Has the weather gotten cold yet where you are?
These soft and fluffy peanut butter biscuits are the perfect comfort food for any cold October morning. Dip them in hot maple syrup, spread on some melted coconut butter, or sandwich the biscuits with raspberry jelly and even more peanut butter… They also make a terrific portable snack and are great to throw into childrens’ lunch boxes.
Then again, no one says you can’t enjoy these healthy biscuits in warm weather like I’ve been doing here in Texas. Just because it’s still 90 degrees doesn’t make them any less delicious. Peanut butter is timeless. And apparently seasonless.
Peanut Butter Biscuits
- 1 tbsp white vinegar or apple cider vinegar (15g)
- 2/3 cup milk of choice (160g)
- 3 tbsp oil (30g)
- 1 3/4 cup spelt flour (245g)
- 1/2 cup roasted peanuts (with salt)
- 1/2 cup raisins (70g) or 1/2 cup sugar of choice
- Only if using raisins, add a pinch of stevia or 2 tbsp sugar for sweeter biscuits
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together the vinegar, milk, and oil in a little bowl. Let sit for at least 5 minutes. Pulse peanuts in the food processor (or a Vita-Mix), then add other dry ingredients and pulse until smooth. Transfer the dry ingredients to a big bowl and add milk mixture. Mix just until it comes together. Transfer dough to a floured surface or tray, and knead a few times until it’s not sticky. (Sprinkle with more flour if needed.) Press dough into a rectangle 1/2-inch thick, and cut into squares or rounds. You can bake them on the same tray. Bake 9-14 minutes (9 for smaller biscuits). Makes 18 small biscuits, the size of the ones in the photos, or 12 much-larger biscuits. These biscuits taste like something between a biscuit and a scone, and they’re good topped with a little coconut butter or vegan butter (and maybe some agave or molasses), or perhaps even pumpkin butter. Or jam and more peanut butter!
Question of the Day:
Does it feel like Fall yet where you are?
We are having an incredibly warm Fall so far, even by Texas standards. Although I like warm weather, I can’t say I’m not looking forward to putting away the flip flops and jean shorts in favor of scarves, hats, and sweaters.
Link of the Day: Peanut Butter Frozen Yogurt
Well this looks delicious. But man I just found out that peanuts and us store bought almounds are really not good for you(along w gluten and sugar). Inflammatory or something:(
Could this be done with other nuts??
I just left the east coast for California so it went like from almost super fall to not much at all :p
From what source did you hear that gluten is bad for you? It only needs to be avoided if you suffer from a gluten intolerance.
Definitely agree with Lisa! Nuts and gluten, even sugar in moderation, are definitely not bad for you unless you have an allergy or intolerance. Yes they’re inflammatory in large doses, but as long as you’re eating a healthy, well-rounded diet it shouldn’t be a problem!
It Starts With Food or similar paleo/health books have great info on what gluten grains and stuff does to people. Intolerances are kinda like when someone has other issues going on and brings the irritations to the surface.
Also heard the whole gluten peanutalmound sugar thing from IMT people (idkwhattocallthemor howdescribethem)
Really sorry long annoying comment
But does anyone kno macadamia would sub well? (How taste?) Or just use cashew?
Omg. These looks amazing. I think they just went on my weekend baking list, if I can find spelt flour at Target today.
Question – did you experiment with unsalted peanuts? That’s all I have, and I will probably try it with them and maybe add a little extra salt.
I forgot to mention that I live in the same area as you do (on the Ft Worth side) and I am SO SICK of 90 degree weather! I’m ready for boots and scarves!
I’m sure you could if you added extra salt, but I haven’t tried it.
1. These look delicious. 2. DC has been having the most mild fall, I’m usually a summer girl but I can’t wait to slip on some boots and wear my cute fall jackets!
I love peanut butter everything, these look so good for breakfast! Fall has been pretty mild here in NJ too. Love it!
Yum! And low carb! Well…I’m assuming that “sugar of choice” includes xylitol, so…low carb! These would be good stuffed with Fakin’ Bacon 😀
Here in Oregon (Portland-metro area), it’s raining and raining and raining after an unusually dry summer. Where I live, it’s really really foggy this morning (we’re surrounded on three sides by rivers) and the leaves are changing colors and there is debris from trees strewn all over the road and the lawn, because we’ve also been having high winds. It’s absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I really don’t like warm weather, Autumn is my favorite season, and the next few months hold a lot of excitement and things to look forward to. Like making peanut butter biscuits 😉
hey 🙂 i love avocados and i love chocolate, that´s why i´ve been experimenting a bit and came up with: CHOCADO! give it a try, it´s soo simple and sooo delicious! :)http://thescienceofeverything.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/chocado-dairy-free-pudding/
I make something similar, but use maple syrup as the sweetener and soy/almond/skim milk as a thinning agent. Delish.
These are such a good idea. Anything nut butter flavoured is fine by me.
I wonder if almonds would be okay to use, since I’m not a hugeee peanut butter fan.
And it most definitely feels like Fall where I live! I’m quite excited for it.
Almonds worked for me (I didn’t have peanuts on hand), however, I couldn’t get the dough unsticky. I was going to throw it all away since it was a terrible sticky mess, then decided to try to bake them to see how they would turn out. I somehow got a few blobs on the baking sheet (lined w/parchment paper) and these turned out to be my son’s favorite snack!! (Also, I used a combination of whole wheat and all purpose flour, because that was in my pantry, and I used part coconut palm sugar and part birch xylitol — again the things I had in pantry) I can’t wait to try with roasted peanuts — I think it would add that much more flavor.
Yummy! These look great! In other words, last week, it WAS starting to feel like Fall around here, however, now it feels as though it’s reverted back to summer! I love warm weather, but could do without the humidity.
You know, I live in Chicago and it STILL doesn’t feel like fall here! It’s 80 degrees today! We had a week of cooler weather but then it heated back up. Right now I want it to be fall, but at the same time I know it won’t warm up again until May so I should enjoy this!
Are the totals in your nutrition information link for a 12 or 18 biscuit batch?
I’m assuming 18.