recipes from Adrienne Asher
Here’s what I reach for when I’m longing for a cinnamon roll for breakfast. Guilt free, filling, and nutritionally balanced, this little breakfast item is the low carb equivalent of a cinnamon bran muffin with cream cheese frosting.
Spiced Minute Muffin
Two servings // 231 calories, 2 net carbs
2 tablespoons golden flaxseed meal
2 tablespoons almond flour
4-6 drops … Read more
Classic birthday party fare!
For a low-carb chocolate cupcake, aka, “minute muffin,” click here.
Vanilla Cupcakes
Yields 24 cupcakes
CUPCAKES
3 cups (12 ounces) cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon table salt
4 large eggs, at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ⅓ cups sugar
12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), melted … Read more
Orange Cream Cheese Frosting is lovely on minute muffins, pound cakes, and shortbread cookies: just adjust the consistency for the application, thinning with a bit of heavy cream, if needed.
Orange Cream Cheese Frosting (low carb)
Yield: 1 cup, 8 servings // 151 calories, 1g net carb
1/2 cup organic full-fat cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup Kerrygold butter, softened
1/4 … Read more
When I lived in Hawaii, there was this dead-sweet coconut syrup that I bought for ladling over pancakes. Yes, ladling…I was a hopeless sugar addict and loved the stuff. Here’s something else entirely, but it’s very tasty, and it’s very good drizzled over crispy protein waffles.
Sweet Coconut Sauce
Yield: 5 servings, of 2 tablespoons each
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut … Read more
There are many sugar-free maple-flavored syrups available on the market, some better than others. An alternative to all of these? Melt butter, sweeten it with stevia, add a few drops of maple-flavored oil, and call it delicious. It’s not maple syrup. It’s not fake maple syrup. It’s something else entirely, and it’s very good drizzled over crispy protein waffles.
Maple-Flavored … Read more
Cream cheese frosting is easy to make and useful for all sorts of desserts. One-minute muffins, low carb carrot cakes, persimmon cakes, spice or pumpkin cakes…even fresh fruit, all benefit from it. You can change things up, too: reduce the butter and add a few tablespoons of sour cream or yogurt, increase or decrease the Swerve*, add lemon zest, ginger, … Read more