Serve these scones warm, with a little melted ghee or paired with your morning cup of coffee.
Funny story, this recipe was designed to be chocolate walnut cookies, but they didn’t turn out how I envisioned a cookie should be. They also didn’t pass my highly developed cookie test, which consists of my son begging for more and giving me the seal of approval. If I can make something that can fool Wyatt then it’s basically Paleo gold.
Since this recipe was certainly not a cookie, I turned them into scones and loved it. I took a batch to work, and within minutes, they were gone. Everyone enjoyed them, which was a huge win in my book considering most of them don’t follow anything close to Paleo. I’ll change their minds. *evil laugh*
My husband works at Tejas Chocolate Craftory and BBQ and introduced me to the most amazing ingredient ever made – raw cacao nibs. Where have these been all my life? I’m certainly late to join the raw cacao nib train, but so glad I know about them now. If you’re also late joining the raw cacao nib train, check out this post on Best Paleo Replacements for a direct link on where to find this raw cacao nibs as well as other Paleo-approved, hard to find ingredients.
Note: If you choose to exclude the raisins, I would suggest adding 1 more pitted medjool dates to ensure the slight sweetness will remain since the raw cacao nibs have no sugar.
Makes 8 scones
Ingredients:
- 8 pitted medjool dates
- 1/4 cup filtered water
- 1/4 cup ghee, extra to coat the pie dish
- 1 egg
- 1 cup cassava flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup raw cacao nibs
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- Optional: 1/4 cup raisins
Directions:
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the medjool dates, water, ghee and egg into a food processor and process until smooth.
- Add the cassava flour, baking powder and salt and process just enough to min the dry ingredients into the wet.
- Scoop the mixture into a medium bowl and add the cacao nibs and chopped walnuts.
- Optional: add the raisins.
- Using a spatula, mix the ingredients together so the ingredients are well dispersed.
- Scoop into a round pie dish coated with ghee.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
Variation:
Dates and fruit offer amazing, natural and healthy sweetness to all things baked and delicious. Check out some other baked goods sweetened only with fruit and dates.
