My family and I are getting ready to take off for a long weekend of camping. When we go camping, I like to make our meals as easy as possible. I choose foods that can either be prepared before we leave or easily done at our campsite.
For this trip, I decided to bring biscuits for a breakfast. I had just heard about combining blueberries with lemon and thyme. I thought they sounded like a fun addition to my rustic biscuit recipe.
Sugar-Free Blueberry Lemon Thyme Rustic Biscuits
Ingredients:
2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, leveled
1/4 cup monk fruit
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 and 1/2 TBS baking powder
1 stick of FROZEN butter
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup plain greek yogurt
8-ounce package cubed and frozen cream cheese
1 cup frozen blueberries
zest of 1 lemon
1 tsp fresh chopped thyme
Directions:
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, combine all of your dry ingredients- flour, monk fruit, salt, and baking powder. Then grate the stick of frozen butter with a cheese grater into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Work quickly, you want the butter in small cold pieces. When you are done, set this bowl aside. If it is warm in your kitchen, you may want to put it in the refrigerator or the freezer until you are ready for it.
Next combine the wet ingredients in a medium-size bowl- egg, vanilla, cream, and greek yogurt. Once your wet ingredients are stirred together, add them to your dry ingredients. Using a wooden spoon, combine these ingredients. You don’t want to over mix. Just stir until they start to come together. Now add in your cubed and frozen cream cheese, frozen blueberries, lemon zest, and fresh chopped thyme. Again, you don’t want to over mix. Once you feel that the ingredients have been dispersed in the dough evenly, stop mixing.
I wanted our biscuits to have a rustic look so I used a spoon to drop a large ball of dough onto my cookie sheet. The dough balls were approximately 1/2 cup in size. If you want a more uniform look, you can use a large cookie dough scoop or even roll your dough and use a biscuit cutter.
Bake your biscuits at 400 degrees F for approximately 15-20 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.
These are dense biscuits packed full of flavor! If you look closely, you can see the chunks of cream cheese tucked in the buttery layers of the biscuit. It’s like a pillow of goodness waiting for you in each bite.
Sugar-Free Blueberry Lemon Thyme Rustic Biscuits are delicious as is, with a pat of butter, topped with fruit preserves, or a drizzle of honey.
Hello, my name is Laurie. My family and I live near the Oregon coast. When we aren’t at work, in school, or on the volleyball court, we enjoy traveling, cheering for our favorite sports teams, playing outdoors, and checking off items on our bucket list. We are lucky in that both sets of our parents, as well as our siblings and their families, live within an hour of us. We get together often to help one another out, celebrate milestones, and go on adventures together.
These biscuits sound absolutely delicious! I love the flavor combination of blueberries and lemon, but never had them with thyme before! I definitely can’t wait to make these, thank you so much for sharing!
these biscuit sound so good hard to believe they didn’t get ate before you took off camping. I love to eat reheated biscuit to me they always taste extra good
I have never used thyme in my baking and now I am intrigued and need to try this. I love the combo of blueberry and lemon. I also love that you used monk fruit to sweeten these. They look delicious!
I almost passed this recipe up until I read that you made this for your family for breakfast. That’s my favorite meal. I am a Diabetic so I appreciate that these biscuits are sugar free. I want to try and make my biscuits rustic. That’s awesome and clever!
This definitely was pin worthy to me! Thank you for sharing!
I love that it is sugar free. I’m not diabetic but at what point was prediabetic along with tens of millions of Americans that really have no clue they are or tracking that way or worse diabetic….It wasn’t until I started trying to actively watch diet and improve lifestyle that I paid attention more….. and Sugar free is a buzz word these days and most people over look it entirely. Even really healthy people fit and athletic people can over consume sugar each day…
Not to get all science Bill Nye on you but heres a little info form Heart.org (copied and pasted straight from the site but please confirm your own research and talk with your doctor for your own health guidelines.)
American adults consume an average of 77 grams of sugar per day, more than 3 times the recommended amount for women. This adds up to around 60 pounds of added sugar annually – that’s six, 10-pound bowling balls, folks! The numbers are even worse for children. American kids consume 81 grams per day, equaling over 65 pounds of added sugar per year. Think of it this way – children are ingesting over 30 gallons of added sugars from beverages alone. That’s enough to fill a bathtub! Where’s all this added sugar coming from?
AHA Sugar Recommendation
To keep all of this in perspective, it’s helpful to remember the American Heart Association’s recommendations for sugar intake.
Men should consume no more than 9 teaspoons (36 grams or 150 calories) of added sugar per day.
For women, the number is lower: 6 teaspoons (25 grams or 100 calories) per day. Consider that one 12-ounce can of soda contains 8 teaspoons (32 grams) of added sugar! There goes your whole day’s allotment in one slurp
I’ve never tried baking with monk fruit, but I would like to try it. I like the idea of combining lemon and thyme with the blueberries. It really elevates something basic like a biscuit.
I’m a scone lover and this looks like it could be a close cousin. Just wondering w/the thyme in it if it won’t be breakfast-y enough so I might test leaving that out of some
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This sounds awesome! I love the idea of a flaky, fluffy, sugar free muffin!