This easy 3 Ingredient Sugar Free Peanut Butter Fudge is low carb, keto and dairy free! With very simple ingredients, a peanut butter lover can enjoy a delicious treat for just 3 net carbs!
Sugar Free Peanut Butter Fudge
If I could eat peanut butter and chocolate every day I most certainly would.
I don't, but I'd love to be able to be...... you know that girl.......eat whatever she desires, doesn't exercise, stays perfectly tiny, has a few babies, slims down without even trying......yeah, you have someone in your life like that just as we all do, am I right?
I've never been blessed to have a skinny frame. I've never been able to eat whatever I've wanted without consequences. I've had to work off every.single.pound of pregnancy weight. 3 times.
Oh before babies I was able to lose weight effortlessly. I remember being fed up at 22. Being overweight and unhappy. Hating living in my own skin. I had just graduated college. I weighed 159 pounds on my 5 foot 2 and ½ inch frame.
I was ready and I went for it for the first time with a healthy life style change. I exercised and ate nothing in between meals. I could still eat whatever I wanted, sugar included and in 6 months I was down to 124 pounds.
But I was also 22. I am maintained that weight for 7 years before the first baby.
That was then, this is now. And being 43, it's a lot harder to lose without a concentrated effort. And as time has gone on, I've come to realize the things that worked to lose weight after my 3rd baby 9 years are not helping me working for me now. Bodies do change over time. I've come to the conclusion my body at this age needs a whole lot less carbs to see the scale move where I want it.
That's where this recipe comes in.
If I'm cutting carbs to lose weight I need healthy fats to keep me satiated so I don't turn to carbs. Hence, comes in the FAT BOMBS! Just a small piece is enough to make you feel satisfied!
Is Peanut Butter Keto?
Traditional peanut butter fudge is not keto friendly so those of you who are keto dieters will need to avoid because of the high carbs and sugar. But my healthy fudge recipe is keto friendly using peanut butter that does not contain any added sugars.
But my healthy fudge recipe is keto friendly using peanut butter that does not container any added sugars. You want to make sure you purchase natural peanut butter that doesn't contain anything but peanuts and maybe salt. You could make your own homemade peanut butter, but it's easy enough to find store bought without sugars, just be sure to read the nutritional information label.
How to Make Peanut Butter Keto Fudge
Ingredients
You only need 3 ingredients for this fudge plus a couple of optional ones if you so choose. Natural peanut butter, coconut oil and unsweetened almond milk makes the base of this keto fudge recipe.
Even without cream you will be amazed how this makes for a creamy peanut butter fudge. A sugar-free sweetener is completely optional as is vanilla extract. There are plenty of keto sweeteners on the market, but I don't recommend some for this recipe.
For instance, I would not recommend using a granular low carb sweetener as it will make gritty fudge and won't be smooth. When I want a sweet taste in a keto dessert, but not the bulk, I use vanilla stevia in mine. Monk fruit sweetener is also a great option in liquid form or use a low-carb confectioners or powdered sweetener.
Please see my Sweetener Guide & Conversion Chart for more specifics recommendations.
Directions
Slightly melt or soften the peanut butter and coconut oil together in the microwave or low heat on the stove.
Add this to your blender and add the rest of the ingredients.
Blend until combined.
Pour into a prepared pan lined with parchment paper. 8 by 5 loaf pan.
Refrigerate until set, about 2 hours.
If using chocolate sauce, whisk ingredients together and drizzle over fudge after it's been set. Once set you can lift out of the pan onto a cutting board and slice into servings.
Best if kept refrigerated because at room temperature they do melt easily.
Keto Fudge
This is one of those recipes that you need in your life.
Sharing food is good, but keeping a secret stash of this in the fridge for when a craving hits is sometimes how you need to play this game.
Easy Keto Recipes
Here are some other fudge recipes you might like: Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Fudge, Chocolate Fudge Protein Bars, Maple Coconut Refrigerator Fudge, Salted Caramel Cashew Fudge, and one of my favorites, White Chocolate Coconut Fudge!
Can I add chocolate and make keto chocolate fudge?
You don't need to add a sugar-free chocolate sauce drizzle, but of course I did. I'm a lover of chocolate ya know.
You could add in some sugar-free chocolate chips into the batter or melt some and swirl it into the batter.
As far as losing weight and eating peanut butter and chocolate like this fudge, well, the hardest part is if you can handle a piece a day without overindulging in more than that, then by all means knock yourself out.
Or just enjoy some on the weekend for a little indulgence. Whatever makes you happy friends.
But for only 3 grams of net carbs and a good amount of healthy fat from the coconut oil and peanut butter, just a piece will be completely satisfying.
And you will be smiling and thanking me in each creamy fudge bite!
Nutrition information is without optional chocolate sauce.
One more thing! I was called out on the fact that there are more than 3 ingredients here so I must respond to that by saying, I did not count salt as it can be left out for lower sodium and not needed unless you peanut butter is unsalted.
Stevia is completely optional and many of you may choose no sweetener at all and the chocolate sauce is optional as well. So technically it might look like more than 3 ingredients, but the main 3 are all you really need to make this fudge. The end.
How to Store Peanut Butter Fudge
It's best to store this keto peanut butter fudge in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week. You can also freeze for up to 2 months.
3 Ingredient Sugar-Free Peanut Butter Fudge
3 Ingredient Sugar-Free Peanut Butter Fudge
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsweetened peanut butter
- 1 cup coconut oil
- ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk
- optional: pinch salt only if your peanut butter is unsalted
- vanilla liquid stevia optional or sweetener of choice to taste
Optional Topping: Chocolate Sauce
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil melted
- 2 tablespoons Swerve confectioners or sweetener of choice
Instructions
- Slightly melt or soften the peanut butter and coconut oil together in the microwave or low heat on the stove.
- Add this to your blender and add the rest of the ingredients.
- Blend until combined.
- Pour into a parchment lined 8 by 5 loaf pan.
- Refrigerate until set, about 2 hours.
- If using chocolate sauce, whisk ingredients together and drizzle over fudge after it's been set.
- Best if kept refrigerated.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Seth Robins
Dont use coconut oil, if your body isnt used to it! and almond milk is only for a select few. there are other milk alternatives out there. oat milk for instance is more digestible. I do agree with the stevia side of things. anything plant based, rather than chemical based is always a better choice! although it is going to add some natural sugars, i plan on making this recipe with some boiled down apples, and some of the normal seasonings that would go along with an apple pie, to make some sort of an apple pie peanut butter thing. but your recipe is MILES beyond what i had created on my own! Thank You so Much!
Noel C Brown
I am going to try this swapping cannabutter for the oil. I have to get the unsweetened Almond milk and liquid sweetener though first. I will be using Smuckers organic which has no added suagr, peanuts and salt so I do not have to add salt. Thanks so much for this I am limiting added sugar to no more than 25 grams a day and need ways to use the cannabutter.
Sarah Tiller-Holman
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Tracy Marsh
I see you have a sugar free chocolate fudge recipe can you do the peanut butter fudge the same way as the chocolate fudge recipe
Helen Brindell
Hi. My daughter made these last night for the first time and we love them. We did make a couple changes to make them a little healthier according to our way of eating. Some reviewers referred to these as "fat bombs" and they pretty much are. We eat the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle so substituted the peanut butter with Koach Kanada's homemade peanut butter made with defatted peanut flour. That reduced the fat content significantly and is better for a person who is trying to either lose weight or not gain. We did not notice a greasy feel or texture to them. So this was a great sub. We did not have the vanilla liquid Stevia so used powdered monk fruit in both the fudge and the chocolate sauce.
Alvin
Can I just use Vanilla extract instead and use the Zulka pure cane sugar?
Brenda
You can use any sweetener you like to taste.
Eileen Pappas
How would I make this using peanut butter powder?
Annie
It was delicious but has too much saturated fat in it so I only allow my kids to have one a day, but overall the taste is delicious and the sugar levels were good. I would recommend this for sure.
Sarai
Sadly, it tasted like a square of fat. I couldn't taste anything near peanut butter.
I appreciate your recipes, but this batch of fudge was tossed.
Suszanne
Oh my goodness! I was sold when I saw your live post on IG last week...but last night I made a batch for my 2-year “ketovesary” treat today...! When I got up this morning to check it and go ahead and cut it, it was beautiful and set up so nicely...I still have not sampled it yet, other than a fingertip dip last night to check the sweetness...I’m still sold and cannot wait to enjoy this later...that’s if my tastebuds allow me to wait until later 🤪. Thank you so much for this and many other recipes. This is such an awesome treat without the unwanted added sugars as well as other unwanted ingredients.
Thank you!
Suszanne
Ray
I dont know where to post questions. I love sugar in mine but this is for my mom. She likes it sweet but is diabetic. So how much sweetner(truvia) would be good to make it taste like regular fudge?
Brenda
I like using 2 tsp vanilla stevia which is sweet enough for me. I think best bet is is add sweetener of choice and taste it before pouring in pan and chilling.
Susan
Any idea what would happen if I halved the coconut oil? Would it be too soft? Thanks!
Vicki Pruitt
is the 1cup of coconut oil using the liquid form or 1 cup of the solid form, melted?
Brenda
Mine was solid but soft.
Anu
This is incredible! I made it with half peanut butter and half almond butter as that's all I had, and barely added any sweetener to the mix. I also halved the recipe, used 1/8 cup of regular whole milk (as I didn't have any almond milk at hand), but still cut it into 12 pieces so each one was still only 1.3 grams of net carbs. Absolutely wonderful, this is going to become a regular thing! Thank you so much
Kat
So my dad has type 2 diabetes and I wanted to make this and send it to him but as you said it is best if kept refrigerated but I was wondering if I froze it do you think it would stay cold enough to withstand travel for about 3 days in the mail?
Lorraine LeGates
Thank you for the nutrition information - but how many servings is this considered. I saw two pieces - but how many servings per batch? Thank you!
Brenda
12 servings for the whole batch, 1 serving is 2 pieces.
Aisling
The chocolate drizzle sauce is AMAZING!
But I've made the fudge twice now and both times it somehow ended up tasting of butter... I did put semi-skimmed milk in instead of almond milk... but I didn't think that should change it that much. Any thoughts on what it could be?
Missy
My husband and grandson 8 years old loves this I have made it 3 this past month and woke up to a text saying I want fudge . I also enjoyed it ,no complaints from,my household . thank you god bless.
Vanessa
I love how all the comments are about how good this looks and none about the results of making the actual recipe. Well I made it and hated it. Because of all the coconut oil they start to melt in a greasy fashion almost immediately. They weren’t tasty unless you enjoy eating bitter ice cubes. I wasted all those ingredients just to trash it. Yuck
L
I recently bought some protein isolate powder that won't blend into ANYTHING. It's horrible. Like slightly chocolate sawdust. Well, I tried this recipe and threw in 2 scoops of the powder and about 1/3 cup stevia. Melted and whisked until smooth and then blended before pouring. Turned out great! Thank you!
Aaron Asphar
I see. So in 2 grams of porridge it has 29 grams of fat? That's amazing.
Brenda
Just switched my recipe plug in and there was a glitch, all my servings on every recipe converted to 1gram so i've got to manually fix over 600 recipes.
Allison
You are a genius!
I am a baker and cook of all things sweet and savory, but 6 weeks ago was diagnosed with Late Adult onset Type 1 Diabetes 🙁 . Finding foods to satisfy my sweet tooth has been tough.
This fudge is crazy good! Not just from a diabetic standpoint but legitimately good!
I did something a little special; I bought the fresh ground peanut butter you can get a Whole Foods, Earthfare, etc. that really kicked up the flavor!
Andre Martin
I just made a batch of these fat bombs....I really enjoyed them. This is the tastiest treat I have had since starting the Keto process. It satisfied my hunger for hours and provided a fix for my sugar cravings without cheating.
Lynn Ellis
I made this fudge today and because it's hot, the coconut oil may have been too soft. It set up just fine in the fridge, but it has an oily feel and taste to it. Did I use too much coconut oil?
Natasha
Hi Brenda,
I am type 1 diabetic and came across your blog when searching for sugar free dessert recipes. I love your recipes. I am not an experienced baker at all so I decided to start with this peanut butter fudge. My husband and I LOVE IT. I just wanted to know how long does it last in the fridge before it is not good to eat it anymore. Both of us are diabetic so even though we can eat this delicious treat we can't exactly binge on it either. I am worried that we won't finish it in time. Also, how long do these all natural nut butters last if stored in the fridge?
Thank you thank you, I can't wait to try more recipes! My world is fun again!
Brenda
I would suggest freezing it and thaw pieces each day you want some. In the fridge it will be good for at least a week. Glad you love it!
Kristina
I can't do coconut in any way shape or form. Is there something that I can substitute?
Brenda
Probably best to look for a recipe that doesn't contain coconut.
RS
Would it work to substitute butter for the coconut oil? I don't have coconut oil here right now. And butter has some qualities of solidifying like coconut oil has.