Sugar Free Grain Free Raspberry Almond Scones would be a wonderful breakfast or tea time snack that any mom would love to enjoy on Mother's Day!
Breakfast in bed and a full day of pampering where the family waits on your every need is the ideal Mother's Day don't you think?
Most Mother's Day though that never quite happens. Not for me anyway. I always hope for a relaxing day but with the business of being a mom and having children who are involved in multiple activities, their needs come before my own.
Thankfully I don't envision this Mother's Day being spent at a soccer field as in some years past and I'm grateful as the weather in New England hasn't been very spring like in temperature.
What I do envision is a day starting off with these scrumptious raspberry almond scones with a raspberry cream cheese spread on top!
The way to this mom's heart is not store bought gifts, but instead homemade cards and healthy, sugar free, low carb but completely luscious food that won't make me feel the least bit of guilt indulging in.
While my oldest is almost 15 he is not into cooking or baking at all. My 12 year old daughter, now that is a different story. Just give her a recipe and away she goes in the kitchen, just like her momma. In fact we often come up with recipe ideas together and she helps me immensely in the kitchen.
She encourages me when a recipe has failed and gives me that push to try again.
And in fact I think my failures that happen in the kitchen help her to learn from them as well. She is a self taught seamstress. Yes she is only 12 and taught herself to not only sew with a real adult size sewing machine, but now makes American Girl doll clothes. She also taught herself to crochet and knit! This kids is amazing and she didn't learn any of that from me. I can't even sew a button, no lie.
But when she does fail during a sewing or other craft project I remind her of all the times I failed at recipes and that puts a big giant smile on her face.
She must certainly take after my grandmother. My grandmother was also a self taught seamstress, crocheter and talented cook and baker.Wonderful memories and certain recipes in the kitchen, especially around Mother's Day, remind me of my grandmother. Scones is one of them. Hence this recipe for Mother's Day I'm sharing with you. Grandma loved almonds, berries and all things involved with baking!
My daughter never really got to know her as she passed 10 days after my daughter turned 1, eleven years ago, but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her since I see so much of my grandmother in my daughter. I cherish the time I had with my grandmother and the memories I'm making in the kitchen with my daughter and that to me is the best Mother's day gift ever.
My grandmother was an amazing Italian cook and baker. Although I have to recreate many of her recipes to make them gluten free, sugar free and low carb I think she would extremely proud of the recipes I've made that honor her legacy. Many of them are in my cookbook, Sugar Free Mom: Naturally Sweet and Sugar Free Recipes for the Whole Family. Yes I think she would be proud.
Of course this recipe had to include Silk Unsweetened Almond Milk as it fits perfectly in the scones my grandmother would have loved. Sign up for the Silk Newsletter to read more inspiring and wonderful Mother's Day recipes and posts!
To fancy up the scones rather than use butter as a spread, I chose Horizon cream cheese. It's super creamy! You can find Horizon on FB and Twitter! When adding a bit of seedless raspberry jam to the cream cheese with a little bit of Silk unsweetened almond milk to make it smooth, it's simply heavenly with the scones!
Sugar Free Grain Free Raspberry Almond Scones
Ingredients
- 2 cup almond meal I used Bob's Red Mill
- ½ cup coconut flour
- ½ cup Swerve sweetener
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup cold butter cut into cubes
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup unsweetened Silk Almond Milk
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- ½ cup slivered almonds
- 4 ounces fresh raspberries
Raspberry Cream Cheese Spread
- 8 ounces Horizon cream cheese room temperature
- 2 tablespoons raspberry jam I used Organic Farming Fiordifruta which is sweetened with fruit juice only
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened Silk Almond Milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Whisk the first 6 ingredients together.
- Cut in the butter using 2 butter knifes or place in a food processor and pulse until combined.
- In a stand mixer place the eggs, almond milk, extract, and liquid stevia.
- Blend until combined.
- Pour the dry ingredients into the stand mixer and blend on low until incorporated.
- Gently stir in the slivered almonds and raspberries.
- Place batter onto a parchment lined baking pan.
- Make an 8 inch circle.
- Using a greased pizza cutter or knife cut the circle into 8 triangles.
- Using a greased spatula, separate the scones from each other and bake for 20 minutes.
- Allow to cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.
- To make the cream cheese spread, allow the cream cheese to get to room temperature fora 2-3 hours then add in the rest of the ingredients in a stand mixer.
- Blend on high speed until completely smooth.
- Taste and decide if you need to add any sweetener.
- Enjoy a scone with 1 ounce of spread.
- Keep spread refrigerated.
Notes
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This conversation is sponsored by Silk and Horizon. The opinions and text are all mine.
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Carole
I made this recipe with a few changes as I don't use all the ingredients you included. That being said, I subbed full fat cream for the almond milk and found the dough very stiff, so I added more cream and a bit of water. It was still quite stiff, so rather than try and fold in the berries, I made my 8 inch ring and poked holes where I inserted the berries. (I used black berries and raspberries.) Other changes were: using orange zest, mapeline extract, sliced (rather than slivered) almonds, and half pecans, and Lankanto maple syrup for the vanilla stevia. The resulting scones were extremely good and stayed together well. I did use the 1 tsp of xanthan gum you recommended and this probably helped. Compared to another person's scone recipe (which was too watery), yours had the texture and look of a real scone. I think this recipe is a winner and I will definitely try it again.
Suzanne
These are great. I can't seem to keep them from falling apart though. So after I make them I put them in the freezer and take one out and pop it in the microwave for 15 sec. Is there something I could be doing wrong. I did you Truvia brown sugar sweetner instead of Swerve since I had that on hand. I am going to try it with another sweetner I found that is like Swerve. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I also used blueberries too.
Brenda
Unfortunately when not working with flours that contain gluten, final products tend to be more crumbly. Try adding a teaspoon of xanthan gum.
L.Salvadori
what sweetner is swerve? I have never heard of it...?
Angie | Big Bear's Wife
Perfect for Mother's Day brunch/breakfast! Yum! Hope you get to relax just a little.
Cookin Canuck
I agree...I don't need store-bought gifts, either. Just some good food (like these scones!), a little quiet time and some extra hugs is all I ask for.
Nutmeg Nanny
You always amaze me with your healthy grain free and sugar free baking. I need to come be your neighbor so I can get some of these tasty bites : )
Marjory @ Dinner-Mom
These are just perfect for Mother's Day and I couldn't agree a homemade treat and card make for a wonderful day!
Kim Beaulieu
I can't sew a button on either, not in my skill set. Luckily you can cook and bake like a rock star so not being able to sew is no biggie right. I love that you're daughter taught herself all that stuff, that's super impressive.
Martha @ A Family Feast
I think I'm going to print this recipe and leave it out as a big hint for my husband! (Can't believe Mother's Day is only a little over a week away!)
Kirsten/ComfortablyDomestic
How nice to see so much of your grandmother in your daughter. Sounds like her legacy is living on in the both of you. I think she'd be very proud of these scones. I do hope that you get breakfast in bed for Mothers Day!
Colleen (Souffle Bombay)
My 10 year old is the same as your 12 year old and I just love it too! Such a fun time to be had with our daughters cooking it up in the kitchen! I'll take a scone any day of the week!
Lauren+Kelly+Nutrition
Your grandmother would definitely be proud of you Brenda! These scones look delicious!
Paula - bell'alimento
Super scrumptious scones you got there!
Ashley @ Wishes & Dishes
My mom would love these for her special day!! Love your photos!
The Food Hunter
i have been on a scone kick...these sound wonderful
Bev Visintin
I have a freezer full of organic raspberries. Can they be used in the scone recipe ?
Carolyn
You know scones are my ideal breakfast, right? Especially healthy ones like these!
Charlotte Moore
These look good, but I would have to use strawberries.
Kim (Feed Me, Seymour)
I want to request these for my Mother's Day breakfast in bed!