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Hi Everyone,
I know it’s been awhile again since I posted some of my recipes that I have tried and tested on Pinterest. Just so you know I have not stopped baking or cooking but I have been really busy with life 🙂 Anyway, I have a bunch of recipes that I want to share with you all. Also, I have been doing a lot of gluten-free and vegan dinner dishes and sides. I realized I wanted to amp up my training for the fall running races I have coming up and decided to change my diet to see if I see a difference in my running. Well, it’s been about a month or so and I feel fabulous!! Don’t get me wrong I am still eating meat, but to be honest I have never been a huge meat eater. In fact, I was a vegetarian for about 10 years of my life. When I was pregnant with my first son, I really started to carve meat. I guess my body was telling me something because I was low in Iron. Anyway, I started to eat meat again but never more than 3 oz. at dinner. I will be sharing all my favorite meals I have been making soon. But for know I want to post my youngest sons favorite muffin recipe. These freeze great too! I keep a couple out for the boys and then freeze the rest and toss one in their lunch.
Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins
Makes one dozen muffins
Recipe from: Dinner Dishes and Desserts
Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour
- 1 Tbls baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1¼ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1¼ cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1½ cups frozen blueberries
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Prepare a 12 cup muffin tin with non-stick spray or liners. Set aside
- In a bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Mix in vanilla.
- Slowly add the flour mixture and yogurt, alternating between the two; until just combined.
- Fold in the blueberries.
- The batter will be very thick. Scoop into prepared muffin tins.
- Bake at 425 for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to 375 and bake for 15 more minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
- Remove from oven, and set on a wire rack to cool.
- Store in an airtight container or freeze.
Enjoy!
My youngest son just loves pancakes and waffles. He even loves McDonald’s pancakes more 🙂 But eating at McDonald’s for breakfast all the time can get costly and it’s not healthy for you. I found a great pancake recipe from Food Network. I will have to share that with you all sometime but I stumbled across this Belgian Waffle recipe that my whole family cannot get enough of and I thought I should share with you all. They are that good and plus they are easy to make. I make a whole batch and then I freeze the rest and just pop them in the toaster when they want one in the morning. This recipe has that true Belgian sweet taste so you could eat them plain! I hope you enjoy them as much as we do 🙂
Enjoy cooking!
Here is the recipe from Taste of Home:
Yield: 10 waffles (about 4-1/2 inches)
Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs separated
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
sliced strawberries, fruit or syrup
Directions:
- In a bowl, combine flour, sugar and baking powder. In another bowl, lightly beat egg yolks. Add milk, butter and vanilla; mix well. Stir into dry ingredients just until combined. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold into batter.
- Bake in a preheated waffle iron according to manufacturer’s directions until golden brown. Serve with strawberries or syrup.
When I said I was going to make coffee cake, my oldest son said he didn’t want to try it because it had coffee in it. I could not stop laughing because he is so literal all the time. After I stopped laughing, I said it’s called coffee cake because the cake compliments the coffee. It’s never a dull moment in this house of boys 🙂 My oldest was still very shocked I was making this because only my husband likes coffee (still can’t choke down a cup). I told him to just to try the cake and let me know what you think. Well, can I say it was gone in two days!! Now a couple of pieces went to friends who came over but everyone loved the cake. My husband even requested that I make it again soon!
Quick and Easy Coffee Cake
Recipe from Lil’ Luna
Ingredients:
- 1 cup oil
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 cup flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup margarine melted
Directions:
- In a large mixing bowl. combine oil, eggs, vanilla and milk together.
- In a medium bowl, blend together sugar, flour, baking powder and salt.
- Combine egg mixture with flour mixture. Pour half the batter into a 9×13 pan.
- In a medium bowl, prepare streusel by combining brown sugar and cinnamon.
- Sprinkle half of streusel on top of the batter. Top with remaining batter and then sprinkle the remaining streusel on top.
- Drizzle with melted margarine.
- Bake, uncovered at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Makes 18-24 servings
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Usually I am not a big fan of baked goods that are “healthier” for you. It always seems like something is missing to me. Well, this recipe will not disappoint at all. I came across the recipe on Sally’s Baking Addiction (I just love her blog) and the pictures made the muffins look so good I thought I would give them a taste.
I made the muffins without my family knowing they were from a skinny recipe. As they were baking they absolutely smelled delicious! The real taste test would be my boys and if they ate them. Well, my boys crushed them and I mean crushed them. I think the twelve muffins were gone within 48 hours. After they were all gone I finally told everyone that these muffins were from a skinny recipe… they asked me to make them again soon 🙂 That’s a winner!!
Recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction
Yields a dozen muffins
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup (133g) unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup (85g) honey
- 2 large egg whites (or 1 large egg)
- 3/4 cup (183g) vanilla Greek yogurt (or regular yogurt, plain or vanilla)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (62g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (64g) whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup (64g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup (90g) mini chocolate chips, plus a few more for sprinkling on top
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425F degrees. Spray 12-count muffin pan with nonstick spray. Do not use liners.
In a large bowl, combine applesauce, sugar, honey, egg whites, greek yogurt, and vanilla extract. Whisk them all together until smooth, with no yogurt lumps remaining.
Sift* the flours, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder together. Slowly stir in the wet ingredients, being careful not to overmix. Get any dry pockets of flour out. Fold in the mini chocolate chips. The batter will be a little chunky. This is ok.
Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups – fill them all the way to the top if you can. Bake for 5 minutes at 425F. Keeping the muffins in the oven, reduce the temperature down to 375 and continue to bake for 13 more minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of one muffin. If it comes out clean, they are done. If not, bake for only 2 more minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 3 minutes in the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Makes 12 muffins. Muffins stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. Muffins freeze well up to 3 months: heat up for 45 seconds to thaw.
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