Breakfast · Pancakes & waffles
Keto cream cheese pancakes
Thin, tender, crêpe-like pancakes made in a blender from little more than eggs and cream cheese. They taste faintly of cheesecake, take a minute a side, and need nothing more than a little cinnamon in the batter and a few sliced strawberries on top.
- Time
- 20 min (5 prep + 15 cook)
- Servings
- 3
- Per serving
- 275 kcal
- Protein
- 14 g
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup light cream cheese, block-style (Neufchâtel or 1/3 less fat), softened
- 3 large eggs
- 1/4 cup liquid egg white, or 2 egg whites
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp butter, for the pan
- 1 cup strawberries, sliced, to serve
Steps
- Blend the cream cheese, eggs, egg whites, almond flour, salt and cinnamon until completely smooth. The batter will be very thin. Let it stand for 2 minutes.
- Melt a little butter in a nonstick pan over medium heat, until a drop of batter sets on contact.
- Pour in about 2 tablespoons of batter per pancake, slowly so it thickens as it lands. Cook about 1 minute, until the edges look dry, then flip carefully with a thin spatula and cook 1 minute more.
- Repeat to make about 12 and serve with the strawberries. Leftovers keep 3 days in the fridge with parchment between them. Warm them gently in a pan.
Good to know
Can I make them sweet?
Add 2 teaspoons of erythritol and the zest of half a lemon to the blender.
Can I use regular cream cheese?
Yes, and the batter holds together a little more easily, at about 33 instead of 38.
Alternatives
Per
- Calories
- 174
- Protein
- (22%)
- 9 g
- Fat
- (67%)
- 13 g
- Carbohydrates
- (11%)
- 6 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 263 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 826 kcal goes into the pot and 510 g of ingredients comes out as about 474 g of food: 174 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.