Low Carb Chocolate Lasagna Sugar-free Dessert (no-bake)

Name: Low Carb Chocolate Lasagna Sugar-free Dessert (no-bake)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 1 recipe Low Carb Chocolate Pastry Cream; 1/4 cup almond milk, (to be used at assembly); 2 cups (180 g) Honeyville Almond Flour; 1 cup (90 g) Bob's Red Mill Shredded Coconut; 1/3 cup (25 g) cocoa powder; 1/4 cup erythritol; 6 tablespoons salted butter; 2 cups (16 oz) heavy cream; 2 tablespoons erythritol, (powdered); 1 teaspoon stevia glycerite; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 8 ounces cream cheese, (softened); 2 tablespoons almond milk; 2 tablespoons erythritol, (powdered); 1/8 teaspoon stevia glycerite; 1 1/2 cup whipped cream, (to be folded in); 4 squares Ghirardelli Midnight Reverie, (grated)

By Kim 87 Comments

Low Carb Chocolate Lasagna is a great sugar-free chocolate dessert made with a chocolate cookie base, cream cheese layer, chocolate pudding and whipped cream. This large dessert is great for gatherings.

I’ve been looking at pictures of chocolate lasagna and all it’s variations on Pinterest for months now. Some of the pictures are absolutely drool worthy. And although I think it would be pretty hard, although not impossible, to make a dairy-free version, I knew that a low carb, gluten-free version could be easily made.

The original dessert is the epitome of easy; pre-made and instant ingredients create a creamy, chocolaty dessert that doesn’t require the use of an oven or even cause one to break a sweat. It’s so easy, that anyone can make it.

But what’s really in it? 1 package of Oreo cookies, cream cheese, sugar, and Cool Whip. Just for the cookie layer it’s 24 carbs per serving. (That’s 36 cookies at 10.5 carbs each, divided by 16) But, I’m not going to break down the carbs in each layer of this tasty dessert. I just want to think about all of the weird stuff in the cookies, instant pudding and non-dairy whipped topping. Yuck! I shudder.

This homemade, low carb, scratch, version is very similar to the original version of Chocolate Lasagna except that the crust is made from wholesome ingredients, the pudding is made just like grandma used to make, and the whipped topping is real whipped cream.

Here’s what’s in this Low Carb Chocolate Lasagna

homemade chocolate cookie crust (nuts, cocoa powder, coconut, natural sugar alternative, butter or coconut oil)
8 ounces cream cheese and natural sugar alternative
homemade chocolate pudding using natural ingredients plus natural sugar alternative
real whipped cream
grated 90 % dark chocolate

It’s almost the same as in the original recipe, and this low carb and gluten-free version delivers 4 net carbs per serving. And it’s much healthier than the original.

Although this recipe has a few steps, none are very difficult to do. Breaking the steps into a couple days is the way to go and once you have the procedure down it’s easy to make this dessert your own. Here are some ideas.

VARIATIONS:

add peanut butter to the cream cheese layer or to the chocolate pudding layer
add mint extract to the cookie crust and the pudding for chocolate mint
replace the cocoa powder in the crust with vanilla whey protein powder
make vanilla pastry cream instead of chocolate
add banana or almond flavoring to the vanilla pastry cream
sub lemon curd for the pastry cream
swirl chia seed jam or blueberry sauce into the cream cheese layer
mix and match any of the above combinations and make it your own!

This recipe makes a whole 13×9 inch pyrex dish of rich, layered sugar-free chocolate dessert goodness. If the recipe is too big, it can be split up between two pans and one frozen. It freezes very nicely.

Low Carb Chocolate Lasagna is 4 net carbs per serving

***NOTE: Baking the bottom layer produces a shortbread-cookie-like texture: not baking, produces a sandier and softer textured bottom layer***

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