This Low Carb Carbalose Flour English Muffins recipe has been a long time coming and is long overdue. When I was originally married in 1968 one of the gifts I received was the new & revised 1968 version of The Joy Of Cooking. 47 years later that book is the most dog-eared, moth-eaten cookbook I have. Back then it didn’t take me long to find the English muffin recipe on Pg. 568 and until I was diagnosed as diabetic, I always made my own English muffins and I have made 100’s of them. Much less expensive, fun to make and taste lots better. So…after much time and procrastination I made them with Carbalose flour this morning and believe it or not they were a success on the first try. The deal is-English muffins are so good for so many things that I have actually missed them. And now, instead of relying of one of those crummy McMuffins at you know where, you can stay at home and make yourself a healthier one instead.
Here’s a little test. How do you know by looking at an English muffin that it is homemade? Because when they cook they don’t split themselves, you have to do that.
I didn’t use all the Carbalose Flour Bread dough ingredients although I think I could have. I didn’t use coconut flour and I subbed butter for coconut oil. The basic difference with bread vs muffins is you make a muffin “batter”, let it rise & collapse, then add the fat & remaining flour. I also used to make my original muffin dough into a loaf of bread and I may test that one day too.
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- 3 C Carbalose Flour***
- ¼ C Gluten
- ¼ t Guar Gum
- ½ t Xanthan Gum
- 1 t Salt
- ¼ C Warm Water
- ¼ C Golden Flaxseed Meal
- 1¼ C Warm Water
- 1 t Sugar
- 1½ T Yeast
- 8 Drops Liquid Sucralose***
- ¼ C Warmed Heavy Cream
- 2½ T Soft Butter + 3½ T Melted Butter
- Mix yeast, sugar and water and bloom for 10 minutes then add Sucralose.
- Add flaxseed meal to ¼ C warm water for 10 minutes. (It will become quite gelatinous)
- Put 1¼ C flour, gluten, gums, and salt into a mixing bowl & beat in liquids including cream & watered flaxseed meal. It should now look like a batter.
- Cover loosely and allow sponge to rise, (bubble & collapse) in a warm place. This should take about 1-1¼ hours. (I turn my oven onto the lowest setting for a couple minutes, turn it off, make the sponge batter, and put in the oven).
- Preheat griddle to 350°.
- Using a whip, or an electric mixer, beat in softened butter 1 T at a time.
- Start beating in remaining flour ¼ C at a time until your whip or mixer won’t take any more.
- Roll dough onto counter, knead in remaining flour ¼ C at a time and finish kneading 1-2 minutes.
- Dough will not stick to counter.
- Roll dough to ½” thick and with a 3¼”-3½” ring, press down but do not twist. Continue until as many muffins can be cut and as you have leftover dough, knead & reform and cut more muffins.
- Brush muffins with melted butter and gently place on griddle buttered side down and then gently brush tops of muffins.
- Muffins will rise after being put on the griddle and just leave them alone for 4-5 minutes or until browned on first side.
- Gently turn over and finish cooking.
- Place on wire rack and cool completely.
- Muffins will deflate a bit upon cooling-it’s OK-you didn’t do anything wrong.
- The longer you leave these on the cooling rack the better. (Within reason of course). They are much easier to fork open after resting.
- 8 Servings-Larger Ring
- 279 Calories, 17.7g Protein, 18.5g Fat, 20.2g Carbs, 11.g Fiber, 8.3g Net Carbs
- 10 Servings-Smaller Ring
- 221 Calories, 14.2g Protein, 14.8g Fat, 16.2g Carbs, 9.5g Fiber, 6.7g Net Carbs
- These can easily be individually wrapped and frozen.
- A 3¼” ring will yield about 10 muffins and a 3½” ring will yield 8 muffins.
- There are several ways to cut muffins. If you fork it open it will have those famous nooks & crannies which of course are great at holding all that butter you might want to slather on them. But you can also slice them with a knife if you plan to make say, eggs benedict and want a flat surface to mound things onto.
- I have pretty much always forked mine but as I said there are advantages to both ways.
- If you have a rather straight fork it helps as a curved fork takes a little getting used to splitting evenly.
- I love these buttered, slathered with cream cheese, capers, lox or smoked salmon, a slice of tomato, and raw red onions rings and lots of fresh cracked pepper. Oh Baby, Oh Baby.
- These also make terrific individual mini pizzas, a pretty good burger bun, good under chicken, tuna, ham, or shrimp salad with melted cheese on top. (Think they call that a melt), and of course classic eggs Benedict which has many different variations of it’s own. I’ll bet you can come up with lots of ways to use them.
Have been on keto diet for 10 months. We were missing English muffins. Tried half of this recipe and love it!!
I used an electric frying pan, so I could control the temperature. Made 4. 3.5″ muffins. When they were brown , the insides were still doughy, so I turned the temperature down to 300, placed the cover back on and left them alone. Checking every 10 minutes, they were ready to fork. Total cook time was around 35 minutes.
If you have a bagel recipe, I’ll be in heaven…
Hi Joy,
Sorry, no bagel recipe but maybe try to adapt another of the Carbalose Flour Recipes- there are lots of them.
I made the English muffins and they looked amazing. I measured the thickness of the cut out muffins to 1/2 in per instructions. Cooked them at 350. They got beautifully brown on each side, but the inside was doughy. What did I do wrong. I so want these to turn out.
Hi Lisa,
English Muffins can be a little tricky on a good day so this is what I would do. Add ¼ C more flour, turn down griddle 25 degrees and cook longer on each side. You could also cut the Guar Gum & Xanthan Gum in half. They are not an essential ingredient as they just make /give a better “mouth feel”.
Hope this helps.
I have 8 3 1/2” rings. Your instructions don’t mention using the rings for the actual griddle cooking. Would you suggest using them to contain the muffins or just cook them on the griddle without the rings? Thank you for this recipe. I’ve been looking for one and am excited to try this.
Hi Susan,
No, you don’t need your rings. All you need to do it cut them with one ring (or large biscuit cutter) then just griddle them.
Have fun,
Deborah
I think I rolled mine out a little too thin. I got 12 muffins from the recipe instead of 8. As a result, my finished muffins were very thin but they tasted good…like regular english muffins. Next time I will be sure to roll them out a little thicker. I’m wondering if they would hold some of their height if I browned them on the griddle then put them in the oven at 350 to finish baking them? I ended up keeping them on the griddle for about 30 – 40 minutes trying to get them baked all the way through. Part of that is my altitude but I would like to hold on to some of the height they get when first put on the griddle.
Lisa,
Yes, sounds like they might be a bit too thin. No, do not try to finish them in the oven. They need to cook completely on your griddle top. If it taking a bit longer time as you indicate, try a higher heat and if that doesn’t work then try covering them for a while.
And Lisa, please, continue to let me know the new recipes you are trying.
Deborah
I will! Just ordered 2 more bags of Carbalose!
Update: I made another batch and rolled them thicker so that I got the exact number of muffins specified in the recipe. I upped the temperature on the griddle to 375 and I covered them with a metal bowl throughout. They were done after 10 mins to a side and they came out perfect! We had eggs benedict for dinner! The leftover muffins were great in the toaster the next day!
These are really high in calories, what’s causing that?
Well, there are calories in everything. The Carbalose, lots of butter, and certainly heavy cream. I could care less about calories and the people using the recipes on this site do not care about them either. We care about the carb grams and fat content so if you are truly eating LCHF you don’t need to worry about calories.
Is there a way to cut the calories down in this recipe? Maybe by swapping out the heavy cream for milk? Also, what does the guar gum do, and what would happen if I left it out? Is the yeast fresh or freezedried? I have fresh, so would I use the same amount of fresh?
Amanda,
One of the great things about LCHF is, I do not worry about the number of calories in anything. The HF stands for high fat and I use heavy cream for most everything. That said, you could try half heavy cream & half water which would only cut about 25 calories per muffin. Guar Gum gives them a little better “mouth feel” and you can leave it out if you want.
I use dry yeast and you can do you own conversion. Just remember that using Carbalose flour will take about 1/2 again as much yeast as regular flour.
Deborah, when it calls for “gluten”, is that the same as vital wheat gluten?
Yes Sachio, one and the same thing.