A low carb baking flour recipe specially formulated for sweet treats.
Seems like everyone is baking a lot lately! Sure – it’s a great way to pass the time while we’re all staying home these days – plus who doesn’t enjoy some homemade, freshly-baked foods to eat?!
My husband Jack is no exception – and he’s been spending some extra time in the evenings, experimenting with different keto and low carb baking recipes.
If you’ve made this popular keto bread recipe of ours, then you already know that we’ve been able to recreate a keto bread that has close to the same texture as a regular, higher carb loaf of bread!
But unfortunately, that same ‘flour’ mixture doesn’t translate quite as well to sweets like cookies – so he came up with this Low Carb Baking Flour, specially geared toward baking cookies and other sweet treats.
What is Low Carb Baking Flour?
Our baking flour is a combination of some low carb ingredients including oat fiber, almond flour, golden flaxseed meal, psyllium husk powder, and xanthan gum. (We’ve linked to the brands we use, purchased from Amazon. But many of these products can be found at your local supermarket. Once you have them on hand, you can use them in lots of other low carb recipes.)
Combined together and used in recipes like this one, our Low Carb Baking Flour helps give baked goods a light and tender texture.
Plus, each cup of the baking flour has only 5.2 net carbs so you are starting any recipe from a good, lower carb count. This baking flour is also gluten free.
What recipes can I make with this Low Carb Baking Flour?
We’ll be sharing a number of cookie recipes in the coming weeks that use this low carb baking flour – starting with this Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookies recipe.
You may enjoy these other Low Carb recipes:
- Low Carb Pancakes with Blueberry Sauce
- Baked Western Omelet {Keto, Low-Carb}
- Keto Sheet Pan Pizza
- Keto Mac & Cheese with Sausage
- Beef and Kale Skillet {Keto, Low-Carb}
Low Carb Baking Flour
A low carb baking flour recipe specially formulated for sweet treats.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 5 cups 1x
- Category: make your own
- Method: whisk
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
2 cups oat fiber
1 1/2 cups almond flour
1 cup golden flax meal
3/4 cup psyllium husk powder
1 tablespoon xanthan gum
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together, then store in an airtight container.
- Use one-for-one in baked goods recipes such as cookies.
Can you substitute the almond flour with something? We have nut allergies.
Hi Yolanda – We’ve only tested the recipe as written. You might be better off searching for a different recipe that doesn’t use almond flour. Sorry.
Can this flour be used for bread too?
Hi Janet – We actually haven’t tried it with any yeast recipes. If you are looking for a great low carb bread – could I suggest you try this Keto Bread recipe? https://www.afamilyfeast.com/rosemary-sea-salt-keto-bread/
Do I need to adjust baking time?
Anytime you are adapting a recipe, it might – probably depends on the recipe you are using for the flour.
Hi,
I was wondering how many grams is consider one cup of this baking flour? Also, do you think I could use bamboo fiber instead of oat fiber? Are there any recipes on your website that uses this baking flour? Thank you.
Hi Cat – I don’t know the answer to your questions – next time we make this flour (it probably won’t be anytime soon), we can give you a grams measurement for a cup. We’re not at all familiar with bamboo fiber – in fact, this is the first we’ve heard of it and don’t have any recipes for it. Sorry I can’t be more help.
To be a 1 to 1 sub for regular this sounds like an awesome flour mix. With your experimenting maybe you could answer one question. Oat fiber’s nutritional data shows 1TBSP as a serving. Regular flours mostly have 1/4 cup as a serving. Are you concerned that 2cups of oat fiber would be 32 servings and that’s a lot of fiber for a loaf of bread or cookies, etc. I’m hoping you might have some info. Your recipes look wonderful and you have wonderful reviews and I know your husband must work hard in the kitchen to deliver these wonderful recipes. I’d love to try them. I’m just concerned about the amounts of fiber.
Gina
Great question. I had to do some quick math here. One cup of all purpose flour has 3.4 grams of fiber. One cup of our low carb flour mix has 1.6 grams of fiber per cup. However the on line application we use to calculate our nutritional info calculated it as 5.2 grams per cup, which is wrong. I’ll need to go into the application and create my own ingredient for oat fiber and use that in place of the one the application chose to use. May take me a bit to fix this. Maybe check back later and see if it changed.
Thank you for the challenge,
Jack
Gina, looks like some on line calculators differ from others. I recalculated everything manually and updated the recipe.
Oat fiber has 42 grams of fiber per cup.
One cup weighs 4.25 ounces.
There are two cups in the recipe which is 84 grams of fiber.
The recipe yields five cups which would be 16.8 grams of oat fiber per one cup of mix.
Oat fiber mixed with the other ingredients yields 38.6 grams per cup.
Carbs are 43.8 per cup so 43.8 minus 38.6 equals 5.2 grams net carbs per cup of mix.
Having calculated all of this, I’m thinking that a high fiber product is generally a good thing.
A slice of a high fiber bread would be far superior to a slice of white bread as far as nutritional fiber.
Anyway, gave me something to do while the turkey cooks.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Jack
Could I use this bake mix to make pasta?
We’ve never tried it Lois. Please let us know how it turns out if you try it!
Loosely followed my pasta dough recipe,added Vital Wheat Gluten (1/6 c to 1c flour mix). I rolled out between silicone sheets and cut to fettucine width with a pizza cutter. Everything looked “right”, boiled ok, but the cooked texture wasn’t right. On my LC diet I REALLY miss pasta.
Thank you for your Rosemary bread recipe!
Good to know Lois…thank you. Sorry it didn’t turn out!
This is a definite no go if you are counting total carbs (which you should) as it has almost double the carbs of regular all purpose flour.
Thanks for the feedback Peachy
Can this be used to make bread?
Hi Kathleen – We’ve successfully tested this flour with quick breads, but not yeast bread recipes. Instead, we use this recipe to bake bread: https://www.afamilyfeast.com/rosemary-sea-salt-keto-bread/ (you can leave out the rosemary if you want an unflavored bread). If you do try this baking flour in a bread recipe, please let us know how it works out for you!
Used this mix for Pizzelle and it’s really great! Just followed a low carb recipe and replace the flour with this mix.
Good to know Cheri – thank you!
Can this flour be used in low carb or keto recipes in place of straight almond flour?
Hi Teresa – It will probably vary by recipe. We tested this more as a swap for all-purpose flour. Almond flour has more moisture so recipes made with that may need other adjustments if you use this instead.