Keto Tahini Cookies Atop Peanut Butter Cake is really a combination of two recipes already on the site. It is ½ a recipe of Peanut Butter Cake/Peanut Butter Icing and ½ a recipe Tahini Almond Butter Chocolate Walnut Balls done with a #100 (very tiny) scoop. For perspective: the plate on the bottom right is 5″ and the scoop is 1⅛”. The “tiny cookie” part of this recipe equals about 4½ cookies per 1 of the larger balls. Anyway they are insanely delicious and as you only need 10 small balls to top the cake you should have about 18 leftover to pop in your mouth or…to make those cake pops that seem to be so popular. As comparison: they are about the size of an old tootsie roll pop. I happen to have three 7” cake pans that I bought at a restaurant supply store 20 years ago and I used two of them so I could get a little more frosting in the center. Yeah, the icing is that good. If you don’t happen to have a #100 scoop then make rounded teaspoonfuls in your hands. How about the word teaspoonfuls? (I had to look it up and it still shows as a misspelling). If you don’t have two 7″ cake pans then use one 8″ round pan. The cake is extremely high fat. (See Nutritionals inside the recipe). I use Byrd Mill Peanut Flour .
This can be a bit time consuming but can easily be divided into a two-day affair. 1st day make the cookies and the 2nd day make the cake, frosting and decorate it. One thing you will need to be careful with is eating the cookies before you get the cake made or you will be back to square one. Good idea to look at both recipes before you begin but this is pretty straight forward. I have divided the whole recipe into two parts so it is easy to follow. If you have a family of 5 this will last for two servings each or…it makes for a great dinner party dessert.
Now I know some of you “guys” out there are going to, or might, be a little squeamish while we discuss ball sizes and you are going to have to get over it. We aren’t talking about men, we are talking cookies here.
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- ¼ C Almond Butter
- ¼ C Tahini
- 1 Egg
- 1 T Cocoa Powder
- 1 T Peanut Flour
- 1 T Water
- 1 T Melted Butter
- ⅓ C Allulose***
- 1 t Vanilla
- 1 t Baking Soda
- 2 Drops Liquid Sucralose
- ⅓ C Chopped Walnuts
- 1¼ C Almond Meal
- ¼ C Arrowroot
- 2 t Baking Powder
- ½ C Melted Butter
- ¼ C Allulose***
- ¼ C Sugar Free Maple Syrup*** (Or Sugar-Free Simple Syrup)
- 6 T Peanut Butter (I Use Freshly Ground Smooth)
- 2 Eggs
- 2 T Heavy Cream
- 2 T Sour Cream
- 1½ Vanilla Extract
- 4 Drops Liquid Sucralose***
- 3 Oz Cream Cheese
- ¼ C Peanut Butter
- 2 T Heavy Cream
- 2 T Allulose
- 2 Drops Liquid Sucralose
- 1 t Vanilla Extract
- 1 T Softened Butter
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Minus the walnuts dump everything else into a mixing bowl and thoroughly combine with an electric mixer.
- Beat in nuts.
- Using a #100 scoop, or a rounded teaspoon (or with your hands) form 28 equal size balls.
- Bake 6-7 minutes. You can’t tell when they are done but better a bit underdone than a bit overdone if you want them to be fudgy.
- 28 Cookies and if you only eat the cookies, or use them for cookie pops, the nutritionals are just below.
- 78 Calories, 1.2g Protein, 7.1g Fat, 2.5g Carbs, 1.7g Fiber, .8g Net Carbs
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly butter sides of one "8" or two 7" cake pans. Line bottom with parchment paper rounds to fit.
- Mix first 3 dry ingredients.
- Beat butter, Sucralose, & Just Like Sugar, beat in maple syrup (simple syrup), add peanut butter, add the eggs one at a time then add vanilla, sour cream & heavy cream.
- Add wet ingredients to dry and mix thoroughly.
- Pour the batter into the pan and smooth the batter until it is evenly spread.
- For two rounds bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when tested. When very slightly brown on top they should be done.
- For one round bake 22-24 minutes.
- Remove the cake from the oven and cool completely.
- While cake is baking, beat all ingredients.
- Frost cake, top with 10 evenly spaced cookies around perimeter and slice into 10 wedges.
- 10 Servings
- 413 Calories, 10.1g Protein, 38.8g Fat, 12.4g Carbs, 4.3g Fiber, 8.1g Net Carbs
- Nutritionals include all ingredients for cake, frosting, and cookies.
- If you are using your hand to form your balls they will stay the shape and be smooth instead of craggy looking in the pictures.