This recipe for Keto Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is truly divine. It’s a light and tender low carb cake with a wonderful crumb. And each slice has just 5g net carbs.
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🎵“If you wannabe my lover, you’ve gotta get with my friends.”🎵 the Spice Girls
Greetings 👋
Today I made a super delicious Keto spice cake, so obviously, I’ve had Spice Girls songs stuck in my head all day. Interesting fact: the Spice Girls were the ones who popularized the phrase “girl power”. Not Gloria Steinem. Not Betty Friedan.
Nope, it was Spicy, Posh, Scary, Ginger, and Baby Spice. 👩🎤
But let’s talk spice cake 🍰
If you have found your way to this recipe, then I’m guessing that you are a low carb dieter who is just trying to make it through the holiday season without giving in to the temptation of sugary desserts. But fear not, this sugar-free spice cake mix has you covered.
This holiday spice cake is really good. 😋
Yep, this Keto spice cake will fool your friends and colleagues into thinking they are eating a normal sugary treat. And making this spice cake will fill your house with the aroma of the holiday season. It’s got cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves, the big four of holiday spices. In fact, it tastes a lot like a gingerbread man, only in cake form. Yum.
The creamy frosting is to die for. 👩🍳
It’s a classic cream cheese frosting made from just cream cheese, butter, and sugar-free powdered sweetener. All you need to do is beat the ingredients together with an electric mixer. You literally just whip it up.
Ingredients 🥣
- butter
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- almond flour
- coconut flour
- heavy whipping cream
- baking powder
- Xanthan Gum
- cream cheese
- salt
- ground cinnamon
- nutmeg
- ginger
- cloves
- And finally, you’ll need the trifecta of Keto sugar substitutes: Swerve, Confectioner’s Swerve, and Swerve Brown. You'll need all the Swerves.
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Optional add-ins 🥜
- Nuts: Chopped walnuts or pecans work great with the flavors of this cake. Sprinkle them on top of the frosted cake for a little visual contrast.
- Sifted Spice: Frost the cake and then gently sift some cinnamon on top.
- Booze: You can turn this cake into a rum cake by soaking it in a buttered rum glaze. Leave the cake in the pan after it comes out of the oven, and use a skewer to poke holes all over it. Then mix up this delicious Keto buttered rum glaze that I found on the Texas Granola Girl blog. Pour it over the cake and let it soak in as it cools. Then remove the cake from the pan and either frost it, or add a little dollop of sugar free whipped cream on top.
And that’s about it. 👩🍳
In less than 45 minutes, you can bake up a delicious Keto spice cake that you’ll be proud to bring to any holiday celebration. None of your friends will notice that they are eating a sugar-free dessert unless you spill the beans. But you really should tell your female friends, because you know what the Spice Girls always say…
Girl Power! 🚺⚡
📋 Recipe
Keto Spice Cake
This recipe for Keto Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is truly divine. It’s a light and tender low carb cake with a wonderful crumb. And each slice has just 5g net carbs.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 28
- Total Time: 43 minutes
- Yield: 10 slices 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
spice cake:
- 9 tablespoons butter, softened
- ¼ cup Swerve Granular
- ¼ cup Swerve Brown
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cup almond flour*
- ½ cup coconut flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon Xanthan Gum
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 6 tablespoons water
frosting:
- 6 oz cream cheese, softened
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- ½ cup Swerve Confectioners
Instructions
Step 1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F and line an 8 x 8-inch pan with parchment paper. Crisscross two sheets of parchment paper, so that you can easily lift the cake out of the pan later.
Step 2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, cream together butter and sweeteners until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
Step 3. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and then add vanilla.
Step 4. In a medium-sized bowl, mix together salt, almond flour, coconut flour, baking powder, xanthan gum, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and ground clove.
Step 5. Beat the dry ingredients into the wet.
Step 6. Then beat in water and cream. Taste for sweetness and spice and add more if desired.
Step 7. The batter will be very thick. Pour batter into the pan and smooth the top with a spatula.
Step 8. Bake for 23-28 minutes until the top is browned and a toothpick in the middle comes out clean.
Step 9. Allow the cake to cool down completely, 2 hours. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together softened cream cheese, softened butter, and powdered sweetener, 2-3 minutes.
Step 10. Lift the cake from the pan using parchment paper and place it on a serving plate. Pour the frosting onto the top of the cake and use a spatula to smooth it out.
Notes
*If you take this cake to a party, make sure to clearly mark that it contains nuts. Most people don't expect a cake to use almond flour, so people with nut allergies might inadvertently eat it.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 392
- Fat: 38
- Carbohydrates: 9
- Fiber: 5
- Protein: 8
Keywords: Keto Spice Cake, Low Carb Spice Cake, Sugar Free Spice Cake, Gluten Free Spice Cake
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Amanda H says
This recipe was amazing! I love frosting between layers. So, I made a two layered circle cake. It worked great, just cooked each for about 14 minutes instead. Thank you so much. It was super moist and the flavor was delicious. Wish I could post a picture!
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EmilyKrill says
I wish you could post a picture too! Sorry the comments don't allow that. But thanks so much for writing in with that tip. I would never have thought to use this recipe as a layer cake. Did you split the recipe in half to make two layers or did you double the ingredients?
Vera K. says
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe! I made it for my church group and had three different people come up and ask me for the recipe. Adding this to my recipe binder to make over the holidays. Thanks!
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EmilyKrill says
Great! So glad your friends liked the cake.