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August 29, 2014

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes – Low Carb & Gluten Free

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These delicious low carb pancakes have a swirl of sweet cinnamon filling and a cream cheese glaze. Made with almond and coconut flours, they make a wonderful gluten-free brunch!

Low Carb Cinnamon Roll Pancakes RecipeIf you’re a food blogger making everything from scratch, you’d better be ready for some spectacular fails. I’m talking “Wow, this is as dense as a hockey puck and tastes like one too” kinds of fails. The sort where you realize that nothing can be done to save the item and the best place for it is the trash can. Then there are the medium sorts of fails, the ones where things just didn’t quite come together properly but it’s still edible and you make your family eat it because you hate food waste. I don’t have fails too often any more, but most of them are of the second variety. I definitely had my share of the “pitch it in the trash” variety at the beginning but I know my ingredients well enough now that I tend to know what won’t work at all. So no spectacular fails lately and I’d really like to keep it that way. Spectacular fails can be a little rough on the ego, not to mention all the expense of wasted ingredients.

The first time I attempted a low carb version of cinnamon roll pancakes, it was definitely a medium fail. They were delicious, they just looked like utter crap and they were really hard to work with. I thought it would be so simple, just swirling a cinnamon mixture into the pancakes as they cooked. But my problems were two-fold. For one thing, I was working with an almond flour pancake batter that was simply too thick and didn’t hold together very well. This was before I’d developed my really good low carb Coconut Flour Pancakes. My other problem was that cinnamon filling kept hardening up too much to pipe into the pancakes and I got increasingly more frustrated. The end result was still excellent but I gave up on the idea for almost 2 years.

Low Carb Gluten-Free Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

I recently gave them another try with an combination of almond and coconut flours, which happens to be my new go-to low carb pancake batter recipe (I’ve been using it for a while now). I also kept the cinnamon swirl filling in a saucepan over low heat so that it liquid enough to add to the cooking pancakes. These were just the right fixes to my previous problems and the end result was both delicious AND pretty. Sometimes it’s worth it to persevere!

Please see my Cinnamon Roll Pancake recipe on A Sweet Life Diabetes Magazine.

Serves 6. Each serving has 5.08 g of NET CARBS.

Food energy: 392kcal; Saturated fatty acids: 15.17g; Total fat: 32.29g; Calories from fat: 290; Cholesterol: 211mg; Carbohydrate: 10.00g; Total dietary fiber: 4.92g; Protein: 13.98g; Sodium: 223mg

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Please note that I am not a medical or nutritional professional. I am simply recounting and sharing my own experiences on this blog. Nothing I express here should be taken as medical advice and you should consult with your doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. I provide nutritional information for my recipes simply as a courtesy to my readers. It is calculated using MacGourmet software and I remove erythritol from the final carb count and net carb count, as it does not affect my own blood glucose levels. I do my best to be as accurate as possible but you should independently calculate nutritional information on your own before relying on them. I expressly disclaim any and all liability of any kind with respect to any act or omission wholly or in part in reliance on anything contained in this website.

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  1. janet says

    August 29, 2014 at 7:27 am

    These sound terrific, but I don’t find a carb count anywhere. Am I just missing it? I’d like to give these a try, but I know he will ask “How much carb is it?”

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    • Carolyn says

      August 29, 2014 at 8:16 am

      Hi Janet…yes, I just discovered that A Sweet Life left out that info, even though I provided it to them. So I’ve added it in now on my post but here it is too: Serves 6 (2 pancakes per serving) 5.08 g of NET CARBS.

      Food energy: 392kcal
      Saturated fatty acids: 15.17g
      Total fat: 32.29g
      Calories from fat: 290
      Cholesterol: 211mg
      Carbohydrate: 10.00g
      Total dietary fiber: 4.92g
      Protein: 13.98g
      Sodium: 223mg

      Reply
  2. susie t. gibbs says

    August 29, 2014 at 8:45 am

    I love these and the story behind them!! I am going to try making them this weekend!!! I’ll give ya a shout out!

    Reply
    • Carolyn says

      August 29, 2014 at 8:51 am

      Thanks, doll!

      Reply
  3. Amy says

    August 30, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    Hi Carolyn,
    I’m sorry to refer to another of your recipes, but I wanted to make sure you saw this comment – I’m getting ready to purchase the items needed for the pumpkin spice latte, and I noticed it calls for cardamom seeds – if you use whole seeds do you crush them? I’m trying to figure out what type I should buy from Penzeys:

    http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeyscardamom.html

    Thanks for any direction and thanks for your recipes – they’re lifesavers!

    Reply
    • Carolyn says

      August 31, 2014 at 5:49 am

      You want the ones not in the pods, so the ones that say “no shell”. You won’t need to crush them in this recipe, although you can if you want.

      Reply
  4. Joshua Hampton says

    September 1, 2014 at 3:22 am

    I’m glad you persevered with this recipe. These pancakes look spectacular.

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  5. Susan says

    September 1, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    Can I assume that I’d I only have unflavored whey powder on hand, I can add vanilla extract. BTW, I’m not sure where I read it, but I usually add a dollop or two (not more exact than that) of whole milk ricotta to pancake or crepe batter. It may be superstitious, but I think it makes it easier to work with.

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    • Carolyn says

      September 1, 2014 at 4:18 pm

      Yes, go ahead and use unflavored and then add some vanilla and a touch more sweetener.

      Reply
  6. Jennifer says

    September 3, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    It was probably user error but I got a lot of smoke when I flipped these. Something about the cinnamon I’m guessing. I solved it by putting half the batter, a dollop or cinnamon filling, then the other half of batter. So my version if more of a cinnamon filled pancake. Worked great! If anyone else is cursing their smoke detector placement try my trick!

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    • Carolyn says

      September 3, 2014 at 7:45 pm

      Well that sounds like a pretty good solution. Erythritol does tend to smoke a bit when heated but that’s how it caramelizes (I’ve made plenty of caramel sauce with it!). So it’s not harmful (sugar smokes a bit when heated to caramelization too), but I still like your solution.

      Reply
  7. Dianne says

    August 4, 2015 at 7:42 am

    THM has a new Baking Blend flour substitute for coconut and almond flours. The new blend is considered neutral for THM, neither fat like coconut and almond flour or car by like oat flour. Have you tried it? Lots of paleo – type people are ordering it.

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    • Carolyn says

      August 4, 2015 at 11:25 am

      I have tried it. It’s much drier than almond flour so it doesn’t work as a one for one replacement in all recipes. But I do have some big plans for it!

      Reply
  8. Julie says

    November 14, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    Hi, That website doesn’t seem to be around any longer, is there any other way I can get this recipe?

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    • Carolyn says

      November 16, 2016 at 5:33 pm

      The website is indeed around and should be working now!

      Reply
      • Julie says

        November 16, 2016 at 6:10 pm

        And there it is…great!

        Reply
  9. Kelly says

    January 22, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    These look amazing! Can you recommend a good vanilla whey protein? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Carolyn says

      January 23, 2018 at 12:50 pm

      I love Organic Valley!

      Reply

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