My oldest daughter asked me to make pumpkin bread yesterday. She loves my whole wheat pumpkin bread recipe but thought I might be able to create a keto/low carb friendly one. Although my kids are not 100% keto, I think she wanted me to bake something that I could enjoy as well. After a little trial and error, I think I have come up with a yummy keto/low carb pumpkin bread recipe. Now, let me set the expectation for you as I did get a little disheartened in the beginning of my keto journey when I saw recipes that said they “tasted like the real thing.” This does not taste like the kind of sugary pumpkin bread that we were all used to before we started following a keto/low carb way of life. There is not one low carb ingredient that I can substitute that tastes the same as a fluffy flour full of gluten. With that being said, this is a very very good alternative. It’s both moist and full of pumpkin flavor while being low carb, which is most important. This recipe makes 2 mini loaves. If you double it, you can make one regular sized loaf.
Serves: 2 mini muffin loaves
- 3 eggs
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 tablespoon butter
- ½ cup pumpkin puree
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tablespoon sour cream
- ¾ cup powdered Swerve
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- 2 tablespoon of powdered Swerve
- 1 teaspoon melted butter
- Approx 1 teaspoon heavy whipping cream
- Melt coconut oil and butter.
- Beat eggs, swerve, pumpkin puree, sour cream, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice until combined.
- Slowly add coconut oil and butter to the mixture.
- In a separate bowl, combine coconut flour, salt, and baking powder.
- Add flour mixture to other ingredients and mix well.
- Pour into 2 greased mini loaf pans (or cover in parchment paper).
- Bake in a 350-degree oven for approx 45 minutes or until a fork inserted in center comes out clean.
- Melt butter and add
powedered Swerve. - Pour heavy whipping cream over mixture until it thins out. Can add more or less if needed.
- Drizzle over warm bread.
Nutritional Information Based on MyFitnessPal app (8 servings) – 105 calories, fat 10.3g, protien .3, carbs 1.98 – 0.4375 = 1.55 Net Carbs
*Sugar Alcohols in Swerve are not calculated in carbs.
Check out all of my Keto Recipes in my Keto Recipe Index.
Can I bake it just one loaf in a regular loaf pan? Or it must be 2 mini loaves to cook correctly?
You would need to double the recipe for it to work in a regular loaf pan. If you don’t have mini pans, you can also use muffin tins.
I am confused as to why you would need to double it to fill a regular loaf pan if it makes two mini loaves. The mini loaf pans that are linked above are half the size of regular loaf pan which would lead me to believe that putting the entire recipe into a regular loaf pan would result in the right amount. Are you mini pans smaller than approx 4″ by 2″? Or is the depth the issue?
I would think that depth would be the greater issue.
If I was using powder erythrotol instead of swerve how much do I use?
I’m not sure, I’ve only used Swerve.
It’s the same. I use Swerve and erythritol interchangeably. The ratios are the same.
Thanks, Cheryl. 🙂
All I can find is Pure Pumpkin in a can, is it ok to use instead of pumpkin purée??
I would think so. I think it’s the same thing.
Made the Pumpkin Bread – wow, what a treat. Although I am a sweet tooth, I would cut back on the Swerve a bit. I didn’t add the frosting.
Feedback from my samplers was ‘its a bit too sweet’. But I will definitely make this again – looking forward to serving it up at Thanksgiving!
Great! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I love how a recipe can be tweaked to suit our individual tastes. Blessings to you!
I made in muffin cups and they turned out great. I didn’t have time to do the icing and it’s really not necessary. The toothpick came out clean, but they were still overly moist. Should I cook longer or is this the normal texture?
Without seeing yours, I am really not sure. They are very moist and the texture is different than regular flour.
Is 3/4 cups of Swerve confectioners correct? That would be too many carbs to be Keto.
No, Swerve contains sugar alcohols which are subtracted from the carb count.
Do you cook the same time and temp for muffins?
No, I would start to watch closely at around 12 – 15 minutes.
Thank you for this family-pleasing recipe! We used 2/3c swerve and made 24 mini-muffins baked at 350 for 20 mins. 🙂
Awesome! Thanks so much for letting me know. So glad your family enjoyed it.