Sweet Keto Bagels
Sundays are great baking days. In the south Sunday’s are usually for church, family, and relaxing in preparation for the upcoming week.
I use some of my time to bake and meal prep for the week. Today, I decided to mix up the dough for my keto bagels a little bit and try a sweeter version, strawberry and cinnamon & sugar.
SWEET KETO BAGELS
3 cups – shredded mozzarella cheese
4 tbsp. – cream cheese
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups – almond flour
2 tsp – xanthan gum
1 tbsp – organic vanilla extract
1/2 cup – swerve sweetener
In a microwave safe bowl melt cream cheese and mozzarella together, check often as to not burn, and stir well. Then add all remaining ingredients except almond flour, mix well, Lastly, add almond flour and combine.
Roll the dough into 6 balls and place on a greased cookie sheet or parchment paper (I found my silicone mats work wonderfully for this). If you wet your fingers with water it will make the dough stick to your hands less. Poke a hole into the center of the dough ball and shape out a bagel. Place into the oven at 400 degrees for 18 minutes.
Option I:
Sprinkle with Swerve sweetener & cinnamon
Option II:
Add 4 tablespoons of strawberry reduction recipe
Sprinkle swerve sweetener on top
I made the sweet bagels with the strawberry sauce. While the flavor is there and good, they did not rise. I noticed the recipe has no baking powder. Should there be some? I was very disappointed in how they didn’t rise and it’s like they almost aren’t baked all the way through and I even baked them longer.i made another Keto bagel recipe..the one with onion powder, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning. It did have BP in them and they turned out great. I’d like to use that recipe but not sure how to go from Italian type (no sugar in them) to sweet, using sugar. Any ideas!