Low Carb Pound Cake

(from aloogobi’s recipe box)

Categories: low carb

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups almond flour
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups erythritol
  • 8 whole eggs, room temperature
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 8 ounces cream cheese
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • Glaze
  • 1/4 cup powdered erythritol
  • 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Toss in room temperature butter, softened cream cheese, and erythritol into a mixing bowl.

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  3. Cream together the butter and erythritol until smooth. Then, add in softened chunks of cream cheese and blend together until smooth.

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  5. Add in the eggs, lemon extract,and vanilla extract in with the blended ingredients. Blend with a hand mixer until smooth.

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  7. In a medium sized bowl: mix together the almond flour, baking powder, and salt.

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  9. Slowly add in the ingredients from the medium sized bowl into the batter. Use a hand blender to blend the clumps until very smooth.

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  11. Pour batter into a loaf pan. Bake for 60 – 120 minutes at 350F or until smooth in the middle when tested with a toothpick.

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  13. If creating a glaze: blend together the powdered erythritol, vanilla extract, and heavy whipping cream until smooth. Wait until the pound cake is fully cooled from the oven before spreading the glaze on top.

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  15. is makes a total of 16 servings of pound cake. Each slice comes out to be 254.19 Calories, 23.4g Fats, 2.49g Net Carbs, and 7.9g Protein.

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