Keto chocolate mug cake with strawberry sauce
The post-nap craving fix, ready in 3 minutes
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 3 min
- Servings
- 2
- Net carbs
- 7.05 g
This is the story of a woman who woke up from her nap with a HUGE sweet craving 😅 (for the first time since getting into ketosis). Luckily, she was well prepared and had saved loads of recipes, so she searched and searched until she found the perfect chocolate mug cake, no oven needed: she was in a hurry before she started eyeing up her kids’ biscuits.
Once the cake was done, she realised there was no cream left to whip… so, on a whim, she blended frozen strawberries with Greek yogurt and ended up with a wonderful sweet sauce to drown it in. And she was very, very happy, until her husband decided to steal half of it. Then she was just very happy 😂.
Method
- Mix all the mug cake ingredients in a microwave-safe bowl until smooth. A bowl works better: a mug is a bit small.
- Microwave for 2½ minutes on full power.
- Blend the sauce: yogurt, frozen strawberries and, if you like, a little erythritol, until smooth.
- Turn the cake out onto a plate and pour the sauce all over it. Enjoy! 🥳
psst… House tips
- If you use a food processor, increase the speed gradually: go straight to full speed and the sauce ends up all over the counter 😂.
- Almost half the carbs come from the sauce. If you want fewer, use just half.
- Moral of the story: make a double batch, or make it look so bad nobody asks for any 😅.
The mug cake is by the brilliant @ketoretobea; the strawberry sauce, an emergency invention that stuck around for good.
Nutrition facts
Per serving (half a mug cake with its sauce)
Where do the net carbs come from?
Whole recipe: 553 kcal · 18.3 g protein · 46.6 g fat · 14.1 g Net carbs
- Egg (~50 g)0.3 g
- Almond flour (24 g)2.1 g
- Whipping cream (45 g)1.4 g
- Unsweetened cocoa powder (6 g)1.3 g
- Baking powder (4 g)1.1 g
- Erythritol (15 g)0 g
- Greek yogurt (125 g)5 g
- Frozen strawberries (50 g)2.9 g
Erythritol doesn’t count: the body doesn’t use it. What are net carbs?
