Sugar Free Low Carb Cinnamon Sponge Cake
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A truly yummy, sugar free, low carb sponge cake that will surprise you with its subtle cinnamon flavour and creamy layers.
Author: Antya
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Ketogenic. Sugar Free. Low Carb. LCHF. Grain Free. Gluten Free.
Yield: 8 slices
Ingredients
- 160g fine almond flour (U.S. option HERE)
- 3 tsp ground cinnamon
- a pinch of fine Himalayan pink salt (U.S. option HERE)
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp erythritol (U.S. option HERE)
- 150g softened unsalted butter
- 2 medium eggs (room temperature)
- 3 tsp pure stevia powder (U.S. option HERE)
- ¾ tsp vanilla extract(U.S. option HERE)
- 100-120ml coconut milk (make your own)
- 60-80ml water
- 350g full-fat cream cheese
- 100g double cream (whipped)
Instructions
- butter your cake tins and set aside.
- mix almond flour with 1 tsp cinnamon, salt and baking powder.
- in a separate bowl, beat 100g butter with erythritol and 1.5 tsp stevia, then add ½ tsp vanilla extract and eggs, one at a time; incorporate 100ml milk.
- prepare the syrup by warming up 50g butter, 1 tsp stevia, 2 tsp cinnamon, ¼ tsp vanilla extract and 60ml water; should the syrup be too thick (it should be runny-honey consistency), add 20ml water.
- pre-heat oven to 175°C static.
- add the dry mix to the egg mix and blend well; add the remaining 20ml milk if mixture is too dry; swirl in the cinnamon syrup.
- pour equal amounts of the cake mixture into the cake tins.
- bake for 35-40 min or until a knife comes out clean; set aside to cool completely.
- beat cream cheese, milk and ½ tsp stevia until a thick and creamy paste is obtained, then incorporate whipped cream.
- once the cakes have cooled completely, flip them so they are bottom-up, smother cream cheese paste all over one cake, flip the other cake over and smother remaining cream cheese paste all over the top. refrigerate immediately; best served straight out of the fridge.
Notes
Using a silicone spatula to spread the cream cheese paste will be quicker and neater than trying to do it with a spoon or knife.
Metric kitchen scales are an inexpensive yet invaluable gadget to enable accurate measurement of ingredients. Store them upright in a cupboard or over your worktop and they'll only take up a tiny bit of space. Click HERE for the ones I use in the UK. For U.S. option click HERE.
Metric kitchen scales are an inexpensive yet invaluable gadget to enable accurate measurement of ingredients. Store them upright in a cupboard or over your worktop and they'll only take up a tiny bit of space. Click HERE for the ones I use in the UK. For U.S. option click HERE.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 Calories: 393 Fat: 35.4g Net Carbs: 2.5g Protein: 13.8g
Recipe by Queen Keto at https://queenketo.com/sugar-free-low-carb-cinnamon-sponge-cake/