faith. Also, I made 1 inch sized balls but still, only ended up with 14 truffles, nowhere near 24. Finally, though I had no issue with the avocado as it was completely imperceptible but oh boy, did I have an issue with the coconut smell and flavour!
It overwhelmed everything, including the cocoa and vanilla. These would more aptly be called coconut truffles. Thankfully, the double dusting of cocoa powder helped tame the coconut flavour and smell. I can’t say this was a good recipe as too many adjustments are needed.
Dana, thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! Based on your feedback, we’re going to test the recipe again. Can you let us know if you used melted or hardened coconut oil?
I had same problem. My hubby is not a picky eater but he spit that out. I did add extra Stevia so after it sits for a bit,will try again…or I just wasted product. I hate to throw food away.
agree – way way too salty.
I used room temp coconut oil (meaning, it was very soft and almost liquid but not quite)
Even after freezing overnight, these are very melty.
But too salty to even eat anyway.
I wil try the cinnamon dust instead of cocoa powder. I really appreciate that you used to mention its nutritional value. thanks for sharing the amazing keto diet dish. keep sharing more stuff.