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This whole personal Keto Lemon Cake recipe made with cacao butter will only give you 1.6 total grams of carbs. Now, that's my kind of cake! Another characteristic in cakes that I love and need is the moistness. Yes, I said that word. HaHa 🙂
Something else that I love about this cake recipe is that it does not use any keto flours. I love this because these items do add extra carbs.
Ingredients for the Cacao Butter Keto Recipes
- Cacao Butter: I choose to use cacao butter because it's all fat and once it's cooled it's nice and solid.
- Cream Cheese: There is cream cheese because it helps with the structure and texture of the end result.
- Butter: Having a little bit of butter aids in adding extra fat and flavor.
- Egg: The eggs job, like most recipes, helps with the structure and holds everything together.
- Lemon and Lemon Monk Fruit Drops: This of course gives it the lemon flavor. I like using these options instead of lemon juice to save on the carbs.
Cooking the Cacao Butter Keto Lemon Cake Recipe
I used a bundt cake silicone mold for this lemon flavored cake. I did not fill the whole mold. However, the mold allows for a 2.5 inches deep and 5 inches wide of filling. I found my mold on Wish.com.
Or there are other similar molds you can get on Amazon. This one here is a 9-inch one that is similar to the one I used.
One thing to keep in mind is the cooking time with a different size mold. When you remove the cake, you want some giggle left in the middle. Similar to how you want cheesecake to come out of the oven.
If it's more firm than giggle it's still okay and will taste great, the texture will just be different.
What Sweetener to Use
To further help keep the total carbs under 10 for this whole cacao butter keto recipe lemon cake, I like to use pure monk fruit sweetener.
The most common keto sweetener is erythritol in granular or powdered form. Companies make a erythritol and monk fruit mix, but I try to avoid using those when possible, as there are carbs in erythritol.
Lemon Flavoring
This cake tastes great with no flavor or even sweetener in my opinion. However, I still felt the need to make it extra special with some flavor and some sweetness for you all. Since the finished product looked yellow and someone on my Instagram account suggested lemon, I went to a lemon cake.
I played with my lemon extract and it was alright but it did not hit the spot quite right. So I also added in some monk fruit drops that were flavored lemon. Nailed it! To really kick in the flavor more, add some lemon zest to the batter.
However, you do not have to go lemon with this cake, feel free to add any other kind of flavor you would like. The possibilities are endless. 🙂
Other Keto Cake Recipes
All of these cakes are under 2.5 net carbs.
Cacao Butter Cake
1.6 total carbs for this flourless keto lemon cake. This homemade recipe from scratch is not dense but very moist. I also love that it's easy and gluten free.
Ingredients
- 28 g Cacao Butter
- 1 T Butter
- 3 oz Cream Cheese
- 1 Egg
- 1/8 t Lemon Extract
- 1/4 t Vanilla Extract
- 1/4 t Lemon Flavored Monk Fruit Drops
Instructions
- Bring the butter and cream cheese to room temperature or close as possible and place in mixing bowl.
- Melt the cacao butter in small bursts in the microwave or on the stove top. Cutting up the cacao butter will help it melt faster.
- Pour the melted cacao butter of the cream cheese and butter. Blend these 3 ingredients together.
- Add in the egg, extracts and monk fruit. Blend all together.
- Pour or put the batter into your cake mold. I used a bundt cake silicone mold. I did not fill the whole mold. However, the mold allows for a 2.5 inches deep and 5 inches wide of filling.
- Cook in your oven on 325 for 18 minutes. See cooking note above recipe.
- Allow to set and cool in the fridge.
Notes
Your nutrition may vary depending on what you use. My cream cheese said less than 1 g of carbs and I always use 0.4 grams when I see that. I get my nutrition information from the package or from www.http://nutritiondata.self.com
View the 2nd heading in this post for more information on the bundt cake mold I used.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 1 Serving Size: 1 ServingsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 720Total Fat: 74gCarbohydrates: 1.6gProtein: 1.2g
Shirley Hanes
What size mold are you using, i.e., 1 cup?
Abby
My mold allowed for 2.5 inches deep and 5 inches wide of filling. I did not fill it all the way up.
Jenn
Mine did not rise. Should there be baking powder in this recipe?
Abby
It doesn't rise much. I can't fully remember, but no baking powder.
Jay
Mine is soup and won't even cook it just stays liquid double check the recipe did it exactly like I said.
Abby
I'm only asking this next question because others have been confused before as well. For the cacao butter, was it hard at room temperature and it was a cream-looking color?
Also, what are the dimensions of the mold that you cooked the cake in?
Samantha Whitson
🌼Absolutely brilliant recipe Abby! I love using raw, cacao/cocoa butter (not to be confused with coconut butter/manna) so much that I buy it in bulk quantity. I would have never thought to use it in this way, but I'm so thrilled that you did! It is sure to be on rotation in our house for both special occasions, as well as everyday-just-because. This cake is too delicious to save for a day or two a year~ THANK YOU for sharing this with us =) 🙋♀️Samantha in AZ
wanda
Would someone explain how this is 1.6 carbs but under nutrition it states there are 720 cal and 74 carbs?
Abby
When you see 74, you are looking at the grams of fat.