Kidd's Low Carb Carrot Cake

(Tammy Kidd) #1

Kidd Low Carb Carrot Cake
5 eggs
1 1/2 sticks butter (melted)
2 tsp vanilla
4 tblsp swerve (powdered)
2 tblsp Sukrin golden (optional)
mix well and add
2 cups shredded carrots (3 large carrots)
3/4 cup crushed walnuts
Set to side
In another bowl mix
1 1/2 cups almond flour
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp allspice
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut (optional)
stir well
Pour wet ingredients into the dry hand whip for a couple minutes
Pour into a 9 inch pan
Bake at 350 for 40 to 50 minutes.

Frosting
1 block cream cheese softened
1 stick of butter softened
2 tsp vanilla
6 tblsp swerve (powdered)
This icing is a very large amount because my husband like a little cake with his icing.

(Tammy Kidd) #2

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(TJ Borden) #3

That looks AMAZING

#4

Looks lovely; any idea how many carbs?!

(Tammy Kidd) #5

I would guess around 4 carbs per piece,Of course depending on how big the piece is lol.

(Brian) #6

If that’s too much icing, a person could easily half the recipe. :wink:

(Tammy Kidd) #7

Yes that is why I said that lol!

(Candy Lind) #8

I plugged it all into Cronometer and here’s what I got (I used Sukrin Melis instead of Swerve, should be the same outcome). I figured 9 servings, because I would bake it in an 8x8 square which is easy to cut into 9.

Cake:
395.4 kcal
37 g fat (84%)
9.6 g protein (10%)
5.4 net carb (6%)

Icing (full recipe):
181.4 kcal
18.9 g fat (94%)
1.66 g protein (3.6%)
1 g net carb (2.4%)

Cake with icing (1/9 entire recipe):
576.8 kcal
55.9 g fat (87%)
11.26 g protein (8%)
6.4 g net carb (5%)

Definitely a splurge for me, but looks worth it. I may have to bake & freeze cake pieces, then make a little icing at a time, so I won’t binge 1/2 cake (or more) in a day. I know my limits! :crazy_face:

(Patricia Ingraham) #9

Yum! Carrot cake is my favorite! I may have to make this into cupcakes for my next birthday!
I haven’t made any sweet desserts so far in my 2 months of keto and am not in a hurry to do so.

(betsy.rome) #10

Too bad there’s no keto substitute for pineapple. In my former glucose-burner life, I made a killer carrot cake that included a small can of crushed pineapple. I suppose I could find some kind of flavoring - has anyone found a substitute?

(Steve) #11

The olive nation pineapple extract is highly rated - and they say no added sugars…short ingredients list - you could e-mail them to see if they could give you a nutritional breakdown. (haven’t used it myself though).

#12

I tried making a carrot cake and it turned out gross. I’m kind of afraid to try again. Cheesecakes seem to be my specialty.

(Jay AM) #13

Now I just want to make and eat the icing.

(Tammy Kidd) #14

It was my husband’s 50th birthday and carrot cake is his favorite. It is a splurge for me too. It was worth it as I am proud of him for staying on plan for almost 2 years.

(Sheri Knauer) #15

That looks so good. Carrot cake was one of my favorites. I may just have to give it a go perhaps for my birthday or Thanksgiving.

#16

It was good Thank you. I think it needs at least 3/4 of the icing. I made it with half and it was not quite enough

(Tammy Kidd) #17

Glad you liked it!

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #18

chopped Choyote squash cooked with sweetener and pineapple extract in a bit of water until pineapple texture.
Richard Morris does this to make “pineapple” bits for his Hawaiian pizza.
@richard is that your basic method?

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #19

I baked one tonight. 50 net grams carbohydrate per cake, about 6 grams carbohydrate each piece when cut into 8 pieces.
Better than sugar carrot cake which is 320 grams of carbohydrate per cake!

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#20

This should be pretty much like a normal carrot cake - certainly the type I used to make anyway. I used to make one nice and heavy on the spice and nuts and the recipe was very similar except I used wholewheat flour and bran instead of the almond flour and brown sugar instead of sweetener. So I bet this tastes great.