Coconut Macaroons

Only had medium size eggs so used 1 cup of coconut and made 5 instead of 6

1 1/2 cup shredded coconut
2 Large Egg Whites 
1 Tbsp Swerve
1 Tsp Almond
Melted chocolate to decorate

1. Whisk egg whites till frothy
2. Slowly blend in rest of ingredients
3. Make mounds onto grease proof paper
4. Bake Gas 5 / Fan 160 for 15-20 minutes
5. Allow to cool before decorating

Net Carbs 2 / Calories 125

My Mum's Bread Pudding

A lovely way to use up those crusts - I got 12 large squares

11 slices bread (crusts and slightly stale are good)

2 eggs

3oz sugar

4oz Margarine

6oz Fruit (Sultanas, Currants, Raisins)

1 ½ tbsp Black Treacle

1 tsp Mixed Spice

½ tsp Nutmeg

1.    Heat Oven Gas mark 2 (150c)

2.    Soak bread in water for about 2 hours

3.    Squeeze water out of bread

4.    Cut margarine into small pieces

5.    Mix all ingredients well together

6.    Place in a large baking dish

7.    Bake for 2 to 2 ½ hours until solid

8.    Sprinkle with sugar (if desired)

9.     Cut into squares

Lemon Pound Cake

Managed to get 7 slices (should be 8) but very tasty.

Calories: 174kcal / Net Carbs 3.9

Ingredients

·         3 eggs - at room temperature

·         3/8 cup erythritol or xylitol (75g)

·         1/4 cup melted butter (60 ml)

·         1 cups almond flour (110 g)

·         1/8 cup coconut flour (20 g)

·         1/2 tablespoon baking powder

·         1/4 cup lemon juice (60 ml)

·         1/2 tablespoon lemon zest - optional

Lemon glazing

·         1 cup powdered erythritol

·         2 tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions

1.            Preheat oven to 180C (350F). Line a loaf pan with a piece of parchment paper. Slightly oil the paper to make sure the pound cake don't stick to the pan. Set aside.

2.            In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar free crystal sweetener, melted coconut oil (or butter) and lemon juice. Make sure that your coconut oil is not burning hot or it will 'cook' the eggs and create lumps. All your ingredients must be roughly at same temperature, think room temperature especially the eggs and lemon juice. Cold ingredients, just out of the fridge will solidify the coconut oil creating oil lumps. Otherwise use melted butter to prevent this to happens. Set aside.

3.            In a different large mixing bowl, whisk together the almond flour, coconut flour and baking powder. Stir to evenly combine the flours.

4.            Pour the liquid ingredients onto the dry ingredients.

5.            Stir all the ingredients together with a baking spoon until it forms a consistent cake batter with no lumps. Combine for at least 2 minutes to make sure the coconut flour fiber absorb the moisture.

6.            Transfer the cake batter onto the loaf pan. Make sure you are using the same loaf pan size or it will impact your baking time.

7.            Place the loaf pan in the center of your oven and bake at 180C (350F), fan-forced mode if you can for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes decrease temperature to 160C (320F) and cover the loaf pan with a loose piece foil. This will avoid the top to burn and the middle to bake slowly. Keep baking for 45- 60 minutes in total, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the pound cake comes out with little to no crumbs on it.

8.            Cool for 10 minutes in the loaf pan, then lift out the pound cake from the pan using the parchment paper.

9.            Transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. It is a thick cake and it usually takes 3 hours to fully cool. Be patient and add the lemon glazing on the cake when it reach room temperature, not before!

Lemon glazing

1.            To make the lemon glazing, whisk together the sugar free powdered erythritol with lemon juice until no lumps remain. If needed add more lemon juice to get a thinner glazing or more powdered sweetener to get a thicker glazing.

2.            Drizzle consistency over the cooled pound cake.

3.            You can place the cake few minutes in the freezer to set the glazing if too runny.

4.            Store your cake in the pantry on a cake box for up to 3 or 4 days. Slice before serving to keep the cake moist.