Monday 14 November 2011

Blueberry & Chia Seed Muffins: How good can you get?

We all might as well admit it, we like eating baked goodies.
How we can make this better, however, is instead of buying muffins, cakes and cookies made in stores with packaging and needless ingredients, we can make our own.

At work I always end up craving sweet things, so I figured to stop myself from continuing to buy sweet things from the vending machine in the staff room, I would make some muffins to freeze and take to work as I need them.

Here's the recipe I adjusted to make my Blueberry & Chia Seed Muffins.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup melted Butter
1 cup of raw Organic Sugar (From Trade Aid)
2 Free Range Eggs (Organic if possible)
1 tsp natural Vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups of Organic Flour, grown as locally as possible! (Yes, fellow kiwis, we do grow organic flour in New Zealand! Just gotta find a shop that stocks it or buy it online)
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 cup raw Chia Seeds (I think they sell Chia seeds in Supermarkets now as they became quite popular... Otherwise, your local organic health food store should sell 'em)
2 cups Organic Oob Blueberries (from Omaha)
1/2 cup Organic Milk

Combine the melted butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl, then add the eggs and the vanilla extract and stir.
Add the flour, baking powder, blueberries and Chia seeds and fold in ingredients until just combined.
(Note: it is easier to make it with frozen blueberries because they don't fall apart in the batter.)
Then gently fold in the milk and you're done!
Spoon into muffin papers or straight into a muffin pan, and bake for about 20-25 minutes at around 180.

And BAM!

You have these babies. Healthy and local and 100% natural.

  

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