Low-Carb Keto Chocolate Cake

I am not sure that preserving your taste for deserts and cakes by making low carb versions helps you keep to a diet in the long run.

Mr_Pot said:

I am not sure that preserving your taste for deserts and cakes by making low carb versions helps you keep to a diet in the long run.

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It may help as a first line of defence when you get cravings, and also to have foods which non-diabetics can view as a treat when eating with well controlled diabetics.

I transcribed the recipe; still looking for other variants.

Preheat oven to 170 C

Add 150 ml of boiling water to 50 g cocoa powder and stir

In a separate bowl, mix
3 eggs
150 ml olive oil
1/2 tsp Stevia (or to taste)
vanilla extract (no measure given)
stir in the cocoa mixture from above

Mix, then add:
150 g almond flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt.

Keep mixing until smooth.

Pour into greased and lined baking tin.

Cook for 30 minutes (but check after 25 minutes to avoid drying out). A cocktail stick should come out ALMOST clean.

Top with heavy whipping cream, sprinkle with cocoa powder.
Possibly add some berries for garnish.

I am considering using the chocolate truffle mix as a glaze; we shall see.

Edit:
I'm getting closer to making this, having bought a mixing bowl.
One thing - the recipe says "baking soda" but bicarbonate of soda needs something acid to help make the bubbles so this probably needs "baking powder" which includes cream of tartar to react with the bicarb to release bubbles of C02. This is what I plan to use, anyway.

Had my first try at this, and the cake is cooling at the moment.
It didn't rise much but smells nice.
There seems to be some of the olive oil all round the edges and it was still bubbling when I took it out.
I was a bit clumsy taking it out of the cake tin and it cracked and bent a bit but it is now on a cooling rack so we shall see what it is like tomorrow.
I left out the Stevia just to see if it is O.K. without the sweetener.
I am assuming that cream will take away some of the bitterness of the cocoa.
I am also going to try some of my second batch of chocolate truffle mix as icing.

Well, not bad.

Overall too bitter without the Stevia or some other sweetener, but edible with some clotted cream.



Smoothing some chocolate truffle mixture on top also improves things, so hopefully the second attempt will be a winner.

I may also get it out of the tin and onto the cooling rack without breaking it.

It does seem suitably "cakey".

Mr_Pot said:

I am not sure that preserving your taste for deserts and cakes by making low carb versions helps you keep to a diet in the long run.

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However, on a low carb diet, eggs, fats, almonds, etc, are all a nutritious part of such a diet, and cocoa/ chocolate and stevia are both apparently helpful with insulin resistance. And a low carb diet is just that - it's not supposed to be a "deprivation" diet, so if there are healthy alternatives to high carb foods - I personally see no reason not to cook and eat them.

Robbity

And PS, I've never had any cravings for the high carb versions of such food, in spite of eating low carb cakes, etc, and I've actually kept my glucose between low pre-diabetic and high end of normal levels for neartly four years now with the attitude towards my low carb diet.

It's not preserving your taste for desserts and cakes, it's simply making life enjoyable. Everywhere you go you are confronted with 'processed ****' and by making the switch to low carb healthier alternatives I find it actually stops the cravings and I don't feel I am missing out and therefore I am less likely to go off track.

Hi @LittleGreyCat do you have the recipe for the chocolate truffle mix as I'm about to do my next round of baking and I might give the cake a go.

4ratbags said:

Hi @LittleGreyCat do you have the recipe for the chocolate truffle mix as I'm about to do my next round of baking and I might give the cake a go.

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https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/182606/chocolate-truffles

NewTD2 said:

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Its fantastic, I AGREE and what is even better keto diet doctor coconut choc pud. Lets be reasonable and sensible, these desserts are not for every day, week, but for special occasions, birthday, or other xmas and New Year....but its super to know one can eat such low carb SPECIAL TREATS, now and again, and not feel too guilty.....

Wonderful Keto and Diet Doctor, could not be without you.

Mallorca

I made this tonight and it turned out great. I forgot I had used all the cocoa powder so I substituted the oil for butter and I melted it with 150gr of sf dark chocolate and I cut the amount of water down to 50ml. It was nice and chocolatey and not dry at all. I then topped it with the truffle mix and ate it with whipped cream.

I've made plenty of low carb cheese cakes, and that one looks great too!

Thanks for sharing.

Update: the first try without Stevia is very bitter. However if you add some Oppo ice cream than suddenly the bitterness is gone.

I've now ordered some Stevia for the second attempt.

The first attempt didn't really rise much if at all so I may use more baking powder on the second attempt.

4ratbags said:

I made this tonight and it turned out great. I forgot I had used all the cocoa powder so I substituted the oil for butter and I melted it with 150gr of sf dark chocolate and I cut the amount of water down to 50ml. It was nice and chocolatey and not dry at all. I then topped it with the truffle mix and ate it with whipped cream.

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So nothing like the recipe at all.