I haven’t had a sweet muffin in a while so I decided to try something a little different by adding peanut butter instead of regular butter to my favorite muffin recipe. The result is wonderfully delicious without being overwhelmingly peanut butter. For those who want more, just spread a little on the muffin after it’s cooked. As usual, I use my 3″ round cake silicone baking mold to make these so they are nicely round with lots of space for butter and/or jam. You can put them in muffin top pans but they may a bit larger so the muffin won’t be as tall. This recipe makes three muffins. If your pan makes six, then just double it. You can make this using either CarbQuick Baking Mix or Almond flour or any other low carb flour you prefer, but texture and taste may change.
Peanut Butter Muffins
1/2 cup CarbQuick or Almond flour
1/4 cup Flaxmeal
1/4 cup Sugar Substitute
2 tablespoons Creamy Peanut Butter
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
2 Eggs, large
1 tablespoon Coconut Oil
1 tablespoon Cinnamon, ground
Preheat oven to 360 degrees (F). Spray a 3″ (3 wells) cake tin or muffin top tin with cooking spray.
Mix flours, sugar substitute and baking soda together. Add eggs, peanut butter, oil and cinnamon and mix well. Make sure the eggs get thoroughly mixed in so you don’t have strings of egg in the muffins. Spoon equally into the three prepared wells and smooth.
You can also use regular muffin tins, filling each well to at least two-thirds. You may get four to six muffins and the carb count will be lower.
Bake for about 20 minutes until lightly browned. Let cool a few minutes, then remove from the pans and serve or let cool completely and store in a plastic baggie.
Peanut Butter Muffin with low carb pomegranate jelly. Awesome!
Nutrition Info for 1 muffin:
Carbquick:
Calories: 215.7 Fat: 16.1 g Net Carbs: 3.5 g Protein: 11.7 g
Almond flour:
Calories: 250.3 Fat: 20.19 g Net Carbs: 4.4 g Protein: 11.6 g
NOTE: Different brands and qualities of almond flour have different carb counts. For this calculation, the net carbs for 1/2 cup came to 4.5 g. Check it against yours and adjust accordingly, but the count should be close.
Peanut Butter Muffin with low carb pomegranate jelly. Awesome!
Originally POSTED BY RENE AVERETT AT 1/15/2014 11:38 PM