Up-and-go breakfast muffins!

Healthy muffins that are actually delicious! A copy-cat of the raspberry bran muffins from Sydney’s beloved Bowan Island Bakery, these meal muffins are a nutritious, convenient meal enactment that’s acold amended for you than take-away connected the mode to schoolhouse oregon work.

Up-and-go Breakfast Muffins

Being a savoury gal, I’ve ever been partial to savoury muffins for meal (proof here, here and here). But a meal muffin with a saccharine slant has been connected my database for a while. I’m talking astir the benignant that doesn’t marque you consciousness similar you’re eating barroom for breakfast, a muffin that is just saccharine capable but inactive bully for you and bully to eat.

So present it is!

Why these muffins are amended for you

• Low abdominous – conscionable 1 1/4 tsp coconut lipid per muffin

• Refined-sugar free

• Lightly sweetened – Just 2 teaspoons chromatic per muffin

• Extra dietary fibre – keeps your insides….err….moving, shall we accidental ☺️ arsenic good arsenic keeping you afloat for longer and stabilising your humor sugars.

• Convenient – Grab and go! No request to reheat, devour connected the move.

• Long support life – These past for 4 to 5 days, and are freezable.

• Easy to marque – One-bowl batter mixed with conscionable a woody spoon

• Add-ins of choice – dried effect and nuts, oats, fruit, choc chips!

Ingredients successful meal muffins

Here’s what you request to marque these meal muffins. Add-ins are flexible – spot beneath for suggestions.

The cardinal constituent successful this for goodness and flavour is wheat germ. Good-for-you other fibre that gives these muffins a fabulous nutty flavour and beauteous lukewarm brownish colour!

Dry ingredients

• Wheat germ (sub wheat bran) – The good-for-you other fibre boost! Found successful either the cereal aisle, wellness nutrient conception oregon flour aisle oregon market stores. While some wheat germ and wheat bran work, I deliberation wheat germ is nicer. It has beauteous nutty flavour due to the fact that it’s the effect wrong wheat kernels. Whereas wheat germ is the exterior of wheat kernels truthful it gives the muffins a somewhat earthier flavour. Both person akin nutrition characteristics – precocious successful dietary fibre arsenic good arsenic different nutrients. Better for you than plain flour!

• Wholewheat / wholemeal flour – In keeping with the better-for-you tone of these muffins, I’ve opted for wholemeal alternatively than plain achromatic flour. It has much nutrients due to the fact that it’s little processed, positive it enhances the nutty flavour of these muffins.

• Baking pulverization AND baking soda (bi-carbonate) – These some marque things emergence but baking soda is 3x arsenic beardown and they each person antithetic rising characteristics. For this recipe, utilizing a operation of some delivers the muffin apical signifier and crumb texture I want.

  The baking soda tin beryllium substituted with much baking pulverization but the crumb is not rather arsenic soft. See look paper notes for quantity.

• Cinnamon – For flavour!

• Salt – Brings retired the different flavours successful the muffins, doesn’t marque it salty!

Wet ingredients

• Honey oregon maple syrup – For sweetening! We lone usage 1/2 cupful crossed 12 muffins which equates to 2 teaspoons per muffin. See commentary beneath connected wherefore chromatic is amended for you than sugar.

• Coconut oil – This is the abdominous successful the muffins. I similar to usage unrefined / virgin coconut lipid which adds a beauteous precise subtle coconut flavour into the muffins. By nary means would anyone telephone these “coconut muffins”! Use the benignant that is steadfast similar food and needs to beryllium melted to premix into batters, alternatively than the pourable type.

  Note: There is besides refined coconut oil which is stripped of each coconut lipid and aroma. This and different oils volition enactment successful this look but volition not adhd flavour. If you opt for different oil, I’d suggest doubling the vanilla and adding other cinnamon.

• Yogurt and beverage – This is the bedewed successful the batter. Using yogurt serves 2 purposes. Firstly, it has acerb successful it which gives the baking soda a rising footwear start. Sometimes I usage a spoon of vinegar successful recipes to service the aforesaid purpose, similar successful my Magic Stay-Moist Apple Muffins.

  Secondly, yogurt is not arsenic watery arsenic milk. So it adds wetness to batters without making it arsenic escaped which means little flour needed = muffin much moist!

• Egg – Just one, to clasp the muffins together. Using lone 1 ovum makes a monolithic quality to the moistness of the crumb of muffins arsenic the much ovum you use, the sturdier but drier the crumb gets.

• Vanilla – For flavour.

Add-ins of choice!

I’ve utilized raspberries successful these due to the fact that they were connected special. However, you truly tin adhd immoderate add-ins you want. See suggestions below.

Add-in options:

• Raspberries oregon blueberries, different berries – 250g/8oz, 2 heaped cups

• Chopped effect similar apple, pears, cherries, grapes. (Not overly juicy effect similar oranges, peaches etc arsenic they volition leech excessively overmuch liquid into the batter)

• Dried effect – sultanas, apricots, cranberries, apple, mango – thing goes!

• Nuts and seeds

• Chocolate chips – I mean, the remainder of the muffin is healthy. So this tips the scales backmost to neutral? 😈

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How to marque meal muffins

It’s arsenic casual arsenic 1-2-3:

1. Mix bedewed ingredients

2. Mix successful adust ingredients

3. Fill muffin holes and bake!

I similar to reserve immoderate raspberries to decorate the top, but this wholly optional – for ocular purposes only. I cognize immoderate radical similar much INSIDE the muffins!

1. Whisk bedewed – Melt the coconut lipid successful a microwavable bowl. Then whisk successful each the bedewed ingredients: egg, yogurt, milk, chromatic and vanilla.

2. Mix successful adust ingredients – Scatter crossed the aboveground (incorporates easier) past whisk in. Once you tin nary longer spot flour, stop! Don’t get excessively enthusiastic with mixing arsenic it volition marque the muffins tough.

3. Add-ins – Fold done the raspberries oregon immoderate add-ins you’re using.

4. Divide betwixt 12 holes. I utilized liners but it’s not essential, you could conscionable spray with oil.

5. Top with reserved raspberries, if using.

6. Bake for 25 minutes astatine 190°C / 375°F (170°C fan) oregon until aureate brownish connected the surface. Cool past devour!

Other matters of Up-and-Go Breakfast Muffins

Breakfast connected the tally – I’ve named these meal muffins arsenic specified due to the fact that they are a large grab-and-go meal that doesn’t request heating and tin beryllium virtually eaten connected the run. More filling and little saccharine than than muesli bars which I personally see to beryllium much suitable for a snack alternatively than breakfast.

Storage – These volition support for 4 to 5 days without going stale due to the fact that they are much moist than emblematic muffins acknowledgment to the coconut lipid and yogurt. If it’s blistery wherever you are, champion to support them successful the fridge, different conscionable support them successful the pantry successful an airtight container. They volition besides frost for 3 months.

And with that, I deliberation I’ve said each I request to connected the substance of these meal muffins! Just to reiterate, these are little saccharine than your accustomed muffins. To me, they are the cleanable sweetness to person arsenic meal without feeling similar you’re being naughty and eating cake. And they are conscionable saccharine capable to person arsenic a greeting beverage treat. In fact, radical who often find Western cakes and cookies excessively saccharine volition astir apt find these the cleanable level of sweetness.

Hope you springiness them a go! Love to cognize what add-ins you usage if you do. – Nagi x

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Life of Dozer

While I’m successful Melbourne for the Good Food & Wine Show, Dozer is with the aureate retriever boarder and seemingly not showing immoderate signs of separation anxiety. Hmmph!

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