Celebrate a healthier (but still a little decadent) this Easter this year with these low carb gluten-free hot cross buns.
Made with linseeds, sunflower seeds and almond flour, they will keep your blood sugars stable while providing more nutrition than the store-bought version.
The linseeds and sunflower seeds provide a range of essential minerals, including copper, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese and phosphorus as well as a solid dose of omega 3 and vitamin B1.
Egg will boost your choline, the baking powder provides calcium while the butter and cream cheese add some bioavailable vitamin A.
Macros
One serve provides 300 calories, 7 g protein, 25 g fat and 7 g of net carbs
Micros
The Cronometer screengrab below shows the nutrients provided by 2000 calories of this recipe relative to the Optimal Nutrient Intakes.
Ingredients
SERVES 6
- 70 g golden linseeds/flax seeds
- 20 g sunflower seeds
- 30 g almond flour/meal
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp psyllium husk powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp preferred sweetener (xylitol, erythritol, monk fruit)
- 60 g butter, cubed
- 110 g cream cheese, softened
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 medium eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- Zest of 1 orange
- 20 g currants or raisins or to lower the carbs use 70-90% dark chocolate chips
Directions
- Pre-heat oven to 1800 C/350o F.
- Prepare a baking tray with baking paper.
- Use a blender to grind the linseeds, sunflower seeds, almond flour and psyllium husks into a fine flour.
- Add salt, sweetener, and baking powder and stir to combine.
- Add butter and rub into dry ingredients until you get a breadcrumb texture.
- Add cream cheese, eggs, and apple cider vinegar and combine well.
- Remove one tablespoon of mixture and reserve for crosses.
- Don’t worry if the mixture seems wet it will dry out as the psyllium husks expand.
- Stir in the cinnamon, cloves, ginger, orange zest and currants.
- Split the dough into six even amounts and use wet hands to shape it into 6 buns, place on a lined baking tray.
- Take the reserved white dough and make twelve even balls.
- Roll out with your fingers/hands into long string-like strips and make crosses on the buns.
- Bake for 25 minutes.
- Serve warm with butter and enjoy!
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