When you're craving the texture and flavor of muffins it's hard to beat Carbquik recipes. Use some dried fruit or fresh berries and Carbquik to make these delicious low carb scuffins-a cross between a low carb scone and low carb muffin that are sure to satisfy your sweet craving.
Why You Should Try Carbquik Recipes
- Fast. Ready in less than 30 minutes.
- Easy. A simple pour and cook recipe.
- Low Carb. Only 9 net carbs per serving.
- Delicious. Packed with all of the delicious flavors of a fruit-filled muffin without all of the carbs.
I love fruitcake. I mean, I LOVE fruitcake. To be honest though, I love all cake. While I have several low carb cake recipes, I was really craving a fruit cake. Now let me say this: these do not taste like fruit cake. These scuffins just taste good.
What are Scuffins?
They're too moist to be scones and not wet and sugary enough to be muffins. Hence, scuffins. They taste like sweet American biscuits–with fruit in them. I would slather lots of butter on them and enjoy them that way while hot.
The next day, we toasted them and they were fantastic that way as well. It's kinda hard to go wrong with these low carb scones or scuffins if you ask me.
Is Carbquik OK For Keto?
Yes, Carbquik is a great solution to replace flour if you're eating a low carb diet. It has 16 carbs per serving, but it also has 14 grams of dietary fiber, so you're only consuming 2 net carbs per serving when you make Carbquik recipes using it.
Can You Replace Flour With Carbquik?
Yes, you can replace flour with Carbquik. However, you can't just use it as flour in any recipe and expect the same results.
Carbquik isn't just a low carb flour replacement. It also has other ingredients they are:
- Carbalose™ flour
- Palm and palm kernel oil
- Buttermilk powder
- Baking powder
- Egg white powder
- Lecithin
- Salt
How Do You Make Low Carb Scuffins?
- Soak one cup of dried mixed fruit (very little to no sugar added) in 2 cups of hot water for 30 minutes. Drain the water and add fresh hot water and cover for another 30 minutes. You are doing this to get rid of any sugar added to the fruit, and also to rehydrate the dried fruit.
- Using a strainer, allow the fruit to drain for 15 minutes.
- If using fresh fruit, skip this step.
- Preheat oven to 375F
- While the fruit drains and the oven preheats use a pastry cutter to cut butter into the Carbquik.
- In a separate bowl, mix egg, 1/2 cup heavy cream, almond essence, and sugar substitute.
- Add to dry mixture, and mix until well blended.
- Fold in rehydrated mixed fruit or fresh berries. Form into 12 balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Push down to flatten slightly and neaten edges.
- Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes until the tops are browned and a toothpick inserted inside is clean.
How Are These Low Carb Scuffins?
You will need to get CarbQuick flour to make these with. It's an easy way to make these low carb without buying separate flours.
I don't know, nutritionally, how to account for the fact that the initial wash, soak, and drain steps get rid of all the added sugar from the fruit. The recipe may have fewer carbs than I state on the nutrition label below.
What Fruits Are Good To Use In Carbquik Recipes?
When choosing the fruits to make Carbquik recipes with, you will need to keep some things in mind.
- Different fruits have different carb counts. If you're unsure as to which fruits are low-carb or Keto friendly, you can check out my post on the best Low Carb Fruits and Vegetables.
- Dried fruits can be loaded with added sugars. Try and find dried fruits that have no added sugar to make these low-carb.
Want To Try Some More Low Carb Baking?
- Keto Lemon Poppyseed Muffins - these muffins are so light and fluffy and FULL of flavor!
- Sour Cream Blueberry Muffins - these low carb blueberry muffins are moist and delicious!
- Keto Blueberry Cakelets - these little bites of blueberry cake are the perfect low carb snack or breakfast on the go!
Whatever flavors you choose to use when you try Carbquik recipes, I'm sure you're going to love how they turn out! The CarbQuick makes them easy and the fruit adds just the right amount of sweet!
Ingredients
Mixed Fruit
- 3/4 cup (150 g) Dried Fruit, soaked for an hour OR
- 1 cup Fresh Mixed Berries, can be subbed for dried fruit
Other Ingredients
- 2 cups (240 g) Carbquick baking mix, baking mix
- 1/4 cup (56.75 g) Butter
- 1/2 cup (119 g) Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1 (1) Eggs
- 1/3 cup (0.33 g) Truvia, or other sweetener
- 1 teaspoon (1 teaspoon) Almond Extract
Instructions
- Soak one cup of mixed fruit (very little to no sugar added) in 2 cups of hot water for 30 minutes. Drain the water and add fresh hot water and cover for another 30 minutes. You are doing this to get rid of any sugar added to the fruit, and also to rehydrate the dried fruit.
- Using a strainer, allow the fruit to drain for 15 minutes.
- If using fresh fruit, skip this step.
- Preheat oven to 375F
- While the fruit drains and the oven preheats use a pastry cutter to cut butter into the Carbquik.
- In a separate bowl, mix egg, 1/2 cup heavy cream, almond essence and sugar substitute.
- Add to dry mixture, and mix until well blended.
- Fold in rehydrated mixed fruit or fresh berries. Form into 12 balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Push down to flatten slightly and neaten edges.
- Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes until the tops are browned and a toothpick inserted inside is clean.
- I do not know how to account for the sugar being washed out of the fruit so this recipe may have fewer carbs than indicated if you follow the wash and drain steps I ask for.
- If you use fresh berries, please recalculate macros.
- I also do not know of a substitute for Carbquik
- Almond milk can be subbed for HWC
- I do not know how they will turn out without the egg
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Nutrition
Originally Published December 26, 2017
Don't forget to check out my other Keto cookbooks.
Keto Instant Pot, Keto Fat Bombs, Sweets, & Treats, and Easy keto in 30 minutes.
DiabeticinSF
This is my FAVORITE carbquik recipe! Thank you! Adjustments: I did find that if I use frozen blueberries, it does make the dough too wet even if you drain them, so adjust the amount of liquid (heavy cream) to a tad less than required in the recipe. Instead of almond, I use vanilla extract and add a bit more than a teaspoon so it is more pronounced. Because I use splenda brand allulose, it doesn't provide as much sweetness so I supplement by adding a couple extra TB of lakanto golden monkfruit to give the alluose a boost in flavor. I do these in my toaster oven and they get browned too dark too fast at the temperature and time suggested so I reduce the heat to 350 and just keep an eye on it until it is evenly golden brown. I found that it didn't matter if my dough was too dry or too wet or merged together into one mass, they ALWAYS taste great! You can barely tell these weren't made with real flour and sugar.
Robinette
I just found this recipe! And I love fruitcake also. I will make these this week! Thanks!
Carol Howell
I made these with fresh cranberries, and they were delicious!!
Jennifer
Made these for the first time this morning - they were quick and easy, and absolutely delightful. I made them with currants and chopped pecans, and was very pleasantly surprised by how tender and rich the crumb was. I’ll definitely make these again; thanks for a terrific recipe!
Stephanie
These are so delicious! I have made them several times. They make a great breakfast, snack, or dessert!
Lisa
Love, Love these! I make them every week or so.
Chelsea sexton
Are they similar to rock cakes.
URVASHI PITRE
I think they might be, just a little more crumbly I think
Kitty gianelli
I replaced the heavy cream with canned Thai Kitchen coconut milk and they are delicious