Mug Bread

I was never really a big bread eater, but on Keto one generally does not eat wheat bread at all.  Way too many carbs.  But not only do I not have to give up bread, I have better bread.  Fresh almond bread beats ordinary wheat bread, in my opinion, hands down.

I went on a small bread baking spree this evening.  I took my basic mug bread recipe, and made 2 loaves of basic almond flour mug bread.  I also made a loaf of chocolate, a loaf of lemon, and a loaf of herb bread.  If I hadn't already cleaned everything up by the time I tasted the herb bread, I'd have made more immediately.  It was truly wonderful.

Here's the basic recipe I use:

In a straight sided coffee mug,
Beat with a fork one large egg.
Add 2 1/2 Tablespoons olive oil (or melted butter, or ghee, or coconut oil, or avocado oil...)
Beat in 2/3 C Almond Flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt.

If you do it in that order, you can do it all in the mug.
Once that's all mixed thoroughly, put it in the microwave for 90 seconds.
Let it cool a couple minutes (or not) and dump it out of the mug.
If it doesn't want to come out, a thin knife or chopstick around the sides will loosen it.

And then there was chocolate:
1 egg
2 T. olive oil
1.5 Tablespoons cocoa (unsweetened)
1/3 C almond flour
a splash of vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Swerve, because I was out of STEVIA EXTRACT.  (I prefer Stevia but I had the Swerve because of some chocolate cookies I made a while back.)  Most people probably want to add more, but I thought it was SWEET ENOUGH ALREADY.

This was delicious topped with Creme Fraiche.

For the lemon loaf, I simply squirted lemon juice into the basic mug bread recipe and mixed well.

And the herb bread.  OMG!  Liana had an herb blend made by another friend, and I put a heaping teaspoon of that in the basic mug bread.  Now I've got to find out what's in the blend!  It smelled amazing, and when I tasted the bread it tasted amazing too.  Since I don't have a clue what it is, I suggest sniffing around in your herb seasonings and experimenting.