This is the recipe I make when I want something that feels like a real dessert, not a “keto version” of one. My husband is the toughest critic in the house for anything chocolate, and the first time I made this he asked if he could have the rest of the bowl instead of waiting…

I started making this loaf out of pure stubbornness. Every keto lemon bread I’d tried up to that point came out either bone dry or tasting like a candle, heavy on “lemon flavoring” and light on anything resembling an actual lemon. After four test batches, one of which sank so badly in the middle it…