Behind starburst eyes

I am now on my 7th day of Keto! So far I’ve lost 6.8lbs, and 1/4inch off each measurement (waist, arms, legs, and hips). I know some is water weight bloat disappearing, and I’m fine with that 🙂 I’m super excited to see what I’m at next week for my measurements and weight!

To celebrate, I of course made another mug cake lol. This time I went for lemon flavored 😃 I couldn’t find any specific recipe I wanted so I altered one. As I’ve realized that the base of most of the keto mug cakes is the same for the almond flour, butter, coconut flour, baking powder, and sweetner. Below is my Lemon Mug Cake Recipe and Nutritional info for it.

Ingredients:

• 2 Tbsp butter, melted
• 2 Tbsp sweetener (I used Monkfruit with erthyitol)
• 1 Tbsp coconut flour
• 1/4 cup almond flour
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 teaspoon of lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons of grated lemon peel
• 2 Tbsp of heavy cream (35%)

Recipe:

• Melt the butter in the microwave
• Add all wet ingredients to the melted butter
• Mix all dry goods in a bowl together
• Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients
• Divide batter into 2 microwave safe mugs
• Sprinkle a half a teaspoon of the lemon peel on the top of the batter
• Bake each mug cake for 90 seconds in the microwave
• Top with your favorite keto cream cheese icing, keto whipped cream or keto ice cream
• Sprinkle the remaining lemon zest on top
• Enjoy!

The nutritional information was calculated using the app CarbManager and does not include icing, whipped cream or ice cream and is per mug:

• Calories: 280kals
• Total Carbs: 18.7g
• Sugar Alcohols: 12g
• Net Carbs: 3.1g
• Fiber: 3.1g
• Protein: 7.1g
• Fat: 26g

A note about the carbs, while the original carbs appears high, and the net carbs does not appear to add up to the total carbs minus fibers, that is because of the sugar alcohols. Normally for keto you need to minus half the sugar alcohols plus the fiber from the total carbs for the net carbs. Only, because the only sugar alcohols in this recipe are from the erythritol they all can be subtracted as our bodies don’t tend to digest sugar alcohols from erthyitol. I got that information from:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/net-carbs#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4 and from: https://www.atkins.ca/how-it-works/library/articles/ask-the-nutritionist-the-scoop-on-sugar-alcohols

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Tags: baking from scratch, gluten free baking, gluten-free, keto, keto cream cheese icing, keto dessert, keto lemon mug cake, keto mug cake, lemon cake, low carb cake, low carb lemon cake, low carb mug cake

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