A quick and easy gluten free treat.
Thanks to these muffins, almond flour has become by new favourite flour. But sitting at around $11.50 a pound, is it ever expensive! A few weeks ago I saw it was on sale at about half that price and I’m pretty sure I squealed. Needless to say, I stocked up and got a bunch to last me a while.
Around Christmastime a friend of mine gave me a recipe for chocolate chip almond muffins, and it’s essentially what I’ve presented below. The chocolate version is delicious because, hello, it involves chocolate. But since I don’t want a daily helping of chocolate chips in my diet, I’ve tweaked the recipe to create my second favourite muffin: lemon poppy seed.
What you need
- Almond flour, 3 cups
- Baking soda, 1 tsp
- 3 eggs
- Honey, ¼ cup
- Lemon zest, 1 tbsp
- Lemon juice, 2 tbsp (or 1 tbsp lemon extract)
- Vanilla extract, 1 tsp
- Poppy seeds, as many as you desire
What you have to do
- Preheat the oven to 300 Degrees
- Mix everything together till smooth
- Pour into lined muffin tin
- Bake for 25 mins (apply the toothpick trick to ensure they are done!)
I enjoy these because they are incredibly easy and quick to make. I’m also impressed with how good they taste considering there’s no butter or sugar, which actually helps in making these guilt-free – especially when I want to make a chocolate chip batch!
One last note: If the chocolate chip version is calling out to you, swap out the lemon and poppy seed ingredients for chocolate chips, and up the vanilla extract to 1 tbsp.
Enjoy!
mygijourney 
Reblogged this on Glenda the Good Foodie and commented:
Almond is my new best friend too.
Oh these look good!!! Love lemon poppy seed too ) Have you thought about making your own almond flour?? I’ve done it before using blanched almonds. It turned out pretty good! And it’s way cheaper to buy bulk blanched almonds. Just make sure you don’t blend it too long or it turns into almond butter!
Check out this link for instructions:
http://detoxinista.com/2012/04/make-your-own-cheaper-almond-flour/
I’ve been thinking about it more recently actually! Thanks for the link….it doesn’t look too difficult….
I think you can easily do it in a a food processor. I made it in the dry container that came with the vitamix and it grinds really good flour. I’m giving you more good excuses to get one!!!
hahaa, I may need to compile these good excuses into a formal list of pros to convince the hubby!
Yes! Let me know if you need help with that 🙂
I’m not happy with the gluten free all purpose mix I get. I will try this sometime in the future, looks like a good recipe for my brother.
The pre-made mix is ok for some recipes, but I do usually add just a bit of Xanthan gum to help everything bind together. The best thing to do is mix your own gluten free flour blend – it’s just more work! I hope your brother likes these 🙂
I LOVE these. My beautiful wife made me these and I can’t get enough! (Of both her and these muffins!)
Well you sound like a lucky guy! 😛