These Keto Low Carb Strawberry Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls are gluten free, grain free and made with my nut free fathead dough! Perfect Brunch idea for Mother's Day!
Cinnamon Rolls
Traditional Cinnamon Rolls are hard not to love. Soft, Fluffy, Sweet and satisfying. So what's a person to do when on a low carb diet? Create new recipes made low carb so you never feel deprived. The dough for these cinnamon rolls are pretty magical. Made without flour or gluten or yeast, yet completely and utterly melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Satisfying to the core of you being. You'll almost feel sinful, like you might be cheating on your keto diet, but you're not!
How to Make Cinnamon Rolls Low Carb
Making Cinnamon Rolls low carb and keto start with the magical dough I just mentioned. You might be surprised if you've never used fathead dough before and wonder how in the world this can make something so spectacular. Don't knock it till you try it. The magic dough is made unlike other fathead doughs since many use almond flour and I can't due to my youngest having a nut allergy. Since mine is made a bit different than other fathead dough cinnamon rolls I think you'll find you might like it even better than using almond flour.
Nut Free Cinnamon Rolls
Almond flour FREE and Low Carb Cinnamon Rolls are not something you'll find often on the internet when searching. Almost all low carb and keto recipes use almond flour. Those of us who can't use it due to allergies end up with many hardships in having to change ingredients to make recipes work. That's why I work so hard for all allergy friendly people out there, because I'm in the same boat with a tree nut allergic son. Luckily for us he can have coconut without issue and I know some with tree nut allergies who can't have coconut either which is a shame. Check with your allergist if coconut is a problem. You may be able to also swap out the coconut with sesame flour but I can't vouch for that as I haven't tested it.
My idea for this recipe being filled with a luscious strawberry puree was Mother's day of course! I love my cinnamon rolls but wanted a change and I love berries and cream cheese so that's how this idea came to be. Fill with my strawberry puree then top with my cream cheese frosting and enjoy each bite in pure delight!
Fathead Dough Recipes
Other Delicious Recipes made with this fathead dough! Try my Savory Keto Pizza Rolls or my Keto Cheesecake Danish. You might also enjoy this Cheeseburger Calzone or these Pigs in a Blanket!
Anything can really be made with this fabulous dough! My very first recipes was making this Low Carb Grain Free Pizza and I ran with it from there!
Low Carb Strawberry Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
You can view my video here on making Cinnamon rolls if you've never worked with this type of dough before. If you don't have vanilla stevia and Swerve confectioners you can replace with any sweetener you prefer. I'd suggest at least ¾ cup sweetener of choice for what would equal the sweetness of what I used. Xanthan gum is important in this recipe for both the filling and the texture of the dough making it more pliable.
Hope you Enjoy these delightful Strawberry Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls!
Meal Planning
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Keto Low Carb Strawberry Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
Keto Low Carb Strawberry Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese part skim, shredded
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- ½ cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon xanthan gum
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ cup Swerve confectioners sweetener
Strawberry Filling
- 8 ounces strawberries fresh or frozen and thawed
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ cup Swerve confectioners sweetener
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon xanthan gum
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 3 tablespoon heavy cream
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon Swerve confectioners sweetener
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Strawberry Filling
- Start with the strawberry filling which will allow it time to cool while you then make the dough. Place the berries in a sauce pan with lemon juice. Bring heat to medium high. As the berries heat you should be able to mash them. Once berries appear heated through and have made their own juice add Swerve sweetener and salt. Continue to stir while allowing it to simmer. Reduce heat to low and sprinkle in xanthan gum. Cook about 5 minutes while constantly stirring and mixture will start to thicken. Once thickened turn off heat and set aside to cool. You should have about 1-¼ cup.
Dough
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Add all ingredients for the dough into the food processor and process until combined. Place into a microwavable bowl and microwave for 2 minutes or melt over low heat on the stovetop. Stir together until well combined.
- Wet hands because this dough is sticky and knead together.
- Roll dough between two pieces of parchment paper to form a rectangle about 8 by 16 inches.
Assemble Rolls
- Spread half cup of the strawberry filling onto the dough.
- Roll the long side of the dough, peeling it off the parchment paper until it's all rolled up and seam side is down.
- Slice into 12 rolls and place rolls onto a greased pie dish.
- Spoon another ½ cup strawberry filling over the rolls and bake for 20- 25 minutes or until golden brown and expanded in size and fluffy . Save any remaining filling to top after rolls are done.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- While rolls are baking you can add the ingredients for the frosting to a blender or stand mixer and blend to combine well. Taste and adjust sweetener if needed.
- Once rolls are hot out of the oven you an spread on the frosting and enjoy!
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.
kerry
I made these yesterday and they were delicious!
Thank you so much for your recipes. I am very grateful for them.
From Sunny South Arica 🙂
Annie Walker
This low carb strawberry recipe looks very yummy! I am going to make this recipe. Hey Brenda is there any alternative to food processor?
Melissa
Hi! Can i take this receipe of dough for make a bagel?
Thank's!
Cassie K
I notice that you use liquid stevia in most of your recipes, but it makes my stomach hurt. If I swap out for Swerve or Monk Fruit would I need to make other adjustments to the recipes since it's so much more volume than the liquid drops? I'm not a good cook at all and substitutions are a nightmare for me because I'm lucky if I get it right just by following exact directions! Any help you could offer would be much appreciated!
Connie Boree
Hi, I placed the rolls in a pie dish. The top was brown, except the middle one. The outside ones were becoming too brown and in danger of burning. When I removed the rolls, the bottom of the browned rolls were underdone. The center roll was not done. Maybe they would cook through and all brown if they were placed on a cookie sheet. Lastly, maybe next time I'll leave off the strawberry on top while they're baking. I wasn't able to taste the cinnamon; the strawberry was too strong. I was thinking maybe put the strawberry on the side that would have been placed on top before baking. The strawberry layer inside was nice. Cream cheese frosting was delicious. The rolls were dense in texture. Maybe I worked the dough too much. I don't know. What do you think? Finally, it took me much longer than 50 minutes to make them. It was three recipes for one dish. Maybe next time it won't take as long☺️ My husband liked them and my co-worker liked them. Thanks for the recipe. I would appreciate any advice you can give me. My husband LOVES cinnamon rolls ?
Connie Boree
LOL! I see the strawberry measurement now! Thanks!
Connie Boree
I'm about to make this recipe. It looks so yummy! Thanks for sharing it? It would be helpful to me if you could give the weights for ingredients, i.e., strawberries. I'm assuming you mean medium size. We're on keto so we measure everything, especially berries since they're so high in carbs. Thanks again!!!
val
So excited to make these, your recipes are a blessing on my journey to health
MJ
Should I refrigerate left overs or leave out covered?
Brenda
Refrigerate
Lonnie C. Appleby
Just have to say...I LOVE YOU!!! Dr. Atkins was really starting to tick me off (even though he’s dead) as I was running out of creative ideas for yum! YOU ARE ACES!!! THANK YOU FROM IOWA!!!
Faye
Is is the same sub for almond flour instead of coconut flour?
Brenda
No you just can't swap them without changing other ingredients.
Cyndi
Thank you!!! These look wonderful. I’m going to make them for Mother’s Day!!
Ms. Brenda
May 7, 2018
Everything goods so good to eat. I'm just looking today. I will be back for some of the recipes.
Joan
Hello. Recipe sound amazing. However is there anyway to make this is I don't have a food processor???
Brenda
You can melt the cream cheese and mozzarella together until you can blend them together well. Then mix the egg and all the dry ingredients and incorporate that into the melted cheese. Best to wet your hands as it is sticky and difficult to mix together. Then roll it out. Hope that helps!