Low Carb Baking Flour Mix using just 4-Ingredients to create the perfect low carb flour for your baking and cooking needs.
With this low carb flour recipe, I got to enjoy a roll with my dinner! It was amazing, and my tummy wasn’t uncomfortable afterwards like it typically is if I get too many carbs in my eating plan.
Nutrition Stats on our Low-Carb Baking Mix Flour
- I should first talk a little about the carb count on this recipe (see recipe card below).
- I was so proud of myself for coming up with this concoction, simply because I thought I would have to give up the idea of ever baking again when I started eating low carb.
- When I entered the nutrition data, I was kind of taken aback. At first glance, 35 grams of carbs is a LOT when you are trying to eat low carb.
- After my panic subsided, I realized I had forgotten to figure in the fiber for net carbs. I was also looking at the content for the entire recipe, forgetting that you only eat a portion of this when you’ve baked something with it. In fact, I made some dinner rolls with this recipe, and the total net carbs was only 3!
I quickly googled the nutrition data on some mainstream baking mixes and found that I had cut the carbs by more than half! So I started feeling pretty good about this again.
I will say that these are a bit on the heavy side in density, but they are perfect for soaking up sauces and gravy, and they give your tummy that nice, full feeling without feeling like you swallowed a brick!
What 4-Ingredients you’ll need for the Low Carb Baking Flour Mix
- Oat Fiber
- Coconut Flour
- Flax Meal
- Almond Flour
A Note on Oat Fiber
Oat Fiber is very different from oat bran. Oat bran has a much higher carb count.
Oat fiber, however, can be a bit more difficult to find. So I would call around before you go from store to store searching for it.
Where to Find Oat Fiber
I ended up ordering online because every time I asked at my local stores, they tried to sell me oat bran instead of oat fiber. So be warned…
If you prefer to just order it online, you can find it here on amazon (affiliate link).
Note: If you do your own online search for oat fiber, “buyer beware” of the Trim Healthy Mama brand. Their customer service is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. Even when you have a legitimate problem with your order, they pretty much tell you, “oops, too bad… not our problem“. That’s why I will be paying a tiny bit more to order it from amazon from now on.
RECIPES USING THIS MIX
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Low Carb Baking Mix Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup oat fiber
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 1/4 cup flax meal
- 1/4 cup almond flour
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a gallon-sized zipper-top bag and shake well to combine.
- Store in the freezer for up to 6 months.
I would like to know if a baking recipes for cakes asks for 2 cups of flour do I use the 4 mixture of the flour that your show and if so would that mean I would use cups 2 cups of your mixture
That would be a 2 cups of our baking mix for 2 cups of flour.
Can you provide links to recipes made with this baking mix?
Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Rosemary Biscuits
Lemon Sugar Cookies
Enjoy 🙂
Hello, can I sub 1:1 for almond flour or all purpose flour in recipes?
No. Almond flour and All-purpose flour are very different in their structures and cannot be used in a 1:1 ratio.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this recipe. 💚
Just wondering, if i were to use this recipe for cookies, will it gives me a crispy & crunchy cookie or a soft 1?
It definitely is more of a crispy and crunchy cookie from my experience. 🙂
I’m allergic to flaxseed so I’ll use ground chia seeds instead. I hope it works!
Let us know how it turns out!
So are to to use this in equal amounts of regular or whole wheat flour in our recipes? Would we increase the liquids to compensate for the coconut flour?
It is a rather dense baking mix so I would compare it more to a whole wheat flour blend in terms of density. Yes I would compensate the liquids to compensate for the coconut flour. It takes a couple tries to experiment with it but its nice to work with after you get the hang of it. Hope this helps!
This mixture has only 1 countable carb.
If you are diabetic the classes teach us that ou subtract the fibre from the total carbs to get your net carbs AND THOSE ARE THE ONES YOU COUNT SO YOUR MIX ONLY COUNT 1 carb to count, THATS really great. I will be using it a lot.
But on my LCHF grain free diet I don’t get oats do you know what I can sub. For oats besides phylum?
Oat fiber is different from oat bran, flakes, or flour. It does NOT contain carbs. You can definitely use it if you are diabetic.
How are the total carbs 25g when you list 24g fiber and 3g sugar?
I want to make this but with psyllium husk powder instead of oat fiber (can’t find that in Japan).
hope it works, I don’t miss bread but I want to see if my wife tolerates low carb bread (she misses bread)
Psyllium husk powder might work. I think the results will differ but it’s worth a shot.
That is a very interesting catch regarding the total carbs, didn’t catch that.. we’ve run it through our recipe calculator one more time and it’s coming back the same. We will have to look into it further. As always we provide the nutrition information at a courtesy and we try our best to be accurate but feel free to calculate yourself to be safe.
Could this be used in place of “carbquick baking mix“?
I’m sorry, I personally have not used carbquick baking mix so i’m not sure since I can’t compare myself! This baking mix is pretty dense in result though if that hopefully helps at all. Cheers!
Carbquick contains baking soda, i believe, and can be used like bisquick. Use it in place of whole wheat flour, not like bisquick.
Can this recipe be used for making drop dumplings in soup?
I would think so! Just one word of advice is this baking mix is a little dense in results so just keep that in mind. Hope this helps!
Have you used the baking mix to make crackers ? With only one net carb. for the whole cup of mix, it woukd allow more than one cracker for a snack and remain low in total carb. per day ?
I have not yet! I’m not sure how it would turn out but it’s definitely worth a try!
Could I use this for pizza dough? Do you have a recipe for that?
Stacy – I haven’t tried it yet, but I keep meaning to. I’m pretty sure you could, but you won’t get the yeast effect with this. So it might be more of a regular flatbread.
Using this recipe as a base ‘flour’ could you them make a standard bakers dough??
Thomas – It’s worth a shot. But I don’t think it will give you quite the same texture. I think you would end up with something a bit more dense.
Confused? Don’t “baking Mixes” have some sort of leaveing”? This would be more of a “flour” and not a real “baking mix”? Right?
Ed – I purposely did not add any because every recipe will require a different amount of leavening. I suppose, technically, that makes this a flour mix rather than a baking mix. But I find it to be the safer approach. This isn’t a mix as far as “brownie mix” or pancake mix” are concerned. It’s a general mix you can use with different recipes.
Do you have a low carb recipe for pie crust?
We do! Here is our basic Low Carb Pie Crust Enjoy! 🙂
Thanks for sharing this mix Tiffany. The only issue I have are my sensitive guts. I can’t handle that much fiber 🙁
So I will try your mix slightly higher in carbs: almond flour, coconut flour and oat flour.
Cheers,
Marianne
Marianne – I would avoid using more coconut flour. It will make things too dry. Try adjusting the other flours for your needs.
Would like to try this but, I have someone in the house that needs to watch caloric intake. Could you provide the serving size? It says one, but what is the slice size (1/8, 1/12, etc.).
Kristy – The data is for 1 cup. For the full recipe.
Do you have a recipe for dinner rolls?
Jen – I have these: https://www.thatslowcarb.com/low-carb-garlic-rosemary-biscuit-rolls/
What difference is oat fiber VS oat flour.. I grind my old fashion oats
Sharon – One is low carb, the other isn’t. Fiber is just the fibrous part of the oat. Flour is the whole oat ground up.
Can they be interchangeable?
I don’t tolerate oat… could I sub for psyllium husks?
Alisson – I haven’t tried it, but I don’t see why not. I would do a test batch to see how it bakes up. Let me know the outcome if you try it! 🙂
Bought my psyllium husk…will keep you posted when I try! 🙂
It worked out well! I made the Rosemary & Garlic rolls… was it suppose to get bigger with baking…? Because it didn’t.
Anick – No, they stay about the same size. Glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
How would you use this? Do you just use inplace of flour in a regular recipe? I’m new to low carb and looking for something to keep on hand to make bread out of
Lorei – Yes, exactly. If you want to use it for a softer dessert, you might want to cut the coconut flour in half though. This is more for bready, dense things like rolls and such.
Thanks for that comment! So, what would make up for the missing coconut flour if I cut it in half? Would I increase almond flour or would I increase another one of the ingredients and by how much?
You can try and increase the almond flour but again just keep in mind that at this point you are entirely changing the recipe and I cannot really judge on how the flour blend will work without testing it out myself. That was just my guestimate on what I’d try.
This appears to have the potential of being gluten free, too- correct??
Donna – If the oat fiber is gluten free, then yes. 🙂
You can order oat fiber from netrition.com much cheaper 🙂 They have flat rate shipping, so I usually order several pkgs, and stick them in my freezer (but even if you ordered only 1 lb, it’d be less expensive than Amazon)
Tracy – Thank you so much!! Never heard of them, but I will check it out for sure!!
Tracy – I researched this and added some notes to my post above. My apologies for not being more specific in my instructions.