From City Chick to Farm Chic: Healthy Vanilla Bean Scones

I have had a few questions on things people can eat for breakfast besides the eggs and turkey sausage. Protein shakes are also ok, but I know for me anyway I like something sweet in the morning sometimes. Well yesterday I came up with a recipe for scones and let me tell you, it is pretty amazing! Vanilla Bean scones to be exact. But not only are they good…they have less than 5 carbs per piece AND they have around 4 grams of protein in each piece!! I love it! They were not that hard to make and everyone loved them! I frosted a few with a glaze made from Splenda and half of them I just left plain. They really didn't need anything, and let me say they are GREAT with my coffee this morning! There seems like a lot of steps here, but don't let that intimidate you…These are super easy and I finished it all in under a half hour. The possibilities for this are endless…you could add maple flavoring and make maple scones, pumpkin scones, even using some Walden Farms Jelly and making some fruit ones. Let your imagination run wild!

Here it is….

Vanilla Bean Scones

In bowl mix

3/4 Cup Heavy Cream

1 Vanilla Bean Scrape out the inside and put all the yummy flecks of the bean in the cream and then just put the remaining skin of the bean in it to.

1 Egg

Let it set while mixing ...

1 Cup Almond Flour

1 Cup Coconut Flour

1 Cup Spelt Flour

5 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Salt

1/4 Cup Splenda (Optional, I didn't use it mostly because I forgot it, but with the coconut flour and glaze, it really is pretty sweet)

Sift above ingredients together in large bowl

In food processor, pour flour mixture in and put in

1 Stick cold Butter

1/2 Brick (4oz) Cream Cheese

Pulse on high until it resembles crumbles then pour back into bowl and add the wet ingredients. Mix it just til its combined. Don't over mix. Pour out onto a floured surface and shape into a rectangle pushing the dough together to about 3/4 inch thickness. Then take a pizza cutter and cut 4 cuts widthwise and 2 cuts lengthwise. Then take each square and cut it at a diagonal so that you end up with 29-30 small Triangles. Put on baking sheet, they can be close together since they don't spread much and bake at a 350 degree oven for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely.