The best low carb strawberry cake ever!

Do you want your dessert to be delicious and healthy? Then try this low carb strawberry cake! Heavenly fruity and light. You will love it!

Most low carb strawberry cakes are served as a sheet cake. Cut into rectangular pieces and ready.

But you can also arrange them more creatively. I want to prove that to you with this low carb strawberry cake. Doesn't it look good enough to eat?

For this I use a tart pan for the dough. After baking, the cake is tipped out of the mold and actually topped on the wrong side. But so it just looks much better, right? :)

In the end, however, it doesn't matter which form you choose. This recipe is always tempting, fruity and very low in carbohydrates.

And best of all, although the cake looks mega, it's really no magic to prepare it. You can mix this dough without white flour and sugar in no time.

Mega fast, juicy, delicious and also healthy. What more could you want?

Today I'll show you how to make a low carb strawberry cake, what ingredients you need and what to look for!

By the way, if you're a strawberry fan, you should try this Try DIY ice cream without ice cream maker!

What ingredients do I need for the low carb strawberry cake?

As a low carb fan, I'm sure you know what shouldn't end up in the dough, right? White flour and sugar are the best examples. As someone who hasn't been around low-carb much, you're about to learn what ingredients I use in the cake and exactly why I chose them.

I also show you how to substitute ingredients if you don't have them on hand.

Almond flour and ground almonds

They are the base for any low carb cake you want to bake. Almond flour* and ground almonds* replace white flour. However, you cannot replace them 1:1 with white flour because they have a completely different baking behavior. De-oiled nut flours absorb more liquid and therefore require more eggs, oil, milk or water.

For this, nut flours provide much more nutrients.

White flour not only makes you fat, but also provides no nutritional value for our body. Everything important has been removed from the white flour, such as potassium, calcium, iron, etc. You also get hungry again quickly and drive your blood sugar level up enormously.

This does not happen with low carb flours. Almond flour* is comparatively expensive. But don't think that instead of Almond flour* just grated almonds* - this is a misconception that beginners in particular believe time and again.

Almond flour* is de-oiled and therefore has completely different baking properties. If you're interested, take a look here: "This is the difference between almond flour and almonds„.

Low-carb cakes always taste best when you go for a mix of Almond flour* and grated almonds.

You can replace almond flour with another nut flour. It tastes delicious if you use hazelnuts instead of the grated almonds. This makes the dough a little darker in color and nuttier in taste.

Erythritol or birch sugar

By now, every child knows that household sugar is unhealthy. It contains a lot of calories, damages the teeth and goes straight to the hips.

You can easily replace it with Birch sugar* or Erythritolreplace with *. It makes no difference to the taste!

On the calorie scale, however, a huge one. Birch sugar* contains only half as many calories as household sugar. And in Erythritol does not contain any calories at all. Sounds good, doesn't it?

You can replace household sugar 1:1 with Birch sugar* exchange. With Erythritol* you have to take a little more. It's not that sweet.

Replace 100 grams of sugar with 120 grams Erythritol*.

Locust bean gum

You should not do without it under any circumstances. Carob bean gum is essential to low-carbohydrate cooking. It is a thickener that ensures that the cake gets a good binding similar to a conventional wheat flour cake and does not fall apart.

Locust bean gum is tasteless and gluten-free. It binds liquids 5 times more strongly than classic Cornstarch*, which is why you have to use it very sparingly. We therefore only need 1 teaspoon of it for the entire cake batter.

Eggs and butter

Almond flour, nuts and locust bean gum need a lot of liquid. Therefore, we need a single cake also 3 chicken eggs. Since almond flour itself is white, the eggs also provide a nice yellow dough.

A cake needs oil or fat to become good. In this case I use butter, you are welcome to use margarine. The important thing is to take the butter out of the fridge before you get started. It needs to be room warm and soft so that it can be whipped.

Baking powder

We still need a little Baking powder* so that the dough is fluffy and rises when baking. There's not much more to say about it.

So: White flour becomes nuts. And household sugar becomes Birch sugar* or Erythritol*. And the low carb strawberry cake is almost ready.

Unpack the tart pan and you're ready to go.

In the mood for more low carb? Try this rhubarb cake!

Recipe: Low carb strawberry cake with cottage cheese topping

If you have never or rarely baked without wheat flour, you are in the right place. Here you will find a very precise step by step instructions for the low carb strawberry cake. I explain to you exactly what you need to pay attention to.

If you are already skilled in baking without carbs, you can scroll to the end of the post. Here you will find a short version of the recipe with exact nutritional information per serving.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 50 g room warm butter
• 3 eggs
• 170 g ground almonds*
• 30 g almond flour
• 1 tsp locust bean gum
• 60 g Erythritol*
• 1 TSP Baking powder* (approx. 5 g)
• 1/2 vanilla bean

Ingredients for the topping:

• 200 g curd
• 100 g Greek yogurt
• 60 g erythritol
• 1 tsp lemon zest
• 250 g strawberries

Also: mixer, bowl, tart pan

Beat eggs and butter until foamy

Put the softened butter in a bowl. Start the mixer and beat the butter until it becomes creamy - about 5 minutes is enough for warm butter. Hard butter can not be beaten until fluffy - so it should soften at room temperature for at least 20 minutes.

You can speed up the process by cutting the butter into small pieces and adding them to the bowl.

When the butter is fluffy, add the eggs one at a time. Now beat them for about 10 minutes until the ingredients combine nicely.

Add dry ingredients

Mix the almonds, almond flour, locust bean gum, erythritol and Baking powder* in a bowl. Stir with a spoon to form a uniform mixture.

Pour the mixture into the bowl with butter and eggs, one small at a time.

Scrape out the vanilla bean. Cut it in half lengthwise and scrape out the vanilla pulp with a knife or spoon. Stir the vanilla into the batter.

Low carb cake baking

Grease the tart pan. Sprinkle 2 to 3 tablespoons ground almonds* into the tin so that the dough does not stick to the tin later. Preheat the oven to 180° top/bottom heat. Bake the cake for 15 minutes.

Set it aside and let it cool. The dough must be completely cold when you apply the topping!

Prepare the curd yogurt cream

Mix curd and yogurt in a bowl. Mix them with a spoon, whisk or clean mixer until uniform.

Now add erythritol and lemon zest to the bowl. Mix the ingredients and taste if you like the topping. You can add more erythritol or some lemon juice.

Apply the cream with a kitchen spatula. It may be a little uneven, that makes the charm of such pastries.

Wash the strawberries, remove the green and cut them into quarters. Cover the cake with them. I don't follow a pattern, but take them in both hands and drop them on the cake. At the end I improve a little.

If you like, you can also add some blueberries and mint to the cake.

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What is the shelf life of a low carb strawberry cake?

That depends on how far you finish it. Of course, the cake will keep longest if you first bake only the base and then spread it fresh.

It lasts the shortest when the strawberries are already up. But let's briefly go through all the scenarios.

The cake base

Lasts easily three days when baked through. In summer, put in the refrigerator to be on the safe side. Important: Cover or put in a cake pan and put a foil over it so that it does not dry out.

It is also possible to freeze the baked low carb cake base. Provided that you let it cool properly beforehand.

Then you have a cake ready at any time and only have to mix the cream, if you have visitors. Or if you have a craving for cake yourself.

The cake base with cream

The cream consists of dairy products. It must therefore be refrigerated. Once you have the cream on the cake - off with it in the refrigerator.

Quark, yogurt and other ingredients make the cake base really juicy. Of course, it is very important that you cover the cake.

On the one hand, so that the cream does not become dry, and on the other hand, so that the cream does not absorb odors from the refrigerator.

Onion, for example, would be a smell and taste that does not go well with cake at all.

So: Once the cream is on the cake, the countdown starts. Eat it within 24 hours.

The ready low carb strawberry cake

The base, cream and strawberries are combined into a ready-made strawberry cake? Then you have to be quick. How long you have now depends very much on the strawberries. Once they are cut into small pieces, they quickly become mushy.

Prepare the cake always fresh. The fruit can withstand 6 hours in the refrigerator.

I ate the cake 12 hours after completion. The strawberries look then just no longer so beautiful, but it still tastes delicious.

If the cake is only meant for tomorrow, then you can coat the strawberries with gelatin. However, I always prefer to prepare it very fresh.

So cut strawberries, put them on the cake and then also serve immediately. This saves cake icing, calories and work :)

And here, as promised, the short version of the recipe with nutritional information per piece. The recipe makes 8 pieces of cake.

Our conclusion

In only 15 minutes baking time this delicious low carb strawberry cake is ready. While it is in the oven, you can already prepare the cream. It really doesn't get any faster than this. The fruit you can of course change at will - check out these Low carb fruits list!

Enjoy it and good luck! :)

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