Any low carb low sugar chocolate type of desserts?

[polealltheway]

I keep finding chocolate cakes which are apparently low carb and low sugar, they have some very unusual ingredients!

Any recipes with easy to find ingredients?

[DogsRus73]

Not sure if it is low sugar or low carb enough but have you tried flourless chocolate cake? aAl you need is
• 4 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
• 3 whole eggs
• ½ cup grass-fed butter, or coconut oil
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• ¾ cup honey
Melt the chocolate and butter, mix with the rest oven bake for 35mins @ 180. Nice but not very sweet. had mine with pears and cream.

I'm trying flourless brownies which are in the oven at the moment:
half a courgette grated, half an egg beaten, 100g desiccated coconut blended until it formed cocunt butter (about 5 minutes with a hand blender), two tablespoons cocoa pwder unsweetened, half a teaspoon mixed spice, 1/2 tsp baking powder and about 50mls honey. Bake for 30mins at 180. No idea what they taste like yet but the batter was weirdly similar to normal brownies. Will let you know!

[LoonytoadQuack]

Chocolate mousse made with just high percentage, dark chocolate and water?

[DogsRus73]

banana pureed with cocoa powder and cream makes a reasonable if runny mousse. Use frozen bananas and you get a good approxximation of ben and jerrys ice cream.

The brownies above were lovely - by far the best attempt at a pudding that I have had since going paleo. I think they'd still be edible with less honey as they were quite sweet. The bonus is the kids wouldn't eat them due to the courgette so more for me!

[polealltheway]

Dogs - thank you for the chocolate cake and brownie recipe, they both sound amazing!

So how long have you been on the paleo diet? I havnt heard of it before and I just googled, it sounds like how I should be eating but I'm not at the moment.

How are you finding it? And are you doing it for weightloss and obviously the health benefits too

[polealltheway]

Also are all those ingredients allowed?

[DogsRus73]

Pole - the chocolate mousse is okay for primal. If you're 'proper' paleo then coconut milk is a reasonable substitute for the cream.


For the brownies it depends how uber strict you are and there seems to be some disagreement on different paleo websites. However, there are lots of paleo recipes with honey in. It should be raw honey if you're being strict paleo. The recipe and similar is on loads of paleo websites. The rest are all definitely ok.

Either way it has much less sugar (and fat!) than normal brownies and is (almost) just as nice.

[DogsRus73]

sdorry just realised this is a low carb thread not paleo - ignore me!

[DogsRus73]

Pole - I've been doing paleo since Easter and lost just over two stone. I feel much better too, and not just because of the weightloss. No sugar headaches, no sugar crashes / cravings and my fruit /veg consumption has rocketed. It is really easy too as theres no counting or measuring just a few simple rules. I went for about a month proper paleo and then went more primal by adding cheese and cream in. This didn't affect the weight loss so I kept this in.

The first two weeks were difficult but after that the sugar cravings stopped and now I don't want to eat overprocessed sugary rubbish. I can look at the doughnuts OH is eating and not have even the slightest inkling to eat one whereas previously I would have eaten 2 or 3 in one sitting.

I would really recommend this way of eating to anyone - I feel like I cheated as the weightloss has been so easy. The only thing I do miss is bread, especially in the week at work as it's just so easy to take a sandwich whereas paleo lunches are a bit more faffy. At home it's fine as I'll whip up some eggs but I can't do that at work.

[yumyumpoppycat]

Ooh defo going to try those brownies dogs r us!

bit cheeky ... Pole do you mind if I post some recipes from FavadiCaco on here, not all necc low carb but good if you need something for visitors that you can eat a bit off without worrying too much!

Thanks!

Favadi's basic paleo sponge:
For 1 egg
30g ground Almonds
10-15g butter (melted)
1 pinch of bicarbonate of soda
sweetner (honey, brown sugar, sugar and xylitol work but stevia is a bit bitter). 1tbs of sugar is too much for me but not enough for ds, just right for dd and dh.
Microwave 1 1/2 to 2 mins. 1 egg fits in a mug (perfect for a giant muffin or for testing), a take away size plastic tray fits up to 3 eggs (more makes it uneven texture); I haven't tried the silicone molds yet.

I bake it in the oven if making a large one or swiss roll, separating the whites and whisking them to soft peak for extra rise- it comes out almost like a genoise (not as tall or fluffy). Can't tell you baking time as I do by smell and look.

You can substitute 5g of almond for 100% cocoa powder or add an extra 5g of almond for liquid flavouring (orange, rose water, alcohol...), lemon and orange zest work well. If you fancy a swiss roll, ricotta (drained) and orange infused chocolate (min 75% melted with juice of 1-2 orange and/or a splash of contreu) is wonderful for this. Rose water infused chocolate is lovely too.

I'm rather partial to fruit sponges, in particular apples and berries/rhubarb- place the fruit at the bottom it will infuse throughout (can microwave or bake).
Other successes:
(Oven baked)Chocolate and orange sponge with chocolate chips (just chocolate bashed with rolling pin) and toasted hazelnuts, covered in an orange chocolate glaze (choc melted with orange juice). For a ganache you can you avocado rather than cream.
(microwave) Bounty sponge: (instead of 30g almonds) 25g coconut and 5g choc powder, with (or without) choc glazing (choc +coconut milk)

Chocolate cheese cake:
Base. Crush a mix of toasted nuts, bind with almond butter. Set.
Fillings:
a) Blend avocado (might need up to 4), add melted chocolate and honey. 75% choc hardens a lot so add a little at the time to taste or for more chocolate add some butter (gorgeous with cocoa butter but expensive, you can cheat and add an itsy bitsy of white chocolate).
b)ricotta and chocolate set quickly.

Biscuits (~10 mins @ 180*C):
170g ground almond
1 egg
1 tbs coconut oil
2 tbs honey
Mix; roll between 2 parchment sheets; cut but don't separate; bake until golden. Once cooled dip one end in melted chocolate.
You can substitute the egg for egg whites for amaretti. Mount the egg white to soft peak; add ground flour until it feels like a Christmas cake mix; add honey to taste; spoon on damp parchement; bake until golden. It might be easier to spoon on rice paper for easy peel.

Happy baking!

[tb]

Chocolate mousse

For each person - you could add more if you want larger portions:
1 egg separated
60g plain chocolate melted
Slosh of brandy/Cointreau/whisky/ Drambuie if required

Mix the egg yolk with the melted chocolate, whisk the egg whites and fold them in. Put in the fridge to set.

[Erdelyi]

Chocolate truffles adapted (or nicked- can't remember which!) from the Idiot Proof Diet book;

250ml double cream
50g butter
275g 85% chocolate

Melt butter and chocolate. Mix in cream. Roll in balls, in cocoa if you can be bothered. So strong you only need one!