A few weeks ago, Missy shared a delicious recipe for Blueberry Muffins. So rich and fluffy!
In case you've overindulged on the "real" thing, I'm here today to help you with a diet version. I make this muffin much more often than the standard one. It's tasty, and doesn't pack on the carbs like a normal muffin.
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| I like very few blueberries in my muffin, but you can overload yours if you want to! |
I'm talking about a recipe I found in my Trim Healthy Mama cookbook. Because of copyright restrictions, I can't give you the entire recipe here, but you might want to look into purchasing the cookbook if you're interested in the Trim Healthy Mama plan.
And similar recipes can be found all over the place on cooking blogs, like Mrs. Criddle's Kitchen and My Montana Kitchen.
If you make this muffin the way the THM recipe specifies, it is dairy-free (using coconut oil instead of butter), gluten-free, and sugar-free.
It's also delicious! But don't expect a low-carb muffin to taste the same as Missy's version. The ingredients are too different. Good, but different.
The main ingredient I use in this muffin is the flour substitute. I use either Trim Healthy Mama's baking blend, or I make my own from a recipe I found on-line:
No-flour Baking Blend
1 cup oat fiber
3/4 c. coconut flour
1/2 cup golden flax meal
1/2 cup almond meal
1 Tablespoon Glucomannan or xanthan gum (a powder, in spite of its name)
2 Tablespoons collagen (I use Trim Healthy Mama's Integral Collagen)
*Glucomannan and Integral Collagen are both available from Amazon or from the Trim Healthy Mama online store.
I purchase the other ingredients at Sam's Club, or you can find them at most Walmarts and other grocery stores. If you can't find them there, try your local health food store.
Of course, you can make the muffins using only almond meal or coconut flour, but the baking blend gives my baked goods a more flour-like texture.
This recipe uses 1/4 cup of the baking blend for one muffin, so the batch of baking blend goes a long way.
What do you think? Would you try a muffin like this? Or maybe it is already your favorite stand-by. Let us know!
Jan Drexler lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota with her husband and growing family. When she isn't writing, she loves hiking in the Hills or satisfying her cross stitch addiction.
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