Advice for low carb cookies.

[Charles Robin]

Hi everyone, sorry for the large number of posts and questions. That said, here comes another one!

I want to make a low carb cheese cake as my wife is struggling with a lack of dessert following the low carb diet. The diabetes cookbook advertised on this site has a good looking recipe, but the biscuit used for the base pushes the carb level too high. I have tried making a cookie out of flax meal, but it stayed extremely soft and was not all that tasty. (I combined it with butter and stevia.) any suggestions?

 

[aqualung]

would almond flour work?

I am still learning too

 

[Charles Robin]

I guess I will get hold of some and see if my blood sugars react well. An occasional test of this nature should hopefully be ok

 

[cath99]

there are lots lovley cookie recipies to try with little more sucess peanut ones are great and tasty and will make agood crunchy base, the best site for dessests is elwinas good diabetic baking widly available on here facebook google, the recipies are easy quick and i can say work ive tried them all. if she fancys somthing different , there is a recipie for lemon tart on there and it was easy and delicious please try it . or some kind soul will put link on for me as i dont know how xx

 

[ShellyC23]

Here is the link http://www.diabeticgoodbaking.com
Hopefully it will work


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[ShellyC23]

Here is one you may like, there are loads of recipes on here
http://divaliciousrecipesinthecity.com/2013/08/07/lemon-cheesecake-with-nut-crust/



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[cath99]

Here is the link http://www.diabeticgoodbaking.com
Hopefully it will work


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ohh thanku shelly x

 

[ShellyC23]

http://divaliciousrecipesinthecity.com/2011/12/20/low-carb-cheesecake-crust/
..... i found this low carb cheesecake crust! Must try this one myself


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[Truffle]

I came across this sugarless, flourless cake which I have made and it is surprisingly nice for something with only 3 ingredients.
see link: http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/flourless-chocolate-cake/

 

[ewelina]

There is no cheesecake on my blog yet but i must try to bake some. There are so many recipes and flavour combinations. For the low carb base i would recommend using almond like here for the tart http://www.diabeticgoodbaking.com/2013/03/lemon-tart.html or here http://www.diabeticgoodbaking.com/2013/07/coconut-yogurt-cake.html

 

[Charles Robin]

That's amazing everyone, thanks so much for that! I'm determined to get a dessert perfected (or at least edible!), and hope to work something out today. I would love to make my wife a low carb dinner for Valentine's day. Thankfully I have no clients today, so I can experiment in the kitchen. First thing is to work out what ingredients I need to go and buy, then I shall get cracking! Thanks again.

 

[modesty007]

For dessert why not consider pannacotta can be made with various different tastes, vanilla, lemon, raspberries etc

 

[Charles Robin]

For dessert why not consider pannacotta can be made with various different tastes, vanilla, lemon, raspberries etc

I will add pannacotta to the list of things I intend to try! I put cookies on hold for today and tried making a low carb chocolate cake with almond meal. It came out pretty well and was definitely edible, but i need to work on my amounts. I think I needed a bit more vanilla and Stevia.

 

[modesty007]

Why not a lemon coconut cake - http://lowcarbhealthyfat.com/2013/09/20/lemon-coconut-cake/

 

[Charles Robin]

Why not a lemon coconut cake - http://lowcarbhealthyfat.com/2013/09/20/lemon-coconut-cake/

The only reason why not is that I had not seen the recipe yet. You have rectified that, many thanks! I want to get an arsenal of low carb desserts that I can deploy throughout the week for variety, so anything I have not thought heard of is greatly appreciated.

 

[Charles Robin]

I came across this sugarless, flourless cake which I have made and it is surprisingly nice for something with only 3 ingredients.
see link: http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/flourless-chocolate-cake/

Hi Truffle, many thanks for sharing this. I wondered, do you think using pure unsweetened cocoa powder instead of chocolate would work for this? If so, it would be extremely low carb.

 

[Sweetstuff]

ooh timing ! I made the lemon tart for the other half as a Valentines Day Treat - he can't have dairy and I can confirm that this recipe works just as well with pretend cream. He and his two daughters have eaten the lot in 24 hours. Great recipe Ewelina !!

http://www.diabeticgoodbaking.com/2013/03/lemon-tart.html

I also did a raspberry coulis to go with it

 

[modesty007]

The only reason why not is that I had not seen the recipe yet. You have rectified that, many thanks! I want to get an arsenal of low carb desserts that I can deploy throughout the week for variety, so anything I have not thought heard of is greatly appreciated.

This blog will have some raspberry mousse and some other goodies for dessert in the future, yes there's a chocolate mousse already. Having a friend for dinner this week I'll make lime pannacotta with raspberry sauce.

 

[Prem51]

I'm bumping this thread up, as I used @ewelina 's blog recipe to make some peanut butter cookies today and they were great. Only problem is I am tempted to scoff the lot. I will be trying the coconut macaroon recipe next.

 

[Silver5374]

Hi,
My wife makes a cheesecake and the base is a mixture of almonds and walnuts, (she uses whole nuts and pulses them till small bits, not powder) stevia and melted butter. Bake it it oven for 8 to 10 mins and allow to cool.

Then the Topping is double cream and cream cheese with lemon zest and some stevia.

Don't know what the carb content would be but nothing bad in it if your on a lchf