Low Carb Cinnamon Rolls With Almond Flour

Keto cinnamon rolls with no cheese.

Low carb cinnamon rolls with almond flour.

Preheat the oven to 400 f and grease a 9 13 inch baking pan. These rolls are wonderful for breakfast or dessert. While those will suffice any cinnamon roll craving we think it s overused. In a small bowl mix together the dry ingredients and set aside.

No wheat no yeast no grains no sugar cinnamon rolls using grain free flours such as almond or coconut flour. But traditional wheat flour biscuit dough makes wonderful cinnamon rolls and i knew that if i could just nail an almond flour biscuit dough i could make a decent low carb cinnamon roll. Then slice into 12 pieces and bake as follows. Up along the likes of our famous keto tortillas and soft n fluffy sandwich bread and if anything i found these guys are even truer to the original i e.

Easy keto low carb fathead cinnamon rolls with icing is a quick gluten free recipe that uses almond flour mozzarella and cream cheese to produce gooey buns with sugar free glaze. The best keto cinnamon rolls. If you ve ever searched for a low carb cinnamon roll then you know most if not all highly rated ones are made using fathead dough. Mainly because this recipe tastes legit it s ooey gooey and it s just so damn quick to make plus i love love love the fact that portion control is automatically built into the recipe since all this makes is just one cinnamon roll.

Fathead dough is a mozzarella cheese based dough in which mozzarella is melted along with a bit of cream cheese and then combined with an egg and some type of flour usually almond flour or coconut flour. My dear sugar free and low carb friends i have tried many versions of healthified meaning. Mozzarella cheese cream cheese and almond flour should not be the main ingredients for cinnamon rolls. Without the gluten found in traditional wheat flour a dough made with almond flour and coconut flour simply doesn t hold together well enough to be rolled up.

And so it was a few weeks back that a biscuit y type recipe turned out well enough for me to think it might just translate. I m convinced that this is the best easy low carb keto cinnamon roll recipe in existence. Preparing the coconut flour fathead dough. You can even go for a cream cheese frosting instead of icing.

Then proceed with recipe to roll it out add cinnamon sugar filling and roll up using the ends of the parchment paper to help you roll it over. The challenge with creating gluten free low carb cinnamon rolls is that the texture doesn t lend itself well to typical low carb flours. They all taste great but their texture is either too cakey or crumbly to truly resemble the original badass cinnamon rolls of my youth.