Coffee Cake - Ketogenic and low carb

Ketogenic coffee and chocolate cake. Excellent as a birthday cake, it is low carb and gluten free.

Ingredients

For the cake

For the icing

  • 400g of Heavy cream

  • 250g of Mascarpone cheese

  • 125g Erythritol

  • 1 espresso (long)

Times
Preparation: 30 min
Cooking: 20 min
Total: 50 min
Servings
Total servings: 12
Portion: 1 fetta
Nutrition label
Carbs: 7.8/25g
Proteins: 6.7/100g
Fats: 30.8/167g
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Directions

For the cake

  1. 1

    Preparation: preheat the oven to 350° (180° celsius) and prepare 2 trays of the same size.

  2. 2

    Melt the butter with the cocoa mass.

  3. 3

    Add an espresso and 50g of erythritol to the mixture.

  4. 4

    Separate the yolks and whites of the 6 eggs.

  5. 5

    Beat the egg yolks with 20g of erythritol and the cocoa powder.

  6. 6

    Add the melted chocolate at the beginning (making sure it is not hot yet) to the egg white and cocoa mixture. Stir to mix everything.

  7. 7

    Beat the egg whites until stiff adding the remaining 80g of erythritol adding 1/3 at a time.

  8. 8

    Incorporate the egg whites into the mixture from bottom to top so as not to take them apart.

  9. 9

    Once the egg whites are incorporated, separate the final mixture equally in the 2 trays.

    Bake for about 20 minutes at 180 °.

For the icing

  1. 1

    Make a double espresso and let it cool in the fridge.

  2. 2

    Beat the cream first until it forms a solid enough mixture.

  3. 3

    Add the mascarpone with 125g of erythritol and beat the mixture until everything is mixed well.

  4. 4

    Add the cooled coffee and stir the mixture for the last time.

  5. 5

    Fill the cake with a generous layer of cream in the middle and cover the rest of the cake with the rest of the cream.

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