Here we go, friends! Kids are back in school, leaves are starting to turn, and pumpkin spice recipes abound. And I am climbing aboard that train as fast as I can, because I do love pumpkin. This pumpkin caramel bundt cake is a delicious low carb way to kick of the autumnal season.
Preheat oven to 325F and grease a 9-inch bundt pan very well.
In a large bowl, whisk together the almond flour, coconut flour, sweetener, protein powder, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, ginger, and cloves.
Stir in pumpkin puree, eggs, butter, 1/2 cup water, and vanilla extract. If your puree is very water, you probably won’t have to add more water. If it is thicker, add enough water to make the batter spreadable (it should not be so thin as to be pourable).
Transfer batter to prepared bundt pan and bake 55 to 60 minutes, or until cake is set and a tester inserted in center comes out clean. Remove and let cool 15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Glaze:
In a small saucepan over low heat, melt butter with molasses or yacon syrup, stirring until smooth.
Remove from heat and stir in powdered sweetener, caramel extract and whipping cream. Drizzle over cooled cake.
Yield: 16
Cholesterol: 65mg
Food energy: 212 kcal
Total fat: 16.47g
Calories from fat: 148
Carbohydrate: 9.19g
Protein per serving: 7.61g
Total dietary fiber: 3.98g
Notes
*Please note that the glaze on this cake depends on a powdered erythritol sweetener for the proper consistency. Erythritol contains carbs but studies show that for most people, those carbs don’t affect blood sugar. If you need to count the total carbs, please add the erythritol grams listed at the bottom of the nutritional information.
Carolyn Ketchum writes All Day I Dream About Food, a food blog that focuses primarily on low carb, gluten free recipes. She has a Masters in Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution from Arizona State University and has an extensive background in higher education administration. She currently lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. You can check out her experiments with low carb baking at All Day I Dream About Food.
Can I use egg white protein instead of whey? Whey spikes my sister’s numbers and she’s coming to visit
This is an outstanding cake – I made it last fall and took it to work for a function and it was a hit!