Low-carb Flourless Chocolate Biscuits

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Low-carb, As much as I love baking with low-carb flours (usually almond or coconut), sometimes you can get away without using any flour at all.

This recipe for low-carb, gluten-free chocolate biscuits is completely flourless – basically you just use cocoa powder instead. You just can’t go wrong with that much cocoa!

This recipe is super-simple and takes about 20-25 minutes total to prepare and bake.

Carb count is less than 1g net carbs per biscuit.

What sort of cocoa powder should I use?

You will need to get sugar-free, Dutch-processed cocoa powder.

In the UK, Green & Black is a good brand to go for. In the US, try Hershey’s Special Dark or Valrhona.

You can also add some sugar-free chocolate chips to the biscuits (if you are not afraid of chocolate overdose!). I use Willie’s Cacao blocks, roughly chopped.

If you are wondering about cocoa and chocolate on a low-carb diet, please have a look at this earlier post – basically, chocolate is not the problem (but added sugar is).

UPDATE – 21 Dec 2013

I have now received some comments that they are coming out too dry. In fact, the subject of how dry they are now even has its own Reddit topic! (Greetings, visitors from Reddit, thank you for coming anyway!) I am a bit mortified, so I am going to experiment a bit more with the recipe and try to make it less dry. Will report back in the next couple of days! Will also try to take a more attractive photo of the next batch.

One good suggestion on Reddit was to put some ganache or cream topping on the biscuits. Have a look at this keto mousse, which could make a good topping.

Thanks for everyone’s comments!

UPDATE – 24 Dec 2013

I have tweaked the recipe now – the updated version is included below. I added some cream cheese, and reduced the amount of cocoa powder. The texture is much better now. Please note they need to cool down completely when cooked, as they are not very crispy as soon as they come out of the oven.

The carb content is also a bit lower now (due to less cocoa powder).

Print Low-carb flourless chocolate biscuits

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

12 biscuits

Calories per serving: 75

Fat per serving: 7

Ingredients

45g (1.5oz) sugar-free cocoa powder
50g (2 oz) Truvia, or similar granular sugar substitute
60g (2oz) unsalted butter
60g (2oz) cream cheese
2 large eggs
1 tsp sugar-free vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5
Mix cream cheese with Truvia and blend until smooth
Lightly beat the eggs and mix with melted butter and vanilla extract
Add the egg mixture to cream cheese and mix well until no lumps
Gently fold in cocoa powder
Line a baking tray with baking paper
Spoon out the mixture into round mounds (they will flatten in the oven)
Bake for 20-25 minutes
Let cool completely (biscuits will get more crispy when cool)

Assuming 12 biscuits are made from the amounts listed above, per biscuit: 75 cal, 0.8g net carbs, 7g fat, 3g protein.

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Products you might be interested in (delivery to UK and EU)

Sugar-Free Cocoa Powder 125g

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Venezuelan Black Cacao 100%

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