I made a great low carb peanutbutter bread today which I think may originally come from the GAPS diet, I'm not sure. It's very easy to make and only 1.7g per slice! I will play around with the cooking times as I think it might like a lower temperature. The texture of this bread was really good and not as spongy as the low carb cranberry and pumpkin peanut butter bread that I made previously.

Low Carb Pumpkin, Peanut Butter and Cranberry Bread

This is a very easy and you can flavour this in all sorts of ways. I wanted to make mine plain because I want to be able to use it for sandwiches and I made this for Maya more then anything. I only made this just before dinner, so I have only tried a buttered piece with Maya.

You can use any nut or seed butter and you don't have to buy a jar/tub, you can just make your own by roasting the nuts and blitzing them into a smooth paste. If you use a nut butter that is already salted then omit the addition of salt in the recipe. You can make this sweet also but I figured that its just as easy to add a sweet spread if I want sweet.

Low Carb Peanut Butter Bread

Makes 14 slices

Ingredients:

250g/8.8oz natural smooth peanut butter 100% peanuts
3 eggs
1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/4 tsp salt
3 tsp apple cider vinegar

Method:

Preheat oven to 170C/340F (fan forced)

Butter and line 1 loaf pan.

Beat the peanut butter, eggs, bicarb and salt, when combined mix in the vinegar.

Pour into lined loaf pan and place in oven for 30-40 mins (mine took 30mins max)

Allow to cool on wire rack.

That's it, very easy!

Nutritional Information:

Whole Loaf:

Calories: 1748
Fat: 138g
Protein: 95g
Carbohydrate: 24g

Per slice (14 slices)

Calories: 125
Fat: 9.9g
Protein: 6.8g
Carbohydrate: 1.7g

Note:

This was really easy to work out as I only needed to work out the nut butter and eggs. I used 100% natural peanut butter and extra large eggs for my calculations. You can easily change the nutritional profile by changing the nut butter used as peanut butter without anything added, is typically 9.7g per 100g which is considered high. I am guessing that you should also be able to cut thinner slices if you wish, as I found this was very easy to cut.

I will add nutritional information and non metric measurements later tonight or tomorrow

I have added nutritional information, 2g per slice, less if you use a different nut butter

When I tasted it last night, you could taste it a little but not much. I'll try it again today

urggg the nutritional counts are wrong!!! Whilst making my coffee I decided to check the label on my Sanitarium natural peanut butter and it was different to calorie kings nutritional information for the same product!

I will update shortly, on a plus side carbs will be under 2g per slice!

Ok done, make that 1.7g per slice

It seems Calorie King still has problems with accuracy.

I'm tempted to get some jam and cream

I wish I has some nice ham from a nearby butcher but they're only open wed - sat bugger!

I will toast a piece for sure. Maya had some yesterday and she liked, she wasn't going to eat it so I cut it up into smaller pieces, popped a piece in my mouth and I said just take a bite so she did then put it down. Came back and popped it in her mouth... then another bit and another but until it was all gone. She liked it

I just had some toasted with cream cheese and it was nice. The peanut taste is very mild so I didn't notice it. It holds together very well, it's not crumbly.

I just realised I never shared my picture of it toasted with cream cheese:

I had this for a couple of days, Maya has been eating it for breakfast each morning with honey, she loves it!

It does soften in the container which I guess all bread does to a degree but this more so. I prefer it fresh when it has a thin flaky crust around it

We have not been able to go to get jam and cream so we have just been relying on the little shop we have here in our town.

Cream cheese is mine, Maya has hers with butter and honey, she's had the last 2 pieces this morning. I was thinking this would great for school lunches later but realised most schools don't allow nuts especially peanuts!

I will make another loaf for Maya as soon as we get more peanuts or peanut butter