📍 Where this dish comes from: Paris · The Louvre
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Created in 1910 to celebrate the Paris-Brest-Paris bicycle race, this wheel-shaped choux ring filled with praline cream is one of France’s great pastry masterpieces. This keto Paris-Brest uses almond flour choux and a hazelnut-almond praline cream that is extraordinary — nutty, rich, and deeply satisfying without a gram of conventional sugar.
What You’ll Need
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 480kcal
Ingredients
- 180 ml water keto choux ring
- 80 g butter keto choux ring
- 120 g almond flour keto choux ring
- 4 eggs keto choux ring
- 100 g hazelnuts (toasted, skinned) praline mousseline
- 60 g almonds praline mousseline
- 3 tbsp allulose praline mousseline
- 400 ml heavy cream praline mousseline
- 200 g cream cheese praline mousseline
- 3 tbsp erythritol praline mousseline
- 1 tsp vanilla praline mousseline
- flaked almonds, powdered erythritol topping
Instructions
- Make choux: boil water and butter. Beat in almond flour. Cool, beat in eggs one at a time. Pipe a ring (20cm diameter) onto a parchment-lined sheet. Scatter flaked almonds.
- Bake at 200°C for 35–40 minutes until very deep golden. Pierce all over. Cool completely.
- Make praline: toast hazelnuts and almonds with allulose in a pan until amber caramel coats the nuts. Pour onto parchment, cool, blend to a rough paste.
- Make cream: beat cream cheese with erythritol. Fold in whipped cream and praline paste.
- Slice ring horizontally. Pipe praline cream generously into the base.
- Replace top. Dust with powdered erythritol. Refrigerate until serving.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 480kcal | Protein: 8g | Fat: 42g | Fiber: 4g
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Health Benefits
- Hazelnuts provide notable amounts of vitamin E, copper, and manganese in the praline filling.
- Almonds in the praline deliver arginine and other compounds studied for their role in blood vessel health.
- Cream cheese filling provides calcium and phosphorus.

