Keto S’mores Bites
Published May 2, 2021 • Updated July 20, 2026
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I make these low carb s'mores bites when my kids want campfire treats but I don't want to build a fire. Melt, mix, chill, done. No flame needed.
When my kids want s’mores, I used to drag out the fire pit, buy roasting sticks, and spend the next hour picking marshmallow off the patio chairs. Now I pull out a bowl and the microwave. These are my no-campfire version, and I actually prefer making them this way. Six bites, five minutes of real work, and my kids genuinely don’t notice the difference. We make them for backyard movie nights, after-dinner snacking, and any time someone says “s’mores” within earshot.
The move that makes these work is using cereal instead of trying to make graham crackers from scratch. I went down the almond flour cracker road early on and it was way more effort than a five-minute snack deserves. Cereal gives you that crunch without any baking, and swapping flavors changes the whole bite. I’ve used chocolate, cinnamon, and peanut butter varieties. Chocolate is the most classic s’mores feel. Cinnamon gets surprisingly close to actual graham. Peanut butter is its own thing (my oldest’s favorite).
Once you melt the sugar free marshmallows with a little butter and fold in the cereal and chips, the marshmallow coats every piece and gets tacky as it cools. The chocolate chips stay mostly intact, so you get little pockets of chocolate when you bite in instead of one blended flavor. I scoop the mixture into a greased mini muffin tin because it gives you uniform bites without the mess of hand-rolling. After 10-15 minutes in the fridge, they pop right out. Clean edges, no crumbling. If you’ve made my keto s’mores the assembled way with the full cracker and torch, think of these as the shortcut version. Same flavors, fraction of the effort.
I keep a batch around for after-dinner treats and school lunchboxes. They hold up fine at room temperature, so I don’t stress about packing them without an ice pack. The chocolate stays set and the cereal keeps its crunch for a solid 3-4 days. If you’re into no-bake treats, I have a few others worth trying: keto fudge is my go-to when I want pure chocolate, keto candy recipes has more options if you’re building a snack rotation, and my keto coconut joys have a similar melt-and-set process.
I usually double the recipe because six bites don’t last long around here. The ingredients are cheap and it scales without any fuss. If you want larger bites, use a regular muffin tin and give them 20 minutes in the fridge instead of 15.
How to make no-bake s'mores bites
The whole process is melt, mix, scoop, chill. I microwave the marshmallows and butter in 20-second bursts because sugar free marshmallows seize up fast if you overheat them. Once everything is smooth, I fold in the cereal and chocolate chips until each piece is coated. A greased mini muffin tin gives you six uniform bites without hand-rolling, which is a sticky mess I tried exactly once. Pop them in the fridge for 10-15 minutes. Mine are usually set by 12, but I give them the full 15 if I’m not in a rush.
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Ingredients
3 sugar free marshmallows -
1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter
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3/4 cup keto cereal
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1 tablespoon sugar free chocolate chips
Step by Step Instructions
Step by Step Instructions
Cut up marshmallows
Cut one sugar free marshmallow into small chunks. Set aside.
Melt marshmallows and butter
In a small bowl, melt the other marshmallows and butter in the microwave for 20 seconds.
Stir it all in
Add the cereal, chocolate chips and remaining marshmallow chunks to the melted marshmallow mixture. Stir to evenly coat.
Scoop and set
Evenly distributed s’mores mixture into six, greased cavities of a mini muffin tin. Refrigerate for 10-15 minutes or until set. Store at room temperature or refrigerator.
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What keto cereal works best for s'mores bites?
I've tried all three major brands and they all work. Cereal School's chocolate flavor gives you the most classic s'mores taste. Catalina Crunch cinnamon gets close to an actual graham cracker feel. Magic Spoon frosted is more subtle, but my oldest prefers it. I'd start with whatever flavor sounds good to you and adjust from there.
Can I use regular sugar-free chocolate bars instead of chips?
Yes. I've done this with leftover chocolate bars that had been sitting in my pantry for months. Chop them into small chunks, roughly chip-sized, and they fold right into the mixture. If your chocolate has that white bloom on the surface, don't toss it. Bloom is a texture thing, not a flavor thing, and since everything gets mixed together it won't matter.
How long do these last?
Mine last 3-4 days at room temperature and about a week in the fridge. The cereal starts to soften after day four, so I try to eat them before that. If I'm making a batch for lunchboxes, I make them Sunday night and they're good through Thursday.
Do these need to be refrigerated?
Not after they set. I refrigerate them for the initial 10-15 minutes so they firm up, but after that I store mine at room temperature in an airtight container. They hold their shape fine. The fridge works too if your kitchen runs warm, but I think the texture is better at room temp.
Can I freeze these?
I've frozen them and they're fine, but the texture changes a little. The cereal loses some crunch when it thaws. Let them come to room temperature for about 15-20 minutes before eating. I'd rather just make a fresh batch since the whole thing takes five minutes, but freezing works if you need to. If you want a no-bake treat that actually freezes well, my keto twinkies hold up better.
How many net carbs are in each bite?
Each bite comes out to under 1g net carbs when I make them with Cereal School chocolate and Lily's chips. The exact count shifts depending on which cereal brand and flavor you use, so check your labels. Max Mallow marshmallows are zero net carbs, so those don't add to the count. If you're tracking macros closely, my keto cadbury eggs are another low-count treat I make often.
Where can I buy Max Mallow sugar-free marshmallows?
I order mine from Amazon. I haven't found Max Mallow in stores near me, though some specialty grocery stores carry them. Stock up when you find them because they sell out. I also use them in my keto s'mores recipe when I do the full campfire version with torched marshmallow on top.
Wasn't sure how it'd hold together in a mini muffin tin, but came out cleaner than expected. Easiest no-bake I've made since going keto. Didn't expect the cereal to stay crunchy. Annie, first recipe I've tried here and I've already got three more saved.
Chill them longer than you think you need to. An hour minimum, they're so much better cold from the fridge the next morning. These didn't take me back to campfires. They took me back to those chocolate-marshmallow rice crispy bars from gas station road trips in high school, that same ratio of crispy to soft with the chocolate quiet underneath. Four stars because six is the portion and I only have myself to blame.
The gas station rice crispy bar is exactly it, I couldn't have put it in words but that's what I was chasing. Four stars for eating the whole batch seems fair, Drew.
Microwave s'mores felt like a joke. four stars.
Silicone mold. No greasing needed.
Silicone is smarter for these. I reach for parchment out of habit but the pop-out is so much cleaner.
these freeze well. pull out 30 minutes before, texture holds.
Better than my 15-20. The cereal needs the extra time.
We weren't doing a fire in this heat, so these were the compromise. My kids couldn't figure out what the crunchy part was (the cereal) and kept asking mid-bite, which honestly felt like a better reaction than just eating them without noticing. They've renamed them 'cereal s'mores' and that seems permanent now.
Cereal s'mores is the better name and I'm stealing it. Kids not knowing what the crunch is means the cereal pulled off the graham cracker thing.
These are freaking good but one tablespoon of chocolate chips is stingy (I doubled it and that's the real recipe).
Two is right. One tablespoon was me trying to keep the macros tighter but it's not enough.
I only had ChocZero puffed cereal on hand so I used that instead and they came out really well, nice snappy crunch. One thing I figured out the hard way: grease the muffin tin way more than you think you need to. First batch half of them stuck and I just ate them out of the tin (not complaining), but second batch came out clean and looked actually cute. Keeping this one for pool days when I don't want to turn the oven on.
ChocZero puffed works fine. And yeah, the tin thing gets everyone batch one. Way more spray than feels necessary.
I didn't have any sugar free chocolate chips so I broke a Lily's dark chocolate bar into small pieces instead. The chunks are a little bigger and don't fully melt into the mix, which I actually like better. You get these little pockets of solid chocolate in every bite. Way better than everything just melting together. Made a batch for a pool day and they held up in the cooler for a couple hours too, which I wasn't expecting.
The pockets are honestly the whole point. I've grabbed a bar out of chips - the solid chunks are a better texture. That cooler holdover thing? Had no idea about that.
These are so good but I wish it made more than six (ate four in one sitting and had no one to answer to, which is somehow worse). Only real note: felt a little cereal-heavy, so next batch I'm doing an extra tablespoon of chocolate chips and one more marshmallow in the melt.
Six is not enough. Extra marshmallow in the melt is the right fix, the cereal heaviness is just a ratio thing. Good call on the chips too.
Tried probably four different keto s'mores versions before this one, and the marshmallow chunk trick is what finally made it work. Keeping some pieces whole instead of melting everything gives you that uneven texture a real rice crispy treat has. Every other version I've tried just flattens out. The chocolate chips spread through the cereal base actually taste like the campfire thing, not just a keto stand-in. These are going in my summer rotation.
Four other versions to get there. The chips are underrated in this recipe, that campfire thing is mostly them.
These came together really easily except I didn't realize the marshmallow mixture sets up that fast, mine started hardening before I got to the third cavity and the last two were kind of crumbly. Worth knowing ahead of time. The cereal gives them this unexpected crunch that I keep thinking about.
Yeah that window is short. Mold right next to the bowl, spoon ready, everything staged before the microwave goes on. The cereal crunch is what makes these.
I've never used sugar free marshmallows in anything before and I genuinely held my breath through that microwave step, and then they just... melted perfectly and the whole bite is freaking addictive in a way I did not see coming. Do any sugar free chocolate chips work or is there one you swear by?
Lily's. ChocZero works in a pinch but gets a bit softer. Lily's holds up better in the bite.
These are genuinely good and I've made them twice now, but I want to save someone the frustration I had the first time: really grease those muffin tin cavities. Not just a quick spray, I mean actually coat them. First batch I lost two to the tin and had to scrape the evidence straight from the pan (not the worst outcome, but still). Second time I went heavier with coconut oil spray and they popped right out clean. The chocolate chips staying in chunks throughout is the best part.
More than a quick pass, for sure. I've done the pan-scraping thing too. The chunks are why I don't overmix.
S'mores were the first thing I let go of when I started keto. Made these last weekend and the moment those sugar free marshmallows melted with the butter I just stood there for a second. I didn't expect to feel that way about a six-bite dessert.
That butter-marshmallow moment gets people. Six bites shouldn't do all that, and yet.