A tasty gluten-free French toast bagel that's sure to please. It's perfect with butter spread on top! This low-carb bagel is great for breakfast on the go.
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Did you know you can have bagels on a low-carb diet? I recently discovered how easy it is to bake them up using a donut pan!
I really enjoyed the garlic bagels that I made a few weeks ago. Since they were so good, I figured I'd modify the recipe a little to make a different flavor for a low-carb bagel.
To keep in line with breakfast, I decided to make french toast bagels! They have the same great flavor that you'd get from keto french toast but in a portable version.
💛 Why you’ll love it
If you've ever been to Panera Bread, you know that these circle-shaped baked goods come in a multitude of flavors. My son especially likes their cinnamon crunch bagel (tastes like French toast)!
So that's how I got the idea to try and do a similar flavor with these low-carb French toast bagels.
Of course, these aren't a true "bagel". Instead, they are more of a quick bread baked into circular shapes. However, they do make you feel like you are indulging in a forbidden treat.
To be honest, I haven't really found anything that can't be turned into a healthier low-carb version. Sure, some things are easier than others.
Following a low-carb way of eating isn't much different than the standard diet. The difference is in the ingredients.
📋 Ingredients
The secret to making french toast bagels is the coconut flour batter.
Wet ingredients
There are only two wet ingredients in this recipe, so the bagel dough is pretty dry and crumbly. You'll need unsalted butter and eggs.
These two ingredients are very important because they bind everything together.
Sweetener and spices
To make sure that these gluten-free bagels tasted like French toast, I used:
- Cinnamon
- Sugar-free vanilla extract
- Maple extract
The maple extract is a really easy way to make it taste like I used maple syrup - without all of the sugar!
For the sweetener, you can either use some drops of Stevia glycerite or Swerve sweetener.
Dry ingredients
Coconut flour has the best texture for the French toast bagels. Use xanthan gum to hold it all together. The baking powder is essential for giving the bagels some lift, so they aren't heavy or dense.
One of the things I changed in the original recipe was to add guar gum. Bread made with coconut flour can tend to be a little spongy, and adding guar or xanthan gum will give your French toast bagel a more bread-like texture.
It seemed to make a difference, so I updated the garlic bagels to (optionally) call for guar or xanthan gum.
Please note: Check out the recipe card at the bottom for a full list of ingredients used to make this low-carb recipe.
💭 Tips
- Use an electric or stand mixer. This works so much better than mixing it by hand.
- Replace xanthan gum with guar gum. They can be used as substitutes for each other in a 1:1 ratio.
- Grease a donut pan because the bagel dough tends to stick to the pan.
- Create a cinnamon crunch topping to sprinkle on top before baking. This is optional but makes it taste amazing! Mix together brown sugar substitute, cinnamon, and butter.
🔪 Instructions
Making your own bagels is super easy to do!
Have you ever made donuts or cookies? Then you can make these keto bagels. It's so simple that your older kids can make them too.
Mix the wet ingredients
First, mix together the eggs, butter, vanilla, maple extract, sweetener, and cinnamon in a large bowl. Make sure it is completely mixed together.
Combine dry ingredients
In a separate bowl, mix together the coconut flour with the baking powder and xanthan gum.
Add dry ingredients to the wet
Slowly whisk the coconut flour mixture in with the butter and egg mixture. Keep mixing until the dough forms.
Bake the bagels
Add the batter to a greased donut pan. Bake it at 400°F for about 15 minutes, or until you insert a toothpick into a French toast bagel and it comes out clean.
🍽️ Serving suggestions
This is one of my favorite keto breakfast ideas! Enjoy a halved French toast bagel with a few of your other breakfast favorites.
You can eat the bagel drizzled with a little keto maple syrup. Or, spread a bit of cinnamon cream cheese over the top.
Consider serving the French toast bagels with some fresh fruit (like berries). Start your day off right!
Hey coffee lovers, make this easy sugar-free peppermint mocha latte. You'll feel like you are at a coffee shop with your sweet bagel and latte.
If you are headed out the door, make some quick keto egg bites before you go. They are just as portable as these bagels and will give you a boost of protein.
🙋 FAQs
Before we get to the printable recipe card, here are some questions people often ask about how to make French toast bagels.
The low-carb bagel did indeed taste like a popular breakfast dish. And, some people may want to add a little maple syrup on top. I chose to have mine with a little butter.
Just use sugar-free versions of your favorite french toast bagel toppings.
Open the bagel halves, toast until golden brown, and spread some cinnamon whipped cream cheese on them.
Of course, it is hard to compare this low-carb bagel to a high-carb restaurant chain version. But it did make a nice filling breakfast for me!
This recipe is really easy to change. Use it just like you would thick sliced bread and make some delicious sandwiches.
Or, add some sugar-free chocolate chips and make chocolate chip bagels.
Don't add the cinnamon-sugar mixture, and you have plain bagels. You can also add a few raisins and make keto cinnamon raisin bagels.
Store remaining bagels in an airtight bag or container at room temperature. They will stay fresh for about a week.
If you miss treating yourself to those bagels you see in the donut or bread shops, don't feel deprived. It's pretty easy to whip up your own low-carb French toast bagel creation.
Once you learn how to make your favorite treats from your high-carb days, you'll find no reason to ever go back to unhealthy eating. And, the longer you stick to a keto diet, the less you will want those treats.
📚 Related recipes
Along with these low-carb French toast bagels, you can enjoy other breads on the keto diet! Make one of these low-carb breads and enjoy a traditional lunch or snack, even when you are counting carbs.
- Coconut Flour Tortillas only have 3 grams net carbs in each serving and are the perfect thing for tacos.
- Keto Cheddar Biscuits are popular with kids and adults - and taste amazing with seafood.
- Low-Carb Hamburger Buns are perfect for chicken sandwiches too.
- Keto Naan Bread is a fantastic flatbread that you can share when you make any type of Indian food.
- Buttery Keto Croissants are a yummy finger-food that kids will gobble up!
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📖 Recipe
Gluten-Free French Toast Bagels
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup butter melted
- 6 eggs
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons sugar-free vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- 5-10 drops stevia glycerite or 1 to 1 ½ tablespoons Swerve sweetener
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup sifted coconut flour
- ½ teaspoon xanthan gum or guar gum (optional)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
- Blend together eggs, butter, cinnamon, vanilla extract, maple extract, stevia, and salt.
- Combine coconut flour with baking powder and guar or xanthan gum (if using).
- Whisk coconut flour mixture into batter until there are no lumps.
- Spoon into a greased donut pan. Bake at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes.
Notes
Low Carb Sweeteners | Keto Sweetener Conversion Chart
Nutrition
Additional Info
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First Published: March 27, 2011… Last Updated: February 17, 2022, with new photos and additional recipe information.
Mal Edie
Can ya use keto maple syrup if u don't have maple extract?
Lisa MarcAurele
Yes. Maple flavored syrup a great way to add in the flavor if you don't have extract.
Becky
OH MY! SOOOO easy, quick and DELICIOUS!! TY Grrrl!! Winner! These will be in my 5 star pile for frequent do-overs!! Bless You for all You do to keep us happy and healthy!! Virtual HUGS!
Becky
oopsie... I also made a log of the dough, divided in half and each half in 1/3rds and made another log and put in my donut pan! Worked like a charm! I used keto maple syrup instead of... some of the stevia?? MAGNIFICENT! TY again!!
Monica
what happens if you don't use the xanthan gum?
Lisa
I've done it without and it's fine.
Becky
zanthan gum helps give it some gluten type structure and add a more bagel like texture than just cakey, but I'm sure they go down great either way! 😉
Lil
I just made these and boy are they yummy!! I didn't have the maple extract so I just added more vanilla... also baked them in a muffin tin. They came out great...more like a muffin than a bagel in consistency but so very tasty! Thanks for the recipe.
Lisa
Thanks for sharing the idea to make these in a muffin pan and that extra vanilla works too!
Tishy
Just had the French toast bagel as part of my lunch with some bacon and oh my how good it was I enjoyed the recipe a lot. For me I might add a little bit more sugar and little bit more cinnamon but I wouldn't change anything else. Thank you for that recipe it was easy. Oh by the way I used my stick blender to mix the liquids made it so much smoother that the better blended quite easy thank you
Lisa MarcAurele
Thanks for the tip on using a stick blender! I don't use mine as much as I should.
Daizy Virk Pace
Hi,
I made the recipe i love the texture but bagels were very bland not very flavorful. How can i modify the flavorful ? I taste kind of bland bread or can i make cinnamon raisin bagel alternative?
Lisa
It should have had a cinnamon maple flavor. You can add in more extract and cinnamon if needed.
Sheryl
Thank you for another great recipe. I'm going to make the onion bagels next 🙂
Lisa
Glad they worked out!
Sherri Loughlean
The instructions don't say when to add the maple extract, vanilla, stevia and cinnamon so I just added them to the wet and dry ingredient mixtures. In the oven now so I will let you know how it turns out. Thank you.
Lisa
Fixed!
Erin
I just want to say that your recipes keep blowing me away....
I have tried so many low carb recipes only to end up tossing the awful creation in the trash.
But your recipes work... and work well! Every. Single. Time.
Also, so adaptable, I made this recipe into a loaf of bread... then again as a sweet chocolate loaf by adding cocoa, sweeteners and no sugar choc chips.
So, thank you!!!
Lisa
Thanks Erin. I love that you turned this into a loaf of bread.
Lynette
How long would you bake these for in a bread pan?
Lisa MarcAurele
It would depend on the size of the loaf. But I'd try baking for about 30-40 minutes at 350°F.
Tracy
Do you really add 5-10 Tablespoons of stevia glycerite? That seems like a LOT!
Lisa
That got messed up when the recipe card was converted. Fixed!
Dawn H
2.5 year old approved!!
Lisa
Awesome! Love when kids don't fuss eating low carb.
Timi
Made these babies today...I didn't have a bagel/doughnut pan so I used muffin cases....they turned out pretty good...they passed the picky daughter test 😀 and on the plus side no nuts, so they are suitable for childcare too 😀
Lisa
Awesome! The picky daughter test is always a tough one to pass. 😉
Debbie
I love the garlic bagel recipe-made it several times now and they make good "dunkers" into over-easy eggs or "bread" for a sandwich. Can't wait to try this version!
Lisa
Hope you like this one too!
Angela K
I love the sound of this recipe but I'm allergic to coconut!! Any suggestions on replacements to keep it yummy and low carb still?
Lisa
You could try using almond flour or sunflower seed meal, but you'd need more and possibly some chia or psyllium to help it stick together. You should also be able to reduce the eggs to 4 or less. It's hard to say without experimenting.
Esther
hi, i'm wondering what stevia glycerite is? is it the same as clear pure liquid stevia? i have that, and pure stevia extract powder. thanks. 🙂
Lisa
Stevia glycerite is a stevia extract in glycerine base. I buy the NOW brand. I believe you could substitute either liquid or powdered extract in about the same amount. It may need some tasting to get the right amount, though.
Diane
Getting ready to make these...but I'm wondering if you really use Garlic Powder in them? It's listed in the instructions, but not the ingredients...Thanks!
Lisa
Oops. Good catch. No garlic powder in these. I forgot to delete as this recipe is a modification of the garlic bagels.