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Peanut Butter & Jam Bars – Low Carb and Gluten-Free

These low carb bars have a tender peanut butter crust and a raspberry chia seed jam filling. A healthy twist on Peanut Butter and Jelly bars.

Peanut Butter and Jam Bars Low carb and Gluten-free

So I thought I might start a fun little series on All Day I Dream About Food called Makeover Monday.  The idea here is that ever Monday, I will take a conventional sugar-and-flour recipe and overhaul it completely so that it’s low carb and gluten-free.  Without sacrificing flavour and texture.  Any of you who have played around with beloved recipes, trying to get them to be low carb will know that this can be tricky.  Achieving similar results with our limited, alternative ingredients can stretch your creativity in so many ways.  But when I am successful, there is nothing more satisfying.  I feel a little like I conquered the world.

The reality is that I am often making over conventional recipes.  I get so much inspiration and ideas from the food around me, from other bloggers and cookbooks and magazines, and I find myself mulling over how I could make a low carb version.  But I thought it would be fun to formalize it a bit and bring you at least one recipe a week that I have deliberately made over.  And I thought it would be fun to include you in the game and allow you to send me the recipes you want to see made over.

Low Carb Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

Now, keep in mind that I can’t possibly make over everything everyone sends me.  I already have a long list of requests and I don’t have a shot in hell of ever getting to them all.  And I have my own ideas of things I want to revamp too.  But I do want to encourage you all to send me your ideas, your family recipes, the things you REALLY want to see made edible on a low carb diet.  No promises but I’d love your inspiration too.  I think this could be really fun.

My first source of inspiration for Makeover Monday comes from a Facebook reader.  She saw my Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies and put her oar in, requesting Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars.  I believe my response was something like “well, that shouldn’t be too hard”.   But apparently I didn’t move on it fast enough, because she gave me a little nudge the other day and I thought I’d better get crackin’. And now I am glad I waited a bit, because by that time, I’d made Raspberry Chia Seed Jam and I realized that it would be the perfect filling for the bars.  It’s easy to make and the chia gives these bars an extra healthy twist.

Low Carb Peanut Butter and Chia Seed Jam Bars

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Peanut Butter & Jam Bars – Low Carb and Gluten-Free
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
28 mins
Total Time
43 mins
 

These low carb bars have a tender peanut butter crust and a raspberry chia seed jam filling. A healthy twist on Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Dessert
Servings: 20 bars
Calories: 127 kcal
Ingredients
Crust:
Filling:
  • 1 cup Raspberry Chia Seed Jam
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325F and grease an 8 inch square pan.

  2. In large mixing bowl, whisk together almond flour, peanut flour, Swerve, baking powder and salt.

  3. Stir in egg, peanut butter, coconut oil, vanilla and stevia until mixture comes together.
  4. Press about 2/3 of the dough into the bottom of prepared baking pan. Bake 10 minutes.
  5. Remove from oven and spread with jam.
  6. Take remaining dough and crumble it over the jam, pressing lightly to adhere.
  7. Bake another 18 minutes, or until just beginning to brown lightly and firm up to the touch.
  8. Remove and let cool completely.
Recipe Notes

Serves 20. Each serving has 8 g of carbs and 3 g of dietary fiber. Total NET CARBS = 5 g.

127 Calories; 9g Fat (62.1% calories from fat); 5g Protein; 8g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 79mg Sodium.

Nutrition Facts
Peanut Butter & Jam Bars – Low Carb and Gluten-Free
Amount Per Serving (1 g)
Calories 127
% Daily Value*
Sodium 79mg 3%
Total Carbohydrates 8g 3%
Dietary Fiber 3g 12%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Comments

    • Once I get my hands on some peanut flour I am so making these!
      Also, I would love to get a decent low carb marshmallow figured out… 🙂

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      • Hey. Make marshmallow fluff with aquafaber. ( bean water. ) 1 tin chick peas. Drain the water. add 2 tspn vanilla essence.Then beat the water for about ten mins till its thick like beaten egg white. Gradually add half cup granulated sweetener and keep beating. Its stiff like meringue.
        Use it like marshmallow fluff or as cream or frosting. Theres only aprox 6 carbs in the whole batch.
        Or melt 10p grams of sf lc chocolate and fold into your fluff for an amazing choc mousse. Let set a couple hours in fridge 🙂

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  3. Can another flour be substituted for the peanut flour? I don’t where to buy it, except on the internet, and I don’t have any other recipes that would use it.

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  7. The only thing I could think of when I saw these was yes, yes, yes! Off to the story today to buy some peanut butter. These just look so perfect and so amazing. I can’t wait to eat one. Please make over more recipes.

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  8. Hi! These look amazing! Two questions…(1) what size baking pan do you recommend? and (2) Would PB2 work in lieu of the peanut flour? Thanks! Gayla

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  11. I would love to have the Sara Lee coffee cake made over! All that yummy almond flavor. It was a special treat as a child for us to get one and I would love to make a healthy version of it for my kids.

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  13. What I would really love to see is a post on low-carb ingredients, how to use them, how to substitute them for higher carb ingredients, and when you can, and can’t, substitute them for each other. You drop hints here and there, like coconut flour makes things dry, but I’d love to see it all in one place. Many of the low-carb ingredients are VERY expensive, so it would be nice to know when one can sub in for another when you can’t afford to order several kinds of nut flours, gums, or sweeteners.

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    • Hi Carolyn…check out my FAQ page for a few tutorials on stocking your low carb pantry and how to use both almond and coconut flour!

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      • Thanks! That was helpful! One more question 🙂 Have you ever tried Anthony’s Almond Flour? With free shipping on Amazon, it’s less expensive than Honeyville or Nuts.com (is that the same as the Oh!Nuts brand you recommend?) Still, at 7.80/lb. it’s a lot if it’s not going to work as well.

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  15. Thank you, thank you Carolyn! I didn’t realize you had done this as I was trying not to “haunt” you too much, especially after your husband’s accident. But I am so excited to try these!!!!! Thanks again!

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  16. Carolyn, I made these over the weekend and they were fabulous! Thank you again! I used PB2 because like many people, I couldn’t find any peanut flour locally. However, the PB2 worked great! Yum!

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    • You can try, but peanut flour is very dense and powdery. I don’t think your consistency will be right. I would do it as written but be prepared add a little more almond flour to get a crumblier consistency.

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  21. Another awesome dessert from you! I must admit I used Walden Farm’s raspberry fruit spread. I’m not the biggest fan of chia seeds. What an excellent recipe regardless. Thank you!

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