Swerve Sweets, Chocolate Cake Mix, 10.6 ounces

This chocolate cake mix did not disappoint! It’s moist, very chocolaty and can be modified pretty easily! I added some additional cocoa powder and a spoonful of coffee grounds to make it really rich. Made a chocolate ganache for the center (unsweetened cocoa baking bar, swerve confectioners sugar, butter, heavy whipping cream) and made an easy frosting (swerve confectioners sugar, cocoa powder, splash of vanilla, spoonful of ground coconut for thickness and heavy whipping cream) and this cake was a major hit!! It was for my husbands birthday and the kids had no idea it was sugar free! 🤣😎 Absolutely recommend!

This is a great cake mix. The texture and flavor is nice and it’s easy to change up by adding chocolate chips, nuts, etc. it’s a great keto snack and is also nice and filling so it’s easy (for me) to stop at one piece. The only strange thing is that it calls for a tablespoon of vanilla - since it’s labeled a vanilla mix you would expect the vanilla flavor already to be incorporated into the mix. But that said, I still love the mix rather than trying to make a keto cake from scratch. Also makes good cupcakes.

Made cupcakes with these today. Probably could’ve used something healthier for my oil, but I went with Crisco shortening as it’s all I had on hand. I cooked them for 30 minutes, which was the max recommended time. I wish I would’ve checked them sooner as they came out a little on the brown side. The taste is pretty good, although the consistency was much more like a bread than a cake, in my opinion. It was very crumby and almost impossible to peel from the cupcake wrapper. Read: messy. All in all, I am not displeased because some of this could be due to my oil of choice or cooking time. I plan to buy another and use a different oil and cook for less time and see if there is an improvement. By the way, I also frosted with a cream cheese, butter, swerve confectioner, and vanilla extract frosting which was much more delicious than the cupcakes were.

I have been using Swerve brown and granulated sugar for a while now and have been happy with them, so I decided to try the chocolate cake mix. I have my own blood glucose issues, and a friend coming for Christmas has even more serious ones. I made a test cake, frankly a bit wary of what a wheat-free, sucrose-free chocolate cake was going to taste like. To compound things, I realized that I did not have an 8" cake pan, which the recipe called for, and so I resigned myself to my fate and used a 9" tart pan (lined with parchment paper, with the oven at 345 degrees). The batter came together quickly, and it baked up into quite a decent chocolate snack cake, even in the larger pan. While I may add some bittersweet chocolate ganache for Christmas, for satisfaction of the everyday chocolate jones, this will do quite well. I'm delighted to have found such an easy, yummy cake mix.

The texture of this cake is great. Anyone who's been living the low carb lifestyle knows that one of the biggest problems with recipes that use alternatives to regular flour is the texture. Baked goods tend to be spongy or grainy. This cake is actually very close in texture to the real (high carb) thing. The place where it lacks is flavor. To be honest, it might be great with low carb frosting slathered on, but I've always liked chocolate cake without frosting so I made this into cup cakes to eat plain. Not much flavor at all! I know I could make it better by throwing in a handful of Lilly's chocolate chips into the mix but I feel like I shouldn't have to doctor it up at this price point. Its pretty expensive for a cake mix. I'm not saying I'll never buy it again, but just know your gonna have to add more expensive ingredients if you want it to be flavorful.

"A ketogenic diet is any diet that forces the body into ketosis, whereby fats are burned instead of carbohydrates for use as energy" true. Many people, including myself, do not have to be a "Puritan Ketogenic". If we decide to add a teaspoon of a product to help flavor or help bind flours to a Keto recipe once in awhile we can. Alcohol also slows down ketosis so should I not have the occasional drink 0 carb drink? Everyones needs are different, depending on their health issues, exercise, maintenance vs weight loss etc. I have been living a ketogenic (lazy & strict) lifestyle since 2000. I have been using Swerve sweetener for at least 8 years & trust their test kitchens on their products. A scant teaspoon (3.5 carbs p/tsp) of tapioca flour, is NOT going to hurt me occasionally. Tapioca flour helps bind gluten free recipes and improves the texture, & moisture of baked goods. Everyones needs are different (never black & white). I am so happy Swerve has come out a product that will fit into many peoples Macros!

One word. Awful! Folks in all honesty I am not a fan of Erythritol in general. It has a sharp, acidic, almost-burning aftertaste. It also makes me super nauseous after I eat it. And no, it’s not an allergy or a sensitivity - it’s indicative to this particular sugar alcohol. There are much better keto friendly alternatives out there that are “natural” I’d recommend you try. Splenda Natural Stevia Reb B for starters (taste exchange stable hot or cold and no bitterness since it’s a different area of the plant.) If you like Swerve and your not sensitive to Erythritol, go for it. But for those of us that actually want our desserts to taste like the real thing - there are much, much better options.

We do keto off and on...thankfully because it’s becoming more popular it’s becoming easier because there are more products like this that A. I don’t have to spend forever making from scratch. B. Taste really great! I usually don’t like to eat things that are “replacements” because they never match up, but this did for us! C. Scratch an itch that make it easy to keep eating this way! I made this for my husband’s birthday, I made some buttercream frosting with powdered Swerve sweetener and it was yummy. Didn’t kick me out of ketosis (I lost 1.8 lbs overnight). Thanks for making some easy, good food that we can feel good about eating!

Tastes horrible