Winter blues?
…Then make yourself a cup of hot tea, turn on your favorite music, and start heating the oven! I have a yummy and healthy Apple Muffin recipe that is a great snack or quick breakfast.
I usually gather and measure out most of my ingredients into 2 bowls (wet and dry separately) before preheating the oven…
Ingredients
1/2 cup plus 2 Tbs milk
1/4 cup oil
1 large egg
1/4 cup agave* (or 1/2 cup white sugar if you don’t have agave)
1 tsp molasses (optional but good for you!)
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups whole wheat flour (or white if you prefer)
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 & a 1/2 cups chopped apple (I like tart apples in mine!)
Set oven to 375 degrees. Stir all wet ingredients together in one bowl (adding chopped apple last), and dry ingredients into another. Spray muffin pan with cooking spray or line with muffin cups. Gently combine wet and dry ingredients until just combined. Divide batter into cups and bake for about 20 minutes. Cool on wire rack and enjoy with a drizzle of honey if they aren’t sweet enough for your taste, or as is! The house will smell yummy too.
Jude gives them the taste test!:)
*Agave is a natural sweetener from a plant grown in Mexico (usually organically grown) with a low glycemic index, so your body takes longer to burn it off, unlike white table sugar which gives you a ’sugar high’ and then your blood sugar crashes. I’ve been experimenting with it in recipes with great results.
1. Your recipe looks great! If only we had an oven.. I like how there’s oatmeal on top to make it look “healthy”.
2. Jude is growing up fast! He’s looking more and more like Andrew. And I like his apple bib. Cutie patootie!
Miss you guys,
Sarah
Comment by Sarah — January 19, 2008 @ 4:22 am
We miss you guys too!! No oven must be a little tricky. Do you have a toaster oven or anything?
Hugs from me and the boys:)
Comment by Jess — January 19, 2008 @ 8:40 am