Sticking to a very low carb egg fast diet plan doesn’t have to eliminate sweets. You can enjoy this egg fast cloud cake during your fast.
Today’s my birthday! Since I’ve been egg fasting, I’m celebrating with an egg fast cloud cake. My weight has really come down over the last two weeks so I made a super low carb cake to keep me in ketosis.
As a food blogger, I get my hands in lots of yummy dishes every week. I typically experiment with recipes every weekend as I work as an engineer full-time.
The good thing is that I usually make enough food over the weekend to get me through the work week. Unfortunately, I tend to overeat, particularly when it comes to the sweet recipes.
Over the last year, I’ve come to realize that the low carb sweets have caused me to gain weight. I think the sweet taste triggers my hunger so I eat more than I should.
This year, I have been cutting back on sweets. And, guess what? Sweets are starting to look really disgusting to me.
My love for sweet food is not like it used to be. I’ve been gradually cutting back on the sweetener I use. As a result, I find I’m less hungry during the day.
Even though low carb sweeteners like erythritol don’t spike insulin, I think there must be something else affected. It could be leptin or ghrelin which are other hormones shown to affect weight in humans.
Leptin and ghrelin are known as the hunger hormones. Leptin decreases appetite while ghrelin increases it.
It’s been shown that many severely overweight people have grown leptin resistant causing them to overeat. Leptin appears to be the major hunger hormone and some think it may actually regulate ghrelin.
Based on my own experience and the information I’ve read online, I’m convinced the two hunger hormones are affected by eating sweet foods.
When I eat low carb sweets, I am hungrier and overeat. This has caused my weight to slowly increase even on a low carb diet.
When I go on an egg fast, I typically stay away from sugar alcohols. However, I ended up using a little Sukrin Melis in the frosting for this egg fast cloud cake.
I had three failed attempts at using stevia and monk fruit extracts to sweeten the frosting. So, I decided to break the sugar alcohol rule for my birthday since it only comes around once a year.
I’ll continue working on a frosting recipe that doesn’t contain any sugar alcohols or fiber sweetener. Overusing both of those types of sweeteners appears to make me gain weight due to overeating.
I also added in a bit of cream cheese to the frosting even though it ups the cheese ratio which is against the egg fast rules. The cream cheese offsets the cooling taste of the erythritol. But, an extra ounce of cheese spread between four servings isn’t going to hurt!
Buttercream frosting is my favorite so that’s what I wanted to use on this egg fast cloud cake. I also flavored the icing with a little instant espresso powder to give it a coffee flavor.
This yummy low carb egg fast cloud cake with coffee buttercream frosting really hit the spot during my second week of egg fasting. I did notice that my hunger was slightly increased from the erythritol.
The erythritol amount in the cake is only about 10 grams per serving. And, I was eating half portion servings so I was only getting 5 grams a slice.
I think the key for using erythritol blend sweeteners like Swerve and Sukrin is to use as little as possible. Many low carb dessert recipes are adding too much erythritol because it doesn’t impact insulin.
However, you also need to consider the role that erythritol and other low carb sweeteners have on leptin and ghrelin. Keeping these hunger hormones balanced will help you keep weight off.
Egg Fast Cloud Cake with Coffee Buttercream
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📖 Recipe
Egg Fast Cloud Cake
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Ingredients
Cake:
- 2 eggs
- 2 ounces mascarpone cheese or cream cheese
- 20 vanilla stevia drops
- pinch salt
- pinch cream of tartar optional
Frosting:
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 1 ounce cream cheese softened (or mascarpone cheese)
- 2 tablespoons Sukrin Melis or Swerve Confectioners
- ¼ teaspoon instant espresso powder
Instructions
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 300°F. Line baking pan with parchment paper or silicone liner or use greased muffin top pan.
- Separate the eggs into separate bowl.
- Add the macarpone cheese, stevia, and salt to the yolks. Blend well with an electric mixer.
- Sprinkle cream of tartar on the egg whites if desired. Whip with a clean electric mixer until very stiff.
- Using a spatula, gradually fold the egg yolk mixture into the white mixture. Try not to break down the egg white, you want it to stay fluffy.
- Spoon 4 mounds of the mixture onto the prepared baking pan or molds. Flatten each mound slightly.
- Bake for about 25-30 minutes. Do not over bake or they can become crumbly.
- Cool on the baking pan for 3-5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
- Allow the cakes to dry on rack for the day.
Frosting:
- Whip all frosting ingredients together until fluffy.
- Frost the top of each cake layer, stacking on top of each other.
Notes
Low Carb Sweeteners | Keto Sweetener Conversion Chart
Nutrition
Additional Info
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Caroline Videmark
The switch between us and metric doesn’t work :-/
Lisa MarcAurele
It should be fixed now. I found the issue.
Tammy
This is so good! (Too bad I can’t add my own photo.) It was much sweeter than I had anticipated… Is the swerve confectioners really supposed to be 2 tablespoons instead of 2 teaspoons?
And I wonder, if there are only two eggs in it why are there four servings in it? 😀
Lisa MarcAurele
The frosting should have 2 tablespoons of Swerve (or Sukrin) confectioner sweetener. I was only eating 1/4th of the cake at a time but if you want a half cake serving, you can certainly double the nutritional data.
Rachel green
So 2 tsp of sukrin has 6g carbs and you are calling for 2 tbsp? That seems carb heavy, especially for an egg fast. No?
Lisa MarcAurele
You can skip the frosting all together as I generally don’t use erythritol on an egg fast. However, I was egg fasting on my birthday and made an exception. Also, the erythritol carbs generally don’t impact so they aren’t included in the total carb count.
Shannon Morris
I know this is a super late reply but just in case someone else reads the question, sukrin is largely erythritol, which is a sugar alcohol. Sugar alcohol get subtracted from total carbs, leaving zero net carbs
Kalena
I just found this recipe and was wondering if you could tell me about the pan you baked these in. I would like to find one if I can. Thank you!
Lisa MarcAurele
I used a muffin top pan, but any small round pan about 4 inches in diameter works. You could use bigger pans, but the baking time will change.
Patti
Hi,
This looks yummy!! Just a quick question on the serving size. Assemble the cake, cut the stack into 4 pieces and that is the serving size? Thanks!!
Lisa
Yes! That’s how I did it. Each slice is pretty filling too even though small.
Cameron A.
I just wanted to tip my hat and say thanks. This looks amazing. Definitely going to try it next weekend. (The weekends are the time I can usually relax enough to try some recipes lol.) Just got out of the army and cooking on my own now and starting right with Keto. Tell you what though, this recipe is already starred in my favorites. 🙂
Lisa
Hope you love this cake as much as I do!
monika
The picture is of this recipe DOUBLED, correct?
Lisa
It’s the entire recipe that made 4 cloud cakes and frosting.
Diana
Oh my, can’t believe I haven’t commented about this recipe yet! It’s divine!
I’ve also made it with cocoa, straight up vanilla, rum combinations.
I’ve been trying to incorporate more eggs in my routine, these egg fast recipes are great!
Thank you!
Lisa
Those variations sound delicious!
Wendy W
Are Mascarpone cheese and cream cheese interchangeable? I’d never heard of Mascarpone cheese before seeing this recipe… I have a lot of cream cheese on hand, but I could go buy some Mascarpone if it’s not close enough.
Lisa
They are close, but mascarpone is much creamier and not sour like cream cheese. You can make something similar using cream cheese and heavy cream. For details, check out this article.
Antoinette
Hi Lisa,
Awesome recipe! Can’t wait to try it as I’m mid egg fast! Just wondering couldn’t this entire recipe be classified as 1 full egg fast meal? As it has 2 eggs, 2 fats and It just has 1 extra ounce of cream cheese, but if you omit 1 ounce from another meal in the day then you’d be sticking to your ratios? Does that make sense? Pretty much just asking if you could eat the whole thing as a meal! 🙂
Thanks,
Antoinette
Lisa
It would be a very filling to eat the whole thing. But, technically, it would count as an entire egg fast meal.
Karen
Hey! I’m trying out your recipe right now. Couple things… you didn’t mention when you add the stevia. Also, did you happen to make a lot more icing for your pictures? Anyway, thanks for sharing this idea. It’s making my egg fasting a lot more interesting!
Lisa
I added stevia with the mascarpone cheese and salt before blending into the yolks.
Kirsten Dangler
I feel your pain. I think sweets do the same to me. I use stevia.
My question is, can you use another flavor? I love coffee, but in a cup. What other flavors do you prefer and how do you achieve them.
Love, love, love your recipes.
What is an egg fast?
Lisa
Hi Kirsten! You could omit the coffee and just add about 1/2 teaspoon extract. Vanilla is a good choice. If you’d like chocolate and don’t mind extra carbs, you could add a little cocoa too.
Michele Clow
This is probably a silly question, but do you think I could use instant coffee other than the instant espresso because I already have that?
Lisa
Any instant coffee works. I just prefer the stronger flavor of espresso.
Linda
Hi Lisa
Happy belated birthday!! Hope it was a great one and wishing you a wonderful year ahead! Thanks for all the great recipes you share, especially your Shake n Bake. My non-gf, fussy 81 father just loves this. This is a very high compliment coming from him!
Linda ?
Lisa
Thanks Linda!
Alice Bledsoe
Happy Birthday, Lisa! I hope it was awesome, just as you deserve. Thank you for all your work and care.
Will be making this cake soon!
Alice B.
Lisa
Thanks so much Alice. I hope you enjoy the cake as much as I did!
Traci E.
So glad to hear you are understanding your sweet craving. I am so the other way, not that I don’t like a wonderful piece of cake or pastry but it really has to be wonderful and not over sweet. I find almost every commercially sweetened product to be disgustingly over sweet and the whole idea of putting sugar in peanut butter is probably at fault for the beginning of the american epidemic of children with obesity. What I miss is carbs with fat, greasy french fries, rice with lots of butter and soy sauce, egg noodles buried in mounds of sour cream stroganov sauce. But I handle it better than I ever would have thought. I will be egg fasting soon, not as a stupid pet trick to drop pounds but as a respite from the chaos of life made more challenging by a way of eating that is sometimes complicated and unappreciated by others. If that happens to coincide with my birthday in mid May I will be happy to reward myself for another successful trip around the sun by making and eating this cake. Personally erythritol is my sweetener of choice as it leaves no freaky chemical taste in my mouth afterward and I use it mostly in coffee or iced tea so not a lot is consumed in my one cup or glass regimen. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, it is motivating.
Lisa
I only have issues with erythritol if I use too much. The small amount in a beverage isn’t enough to really have an effect. I’m going to better track the grams of erythritol before working on recipes to ensure it won’t be too high per serving. That’s something I wasn’t doing before.
Kristen Chidsey
I hope you have a great birthday! Looks like you have found a perfect way to celebrate!
Lisa
Thanks Kristen! 🙂