Tender low carb scones full of peanut butter and chocolate chips and drizzled with a peanut butter and chocolate glaze. You don’t want to miss this for breakfast! Happy Chocolate & Peanut Butter Day!!!
Do you know what today is? It is a very, very special day, one near and dear to my heart. It is truly an important day all the world over and you want to sit up and take note, my friends. Because today is pure magic. Today is the first annual Chocolate Peanut Butter Day! Yes, yes, it’s a real holiday – if by real, you mean made up by a few fellow bloggers for the sole purpose of making and consuming copious amounts of chocolate and peanut butter treats. It is the brain child of Carla of Chocolate Moosey and Miriam of Overtime Cook and includes 31 bloggers posting delicious recipes from cookies to parfaits and everything in between. We are also teaming up with OXO, King Arthur Flour and Peanut Butter & Co to bring you three wonderful prize packs so don’t miss the giveaway. And you can follow along in the fun all day by following our Pinterest board and the hashtag #chocPBday on social media.
Now, you know I love me some peanut butter and chocolate together. And I seem to have created quite a number of recipes featuring this flavour combination over the past few months. In fact, when I caught wind of this little scheme and was invited to participate, I had quite literally just posted yet another low carb chocolate and peanut butter recipe and I was a bit tapped out. However, I mustered all my creative energy and got brainstorming. What hadn’t I tried yet, when it came to combining these two beloved ingredients? Cake…been there, done that. Muffins…one of my first low carb recipe, for goodness sake. Cookies…ha, I already have several low carb peanut butter and chocolate cookie recipes here on All Day I Dream About Food. Ice cream…done that too. But I haven’t done scones! Yes yes, scones. I do love scones in the morning and I love peanut butter and chocolate any time of day. Waking up to a delicious low carb peanut butter and chocolate scones to munch while I drink my coffee? Pure heaven. And they were easy to make (bonus!) and tasted divine. I know you’ll love them!
Peanut Butter & Chocolate Scones – Low Carb and Gluten-Free
Ingredients
Scones:
- 2 cups almond flour
- ¾ cup peanut flour
- ½ cup Swerve Sweetener
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ⅓ cup sugar-free chocolate chips
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoon cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Glaze:
- 2 tablespoon creamy peanut butter
- 1 oz sugar-free dark chocolate
Instructions
- For the scones, preheat oven to 325F and line a baking sheet with parchment or a silicone mat.
- In a large bowl, whisk together almond flour, peanut flour, sweetener, and baking powder. Stir in chocolate chips.
- In a small microwave safe bowl, combine peanut butter and butter and cook on high in 20 second increments until melted, stirring in between.
- Add peanut butter mixture, eggs, cream and vanilla to almond flour mixture and stir until dough comes together.
- Divide dough in half and transfer to baking sheet. Pat into 2 circles about 6 inches in diameter and 1 inch high. Cut each into 8 wedges and carefully lift the wedges and spread out on baking sheet, leaving 1 inch between each scone.
- Bake 15 to 18 minutes, or until just firm to the touch and lightly browned. Remove from oven and let cool.
- For the glaze, melt butter and chocolate together in a microwave safe bowl on high, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted.
- Stir to combine and then drizzle over scones. Let set 10 minutes.
Colleen says
Greetings!
I live in Orlando and for the life of me I can’t find peanut flour.
Is there anywhere you can suggest to purchase it that’s not online?
Thanks-
Carolyn says
I really don’t. I buy mine online. Trader Joe’s used to carry it but they don’t any longer.
Andrea says
Is there a sweetener that’s similar to Swerve but not as expensive? We’re on a tight budget and Swerve is really expensive for what you get. I love it for sure, though.
Carolyn says
Well, in my humble opinion, there isn’t any as good as Swerve. But yes, it’s pricy. I often extend it out by using some liquid stevia in my recipes. There’s also Truvia but it already has stevia in it so you run the risk of getting that funny liquorice taste.
You could purchase straight erythritol (it’s cheaper) and then use some stevia. Together they enhance each other’s sweetness with less aftertaste. That’s what I used to do before I found Swerve. It’s not as good for some things, but it works most of the time.
Debbie says
Hi Carolyn,
I enjoyed reading your blog today and will definitely do so again. I am a Gluten Free baker and have a GF site as listed above. Your scones sound fabulous!
Thanks for your inspiration!
Debbie
Leung says
can you replace the swerve sweetener with honey or anything else? i dont think i can get swerve here…
Carolyn says
If you can find another granulated low carb sweetener, go ahead and sub it cup for cup. For honey or another liquid sweetener, you will need to add a little more almond or peanut flour to make up for the liquid in the honey.
sam says
Can you replace the peanut flour with anything else?
Carolyn says
You could try almond flour but it has a higher fat content so they will be moister.
Ann says
Look for your recipe but this is the last one that I have gotten did you stop sending them Ann
Carolyn says
Hi Ann, No I haven’t stopped sending things out but Feedburner, the system I use to send out updates, is really messing up lately. You are not the first person to tell me about this problem. So I am moving to a newsletter system. Bear with me while I get the kinks worked out! I hope you will get something today.
JoAnn says
ok please ignore my earlier comment…I just realized that I put salt in my erythritol container instead of erythritol! Oh my…now you know how gross it was…ha/ha
Carolyn says
Oh my! Yep, that would do it. So sorry about that!!!
JoAnn says
I couldn’t wait to try these, so I made them today. They smelled wonderful and LOOKED delicious. I was curious about the TBSP of baking powder, but since I didn’t have a lot of experience with scones, I thought maybe they needed it. Yikes, they are so salty we will have to toss them. Major bummer since ingredients are expensive. I am just wondering if that is suppose to be 1 tsp of baking powder. I will try them again because they are easy to make and look delicious!
Carolyn says
No, it’s not an error. Gluten free recipes typically take more leavening agent to help them rise. And others have made this recipe without issue. So a few thought…there is low(er) sodium baking powder out there. But it could have been the brand of peanut butter as well, perhaps it has a lot of salt. And if you used salted butter, that would add to it as well.
If it’s just that you are particularly sensitive to salt, a trick is to use baking soda instead. You would only need 1 tsp and then you need to add 1/8 tsp cream of tartar and about 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar to the mixture to create the acid you need to make it rise.
Melanie says
This recipe was a great success! The dough came together really well and was just right. I used to be a little intimidated by the idea of scones, but it was actually pretty simple. The texture and consistency were really nice and didn’t seem “low carb”! These were a hit!
Twila says
These look so good and I love scones. But alas, I’m not supposed to eat peanuts, so I don’t use peanut flour. I can use almond butter for the peanut butter, but what could I sub for the peanut flour? I thought about golden flax meal or maybe just more almond flour? I love your recipes!
Carolyn says
You could do more almond flour. You may need a little extra since peanut flour is very dry and soaks up moisture.
Twila says
Thank you. I will try that. I find a lot of scone recipes have to much liquid, so I’m usually very careful when adding it, so I may just add less liquid.
Angel G. says
Chocolate chips in the peanut butter jar — eaten with a spoon.
Autumn says
there is nothing in this world I like better than peanut butter
Kathleen says
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are Definitely my Favorite!
Kathleen says
Oh My Gosh! These look Awesome! YUM!
Sarah says
Chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting.
Amanda Davies says
I love chocolate peanut butter mousse. Yumm!
Michaela says
I love making smoothies with peanut flour and cacao powder for a yummy treat
Steph says
Yummy yummy yummy!!!
Jamie says
My favorite is blending cottage cheese, stevia, a little cocoa powder and some peanut butter. Then I let if sit in the freezer for an hour or so, and it tastes like a chocolately peanut butter cheesecake dream!
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