Low Carb Chocolate Custard
When it is cold outside I love to have a warm breakfast. This recipe is warm and comforting on a cold day. This recipe can be made with ingredients available at your local store, it’s special ingredient free. The glucomannan is optional and you can sub with xanthan gum or just leave out. My Walmart has xanthan gum, that is where I bought mine.
I used swerve sweetener but my favorite natural sugar free sweetener is THM’s gentle sweet. I feel that is is so close to tasting like sugar and doesn’t have the cooling affect like other sweeteners like swerve does. However, gentle sweet can’t be purchased in a local store, at least not here, so I wanted to give you measurements for swerve, in case that’s all that you have access to.
You temper eggs in the recipe but it is super easy to do. I feel like this is necessary but you can add everything except the gluccie (or xanthan gum) and whisk until hot and thickened and then add the small amount of gluccie. Also, adjust the sweetness to your preference. I no longer need things to be as sweet as I used to, however I still like things sweet.
Low Carb Chocolate Custard
Ingredients
- 1 C Almond Milk
- 2 Eggs beaten
- 1 1/2 T Cocoa Powder
- 2 1/2 T Swerve or sweetener of choice- swerve has
- 2 t Unrefined Coconut Oil you can use refined but you won’t have as many health benefits
- 2 Pinches of salt
- 2 Doonks of Glucomannan 1/16th of a teaspoon or Xanthan Gum
- 1/2 t Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Put almond milk, sweetener, cocoa powder, salt, and coconut oil in a medium pot. Place over medium heat and whisk together until combined.
- When mixture is hot and steaming pour a little of the hot liquid into the whisked eggs. I use my 2 cup measuring cup. Whisk the eggs as your pour in the hot liquid. Add a little more of the hot liquid. Once mixed, slowly pour the now hot egg mixture into the saucepan on the stove. Whisk the chocolate mixture for a few minutes. After this has thickened some, sprinkle in your choice of gluccie or xanthan gum. Whisk for another minute or two.
- 3. Once the mixture is hot and thickened, add your vanilla. Stir and serve hot. This whole thing is done and ready to eat within 10 minutes.
