Gluten Free Low Carb Keto Blueberry Hand Pies Dessert
These Keto Warm Blueberry Hand Pies are such a comforting dessert and are super easy to make using my sweet fathead dough! The buttery crust and fresh blueberries and lemon filling make these the best keto hand pies you will ever try!
WHAT ARE Fruit HAND PIES ?
Hand pies are perfect little individual pies that you can easily hold in your hand and enjoy. Sometimes called turn overs, they can be made with a sweet or a savory filling.
Using fathead dough as the pastry dough for these delicious hand pies makes them a winner for everyone on a low carb or keto diet.
Like little pockets of pure heaven this blueberry hand pies recipe is great for entertaining even non low carb guests.
This easy dessert recipe can also be frozen in an airtight container, thawed and eaten cold from the fridge or at room temperature. If you prefer them warm, place onto a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet pan and warm in the oven at 350 degrees F.
The fresh blueberries are like little taste bomb explosions of blueberry flavor popping in your mouth and when paired with keto ice cream, yogurt or whipped cream, they are the ultimate in comfort food keto sweet treats.
Carbs in Traditional Hand Pies
According to the Cronometer app I use, Trader Joe’s Blueberry hand pies are about 120 grams with 50 grams of carbs!! Way to high to be enjoyed on a low carb diet or keto diet.
Our Healthy Low Carb Blueberry Hand Pies have 6 grams total carbs or 4 g net carbs if you follow net instead of total.
Either way, much better in comparison and won’t kick you out of ketosis! The rest of the nutritional information is at the bottom of the blog post on the recipe card.
Can I use any berry?
Yes, if you’re not a fan of blueberries or it’s not fresh blueberry season, you can use any fresh berries you like. Strawberries, raspberries or blackberries would be good, low carb options.
Can I use frozen berries?
Yes, either fresh or frozen berries will be fine to use, just weigh the same amount as the fresh used. As the cooked berries and flaky pie crust get baked in the oven, these mini blueberry hand pies form a scrumptious berry sauce inside!
HOW TO SERVE Blueberry HAND PIE Recipe
If you don’t manage to make the circles uniform in shape, don’t sweat it, just fold them over into a parcel like package, so long as they’re sealed, you’re all good!
Think of these as little mini blueberry pies so making them even more delicious when they are hot out of the oven is a great idea!
On top of each pie, you can add one of these delicious options; my keto blackberry gelato, vanilla bean ice cream or my butter pecan ice cream or just top with sugar free whipped cream and you will be in heaven!
KETO NUT FREE FAT HEAD DOUGH
If you have a nut allergy in the family, you can make this recipe using my nut free fathead dough instead that uses coconut flour and will work equally as well. Enjoy!
HOW TO SWAP KETO SWEETENERS
There are many sugar-free sweeteners on the market today: figuring out which is the best to use for one purpose or another can be quite confusing. Unfortunately, the product labels can be misleading, and not all sugar-free sweeteners are created equal.
When I first went sugar-free in 2004, I didn’t know any sugar-free sweeteners beyond aspartame, Splenda and stevia. I tried several artificial sweeteners, and after two years sugar-free, my sugar cravings were still just as bad, if not worse.
That was when I decided to start creating recipes with natural sugar-free sweeteners and nothing artificial.
The most natural sugar free sweeteners are stevia, Monk fruit, erythritol, xylitol and Allulose, but there are some big differences when it comes to using these in your recipes.
Here’s my extensiveNatural Sweetener Guide and Conversion Chart that will help you determine which sweetener to use for certain baking needs and how much to use compared to other sweeteners I might use in my recipes.
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LOW CARB KETO BLUEBERRY HAND PIES
Low Carb Blueberry Hand Pies
Ingredients
Dough
- 1.5 cups shredded mozzarella or 6 ounces
- 1 tablespoon cream cheese or mascarpone
- 2/3 cup almond flour or 2.4 ounces or sunflower seed meal for nut free
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon Swerve confectioners sweetener optional
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Filling
- 2 ounces blueberries fresh or frozen (60 grams)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice and lemon zest
- 1-2 tablespoons Swerve brown sugar sweetener or Lakanto golden
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Make the filling first. Mix the blueberries, lemon juice, zest and sweetener together in a small bowl. Place to one side.
- Make the dough: Add the mozzarella and cream cheese to a heatproof glass large bowl. Heat in microwave for 60 seconds, stir and then heat for further 30 seconds until fully melted. Mix well with a spatula.
- Add the almond flour, egg, sweetener and optional vanilla. Mix well until combined. Use your hands to kneed into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
- Split the dough in two. Using a rolling pin, roll one piece of dough out between two sheets of parchment paper or a silicone mat and a sheet of parchment paper, about 3mm thick.
- Use a 7.5 inch pan lid to score a circle and cut round with a knife. Repeat with the second piece of dough and re-roll the scraps to make the third circle. You should have 3 circles on 3 pieces of parchment paper and place onto a baking tray pan. If you don’t quite get enough for a circle for the third one it doesn’t matter as you can just fold it up following the steps below.
- Place the circles of dough on the parchment back on baking pan, back in the fridge for about 30 minutes. Once chilled, loosen the circles from the parchment using a palate knife and divide the blueberry mix between the circles, placing them in the center.
- Fold the outer edges of the dough over the blueberries sealing in the middle by pressing together and turn over using a palate knife so the seal is on the bottom of the pan.
- Cut two small steam holes in the top with a sharp knife. Not too big or the contents will flow out! Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of sweetener.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown on top. Allow to cool a little before serving with ice cream, frozen yogurt, whipped cream or coconut cream.
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About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Hmm. I never realized that a circle had four corners. I think I’d just fold it over like a turnover ans use a fork to seal the edges.
You could use any berry in this hand pie. Sounds delish.
ok so my husband is allergic to nuts, so I would sub in the coconut flour amount from the other fathead dough recipe to replace the almond flour in this recipe, correct? then everything else just stays the same in this recipe? I doubt the ingredients in the nut-free recipe would go good with blueberries. haha!
No you would use my recipe for fathead dough with coconut flour, I linked to it. Then make the filling and follow the recipe here.
Do you have many nut free OR dairy free recipes in your new cookbook? I enjoy many of your recipes that I get off your website, Thanks for your hard work in creating the recipes.
It looks like the are some typos. Did you mean cream cheese or mascarpone? Also, the whole pie wouldn’t be 4 net carbs, because 11 – 4 is 7.
Mascarpone is Italian cream cheese. Thanks for catching my subtraction error.