Low-Carb Gingerbread Fudge

This delicious keto fudge is comprised of roasted nut butter, brown sugar substitute to sweeten and gingerbread spices to flavour, resulting in buttery, rich festive fudge.

You can really use any nut butter here but I find a roasted nut butter will give a richer flavour. Roasted almond cashew butter works really well here. If you don’t have any Sukrin Gold, you can sweeten with the same amount of erythritol or other low-carb sweetener instead.

This healthy sugar-free fudge is best served cool, if bought to room temperature it does get quite soft, so I would store it in the fridge, or if stored in the freezer allow to sit for a minute or two before serving.

Step-by-step

1. Prepare the Almond & Cashew Butter or simply use roasted almond butter.

   

2. Add about a third of the butter to a saucepan with the sweetener, and melt over low heat, stirring consistently until the sweetener has melted and formed a smooth paste.

   

3. Add the remaining ingredients, and return to a low heat, stirring. Note that you can use a double boiler for this, or hold the saucepan about 2.5 cm/ 1 inch over the hot plate — it doesn’t take very long to come together. If the mixture gets too hot it can separate, so be careful to not get the heat too high.

4. Once the butter has melted and the ingredients have all mixed together, remove from the heat.

   

5. Pour into a small lined tray, such as a loaf tin, or individual moulds, and set in the freezer at least an hour.

   

6. Once set, sprinkle with extra salt if using, and cut into squares or logs.

   

7. Store up to 10 days in the fridge, or up to a month in the freezer.

   If you're this fudge as a gift, you can wrap them in candy paper and tie with a string!

   

Recipe

Low-Carb Gingerbread Fudge

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Healthy, quick and easy gingerbread fudge recipe. This festive, perfectly spiced keto treat is creamy and ...

Hands on

15m

Overall

1h 15m

Servings

20

1.6 g

Net carbs

2.1 g

Protein

12.2 g

Fat

122

kcal

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Ingredients makes 16 squares / 20 logs

• 1 stick unsalted butter or ghee (113 g/ 4 oz)
• 1 cup Almond & Cashew Butter or roasted almond butter (250 g/ 8.8 oz)
• ¹/₃ cup brown sugar substitute such as Sukrin Gold or Lakanto (53 g/1.9 oz) - if you don't have any, use Swerve or Erythritol
• ¹/₄ tsp sea salt (omit if using salted butter)
• ¹/₂ tsp vanilla powder or 1-2 tsp sugar-free vanilla extract
• ³/₄ tsp cinnamon
• ³/₄ tsp ground ginger
• ¹/₄ tsp nutmeg
• ¹/₈ tsp ground cloves
• Optional: more sea salt for sprinkling

• Note

  instead of the spices above, you can use 2 ¹/₂ teaspoons of ready-made gingerbread spice mix.

Instructions

1. Prepare the Almond & Cashew Butter or simply use roasted almond butter.

2. Add about a third of the butter to a saucepan with the sweetener, and melt over low heat, stirring consistently until the sweetener has melted and formed a smooth paste.

3. Add the remaining ingredients, and return to a low heat, stirring. Note that you can use a double boiler for this, or hold the saucepan about 2.5 cm/ 1 inch over the hot plate — it doesn’t take very long to come together. If the mixture gets too hot it can separate, so be careful to not get the heat too high.

4. Once the butter has melted and the ingredients have all mixed together, remove from the heat.

5. Pour into a small lined tray, such as a loaf tin, or individual moulds, and set in the freezer at least an hour.

6. Once set, sprinkle with extra salt if using, and cut into squares or logs.

7. Store up to 10 days in the fridge, or up to a month in the freezer.

   If you're this fudge as a gift, you can wrap them in candy paper and tie with a string!

Nutrition per log

Carbs 5%Protein 7%Fat 88% of calories

Net carbs

1.6 g

Total carbs

5 g

Fiber

0.9 g

Sugars

0.6 g

Protein

2.1 g

Fat

12.2 g

Saturated fat

3.6 g

Calories

122 kcal

Sodium

31 mg · 1.37% RDA

Magnesium

28 mg · 6.9% RDA

Potassium

68 mg · 3.42% EMR

Nutrition by ingredient

Per log	Net carbs	Protein	Fat	kcal
Butter, unsalted, grass-fed	0 g	0 g	4.6 g	41
Almond & cashew butter	1.3 g	2 g	7.6 g	80
Sukrin Gold, brown sugar substitute	0.2 g	0 g	0 g	0
Salt, sea salt	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Vanilla powder, dried (from vanilla beans, vanilla pods)	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Spices, cinnamon, ground	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Ginger (ground, dried), spices	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Nutmeg, spices	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Spices, cloves, ground	0 g	0 g	0 g	0
Total	1.6 g	2.1 g	12.2 g	122

Serving size log

• Gluten free
• Egg free
• Nightshade free
• Pork free
• Avocado free
• Coconut free
• Fish free
• Shellfish free
• Beef free
• Pescatarian
• Vegetarian