I am not a doctor. If you or someone you love has dietary needs, do not take any advice from some random person on the internet.

My son is on a high fat diet. I start with keto recipes and mixes as a base, and then add fat/butter to read the correct amount of fats for his diet.

But sometimes, I have to add SO much extra fat that the food does not absorb all the fat. For muffins, after baking I would take a muffin out of the tin, and there would be a small pool of liquid fat at the bottom. For flatbread it never seemed to bake correctly. It never felt fully cooked.

My first idea was to use multiple types of fat. I took macadamia nuts (one of the highest fat nuts with the lowest amount of protein. I grinded them down to a smooth paste and added them to the baked goods. It helped, but not enough

I remembered reading about the Chef Step’s Ultimate Chocolate Cake. The folks at Chef Step’s added in glycerol monostearate (GMS). Among other things, GMS acts as an emulsifier. I guessed that if I added GSM into the mix, it might help hold the extra fats I have to add.

The downside is it adds a small amount of carbs. Divided up between the servings it is a pretty small amount.

My first experiment was with Keto Flatbread & Pizza Bread Mix by Keto and Co.

To the mix you add

• 2 eggs (around 100 grams of eggs, around 9.5 grams of fat)
• .5 stick of butter (around 57 grams of butter, or 45 grams of fat)

After that I add additional fats for my son’s diet.

• 20 grams of the macadamia nut paste (around 15 grams of fat)
• 30 grams of canola oil (30 grams of oil).

To that, I added 5.5 grams of GMS.

The difference was pronounced. The flatbread became fluffy and delicious. No extra fat seeping out of the mix. You would have never guessed the amount of extra fat.

And, my son really enjoyed the bread.

I’ve started adding it to everything I bake for my son. No more pools of fat after I finished.

You also have to pick your battles. Add it to a brownie mix, and it come out much more like a cake. It is not bad, but it no longer reads like a brownie.

Next Steps with the flatbread?

• Swap out butter for coconut oil
• Vary the amount of GMS