Following a Keto lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to give up your favorite desserts. These keto dessert recipes will satisfy your sweet tooth while sticking to the low-carb, sugar-free guidelines.
Don’t worry about having to give up all of your favorite goodies. We’ve got a list of delicious and decadent treats for you to try that are keto friendly. But first, here’s how you can make sure you’re adhering to the keto guidelines when making your favorite desserts.
How To Make Keto Desserts
In general, following keto guidelines for desserts means keeping things low-carb and low in sugar, or sugar free. Instead of using regular granulated or powdered sugar, or other high-sugar sweeteners and all purpose flour, you’ll want to use other alternatives. Here are a few of the things you’ll want to keep in your pantry for making keto dessert recipes.
Flour Alternatives
- Keto Wheat Flour: Made by some baking brands, this is a low-carb blend of wheat flour. Good for most recipes that call for all-purpose flour.
- Almond Flour: Best used for breads, cakes, and cookies and may result in a a more chewy, dense product. Will add a slightly nutty flavor. You may need to add a bit more almond flour than you would with all purpose flour as it may not absorb the liquid as well.
- Coconut Flour: Higher in carbs than almond flour, but still approved for the keto diet. This one absorbs liquid so you’ll need either less flour or more liquid. Can impart a coconut flavor to your recipes. Best for cakes and muffins.
- Flax Meal: Best for cakes, breads, muffins. May impart a nutty flavor to your recipes.
- Chia Flour: Not as commonly used, but can be added alone or as a flour blend to your recipes. Best for breads, cakes, and muffins.
- Psyllium Husk Powder: Adds a light and airy element to recipes without changing the flavor. Will need to be combined with other low-carb flours in some recipes. Best used in breads, but can also act as a binder or substitute for eggs.
Sugar Alternatives
- Stevia: Plant based sugar substitute. Can be used in place of sugar in most recipes.
- Monk Fruit: Harder to find but great to use. Can sometimes have a strange aftertaste.
- Erythritol: A natural sugar alcohol that is used as a sugar substitute. You’ll need slightly more than you would use with regular sugar as it is not as sweet. Doesn’t dissolve easily.
- Xylitol: Similar in sweetness to regular sugar, this sugar-alcohol can be used in most keto dessert recipes but may increase dryness in large amounts.
- Sucralose: An artificial sweetener often sold as Splenda. Much sweeter than sugar so you’ll only need a small amount. Best used in cold desserts as it is not meant to be exposed to high temperatures.
- Allulose: Keto-friendly sweetener best used in breads, candy, marshmallows, sauces, ice cream, cookies, and more.
What Not To Use For Desserts On A Keto Diet
A few to avoid include aspartame and any alternative sweetener made with it; natural sweeteners like honey, agave, maple syrup, dates and date syrup, or molasses; most fruit juices; maltodextrin; coconut sugar; brown sugar.
What Are The Best Ingredients For Keto Dessert Recipes?
Your goal with a keto diet is to stay under 25 grams of carbs per day. Some foods are obviously higher in carbs than others, so here are some if the best natural, whole foods to incorporate into your desserts to help you stay within your guidelines. Keep in mind it is best to limit your fruit to one serving per day as they do have carbs.
- Acai
- Almonds
- Bacon Fat
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Butter
- Cacao, Cacao Butter
- Coconut, coconut milk or coconut cream
- Cream cheese
- Creme Fraiche
- Dark Chocolate, 85% or higher
- Duck Fat
- Eggs
- Gelatin
- Ghee
- Greek Yogurt
- Heavy Cream
- Kiwi
- Lemon & Lime Juice
- Macadamias
- Mascarpone
- Nut Milks
- Olive Oil
- Pecans
- Pumpkin Seeds
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb
- Strawberries
- Sunflower Seeds
- Vanilla extract
- Vegetarian whey protein powder
- Walnuts
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Keto Peanut Butter Cookies - Air Fryer Recipe
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