Low Carb Baking

 indulge yourself in your favorite bread and pastry with low carb baking

atkins low carb baking

low carb bakingLow carb baking - This page is setup specially to provide you with low carb baking skills.  Many of us thought that being on atkins low carb diet mean that we will be deprive of our favorite baking food like bread,  pizza muffin, cakes, cooking and more.  The truth is you don't need to deprive yourself. With your new found low carb baking skills and recipe just go a head and indulge.

First step of successful low carb baking is to eliminate the starchy, high carb grains along with pure carbohydrate, sugar.  Of the two sugar problem is much easier to deal with.  Today some acceptable artificial sweetener can be used in low carb baking and the generally work fine.  On occasion when texture is truly demands it - limited real sugar can be added to low carb baking recipe as well.  Here are some common artificial sugar that works well with low carb baking:

  • Splenda

  • Stevia

  • Sugar alcohols

Flour supplies bulk in all baking foods.  But at 92 grams of carb in a single cup of white flour, finding suitable replacement replacement for flour to be used in low carb baking is most challenging.  Imposter for flour are hard to find, however creating mixing some known substances can do a pretty good job of imitating the texture that comes from flour.  So instead of using flour, low carb baking involved piling different flour substitutes into mixing bowl to make a batch of bread, muffins, or rolls quickly.

Here are some of these flour substitutes that can be used for low carb baking that can be easily found in your local departmental store.

  • Almond - usually ground into flour

  • Vital wheat gluten flour - flour with most of the starch removed

  • Wheat Bran - a laky meal made from the outer layer of husk of the wheat kernel

  • Whey protein powder - a powdery substance made from watery part of milk

  • Soy protein powder - a powdery substance like whey protein extracted from soy bean

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