grain free apple chai muffins
these grain free muffins have a delicious chai flavour, packed with cinnamon and apples, and they are simply perfect.
Servings: 10 muffins
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup coconut flour
- 1/3 cup dry curd cottage cheese
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/3 cup honey
- 5 eggs
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/8 tsp ground allspice
- 1+1/4 cup already-baked (and peeled) apple chunks (i measured these already-baked because i had them on hand, but if you don't already have baked apples on hand, just peel and cut up at least 4-5 apples into chunks and bake them at 350 for 30-40 mins before you make these muffins! you may not need all the baked apples for this recipe but it doesn't hurt to have!!)
Instructions
- using a food processor, add the coconut flour, baking soda, and dry curd cottage cheese and blend until well-combined.
- mix in the spices– cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and allspice and blend again. once well mixed (you may need to scrape the sides of the food processor in the process), add in your wet ingredients except for the baked apples, which you will mix in by hand at the end.
- once the wet ingredients are mixed in well, remove the blade from the processor and mix in the apple pieces until well mixed. i saved one piece of baked apple for the topping, to make these look pretty, but that is optional.
- pour batter into a parchment cups prepared in a muffin tray. it will make approx 10 muffins. bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 15 minutes, and remove from oven, and add a piece of baked apple to the top of each muffin. return to oven and bake for 15 more minutes (30 minutes total in oven).
- remove from oven and allow to cool. store in fridge for the week, or freezer.