They all taste great but their texture is either too cakey or crumbly to truly resemble the original badass cinnamon rolls of my youth.
Low carb cinnamon rolls with almond flour.
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.
A lot of low carb and keto cinnamon rolls recipes use that is called fathead dough as the base.
You can even go for a cream cheese frosting instead of icing.
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.
Then slice into 12 pieces and bake as follows.
The challenge with creating gluten free low carb cinnamon rolls is that the texture doesn t lend itself well to typical low carb flours.
Gluten free paleo keto cinnamon rolls with yeast paleo keto cinnamon rolls properly fluffy n gooey in my humble opinion these keto cinnamon rolls easily make the top 5 best bread recipes on the site of all time.
My dear sugar free and low carb friends i have tried many versions of healthified meaning.
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.
Preparing the coconut flour fathead dough.
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.
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.
These rolls are wonderful for breakfast or dessert.
Nutrition info has been updated and total carbs went from 6grams to now 4grams.
No wheat no yeast no grains no sugar cinnamon rolls using grain free flours such as almond or coconut flour.
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.
The best keto cinnamon rolls.
Mozzarella cheese cream cheese and almond flour should not be the main ingredients for cinnamon rolls.
In a small bowl mix together the dry ingredients and set aside.
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.
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.
Preheat the oven to 400 f and grease a 9 13 inch baking pan.