Desserts
Low-carb Finnish mocha squares
A soft almond cake and coffee-cocoa icing bring the familiar flavour of Finnish mocha squares to a lower-carb version.
Servings in this printout: 12
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 100 g melted butter
- 1 dl heavy cream
- 120 g almond flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 70 g erythritol
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 80 g butter for the icing
- 100 g powdered erythritol for the icing
- 2 tbsp strong coffee
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder for the icing
Method
- Preheat the oven to 175 °C. Line a small baking tin, about 20 × 25 cm, with parchment.
- Whisk the eggs and erythritol. Add the cream and melted butter.
- Mix the almond flour, cocoa and baking powder. Fold into the batter and spread in the tin.
- Bake for 18–22 minutes and let cool completely.
- Melt the butter for the icing. Mix in the coffee, cocoa and powdered erythritol. Spread over the cooled cake and leave to set.
Nutrition per serving
Nutrition values are approximate estimates, not laboratory analyses. Products and portion size affect the result.
- Net carbs
- 1.15 g
- Total carbohydrates (incl. fibre and polyols)
- 16.79 g
- Protein
- 4.32 g
- Fat
- 21.96 g
- GL estimate
- about 0.08 / serving
Confidence · Low Some values or assumptions in the calculation are uncertain.
The calculation also uses comparison values from similar foods or food groups. Small amounts of carbohydrate were left out of the calculation.
Estimate details and sources ↗
How was the estimate calculated?
The serving’s GL is calculated from ingredient data. Confidence describes the evidence behind the calculation. Your blood sugar response may vary.
- heavy cream · Food group average
Calculated ingredient-based estimate per serving, not a measurement of the prepared meal. All supported positive carbohydrate amounts are included. An unmatched individual portion under 1 g available carbohydrate per serving may be omitted only while all such portions total less than 2 g per serving; the omitted amount is disclosed. This is an editorial tolerance, not a clinical precision limit.
Small portions omitted: 1 g available carbohydrate per serving.
Research sources and technical details
Source names and technical notes appear in their original form.
- heavy cream ·
dairy-category-mean-gi-35 · fineli-631-2026-10-24
Carbohydrate data sources
- Kananmuna, kuoreton · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Voi · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Kerma, kuohukerma, rasvaa 38 % · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Nut, almond meal · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- Kaakaojauhe, makeuttamaton · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Foodin Erytritoli, Luomu 200 g · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Baking powder, dry powder · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- Coffee, espresso, from ground coffee beans · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
GI and calculation sources
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · Category mean, not a measured GI for the recipe's cream cheese. (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
Keto and low-carb labels are editorial classifications. They have not been verified through nutrition calculations for every recipe.
Notes
The almond cake is moister and more crumbly than a traditional wheat-flour base. Cut into squares once the icing has set.