Keto Chocolate Toast Crunch Cereal
Keto Chocolate Cereal
Cereal on a keto diet? If you're new to keto, you may be thinking, it's not possible to enjoy cereal on a ketogenic diet. But today this recipe will rock your world! It's like Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal but in Chocolate Flavor and made with keto ingredients like almond flour, ground flax, chia and a keto approved sweetener.
Planning ahead is the key to sustaining a ketogenic lifestyle. If you know you've always loved cereal and quite miss it, this recipe is for you! Make it on the weekend, package it up into appropriate serving sizes and enjoy all week long!
Chocolate Toast Crunch Cereal
This crunchy chocolate toast cereal is everything you hope it will be. Perfect with some cold nut milk and satisfying to enjoy any morning of a busy week or even just as an afternoon snack. When I can call a recipe with chocolate in it, a meal, especially a breakfast meal, I am one happy woman! I love my chocolate and you shouldn't have to ever feel deprived on a keto diet. It's not about deprivation, but instead just keto-fying carb filled recipes from your past you used to love. While of course it won't taste exactly like your sugar and carb cereal you used to enjoy, it's a pretty close alternative without any of the guilt!
Keto Make Ahead Cereal
I can't tell you it's a very quick recipe in the kitchen to make this, it will be worth it when you have 8 servings for the rest of the week. Like I said, prep it on the weekend, package it up for easier grabbing in the morning. Don't have time for a bowl with milk? No problem, and take it to go in a container, more like granola and add some nuts if you want.
I don't have many cereal recipes on my blog as I often don't eat breakfast and prefer to fast or enjoy my Bulletproof Coffee. But if you're craving oatmeal, this keto hot cereal will be a winner for you.
Meal Planning
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Keto Chocolate Toast Crunch Cereal
Keto Chocolate Toast Crunch Cereal
Ingredients
- 2 cups ground almonds
- 2.5 tablespoon ground flaxseed
- 2 tablespoon chia seeds ground
- 3 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup Swerve confectioners
- ⅓ cup coconut oil melted
- 1 tablespoon almond butter
- 4 tablespoon unsweetened almond milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 315 degrees F.
- Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Add the oil (reserving about 1 tablespoon to brush on top,) almond butter and almond milk. Mix to form a dough. Place in the fridge to chill for an hour or freezer for about 20 - 30 minutes (just so it firms up but not freezes.)
- Split the dough in half and warm the dough in your hands slightly so it forms two balls. Roll one ball between two sheets of greaseproof paper or use a silicone matt and rolling pin. Fold over the edges to make a rectangle and re roll to about ⅓ cm in height.
- Using a fork gently make lots of surface pricks in the dough. Try not to pierce all the way through as this makes the dough more fragile. Repeat for the other piece of dough.
- Bake in the oven for 20 - 25 minutes until golden.
- Allow to fully cool (this is important) and then using a sharp knife cut into 1 inch rectangles. You will get some crumbly bits, best bits I think because they soak up all the yummy milk! You can experiment with adding a little xanthan gum if you prefer, I just wanted to keep this version as clean as possible.
- If you cut into 1 inch squares, you should get 120 squares on one rolled out sheet of dough. One sheet of dough is divided into 4 servings, about 30 pieces each.
- Store in a glass jar for 3-5 days.
Nutrition
Jo is the creative food photographer and stylist behind the healthy eating blog, Modern Food Stories. Jo's a testament that once you find the right approach for you, you can overcome chronic illness through the healing power of food. She believes the secret to radiant health starts and ends with a healthy gut so all her recipes are grain, gluten and refined sugar free. Many are also dairy-free.
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Joann
Question could you score the lines ti make it easier to cut after baking?
Brenda
Yes that's a great idea.
Tracy
I just wanted to say I made this recipe for my daughter. She is 4 and very particular about her food and I have to say she loved it and had seconds. I'm trying to find clean recipes for her and this one worked a treat. I cut the squares a lot smaller for her and they are even better after being stored in the fridge. Thank you for this, it will be a staple in our house
Natalie
Brenda,
I appreciate the time & work that you have put into creating this recipe as well as being mindful of the ingredients being used. However, I feel the need to voice my concern because, had I read a comment that stated these things, I would not have attempted this recipe.
I feel as though I wasted a lot of time and ingredients on this recipe in the hopes that it would turn out with SOME level of "crunch" (as is stated in the title). I first followed all the instructions EXACTLY and then when it turned out soft and weirdly-flavored (even after letting it completely cool like it states in the directions), I tried making it with a few adjustments that I thought might help (I even tried a version with tigernut flour instead of almond flour because tigernut sometimes crisps better) but it still turned into a weird mush as soon as any liquid was added. I understand that this was intended to be a simple recipe with the best ingredients but my opinion is that this is not a recipe worth making or wasting your ingredients on.
Brenda
I'm truly sorry you didn't like the recipe and I will test it out again to see what modifications need to be made to make it crunchier.
patricia
I do not care for the cocoa. Could I sub in more almond meal?
Debi Steele
Hi!
I'm allergic to chia. What do you suggest as a substitute.?
Cheers!
Debi
Brenda
You might be ok adding more flax to replace of go with another seed like sesame.
Sirri
I have the same question - will almond flour work?
Brenda
Almond flour is made from blanched almonds without their skin, if you want a good crunch choose almond meal instead or grind the almonds yourself.
Allison
When you say "2 cups ground almonds", are you measuring 2 cups of whole almonds and grinding, or do you mean 2 cups after grinding (like almond flour/meal)?
Brenda
2 cups of all ready ground almonds
Patti
But not almond flour, right?