These Low Carb Keto Salted Caramel Cake Balls are a perfect party friendly finger food, no utensils required!
Cake Balls
Cake balls are the perfect little bite sized snack that everyone loves. Typically it is crumbled cake mixed with frosting, formed into a ball and then coated in chocolate. They have more of a dough like texture than a standard leveled cake and are great for a finger food dessert for a party.
Making them low carb and keto doesn't require too much trouble at all. A little addition of a special ingredient within the cake mixture to keep it nice and moist makes this a fool proof perfect recipe. Then making a delicious keto salted caramel sauce to mix into the crumbled cake, well my friends, it is a heavenly bite I assure you!
Salted Caramel
The keto salted caramel comes together with just a few simple ingredients. Make sure to give the mixture enough time to truly thicken the back of the spoon. If you've never tried making your own caramel sauce, and you'd like to try my easy sugar free microwave salted caramel sauce, that would also work within this recipe. Just keep in mind, making my keto caramel sauce, you'll have too much to use in this recipe, use only half is my suggestion. But who doesn't love some left over caramel sauce to pour over keto low carb ice cream?!
While this recipe does have a few steps to make it all come together, it is certainly worth the effort. You'll have many cake balls to share for a party or even freeze some then defrost when you have a craving for a sweet little bite sized keto treat!
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Keto Salted Caramel Cake Balls
Keto Salted Caramel Cake Balls
Ingredients
Cake
- 2.75 cups almond flour
- 1.25 cups Swerve confectioners sweetener
- .5 cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 2 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6 large eggs
- ½ cup butter melted
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Caramel
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup Swerve brown sugar sub
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch salt
Glaze
- 9 ounces Sugar free chocolate chips Lily's brand
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
Optional topping
- flaky sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325° F and line an 8 inch cake pan with parchment.
- In a large bowl beat together all of the cake ingredients until smooth, pour into the prepared cake pan and transfer to the oven. Bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- For the caramel sauce, combine the ingredients in a small pot over medium low heat, bring to a simmer. Simmer for 5-6 minutes until thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon. Pour into a jar and let cool.
- Place the cake in a large bowl and crumble until fine. Pour in the caramel sauce and mix together. Form the cake into 38 balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Freeze for 20 minutes.
- In a small bowl melt together the chocolate chips and the coconut oil in the microwave in 15 second increments until smooth.
- Dip the balls into the chocolate coating every side then place bake on the baking sheet. Freeze for 10 minutes, remove then sprinkle with salt if desired. Refrigerate until ready to eat.
Notes
Nutrition
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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.
Karen
A quick question: if I omit the cocoa powder would it be like a vanilla caramel cake ball? It just sounds good to me. Thanks
Evy
So these were a little bit of work but are great! The caramel sauce didn’t make very much for the large amount of cake. I used all of it and it still barely tasted like caramel but was yummy. Also I needed another 5 ounces of Lillys chocolate chips to cover all the balls. I actually wish I knew what size cookie scoop you used. It looks like the large but I’m not sure. Using the small one it made a lot more balls than the recipe says and using the big one it wouldn’t make that many. I ended up doing a combination of both and will have to re-calculate the nutrition for how many it made for me. Next time doing all small since they are rich. Overall this is going to be a great gift for my other friends and family on Keto, thank you!
Darlene
Can the whipping cream be replaced with coconut cream?
Anglinia Rose
Your cooking is great. This look delicious and easy to make. Thanks for sharing.
Karina
I also would like to use an alternative to pumpkin purée
Not fond of pumpkin unless it can’t be tasted in the cake
Brenda
I think a great alternative would be avocado because the texture is similar to pumpkin puree.
Stacia Jahnke
These look sooooo good!!! Is there something I could substitute for the pumpkin puree? TIA!!!!
Brenda
My best guess would be mashed avocado.
Judy Morin
IS that ! (ONE) tsp vamilla or some other amount?
Brenda
yes thanks updated it