Keto Low Carb Apple Dump Cake (Gluten Free)
Keto Low Carb Apple Dump Cake is a simple recipe that is grain free, gluten free and made with no added sugar! Just 5 g net carbs using apples for those on a low carb diet and 1 g net carbs using zucchini for those on a keto diet.
Are Apples Keto Friendly?
No foods are technically keto. Ketosis is a metabolic state your body is in when you eat a very low carb diet.
How many carbs you need to eat or not eat will make a difference in getting your body into ketosis to burn your own body fat for fat loss. That carb amount will be different for each person.
1 small apple at 149 grams has about 77 calories and 20 grams of total carbohydrates. Some people following a keto diet will only allow themselves 20 grams of carb intake for the entire day so eating one small apple would not be helpful for them and may kick them out of ketosis.
Using a small amount of a higher-carb fruit like apple in a recipe that makes many servings is something that can be enjoyed whether you are following a keto diet or low carb diet.
Fall Season is Apple Season
We’ve had a rough week in my house. Not a bad week in that sense, but a pretty tough one nonetheless. Moving out of one house a few days before you can move into another is difficult with 3 kids and a dog.
The excitement of moving kept my family in good spirits. We moved out of the hustle and bustle of a small crowded city neighborhood, to a quiet country setting in the woods about 30 minutes away. Something we’ve always wanted.
It’s fitting for me to post an apple recipe being that we have a beautiful apple tree in our new, very large yard and go apple picking from our very own tree.
Something we’ve always wanted for our kids. Furniture just arrived, but with it all the boxes that make a move challenging, the unpacking of it all.
How to Make Low Carb Apple Cake
I love easy dump cake recipes because you literally just throw all the simple ingredients together in a baking dish and bake it! Boom! Done!
This is one of our favorites at this time of year and the easiest dessert for a family.
This apple dump cake makes me happy and peaceful just looking at it. It reminds me that life can be simple, just like simple recipes, and it’s ok. Because as long as you have your family and some essentials you can do anything.
We use fresh apples but below you will find an adaption to lower the carbs to help you fit this into your ketogenic diet.
Ingredients
To view exact amounts, see nutrition info and print recipe, please scroll to the bottom of this post to view the recipe card.
Cinnamon
Large eggs
Melted Butter
Apples
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a large bowl whisk the dry ingredients (flour, Swerve, cinnamon and baking soda) together.
Whisk in the wet ingredients (eggs, butter and stevia) until combined.
Stir in the apple slices until coated.
Spread cake batter mixture in an even layer into a greased 9 by 13 baking pan.
Bake for 45- 50 minutes until golden brown. (Cooking times will cary with electric and gas ovens. Electric ovens tend to cook quicker than gas, so bake only 40 minutes then check.)
Enjoy hot out of the oven or room temperature with some sugar free whipped cream or add a scoop of ice cream!
How to Make this a Keto Dump Cake
If you really want to lower the carbs in this recipe, please replace the apples used for peeled and slices zucchini!
Zucchini will lower the total carbohydrate from 10 grams to just 6 total grams and net carbs per serving is just 1 gram.
I would highly recommend if you use zucchini that you add some apple pie extract because it will give a wonderful, delicious apple flavor that is needed to replicate a baked apple recipe.
While it might not be the prettiest of cakes, it is a super easy dessert! Topped with a little sugar-free whipped cream, or keto vanilla ice cream, you’ve got comfort on a plate.
No need for fancy anything at this country home we are in, just as this cake needs nothing fancy to make it spectacular.
With minimal effort on your part, this apple dump cake is a reminder that the simple things in life always make for the best recipe.
Low-Carb Apple Desserts
Keto Apple Muffins with cream cheese
Brenda’s Notes:
To make life easier we bought an apple, corer, peeler tool and it worked fabulous and it was fast!
If you don’t have Swerve you can use another sugar free sweetener but most are much sweeter than Swerve so I would suggest reducing the amount to 1/2 cup.
Here’s my Sweetener Guide & Conversion chart to help you determine how much to use of another sweetener.
If you don’t have cinnamon stevia, use plain or vanilla.
Keto Low Carb Apple Dump Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup coconut flour
- 1 cup Swerve granular sweetener
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tsp apple pie spice
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 6 eggs beaten
- 1/2 cup butter melted, cooled
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon liquid stevia or see notes above
- 4 cups apples or zucchini * see notes above* Gala or Fuji, peeled, cored, sliced
- 1/2 tsp apple pie extract optional if using zucchini
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- In a large bowl whisk the flour, Swerve, cinnamon and baking soda together.
- Whisk in the eggs, butter and stevia into the dry ingredients in the bowl.
- Stir in the apple slices until coated.
- Spread mixture into a greased 9 by 13 baking dish.
- Bake for 45- 50 minutes.
- Enjoy with some sugar free whipped cream!
Notes
Nutrition
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.
Before diabetes, I had a similar recipe, Apple Sundae Cake. I’ve been wanting a conversion for a while. I’m going to try this today
I modified this to be 1/2 C each almond and coconut flour, added 1/2 C applesauce and about 1/4 olive oil. Was perfect. Couldn’t keep my husband out of it.
Is serving size really 1g ?
There was a glitch with my recipe plug in. There are 12 servings in this cake.
Thanks, I was wondering the same thing!
This is the second time I’ve made this and I like it~ a lot.
To those who are saying it’s dry, it’s not like a batter based cake mix…it’s more like a drop dough/ fruit cobbler. The first time I let it cool, cut it into 24 bars and stored it in the fridge. It was moist and still delicious a week later!
This time I added about 3/4 cup of fresh applesauce and it loosened up the batter quite a bit. I let it bake for about 40 min and it’s cooling now. It feels much softer than the first. We shall see when I have some for breakfast with a nice cup of coffee~ yum!
I agree with those above. This cake is EXTREMELY dry. ( I even had some extra apples in there.) It really needs more moisture. I kept double checking ingredients to make sure I hadn’t accidentally omitted a liquid somewhere. I saved it with a caramel sauce, otherwise this just didn’t work.
If you swap almond flour for the coconut, would you still use 1 cup? What would your adjustment be? Thanks much!
I would use 1.25 cups of almond.
I tried to make this for Rosh Hashanah dessert. It was so dry I choked. Is there anyway to make this moister, because I had to dump this RIGHT in the trash ?
Maybe it baked a bit longer in your oven than it needed. You could also swap the coconut flour for almond. Coconut can tend to be drier than other wheat free products.
Any substitute for cinnamon liquid stevia? I dont have any and would love to make this!
I made this last night and it was extremely dry. Everything I make with coconut flour is dry. I use Bob’s Red Mill coconut flour. I am allergic to almonds & almond flour though, so it’s hard to find substitutes.
Mine is in the oven. I am excited to taste it!
It was so easy so follow the step by step recipe.
Thank you!
Liked the taste of the cake but mine turned out dry as well. I’m wondering what brand of coconut flour you used since yours wasn’t dry? Could almond flour be substituted? Would other ingredients need to be adjusted as well? Thanks for your advice.
I just made this, but I made it in muffin pans for portion control. I also used brown sugar sub and added dried unsweetened cranberries. Got 19 muffins for 8 carbs a piece. So good.
Very good cake. I food processed my apples a little too much but I think the extra juices made for a moister cake. I don’t always have luck baking with coconut flour. . I also added some vanilla and Carmel extract and it taste like Carmel apples. Taste good even though I messed it up a bit, can’t wait to taste when I do it right! !
The cake was awfully dry when mixing it and after it baked it was REALLY dry. Not the best sugar free I have had! I think the coconut flour is too heavy and needs more moisture, maybe some applesauce added. It smelled good but unfortunately did not taste that great
What kind of coconut flour did you use, what brand? Ours wasn’t dry at all.
I also just got finished with making this. A total disappointment!!!. Was very dry and did not hold together at all when trying to cut a piece. Waste of ingredients!!!!
I agree, mine was dry and not very tasty. Too many apples in recipes which turned out to be undercooked. Thank you though.
I’m not sure how so many people said it came out dry but I read the comments before I made. I was concerned about mine being dry so here are my changes and it turned out fantastic and moist. I did use half almond and half coconut flour. I did not use liquid stevia. I did use 2 TBL spoons of real maple syrup and 2 TBL spoons of apple bourbon and the butter(called for) cooking the apples just until slightly softened. I did use a cup and a half of apples not cooked, just for texture. I did sprinkle about a 1/3 C. chopped plain almonds across the top before baking for some crunch. I know the maple syrup and the bourbon are a no-no for a sugar free recipe but it came out really good! lol
Brenda do you have a new discount code at Iherb please thank you
oops tried it again and it worked thanks
Yes use YAJ0435 for a discount.
We just moved to a country setting also. We absolutely love it!! Good luck in your new home..in your recipes could I substitute egg whites for the whole egg? We are dealing with cholesterol problems.. Thank you,Lisa
I haven’t tried that but I would say yes, should be fine.
Blessings to you and your family as you begin to make special memories in your new home!
thank you!
You use the different flavored Stevias in your recipes, but I find them to expensive to use/buy. What would be an alternative to them? Would the dried spice of say cinnamon work in place of the liquid stevia called for in this Apple Cake recipe?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Unfortunately, cinnamon alone is not equal to the sweetness that stevia has. You could just buy the vanilla creme stevia or clear and use it in most of the recipes I have. My discount code at iherb.com is YAJ035 if that helps, i find it cheaper to buy online rather than stores.
Congratulations on your family’s BIG move! Can’t wait to try this recipe especially with holidays coming and fall being in the air. Do you happen to have a discount code for iherb.com ?? Also which of the Sweetleaf sweeteners would you suggest are good starters to buy first?
Thank you! My discount code is YAJ035. I would choose vanilla creme, clear and the hazelnut is fabulous in coffee!
Looks so yummy ! Will probably cut down sweetener and cut apple amount in half to improve carb count for myself. I soo miss apple pie. This might be do-able !! And easy !! <3
This is such a tasty and comforting dessert that will probably taste even better in your new country kitchen!
Enjoy your new digs! How wonderful to be moving someplace you have wanted to be. As for this cake — this is on my “must try” list, as I come up with an arsenal of desserts to keep us away from the sugar-and-grain parade of holiday foods. Thank you!
Cass
11-02-2015
I like your idea. Especially good low carb information. A little smile for the definitive. The old British cooks’ definition of “stodgy” means filling, heavy, lots of carbohydrates. Hope you enjoy all things new.
CONGRATULATIONS on your move to the country. Hope you all enjoy living there.
Thank you so much!
Is there another flour you could recommend? Almond? Lentil? One family member cannot tolerate coconut flour.. Thank you. Love your recipes.
My youngest has a tree nut allergy, but I would try almond as well if I could.
Made this to go with my New Years dinner. Delicious and easy ! Made fresh whipped cream, which totally made this dessert !
So glad you liked it thank you for coming back to tell me!
Thank you! I made this today for what would have been my mother’s 75th birthday. As I didn’t have swerve, I substituted erythritol 1 to 1, and I also added a cup and a half of chopped walnuts to the batter. Also, because I have a strange round-shaped oven I had to bake it in two 9 inch cake pans. It came out exceedingly delicious. I love it so so so much. This recipe is definitely a keeper. My mom would have totally loved it too.