Low Carb MUG CAKE Battle - The BEST Keto Mug Cake Recipe! - Chocolate, Vanilla, Red Velvet & Ca

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mug cake, stay tuned friends mud pies. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I love eating them and I hate counting calories just because that's my problem, to be very honest with you. Mug cakes are a trigger for me because it's a sweet treat and I'm going to tell you this right now and it's going to be something that will probably upset some of you and maybe make some of you angry and this is just my personal opinion.

I am not a doctor, I am NOT a nurse. I'm NOT a nutritionist, I'm just a guy with the internet and a video camera, but I think that for at least the first two weeks of a low carb or

keto

diet, mug cakes should be off-limits, right? It's scary to even talk. but the fact of the matter is that those first two weeks of the

keto

flu or the low carb flu or the full thirty flu or whatever low carb program you're on are the days where you're really making a change in your physiology, but the most important thing is your psychology, mug cakes are great for two main reasons: they are easy to make and quick and you don't have to make a whole loaf and two because they really help control portion sizes.

It's automatic portion control, but for me personally they're a big trigger, so I'm recording this video with a little trepidation. This has been one of the literally unique most requested videos on my channel. It's making a mug cake

battle

. so I'll do it for you, we're testing four

recipe

s today and these are some of the big hits within the low carb keto universe. These are some of the biggest names in recipe development going on right now, so you know. It's going to be okay so there won't be like a first place second place third place 4th place on this I don't think I'll start by just saying one of these is my favorite and this is something I do semi-regularly maybe once a week maybe every two weeks and the others are things I wanted to try.

The first of these is Keto Connect's delicious low carb mud pie. They did a little mega and math battle and you know I love them and their recipes are fantastic and they're about to publish a cookbook too so stay tuned but they really are very good at developing recipes and they made a nutritious version and a delicious version and we are making the delicious version that I think. Omega uh, so that's almost like a

vanilla

cake, okay, so we'll do the second one, the one that I eat regularly. If I'm craving something sweet, I've been known to make this and just devour it and it's dangerously good and that's Respiro's Low Carb Chocolate Brownie Mug Cake, I'm hungry and let's try it, I know it's good, so which I'm running a third one that I really wanted to try because it's probably my favorite cake today, keto diet app has made a red

velvet

mug cake and we're going to make it, I bet it'll be good and lastly there's the sugar free mom's low carb carrot mud cake again, another big hit in the low carb keto recipe development universe is underway right now, so those are the four we're going to try.

I'm going to stop talking now because apparently some of you don't like it when I just ramble and look at the camera, so here we are. Start with a delicious low carb mug cake from Keto Connect. I'm using one from Sioux Crenn and they have two products that I'm in love with: Souk Ringgold and Souk Rijn, one and one of them is a brown sugar substitute and one of them are a granulated sugar substitute, they both measure one by one when cooking so it makes it super easy to go to souk Ringgold that brown sugar is crazy I'll be honest with you and if you check back my blood sugar test video where I tested my blood sugar fasting with all and many different alternative sweeteners.

Ringgold Souk was one of the

best

. I have a link to that video up here. I think it's actually here. I'll link it to that. Now if you want to take a look at it later, okay, now we're going to add the sour cream, there's a tablespoon and a half and you know, this is the thing about mud pies, yeah, they're easy to make and they automatically help with the portions. control the other problem is that it takes the same amount of ingredients, you still have to take out the sugar, the flour, the eggs, the butter, the sour cream, the sweetener, the bread, but you still have a loot, all that mess, but instead of using a cup. of each using about a tablespoon of each, so it's just as much work to prepare all this mess, but the end result is that you don't have a whole cake left for Wesley to eat all night and wake up. the medium is not necessary.

I'll be honest with you, that's a struggle for me and it's okay to say it. I hope it's okay to say it because it's true, just because we eat keto and low carb doesn't mean we're not human. and eating for many reasons stress anxiety depression happiness celebration all of that is still real anyway in mud pie form these go in a cup so I actually bought a couple of cute little molds that our cup was shaped and they fit in the microwave and these were at Target and they are super cute and match my shirt so what we're going to do is a little bit of coconut oil spray apply this well you don't want this to stick divide this evenly between our cups and then we put them in the microwave. hold on tight we're back okay so these go in look it's not full very full I mean more like it's not full these go in for 90 seconds and I love these little cups because they have a little handle for me, so 90 seconds.

I'll be back right now while this cooks in the microwave. I just want to cover the statistics on this and I'll be honest with you. I've always said it and I still believe it. I don't trust the macros on YouTube. videos or on websites I post them myself because apparently a lot of people don't know what the hell they are talking about and a lot of people do and I'm not saying this is the case with this, but here are the statistics. are printed if this turns out to be different after running the numbers I'll put it here and you'll see it on the screen but as it is one of these mud pies that has 37 grams of fat 7 grams of carbs and 2 grams of fiber so which is five net carbs per cupcake and 12 grams of protein.

Now I am also going to say that in all the recipes that we are going to make today I do not include any type of glaze. Frosting personally, even though it's low carb and can be delicious and easy to make, is a huge trigger for me. I just can't do it, it gives me a lot of angst and discomfort, so today, for the purposes of these demonstrations, I'm going to give the cake part of this review, let's see what happened, okay, so this little guy is out of the oven, he's cute, look at it, how tiny it is and this is where a lot of people just look into the cup and I guess. okay, but for taste I throw them on a plate, sometimes I add a little powdered erythritol if I want powdered sugar or I'll use the heavy whipping cream like we just talked about, so for this demonstration I'll put the top on. cover and turn this booger over and put it on a plate Boop look how pretty so I'm going to turn this over and this is the way I like to play them now this one didn't rise much and some rose more than others . and it really depends on the diameter or the diameter of the cake, the cup that you're using, so this is beautiful, it's like just a white

vanilla

cake.

Let me turn it sideways. I don't know if you can see the height. No, you know, it's huge, but it's pretty and it smells really good like vanilla. I've made this one before and I know it's good and that's why I included it in this, so I'll leave it aside for now. Come back to the end of these four and I'll try them all and let you know what I think about them so stay tuned we're starting with number two so we're ready for recipe number two and this is the one I said is my favorite , this is from Respiro I'm Hungry and it's the low carb

chocolate

brownie mug cake and I like it because it's super low in net carbs it's actually three net carbs without we're going to add cream so it's pretty low and There aren't too many ingredients and it's quick and easy and I like

chocolate

so let's start right, this is something I rarely add but I had it like this. time and works just as well without it, it has optional Lindt chocolate, 90% chocolate squares, a square and some nuts.

I'm not a big fan of nuts in cakes like that, so I don't do nuts, but this did it quite well. try the fudgy brownie and this lends with ninety percent chocolate and you only need one square of this so I'll show you what we do now oh my god I can't believe the fluff would have sold this half way what embarrassing for you, fluff. I'm going to have to report that I don't know where it could have gone, so let's take a square of this poop, cut it in half. Boop, break it in half again to make it a square.

Tend that mucus and these will come back in. the package, I really can't believe they sell it so expensive and don't even include everything that was supposed to be there, so let's just cut this down roughly, let's do it with a knife, it's pretty easy now, one thing I I've been meaning to try it, I haven't done it yet is just take one of those little squares and cut it in half and then cut it, slide half into each of the cups that you're making so you can get a melted center, but I haven't yet. been brave enough because again it goes off, okay, so let's put this into our dough, here we go, okay, so it lasts an extra minute and 30 seconds if necessary again, it's not very full, you have to give it. there's some room to go up we'll come back okay so here we are we're back and you should have seen this when this thing was tall it almost made it to the top of the mold on top of the cup so let's go again. just throw this away, I'm going to let it cool, so turn this beautiful one over that's so pretty, now again turn over those little Lindt chocolate pieces that really are a little surprise there, I don't know if you can see it . but one of them is bigger than the other that doesn't mean anything they're both probably delicious but I just wanted you to see them again we're going to put them on the back burner for just a few more minutes we have two more so stay tuned oh we forgot of adding the red food coloring, oh my gosh, in the microwave for 90 seconds, this one is much fuller than the other one if they overflow and you're looking at the microwave and they start to rise above the open.

Open the door just for a split second, drop them in, close the door and continue cooking. You don't want them to spill, but they can rise quite a bit, so one of these cakes is 10.9 carbs, 6.8 net carbs, which is something like that. high and this is without the frosting, twelve and a half grams of protein, 34 grams of fat and 387 calories, so the red

velvet

cake is one of the highest in carbohydrates, 16.8 net carbs, without frosting or cream whipped, that's considerable when You're trying to stay under 20 if you're strict keto or you know very low carb and high fat, 20 carbs is where we're trying to hit and seven of them are about to be eaten in the pie red velvet, so be careful.

That, oh, okay, dokie, we're back, we've got a really big mud pie and it looks like you can see it like it's moving, it's moving, it looks precarious, but let's see what we've got, oh, that looks good, okay. , just looking at it first. It's much more chocolate than red like in red velvet, but I'm not going to hold that against you because red has no flavor. Red velvet cake. Red provides no flavor. It's all chocolate and cake, so this is very tall and very big. hot too and wow that's nice um okay I'm just going to let this look at how high that booger is that's serious for all of you so let's see what happens.

I'm going to put this aside, we're going to do our fourth one, we're going to do our fourth one, okay? Now I'm back. Our fourth recipe is Mom's Sugar Free Carrot Cake Recipe and I'll tell you right now. I'm sick of her. I'm always happy to do it. Luckily, but Mary, Joseph and the stable, this has taken too long. What you don't see in these videos is that between recipes, I set it up, wash the dishes, put them back, measure all my ingredients and put them out. all meats paused, okay, it takes me about seven or eight minutes for each of these mud pie recipes.

This carrot cake recipe has taken me 35 minutes to set up and make for several reasons, in other words, what I'm trying to tell you is that unless this tastes like gold in a bowl, you, the Queen of England, You'd have to come here to eat before I did this again. Okay, this recipe, mom, without sugar, will beIt better be good and I love carrots. cake but damn two eggs 1/4 cup heavy cream plus two tablespoons one third cup grated carrot so first of all you can't eat carrots when you're low carbon I mean you can have local arbequina but no one buys a pound of carrots so I had to buy a whole pound of carrots just to get 1/3 cup of paper so there's $4 and then I can eat it later and then 1/4 cup of ground flaxseed well, Guess what I couldn't find ground? flaxseed, so on whole flaxseed, I tried a coffee grinder.

I tried a mortar and pestle. I tried my Cuisinart food processor and finally got the blender to work, so I literally dirty almost every appliance I have in the kitchen. Second thing is allspice, 1/4 tsp, well who in the world has allspice unless you're making a lot of baked goods, pumpkin spice is used so maybe in this climate everyone has a little, but otherwise I ate some whole allspice and went through the same rigmarole. Oh I literally beat this to hell with a mortar and finally added it with the ground flax seeds, long story short we are finally ready to put this 90 second mud came together after 35 minutes of prep it better be alright done, okay, for some reason my camera keeps cropping like it's not hard enough, okay, so 45 minutes later, let's try a mug cake that takes 90 seconds to be ready, we go to the microwave and come back, okay, while this cooks again it took me a while to make it if you know of another way to make ground flaxseed that doesn't take forever and takes up every appliance in the kitchen by all means let me know.

I know you can probably buy it pretty ground but the last time I made it it tasted fishy because it went rancid in about a week because it's very volatile, linseed oil is unless you keep it refrigerated and tightly closed it will smell fishy, so I bought fresh whole flaxseed thinking I'll be able to make this without the cream cheese frosting, it's one and a half net carbs, so I'm hoping it's exploding right now, okay, so here we are, here's our little carrot cake, as precious as it is and it's also a very big portion, so let's throw it in and see what happens ooh oh yeah, she's pretty, let's turn it over oh, it's very dense.

I'll say here we go, let's take a look at what we have that we started with, okay, and I'll do it right. I have said it before. I won't try them with the frosting that two of them ordered. I just can't get it right, but they will all be delicious with just a little bit of heavy whipping cream, throw it in the whip, a couple of tablespoons, beat it hard with a whisk, add a little stevia. Me particularly. like Leafs English Caramel Sweetener. I use it in my coffee most mornings, but you can make cream cheese frosting with these and it would certainly be delicious.

I just can't do it as soon as this camera goes off. four pies sitting in front of me, low carb or not, that's not good for anyone, especially someone with cravings problems, so let's try what we have, okay, so here we go with the first one, let's try them in order in which we made them, this is the next keynote speech low carb, what is it? Keto plugs in a delicious low carb mug cake and I've tried it before and it's pretty good and again top it with some whipped cream or something and see if you like it, delicious, it definitely tastes like almond flour like it should, I don't think so.

Otherwise it's a beautiful version of like a yellow cake like a Duncan Hines yellow cake mix pretty close, the closest we're going to get, let's try another one. I have to have a glass of water, wait here, okay? Now our second version is the one I usually make. This is my quote in quotes. I guess you could say and that's the chocolate cake. You can see how big it is. It is a very pretty chocolate cake. Respite. I'm hungry. low carb chocolate brownie cake and this is delicious with English toffee whipped cream on top, to be honest it's a little dry without some kind of topping, honestly it's hard to deny, although it is quite tasty texture wise, you probably prefer the other one, keto. connected bread, I mean the keto connect cake was a little lighter but I'm a chocolate fan so I like chocolate cake okay so here it is - I haven't tried it and I'm really looking forward to trying it .

God, it's taking forever, so let's do it. red velvet cake doesn't look like a traditional red velvet cake and the beautiful pictures of what they pour in the cup and they make it, they take a piping bag and they put a beautiful cream cheese frosting on it, yes, that's going to be good and I would probably do that if I was serving company, but on a Wednesday night or a Thursday night, when it's nine o'clock and I just want something to eat, I'm not going to worry about that again, not trying it with the frosting. . look hmm keto diet app pretty good red velvet mud cake it's also got 6.8 net carbs but granted the portion is huge so you know take that into account but wow that's pretty good and oh yeah last, the queen of england's damn carrot cake, oh lord that took forever! mom's sugar free low carb carrot mud cake, I'm sure this was just me being stupid and I didn't get ground flaxseed to begin with, but I dirty the whole kitchen just to make this, it's pretty, it looks very carrot II and carrot cake is one of my favorite cakes again, this would probably just rock with some cream cheese frosting.

IM not going to do it. Nice textures. You can see it well. Well, let's see. I don't want to be derogatory. I have eaten very, very good food. from sugar free mom, that's possibly the worst thing I've ever done on camera in any of these videos. It's terrible, as I suspected. I can taste the strange fishy flavor of the flaxseed. It's very healthy. I know and I literally bought this. one of the most frequented stores in my city and I bought half a kilo of whole flaxseeds and ground them seconds before cooking with them. I can not stand.

I would never eat that. That's terrible for me personally if you do this and you like it and mom no sugar, honey. I've had tons of stuff you've done and it's all been fantastic, but for the work I did, you all must be crazy if you think I would do that again. Okay, it has 1.5 grams of net carbs, but who cares if you don't want to eat it, so I hate to end on a negative note because it's really fun stuff and I love mug cakes, but do you know what this just kills me? to say? with what you like and what is tried and true I love chocolate brownie mug cake I always have to look it up every time who is it for Respiro I'm hungry that's good that's good keto connect yours the serving size was a little small, but I appreciate it because it makes me think I'm not just screwing things up and it was delicious too. very very good texture very good texture.

Pour some whipped cream over that English toffee whipped cream. Some of those frostings they have. done, I would, the red velvet cake, who was this, bye, I can never remember that Kito went extinct, this is probably my favorite of the group, the favorite of the group, look it's nice, beautiful and the texture is excellent, The portion The portion is really good and would look more beautiful than that of an expensive restaurant. If you placed it on a plate with cement and fresh whipped cream, it would look like a million dollars and it tastes like that too, so there you have it folks, a couple of surprises. a bit of a disappointment I had high hopes for that chocolate for the carrot cake because carrot cake is one of my all time favorites as is red velvet and it did too, yeah there you go, mud cake, Send a mug cake magnet in the mail. cat mug cake battle whatever we call it try again is an easy way to hold back portions and just eat something sweet but I recommend that if you are just starting out with keto or low carb these are not the recipes for you but Wait until you have a couple of weeks, maybe a month, so the cravings have subsided.

You know some of this when you go low carb and you go stretchy, extremely low carb, like keto, your sugar cravings really plummet, you don't have those cravings. Unless you stimulate your psychology from what you remember, they are sweet things and that is what these things do for me, so honestly that I will probably have to sprinkle salt on all of them to avoid eating them after I close this chamber. There you have it again friends. I always appreciate you joining me. These videos are a way for me to maintain my low carb way of eating.

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