The Best Keto Bread Rolls
by KetoFocus.com
4.8 Stars (32 Reviews) 47 Comments
Nutrition Facts
12
Servings
261
Calories
20.5g
Fat
14.4g
Protein
4.2g
Net Carbs
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This recipe for fathead keto rolls is the best you will ever have. These keto bread rolls are fluffy and taste like the holiday rolls your grandma used to make!
The Best Keto Bread Rolls Ingredients
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups almond flour
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 1/4 cup buttermilk or plain low carb yogurt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
The Best Keto Bread Rolls Directions
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Preheat
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
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Melt the cheese
In a small glass bowl, add shredded mozzarella cheese and cream cheese. Microwave at 1 minute intervals until the cheese is melted and cream cheese has softened. If you don't want to use a microwave, melt the shredded cheese over the stovetop in a non-stick skillet and use softened cream cheese.
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Get your food processor
To a food processor, add remaining ingredients and melted cheeses. Pulse until combined. You may also combine the ingredients using an electric mixer; however, the dough comes together evenly and faster using a food processor.
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Create dough balls
Wet your hands with some water or oil in order to handle the dough. This will prevent the dough from sticking to your hands. Grab a handful of dough, form it into a ball and place on a parchment lined baking tray. Continue with remaining dough. You can form your desired size. Dough balls larger than 2.5 inches wide, will require longer cooking times. Evenly place dough balls on the tray spacing about 1 inch apart.
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Bake the rolls
Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 13-18 minutes or until hardened on the outside and slightly firm on the inside. Let cool for 3-5 minutes before eating.
Is it possible to make this in a loaf pan….so that it’s more like sliced bread? It is yummy.
Hi Tracy! I have never tried, but I believe you could, however you would need to bake it at a lower temp to make sure it bakes all the way through. I would experiment at 325 to 350 degrees. Please let us know how it goes.
Do you know how long to cook at 350 deg?
Do you think heavy cream with vinegar or lemon juice added to make “buttermilk” would work?
Yes! You can substitute with that.
Thats what I did and it worked out very well. I love this recipe.
Sounds a little silly, but do you think the recipe will definitely work if I half the recipe?
I know your recipe makes 12 bread rolls but I only need to make about 6. I don’t want to ruin the recipe if halving does not work but very curious as I definitely can’t eat 12 that fast!
Thanks
You can half the recipe. I have done that before – especially when I test different ingredients – like using sour cream in place of the low carb yogurt or buttermilk.
I could not find any cream cheese at the stores, because of the holidays I guess. So I had 2 ounces of cheese which I made half recipe, It came out very good
I did half it and it worked out fine I’m the only one in my household on keto so I can’t have too many rolls laying around. I was wondering about using sour cream I think I’m going to use that the next time instead of the heavy cream and vinegar
Yes, I’ve been using sour cream lately when I make this recipe since I don’t always have low carb yogurt or buttermilk around or feel like making it from heavy cream and vinegar. Still tastes delicious with the sour cream.
Could I make the dough ahead of time and then refrigerate until I’m ready to bake?
Yes, you can! You can even freeze the dough too.
Did I see that you used a dough blade in your food processor vs the regular one?
I have used both. I think the regular blade works better.
I tried this recipe. The dough was runny and I were unable to form balls.
The dough should be the consistency to that in the video. If you dough looks runny, then add more almond flour
I made this recipe and used half to make cinnamon rolls and the other half to make rolls, I didn’t put any sugar in the mix but used Keto approved brown sugar and cinnamon with butter before rolling it.
Just saying….love the recipe and how low the carbs are (trying to control my blood sugars, so I don’t end up with a pre diabetes diagnosis) BUT the sodium level takes them out, as I watch sodium for blood pressure (finally well controlled but I always reduce sodium every where I can). Frustrated that most bread products are off my diet 🙁
Oh no! I understand your concern about controlling sodium levels. On the keto diet, you do tend to excrete more sodium since insulin levels are lower. Insulin signals the kidney to hold onto sodium, which is why prehypertension and hypertension are a sign that a person is insulin resistant. Something to keep in mind so you don’t have to be too afraid of sodium on the keto diet. In fact, many people on a low carb diet have to supplement with sodium because it gets flushed out in the urine (that’s why a person might get the keto flu in the beginning). But, I have created a new bread recipe recently that doesn’t use cheese and should have less sodium. I haven’t put it on the website yet, but it’s coming.
Omg this recipe is amazing turned out so delicious my favorite rolls by far everyone loved them. Thank you
Made these rolls into hamburger buns. Cooked for 18 min. Perfect.
Question: do you know if this recipe was ever made into a bread loaf? Interested in doing this but not sure how long to cook. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yes, I have made two larger bread loaves with this recipe. Lower the temp to 350 and cook for 20-25 minutes.
I made these and they were very tasty. Everyone who ate them thought they were good. They had more of a biscuit texture than that of bread, though. I loved them as rolls, but I wouldn’t make them for hamburger buns.
I’ve just made these
There amazing
Only just started keto diet
I’m a bit confused. Where it says Net Carbs 4.2g is that for 1 roll or the full 12 rolls
Thank you in advance xx
It’s for one roll if you divided the rolls into 12 rolls
I just made these and they turned out perfect.
Tried one with a little butter, so good.
My one batch made 21 rolls.
I am assuming you can freeze these right?
Thanks, Marg
Yes! You can freeze them.
I’ve made these several times using sour cream instead of yogurt. I keep them frozen and tonight after thawing one in the micro, I toasted it. What a delicious change! Just like a Rhoades roll that I used to bake at Christmas. I’ll always toast them from now on. Thank you for a super recipe.
It is kind of brilliant, isn’t it. I am never making fathead dough without using the food processor again!
PS: I bought a food processor just to make this recipe and it was worth it!
I made these for dinner and my family loved them. I am loving Keto and your recipes.
Are these 261 calories per roll or for the 12?
per roll
I am going to try these. They look delicious. Yesterday you were showing us what you have in your freezer and you had Smart Buns. Are you in the states as we cannot get them in Canada. I ordered the Love good fats bars and I am going to make the lasagna using the cold meat cuts. Thanks for all the great recipes.
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We love these rolls! I have made them in batches of 12 larger rolls, 16 medium rolls, and 20 small rolls. I froze a dozen small rolls last time in packs of six. We use them for dinner rolls and for breakfast sandwiches. I used my stand mixer with the dough hook, but I was glad to see this addressed in another comment and will try the paddle next time. This is the easiest and best dough recipe I have EVER made, including traditional yeast doughs. It always turns out great! To avoid sticky fingers, I follow the recipe notation and keep a small bowl of water or a wet paper towel handy to moisten my hands while working the dough into balls. Thank you for sharing your recipes and videos!
Hi I would like to try this recipe – it looks so good. Can you tell me if your oven temperature is for conventional or fan oven. I have fan.
Thanks
I think ours is both. But I just use the conventional settings.
Hi I made these rolls today and got into a bit of a mess. I don’t think I melted the cheese enough which ended up in all the nooks and crannies of the food processor, and of course I didn’t find out until cleaning it. During mixing the texture was so wet that I kept adding more almond flour but it still wouldn’t firm up. I’m also wondering if I added the wrong amounts of ingredients. Could you please be kind enough to give measurements in mls for liquid ingredients and grams for dry ingredients. I’ve googled it but no two sites agreed on weights.
If that happens, where the cheese doesn’t look melted enough, I will put it back in the microwave to melt again. The dough should be a little tacky. I can look into adding grams or ml to some of my recipes.
I am very excited about a discovery I made, quite accidentally: I had made these rolls two or three times, and just loved them. The flavor is so good, and even non-keto family enjoy them. However, the texture of the rolls was more like a biscuit to me. I liked them, but I wished for them to be a little more “bread-like.” Yesterday I made them and we had them for dinner. For some reason the texture was very different! I thought that it was because at least part of the recipe used Anthony’s almond flour, which was quite a bit finer than that which I used before. However, while making notes on the recipe, it hit me: I had completely forgotten the eggs! When the rolls are hot, without eggs it is hard to tell that they are not “regular” bread rolls. I’m going to keep making them that way, and paying attention to the effect so the flour grind. Thanks so much for creating such a tasty combination….
That’s so interesting! I will have to try that. Thanks for the notes!
I don’t like the taste of coconut flour, could I substitute it for lupin flour?
I haven’t tried lupin flour yet, but this is something I want to experiment with. You may be able to straight sub out the coconut flour, but you might have to add a little more lupin flour to get the right consistency.
I just made these today and love them. My husband ate one too and liked. He did say he tasted salt though and I told him it was probably the cheese. Wish I could send. You a picture