This easy Strawberry Shortcake recipe is gestational diabetes diet friendly in every way., It takes only 8 ingredients and has 12g carbs per serving!
Why Strawberry Shortcake?
It's the height of strawberry season and you should be able to partake guilt free. This shortcake will do the trick!
Gestational Diabetes Diet
Strawberries are one of the better fruits you can eat because they're less than 15g carbs per cup and they have traces of many vitamins.
Recipe Modifications
Coconut sugar was used here. It has half the affect on your blood sugar that white sugar does. So using it in this recipe is really just a safety net and doesn't positively or negatively affect the flavor. You can use regular sugar with the same measurement.
I paired this shortcake with farmer's market strawberries and Reddi Whip. I sliced them and sprinkled Swerve powdered sweetener at let sit for a few hours to develop a juice. No hassle. And it's not pictured, but we added lemon curd at the end....talk about next level!
To make it Keto use grass-fed butter and your sweetener of choice.
Nutritional Highlights
Really good percentages in the micro nutrients due to the almond flour.
Recipe
Strawberry Shortcake
- 1 c Almond Flour (finely ground)
- 1-2 tablespoon Coconut Sugar (or sweetener of choice (cannot be liquid))
- ¼ t Baking Powder
- ? t Salt
- 4 tablespoon Unsalted Butter, cubed
- 1 each Egg
- 1 t Vanilla Extract
- ½-1 t Lemon Extract (optional)
- Preheat oven to 375?F.
- Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder & salt to distribute evenly.
- Add butter & mix well. If the butter is straight from the refrigerator, you may need to use your hands to help incorporate it all evenly.
- Lightly mix the egg and extracts together in a separate bowl, then pour into the dry mix and mix well. The batter will be thick.
- Bake in muffin pan for 12 mins and let cool completely. You can imprint them if you want before they cool.
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Mix strawberries with 3 tablespoons sugar and refrigerate while juices develop, at least 30 minutes.