Experimental Breads & Cakes

Yeah sometimes you get a hankering for bread. Cake. Sometimes finished keto bread products or pre-packaged mixes are available in grocery stores. Some recipes for keto breads with almond flour or coconut flour are easily found on the Internet, but I find them hit-or-miss. Nevertheless, if you want to make it yourself, here are some attempts to satisfy those cravings in a Keto manner.

Keto Mock Cheesecake

Ingredients -- Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian
Real cheesecake is generally keto, except for any crust. This is kind-of an all-purpose breakfast or dessert loaf which is slightly easier to make than real cheesecake.

1+1/2 cups Greek yogurt (or cottage cheese blended smooth; Note - Ricotta cheese was too salty)
4 eggs
3 Tbsp maple syrup, or another keto sweetener such as coconut sugar
2 Tbsp keto flour of choice (coconut flour, almond, oat, quinoa, etc.)
consider: touch of sweetener such as maple syrup or fruit syrup
generous 1 tbsp. vanilla ; pinch of baking soda, pinch of Xanthan gum
1 cup blueberries

Suggest baking the blueberries in a single layer on a baking pan, maybe 325 degrees for 25 minutes, to eliminate some of the moisture that the blueberries would otherwise bleed into the dish. Dried fruit would also work.
Combine all other ingredients, saving the blueberries to mix in last.
Bake in a different shallow pan lined with parchment, at 340 degrees F for 30 minutes. Edges should be golden brown.

Blueberry Butter Swim Bread

Ingredients -- Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian
I suppose this is called Swim Bread because it's swimming in butter. From the weird "Drew Cooks" YouTube channel.

2+1/2 cups keto flour of choice (coconut flour, almond, oat, quinoa, etc.)
1/4 cup granulated keto sweetener (such as allulose and/or monkfruit)
1 Tbsp baking powder, recommend a pinch of Xanthan gum
1/2 tsp. salt
dash of vanilla
1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter
1+3/4 cups buttermilk
1+1/2 cup blueberries

Whisk the dry ingredients together, then add the vanilla and buttermilk. Mix until you get a sticky dough ball. Next stir in the blueberries.
Grease a 9x9 deep baking dish generously with all the melted unsalted butter. Plop the dough ball in (gently, don't splash the butter everywhere). Level it and spread it out a bit with a spatula (doesn’t have to be perfect). Pre-cut the dough into 9 slices before baking. It will rise up above the top of the dish.
Bake at 450 degrees F for 25-30 minutes, checking to be sure it’s golden brown, but not burnt.
Drew recommends a powdered sugar icing, but I will use my cream cheese icing. Spread the icing over the hot bread, serve the dish when cool.

Savory variation: Sausage Gravy Swim Biscuits !
Spread 2 cans of store-bought sausage/gravy on the bottom of the baking pan, before spreading the same dough recipe on top (same as above, except omit the sweetener). Top with additional 1/2 stick (2 ounces) melted butter before baking.

Keto Fruit Pie

Ingredients -- Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian
Some keto pizza recipes use a crust made from cottage cheese (blended) or cream cheese. This type of "crust" might serve for a pie, but it'd come out more like a strudel, with a soft crust. A sweet pastry version of the cream cheese type crust might go like this:

1 (8 oz) package of full fat cream cheese, and/or substitute some portion with cottage cheese blended smooth in a blender -- room temperature (note: Ricotta cheese works for savory pies, but it's much too salty for sweet fruit pies.)
2 eggs
2 Tbsp maple syrup, or another keto sweetener such as monkfruit or coconut sugar
2 Tbsp oat flour, or keto flour of choice (coconut flour, almond, quinoa, etc.)
consider: pinch of baking soda, pinch of Xanthan gum, healthy dash of vanilla; pinch of cinnamon if compatible

Filling:

Suggestions include blackberries &/or rhubarb, blended with Chia seeds or gelatin, plus water; or maybe sliced apples soaked in lemon to make a "sharlotke" (Russian fruit tart with dry filling), etc. Look for "Solo" pie filling with lower-sugar fruits, such as their Poppyseed filling plus some plums or whatnot.

Line a shallow 9x9 baking pan with parchment paper, then spray oil or Pam onto the paper. Mix the crust ingredients well, spread them into the pan, and bake at 340 degrees F for 30 minutes. Watch to see if the edges brown. When it's done, it should be solid enough to pull out the paper from the pan without the crust breaking up or falling apart. Now flip the crust back into the baking sheet so that it's upside-down from the way it was first baked.
Add the filling and bake again at 350 degrees F for another 30 minutes.

Keto Pizza Crust

Ingredients -- Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian
Here's an example of a keto pizza crusts recipe similar to the above. This type of "crust" doesn't really come out crispy, but it's serviceable.

2 eggs
1 (8 oz) package of full fat cream cheese, and/or substitute some portion with Ricotta cheese -- room temperature
1/4 tsp ground black pepper ; 1 tsp garlic powder
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
pinch of Xanthan gum

Topping:

Suggestions include my Spinach Tofu Flan, or regular pizza toppings.

Line a shallow small baking sheet with parchment paper, then spray oil or Pam onto the paper. Mix the crust ingredients well, spread them into the baking sheet, and bake at 340 degrees F for 30 minutes. Watch to see if the edges brown. When it's done, it should be solid enough to pull out the paper from the pan without the crust breaking up or falling apart. Now flip the crust back into the baking sheet so that it's upside-down from the way it was first baked.
Spread the topping evenly, and bake again at 350 degrees F for another 30 minutes (if you're trying to cook the filling ingredients somehow, like my Flan; if you're just melting cheese and crisping pepperoni, this time can likely be reduced).

Carnivore Bread

Ingredients -- Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian
This loaf works well as a keto substitute for French Toast by itself (because it's full of eggs). To serve as French Toast, brown each slice a little more, top with whip cream and some sort of keto syrup (allulose maple syrup substitute, or just use regular maple syrup).

4 eggs (room temp)
12 oz Cream Cheese (also room temp)
4 oz (1 stick) butter (softened)
1 cup Egg White Powder (or vegetarian egg-white-substitute powder? If necessary, try powdered milk or powdered goat milk instead, but it doesn’t come out as well)
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Cream of Tartar
pinch of Xanthan gum
2 tsp. gelatin powder

Whisk together the whole eggs, cream cheese, and butter, until creamy. Stir in all the powders.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line a 9x5 loaf pan with parchment. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes. The outside of the loaf should look deep golden brown, like regular bread crust, when done. Cool completely before cutting.

Meringue advertised as "Cloud Bread"

Ingredients -- Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian
Some YouTuber advertised this as pull-apart dessert bread, as if they'd never heard of Meringue before...

about 11 ounces (300 ml) egg whites
Dash of vanilla, and/or "Flavor drops" such as unsweetened water hydration flavor drops (depending what flavor your protein powder might already have)
Protein powder, (recipe was vague, maybe start with 1/4 cup??)

Mix the egg whites, and any flavoring, with an electric mixer for 8 minutes to get them really fluffy and stiff. Add the protein powder. Again this recipe was vague, but suggest trying to bake the mix in a large parchment-lined baking pan at 340 degrees F for 40 minutes.