Low Carb Keto Cottage Cheese Brioche Sweet Rolls
These easy keto cottage cheese rolls filled with cream cheese are a delicious sweet roll that don’t need flour, yeast or kneading. They resemble the soft texture of a brioche roll, but take less than 30 minutes to make! 10 grams of protein and 1.9 g net carbs per roll!
Carbs in Brioche Buns
Traditional brioche bread requires butter, eggs, all purpose flour, active dry yeast and about 8 hours of total time to make!
According to the Cronometer app, a small slice with about 39 grams in weight, has 19.4 grams of carbs which is super high and definitely not keto friendly or good for a low-carb diet either.
Carbs in our Cottage Cheese Sweet Rolls
One small slice of regular Brioche bread will spike blood sugar and when blood sugar spikes, weight loss stops. If you’re working on losing weight on a keto diet or low carb diet, try our low carb keto version of brioche buns with less than 2 grams carbs per roll.
The printable recipe card is at the bottom of this page.
These keto rolls don’t have the same exact texture as brioche dough obviously since they don’t have flour and are gluten free, but they do have that softness and fluffy bread like texture we all love.
I adapted these keto rolls after I made my keto Hawaiian sweet rolls and noticed how closely they looked like brioche buns.
I think this cottage cheese mixture work much better than using fathead dough that uses mozzarella cheese, cream cheese, eggs and either coconut flour or almond flour.
Fathead dough is delicious, but tends to be dense and not light and airy like my cottage cheese cloud bread recipe. So for this type of low carb bread recipe I wouldn’t recommend using a fathead dough.
BEST COTTAGE CHEESE BRANDS
Cottage cheese is a great source of protein and I’ve been using it for years in everything from my spinach pie recipe to my high protein chocolate smoothie and recently even in my easy keto bread recipe, specifically though my viral keto cottage cheese bread.
The 2 ingredient cottage cheese bread recipe went viral on tiktok- make it, try it for yourself and then make my cottage cheese cloud bread and let me know what you think. The difference is, mine is a great recipe that you will use again and again.
I’ve been working to add more protein to my own diet and my bread recipes as well. So using cottage cheese is an easy protein win in my opinion.
Full-fat cottage cheese is best, either 4% or 2% cottage cheese will yield the best results.
You can find many options for cottage cheese at your local grocery store, but specific brands vary in taste and texture.
I don’t recommend fat free cottage cheese because it won’t be as satisfying as full fat cottage cheese or as creamy. I like to use lactose free cottage cheese since my daughter and I both have lactose intolerance.
The brand I like best is Green Valley organic, but the Lactaid brand is also a great brand as is, the Good Culture brand.
Can I replace the Allulose?
If you want that classic golden brown color you see in brioche bread and buns, you will want to use Allulose to achieve that result.
I use Allulose in liquid form but granulated Allulose will also work in this recipe.
You could also make my Keto Simple Syrup to replace Allulose.
My Sweetener Guide & Conversion Chart can help you choose a different low carb sweetener and decide how much to replace the Allulose with that I used in this recipe.
Can I replace the Cottage Cheese?
Yes you can replace the cottage cheese with ricotta cheese but that will add more fat, calories and carbs to the nutritional value below.
Can I make this as a large loaf instead of rolls?
If you want to try making this as one large loaf in a loaf pan, I think you can do it but the time will be much longer in order to have it cooked in the center.
My Cottage Cheese Cloud Bread Loaf takes about 50 minutes so I would say, bake 40 then remove to add the cream cheese and swirl it over the top. Bake for another 5-10 minutes.
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Low Carb Keto Cottage Cheese Brioche Sweet Rolls
Ingredients
Brioche Sweet Rolls
- 6 large eggs separated, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar or cream of tartar
- 4 ounces cottage cheese or 113 grams
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup vanilla whey protein powder or 3 scoops or 90 grams
- 1 tbsp Allulose liquid or granular or make keto simple syrup
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp vanilla stevia liquid sweetener
- pinch salt
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp allulose or 2 tsp vanilla stevia
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 300 degrees F. Grease a 12 capacity extra large muffin pan.
- Place your egg whites in a stand mixer or electric hand mixer with vinegar and whip until stiff peaks. This should take about 10-15 minutes. Set aside.
- Place the egg yolks in a bowl with the remaining ingredients and whisk and stir well to combine. You can also just add these ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth.
- Fold in a small amount of egg yolk mixture into the egg white mixture a little at a time until it's all incorporated.
- Pour batter to fill an extra large muffin cup pan. Mine is 3.5 inch diameter.
- Bake on the middle shelf of oven for 25 minutes, remove from the oven and use a sharp knife to remove about a 1 inch circle from the center of the roll.
- Add the cream cheese filling ingredients to a blender and mix until smooth. Taste and adjust sweetener if needed.
- Take some, I used a heaping 1 tbsp, of the cream cheese filling and place in the center of each of the rolls. Place bake in the oven for 5 minutes.
- Storage; Place keto rolls in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
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.
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Can I use a regular muffin pan? If so, do you have a tine recommendation?
The batter will overflow in a regular muffin pan so you’d have to make more than 12 but time would be be close to the same, maybe check at 20 min.
Any substitute for the allulose? I get a very negative reaction to that sweetener. Thank you!
You could swap it with any sweetener you like. Here’s my conversion chart and sweetener guide; https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/natural-sugar-free-low-carb-sweeteners-guide-conversion-chart/
I only have unflavored whey protein. Can I up the amount of vanilla and achieve the same taste?
Thanks
Yes increase the vanilla extract by a teaspoon.
Hi! What could I replace the liquid stevia with? I have liquid monkfruit, would that work? Stevia gives me migraines so I like to avoid it. Thanks for any help!
yep, that works!
What can we use in place of whey powder?
I’m sorry there is no replacement for whey in this recipe, it is required.
I was surprised by how much I liked these! They reminded me of the cream cheese danishes I used to love growing up from McDonald’s. One of our friends was over when I made them and he kept asking for more. 😂
Thank you so much Heather!
Which one of your books has your bread recipes?
I’m a cream cheese fan and I absolutely LOVE these (ONLY 2g total carbs😍)! I used a silicone 16 muffin pan + overflow into 2 spots of a metal 6-muffin pan since I didn’t have an oversized pan. Turned out fantastic! I froze many of them and pull them out as desired.
Hi this is a dumb question, but are these best eaten warm, cold or room temp?
I’ve eaten them warm, cold and room temperature. I love them warm right out of the oven with butter! But I’ve eaten them cold from the fridge too and delicious as well!
I love Brenda’s recipes. I purchased the egg white powder and am glad to get lots of low carb recipes to us it in.
Thanks Laura!
vanilla whey protein powder is $104 for 24 oz, please cook with cheaper ingredients!!
There are plenty of other vanilla whey protein powders you can find on Amazon. I only link to the choice I made, you don’t have to use the same one.
It’s not fair to rate a recipe low because you cant afford one of the ingredients. She doesn’t advertise cheap recipes. Just find something else. 😊
Thanks Amy!
Can I replace the vanilla whey protein with vanilla collagen protein (“Keto” brand)?
I’ve not tested replacing whey with collagen and to be honest, not sure you will get the same results.
what did you do with the 1 inch circles of roll you removed?
We ate them!
This is absolutely delicious! I followed the recipe to a T and it turned out great! I highly recommend it!! I mixed the 1″ rounds that I cut out of the middle with a little bit of the cream cheese mixture that was left over and ate them that way……yummy!