The Best Sugar-Free Keto Funfetti Birthday Cake

Almond Flour: Another way to cut carbs is to get rid of flour-based food. Even substituting to wheat flour has just too many carbs in it to be keto or low-carb-friendly. So, instead of regular flour, we would use almond flour– this keto-friendly flour substitute is extremely low in carbs and healthy fats. This makes it perfect for our funfetti keto birthday cake recipe .

Use blanched almond flour (or superfine almond flour) as it has a finer and lighter texture compared to regular almond flour. This will help in giving our birthday cake a lighter-colored appearance and less dense texture.

Coconut Flour: To add more taste and thickness to our keto funfetti cake, we’ll be mixing in coconut flour. It’s another keto-friendly flour substitute that also makes an excellent thickener. It will add coconut flavor to our birthday cake, which should go well with our coconut “sprinkles.”

No, we do not. The sprinkles in a regular birthday cake are typically made of hardened sugar. As we can’t have that on our sugar-free birthday cake, this recipe utilized unsweetened shredded coconut and some food coloring to create our mock sprinkles.
Note that it’s important to use unsweetened shredded coconut. This is because sweetened coconut contains sugar, which makes it non-keto and most certainly exceeds your macros.

Yes, you can! You just have to increase the proportions of the ingredients listed in the recipe. For example, if you want to have four cake layers, you just need to double the recipe. Just adjust the proportion for any additional cake layers that you want.

Technically, you can. You can use vegan butter with no issues. However, it’s hard to make a cake without eggs and have it retain the same texture. You can use an egg substitute, but the cake will not be as fluffy or as moist. It may be denser too. If you don’t mind that, sure, go ahead and use a pre-formulated egg substitute.

The chances of having leftovers are very low, but just in case you need to store any, you can store them in your refrigerator. Put any leftover cake in an airtight container and put it in the fridge. It will stay good for up to 4 days.

If you need to store it for far longer, you can put it in the freezer. It should be good for up to 6 months. Defrost the cake overnight in the fridge before serving it. That said, I am not a fan of defrosted cake so I would not suggest doing this.

You likely stirred your batter way too much. To avoid this from happening, make sure to mix together your wet ingredients first. When they’re already well mixed, that’s when you add in the dry ingredients. Mix them together until everything is well mixed but still slightly lumpy. Remember not to overdo it!

Your cake is probably still undercooked. You need to allow enough baking time for your cake to rise and set properly. Pop it in the oven again and let it bake some more.

Certainly, and I hope this keto cake recipe showed you how possible and easy it was.

To substitute sugar as the sweetener to our keto funfetti birthday cake, we used the keto-friendly Lakanto Monk Fruit Sweetener. It’s a great sugar substitute for keto cake recipes as it has no aftertaste, has a zero glycemic index, and has zero additives. What’s more, it has a 1:1 ratio to sugar, making it easier to convert traditional dessert recipes into keto-friendly ones.

For our buttercream frosting, we also used Lankanto Powdered Monk Fruit Sweetener as our sugar substitute. This keto-friendly sugar substitute has all of the same qualities as the granulated version, only in powdered form. With this, we were able to get a keto frosting that was not grainy.

You cannot eat just any birthday cake on a keto diet, as traditional birthday cakes are typically high in carbohydrates and sugar, making them unsuitable for a keto diet, let alone a low-carb diet. When following a keto diet, it’s important to limit your carbohydrate intake and focus on consuming high amounts of healthy fats and moderate amounts of protein. Most cakes are neither of these.

However, this Funfetti keto cake recipe is specifically crafted to be low in carbohydrates and sugar, making it a suitable option for those following a keto lifestyle. Using almond flour and coconut flour instead of traditional wheat flour and incorporating keto-friendly sweeteners, you can enjoy a delicious birthday cake while staying within your keto dietary guidelines.