LOW CARB CHOCOLATE LASAGNA


LOW CARB CHOCOLATE LASAGNA


Today I'd love to share with you a keto friendly dessert recipe I found on pinterest. 

The autor of this recipe is Kim from lowcarbmaven.com, she posted this chocolate lasagna back in August 2015.  It's such a popular recipe that has been repinned more than 14,000 times.

What's in this dessert:


  • homemade chocolate cookie crust (nuts, cocoa powder, coconut, natural sugar alternative, butter or coconut oil)
  • 8 ounces cream cheese and natural sugar alternative
  • homemade chocolate pudding using natural ingredients plus natural sugar alternative
  • real whipped cream
  • grated 90 % dark chocolate
Low Carb Chocolate Lasagna is entirely made from scratch with wholesome gluten-free and sugar-free ingredients | lowcarbmaven.com
Photography: momcanihavethat.com - Lowcarbmauven
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Ingredients
CHOCOLATE PUDDING
  • 1 recipe Low Carb Chocolate Pastry Cream
  • 1/4 cup almond milk, to be used at assembly
CHOCOLATE COOKIE CRUST
  • 2 cups (180 g) Honeyville Almond Flour
  • 1 cup (90 g) Bob's Red Mill Shredded Coconut
  • 1/3 cup (25 g) cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup erythritol
  • 6 tablespoons salted butter
WHIPPED CREAM
  • 2 cups (16 oz) heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons erythritol, powdered
  • 1 teaspoon stevia glycerite
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
LIGHTENED CREAM CHEESE
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 2 tablespoons almond milk
  • 2 tablespoons erythritol, powdered
  • 1/8 teaspoon stevia glycerite
  • 1 1/2 cup whipped cream, to be folded in
  • 4 squares Ghirardelli Midnight Reverie, grated
Instructions
  1. Make the Chocolate Pudding:Prepare the Low Carb Chocolate Pastry Cream and let it cool before continuing. *This can be made several days before.
  2. Make the Chocolate Cookie Crust:Grind the unsweetened coconut, 1/2 cup at a time, in a coffee/spice grinder and grind until fine. Put the ground coconut into a medium bowl. Powder the erythritol and add it and the rest of the dry ingredients to the bowl with the coconut. Whisk together to combine. Melt the butter or coconut oil and pour over the ingredients. Combine to form a moist crumbly mixture.

    1. Dump the ingredients into a 13x9 inch glass pyrex baking dish and lay a sheet of waxed paper over the mixture. First with your hands, then with a flat bottomed glass, press the chocolate crust mixture firmly into the dish. Remove the waxed paper and continue with the recipe or *bake in a preheated (350) oven for about 10 minutes and then let cool completely. *This can be made the day before.
    2. ASSEMBLING THE LOW CARB CHOCOLATE LASAGNA:
    3. Make the Whipped Cream: Whip the cream with the vanilla and sweeteners until stiff.
    4. Cream Cheese Layer: Soften the cream cheese in the microwave and then using a hand mixer, whip it with the sweeteners and almond milk until nice and light. Adding 1/2 cup of whipped cream at a time, fold 1 1/2 cups of whipped cream into the cream cheese. Spread evenly over the base and refrigerate.
    5. Chocolate Pudding Layer: With a hand mixer, whip the cold pudding. Add the 1/2 cup of almond milk and mix thoroughly. Spread over the cream cheese layer.
    6. Whipped Cream Topping: Carefully, spread the remaining whipped cream over the chocolate pudding layer and refrigerate several hours.
    7. To finish the dessert, grate chocolate or sift cocoa powder over the top.


      Although this recipe has a few steps, none are very difficult to do. Breaking the steps into a couple days is the way to go and once you have the procedure down it’s easy to make this dessert your own. Here are some ideas.

    VARIATIONS:

    • add peanut butter to the cream cheese layer or to the chocolate pudding layer
    • add mint extract to the cookie crust and the pudding for chocolate mint
    • replace the cocoa powder in the crust with vanilla whey protein powder
    • make vanilla pastry cream instead of chocolate
    • add banana or almond flavoring to the vanilla pastry cream
    • sub lemon curd for the pastry cream
    • swirl chia seed jam or blueberry sauce into the cream cheese layer
    • mix and match any of the above combinations and make it your own!
    This recipe makes a whole 13×9 inch pyrex dish of rich, layered sugar-free chocolate dessert goodness. If the recipe is too big, it can be split up between two pans and one frozen. It freezes very nicely.
    ***NOTE: Baking the bottom layer produces a shortbread-cookie-like texture: not baking, produces a sandier and softer textured bottom layer**
    Recipe Notes
    This is a VERY large dessert and easily serves 16-24 people.
    ***NOTE: Baking the bottom layer produces a shortbread-cookie-like texture: not baking, produces a sandier and softer textured bottom layer*** THIS RECIPE IS ABOUT 4 NET CARBS PER SERVING

    I found this delicious keto-friendly dessert at LOW.CARBMAVEN.COM "VISIT KIM'S WEBISTE, HER RECIPES ARE ALL LOW CARB, LCHF, KETO FRIENDLY".