Following a ketogenic diet can be tough at times, especially around birthday times, so I have set out to create the worlds best keto birthday cake.
Maybe you are making this for yourself, or you could be making this for a friend who is keto. Either way, you are going to blow socks off with this incredible recipe. This comes highly recommended to impress even those who aren’t keto.
So what’s the secret to this Keto Birthday Cake?
Well, in my testing for the revamp of the keto bread recipe, I noticed that gelatine has a pretty unique texture when it comes to being a binding agent. The consistency and gelatinous feel reminded me a lot of cake, which is exactly why I use gelatine in this recipe.
Gelatine isn’t vegetarian or vegan-friendly, however, you could also substitute this with guar gum or xanthan gum if that is important to you.
I borrowed the icing from one of my previous Lemon and Coconut Cake Recipes, as it has been a super delicious recipe for a long time now. The addition of a little lemon juice in the icing is what makes the vanilla flavor pop!
Keto Birthday Cake
Easy Low Carb Birthday Cake doesn’t need many different ingredients to taste delicious. The mix of coconut and almond flour is an absolute winner, but not 100% necessary.
If you are looking for more fluffy Keto Birthday Cake like this, you are going to love my other dessert recipes on the blog that are just as delicious is this one, or you can download my Best Selling Keto Cookbook to get started right away.
How many carbs does keto birthday cake have?
If you’re wondering How many carbs does keto birthday cake have?, then hopefully I can answer this question for you.
The nutritional information can be found here for this recipe:
I hope you enjoy this fluffy Keto Birthday Cake as much as I did testing, creating and photographing this recipe. Don’t forget to share this Keto Birthday Cake with a friend in need, or anyone who would be excited about finding a perfect fluffy Keto Birthday Cake.
Until Next Time.
Keto Birthday Cake - How To Bake For Your Keto Friends And Family
Ingredients
Cake
- 100 g Almond Meal (1 Cup / 3.5 oz)
- 30 g Coconut Flour (1/4 Cup / 1 oz)
- 1 teaspoons baking powder
- 100 g Erythritol (SoNourished) (1/2 Cup / 3.5 oz)
- 5 Large Eggs (50g Each / 1.5 oz each) seperated
- 60 g heavy whipping cream (1/4 Cup / 2 oz) (Thickened Cream AUS)
- 100 g Butter Melted (1/2 Cup / 3.5 oz)
- 1/2 Tablespoons gelatine powder
- 1 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Icing
- 300 g Cream Cheese (1 1/4 CUps / 10 oz)
- 2 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 30 g Powdered Erythritol (SoNourished) (3 Tbsp / 1 oz)
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 2 teaspoons Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 160C (320 F)
- Combine the almond meal, coconut flour, baking powder and erythritol into one mixing bowl. Combine the ingreidnts together until a consistent colour is shown throughout the mixture
- Next, seperate the egg yolks from the egg whites into two seperate mixing bowls. Combine the heavy whipping cream, melted butter and vanilla extract with the egg YOLKS
- Using a small amount of warm water, melt the gelatine powder and mix with a small spoon until it looks well combined (it will start to become quite thick). Combine with the egg yolk mixture
- Beat the egg whites with and electric mixer for 1-2 mins on high. White peaks will begin to form in the egg whites.
- Slowly fold the egg yolk mixture in with the egg white mixture. Combine until a uniform colour.
- Also combine the almond / coconut flour mixuture with the egg white / yolk mixture, until its all in one bowl. Pour into a well buttered 20cm (7.5") cake tin.
- Place in the oven for 45 mins. Remove, check the middle is cooked, and let it cool until room temperature
Icing
- Combine the cream cheese, heavy whipping cream and powdered erythirtol in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer.
- Add vanilla extract and lemon juice. Use as icing for your cake once it has cooled sufficiently.
- Slice the cake in half slowly using a large blade, use 1/3 of the icing to layer between the cake, adding strawberries as needed.
- Ice the top of the cake with the remaining icing. Top with any kind of keto friendly berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries) and enjoy. Best served fresh.
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Hi Aaron, can you advise; is this recipe suitable for someone with GESTATIONAL DIABETES?
Cant wait to bake this for the first time next week. Could I cook the cake in two 9inch tins and reduce cooking time as would like to do it Victoria sponge style? Thanks
Hi Aaron!
I surprisingly was sent this by my sister to make her this cake (only this cake no other) for her birthday! Happy to make for her, however, as I scroll down to the comments. I read that you use the “Great Lakes” gelatin brand. So I was curious does it have to be specifically that gelatin brand? Because it is high in Collagen Hydrolysate which has 12 grams! I have one that has only 7,000 mg of Hydrolized Collagen. Would this make the cake different?
Hi Angie,
I don’t think this should make much of a difference. The other type of gelatin is expensive, so its up to you which version you use.
Hi. Is the butter measure 1/2 cup measured hen melted or is it a 1/2 cup melted butter
Hi! I recently made this for my Keto woe friends. I found a keto chocolate buttercream icing with sliced
strawberries on the side; delicious! Is this also diabetic friendl y
Fantastic! Glad you loved it 🙂
I have been following a Keto WOE for 3 years and have tried many any cake recipes. OH MY GOODNESS! This is truly the best ever! Non keto folks ate it and loved it also. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
Thanks so much Ginny 🙂
This looks fabulous. Can I make it on a Sunday to bring to a Keto co-worker on Monday? Will it stay fresh? Any recommendations?
Thank you!
Hey Laurie, I’d ice it on the day, but the cake will keep beautifully.
Thanks so much! Follow-up (possibly dumb) question… could I make the icing ahead of time and just ice it day of?
Am I able to use stevia (powder) instead of Erythritol, if so how much? Daughter’s birthday in 15 days 🙂
Hi there,
Stevia powder is generally a mix of stevia and erythritol anyway. Please check the brand.
Thank you very much for letting me know.
Should we be using salted or unsalted butter?
generally I use unsalted for baking – I should probably update the recipe.
Oh my goodness this recipe is IT and more. As a baker who bakes traditional cakes for others I am super impressed. I have missed eating cake on my keto journey and now i dont have to anymore. Seriously folks this is a moist and fluffy cake just like I remember a cake to be. We filled it with the cream cheese frosting and your keto lemon curd. For followers of the keto way of eating…do yourselves a favour and make this cake. You will n oit be dusappointed. Thank you Aaron for sharing.
Thanks so much! So glad you like it 🙂
Hi Aaron great recipe I am making it for my birthday, just checking the oven temp is that fan forced temperature?
Sure is!
Thanks SO MUCH for posting this! It’s perfect timing. My sister’s birthday is next week and her favorite combo is strawberry cake with chocolate sour cream frosting!
Just so I am understanding this correctly…If I want to make this into a 13×9″ cake I would need to quadruple this recipe? That would be 16 eggs?? Thx so much! Would like to make for my son for his birthday. ?
That is correct!
The cake batter seems super thick….is this normal? What consistency should it be?
This is normal 🙂
Can I use monk fruit instead of erythritol and if so how much
Hi Wendy, is you monk fruit in liquid form?
Can I use the powdered Erythritol for both the cake and the icing or does the cake need to use the granulated stuff?
You can use powdered for both if you like 🙂
Can I use powdered Erythritol for both the cake and the icing? Or does the cake have to use the granular Erythritol?
Want to try and prepare this ahead of time. Would you be able to freeze the cakes before icing? Or best to eat fresh?
Freeze the cake before you ice it if no other option is there, but it is way better fresh 🙂
Boy, you were not kidding about knocking socks off, Aaron! Thank you so much for this, I’d attach a photo to this comment if I could, as you made my low-carb daughter really happy on her 18th birthday. I even got texts from her friends about it afterward…
It’s no longer berry season and she’s mad for pecans, so I toasted a panful and lined the filling as well as decorating the top with them. They married beautifully with both the icing and delicate almond-flavoured cake.
This was my first time trying a low-carb and non-chocolate *cake* recipe, and I had my reservations, but I’m ever so glad I gave it a go!
Warmest greetings from an ex-food blogger in Amsterdam.
HI Tammy,
Wow, this is the best comment ever! Thanks so much for letting me know 🙂 Happy birthday to your daughter!
can i use almond flour instead of almond meal,?
Yes certainly 🙂
Hi Aron
I have question for u that whenever I make keto bread it smells and give eggy taste.so that’s why can’t eat is there any way out to that it should be eggy smell free.
Thanks
Ranjana
What kind/brand gelatine do you use?
Hi Julie, I believe its called Great Lakes.
Any replacement for gelatin? Thanks
Same amount xanthan gum, or guar gum will work.