Baking: A Part of the Low Carb Lifestyle

If you're contemplating the low carb lifestyle and don't like cooking or baking, you're in a bit of trouble. Why? Well since most of the foodstuff you need to eat when you're monitoring your carb intake isn't readily available in your local grocery store (at least not in Iceland or other countries I've visited, which are quite a few). Anywho, in order to tackle this problem head first, best find your apron and put on your baking mood.

Today, I've spent a couple of hours getting ready for a TV night tonight and then a two day trip I'm taking the family on. That means baking and cooking. For tonight I put together a very tasty ice cream, which adheres to the low carb diet. This is what I did:

Ice Cream

My daughter dipping into the vanilla ice cream.

• 5 eggs.
• 5 tablespoons xylitol.
• Whip together for 5 minutes with flavoring of your choice (I divided the recipe into two and added one espresso into one bowl and two teaspoons of vanilla essence to the other one). 
• In a separate bowl, whip 5 dl of cream.
• Mix carefully and slowly to egg mixture and dump into the freezer for a couple of hours.

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Tonight I'm feeding the family hamburgers. Since fatsos like me can't eat the regular kind of hamburger buns, I made my own. This what low carb buns look like:

Hamburger Buns

Hamburger buns or just bread rolls. 

• 2 eggs.
• 3 dl almond flour.
• 2 teaspoons baking powder.
• 1 teaspoon salt.
• 2.5 dl boiled water.

1. Mix together the dry ingredients.
2. Add the eggs and mix.
3. Add the boiled water.
4. Leave to set for a 5 minutes, as mixture is very moist.
5. Cover an oven plate with baking paper.
6. Divide mixture in five.
7. Bake for 50 minutes in a 180°C warm oven.

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For the travelling I plan to take four of the hamburger buns and use as sandwiches (tastes better than it sounds). Also, I will be taking crisp bread, also baked today. Tastes great with butter only, cheese or cottage cheese (a personal favorite). This what you do:

Crisp Bread

What the crisp bread looked like, before it hit the oven.

• 4 dl sesame seeds.
• 4 dl linseeds.
• 2 dl pumpkin seeds.
• 2 dl sunflower seeds.
• 2 dl egg whites (about 6 egg whites).
• 3 dl boiling water.
• 1 tablespoon salt.

1. Mix it all together and leave to set for about 20 minutes.
2. Divide mixture into two parts and spread each part on an oven plate (make sure it's not too thick or too thin).
3. Bake at 120°C in an hot-air oven for 1 hour.