Low Carb Thin Mint Cake Balls - GF

By aerin8

http://247lowcarbdiner.blogspot.com/2014/03/not-so-thin-mint-cake-balls.html

Ingredients

• Cake:
• 1/4 cup coconut flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup Swerve or any sweetener equal to 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1/4 cup mild flavored oil, melted butter or melted coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 tsp peppermint extract
• up to 1/2 cup water or almond milk
• Glaze:
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp powdered erythritol blend1/4 tsp peppermint extract
• 1 tbsp granular erythritol or sucralose for garnish

Details

Servings 15
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 25mins
Adapted from 247lowcarbdiner.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

In a medium bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Then stir in the eggs, oil and flavoring. If using coconut oil, you may need to briefly heat the batter to remelt the coconut oil, as it will solidify if the eggs are cold. Add water or almond milk to make the batter comparable to a brownie batter.. Fill the wells of the cake ball appliance with rounded spoonfuls of batter. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove and let cool. Repeat until all the batter is used. My machine makes 15 cake balls. Alternately, fill mini muffin cups 3/4 full of batter and bake at 325 for 15 minutes.

In a very small cup, melt coconut oil. Stir in the cocoa powder, sweetener and peppermint flavoring. Drizzle over the cake balls. Sprinkle with granular sweetener. Of the ones I tested, granular sucralose looked best.

(Per ball) with erythritol: 74 calories each 1 net carb each 7 g fat 2 g protein