Tag: muffins
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Spelt Carrot Muffins with Quinoa Sprinkles
Oscar loves cakes and muffins and asks to make them all the time, so I try to make them a bit healthier when I can. We often cook with carrots, but this recipe from Super Healthy Kids is the first recipe I’ve seen using puree rather than just grated carrot, so I decided to give… Read more
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Butterscotch Muffins with Caramel Sauce
Oops, forgot to take a photo of the sauce for this one, but I’m sure you’ll get idea. I’ll just have to make it again so I can update the recipe. This is a quite decent alternative to stick date pudding – moist buttermilk muffins with caramel sauce. The muffins also taste quite alright without… Read more
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Ham, Carrot and zucchini Muffins
These are the muffins that I took on the plane with us to Japan. They freeze well and are ideal for travelling with or for putting in lunch boxes straight from the freezer. The recipe is modified from one in the Coles Baby & Toddler Magazine, I didn’t have any millet flour so used rice… Read more
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Pear and Buttermilk Muffins
Even though Oscar is eating unlimited amounts moderate salicylates we still have a lot of low chemical / failsafe foods as part of his diet to balance out the high and very high salicylate foods he is having regularly in small quantities. These are usually at his day care centre where he has a list… Read more
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Banana and Ricotta Muffins
These are sooo yummy, and they look very cafe-style in the muffin wrappers. Warning – these muffins do contain amines, which would make them great for an amines challenge. The recipe came from BBC Food and needed no modification, but I did swap the flour for half wholemeal. I also doubled the recipe since 6… Read more
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Pear and Quinoa Breakfast Muffins
Oscar loves muffins so much that we make them almost every week. To add a bit of variety I decided to replace the Oats in this Muesli Breakfast Muffins recipe with quinoa. The muffins themselves are lovely, but the topping is a bit hit and miss, as it doesn’t really bake in and tends to… Read more
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Chocolate / Carob Zucchini Cake
Chocolate zucchini cakes are delicious. The zucchini makes the cake really moist and the little zucchini pieces don’t taste a bit like zucchini, it just melts away. I modified this recipe from one I found on Chocolate and Zucchini (where else!). It need very little modification and I tried a carob version which was just… Read more
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Chicken and Bean Pasta, Pear and Roast Carob Muffins
Back to mid-week meals and baking this week. The first recipe is Chicken and Bean Pasta, which is another great recipe for using up left over cooked chicken. The second recipe is Pear and Carob muffins, which I modified from one on ninemsn, using carob powder instead of buttons. And since I had no eggs at… Read more
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Orange Food – Pumpkin Stuffed Chicken and Carrot Vitabrit Muffins
Ever since we told Oscar that eating carrots would help him see in the dark, he has been extraordinarily good at eating his vegetables. Not just orange ones (I haven’t corrected his assumption that all orange vegetables are carrots) , but green ones as well. To take advantage of this and maintain his interest, I’ve been developing… Read more
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Fiji and Sour Cream Banana Muffins
Two weeks ago we were in Fiji for an 8 night holiday. For most families this is not unusual, but travelling with a child with food intolerances has a few unique challenges. This isn’t the first time we’ve taken Oscar overseas, 18 months ago we went to Vietnam, and the success of that trip has… Read more
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Pumpkin Muffins
The first time I made these muffins Oscar helped me make them in the morning. That night we were having a roast for dinner and while I was preparing the vegetables Oscar came into the kitchen. This is the conversation that followed. Oscar: what’s that mum? Mum: Carrot Oscar: I don’t like carrot………..what’s that? Mum:… Read more
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Cooking with Quinoa Flakes
Recently I found some Qinoa (pronounced keen-wah) flakes at the supermarket, and thought I’d try adding them to a few recipes. I had read that they had a funny after taste, but none of us have experienced that, in fact hubby didn’t even notice that there was anything different. Pumpkin, Quinoa and Ricotta Muffins (Moderate Salicylates, Low… Read more
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Today’s Baking Project
A few weeks ago Oscar spent the weekend with his Nana and Pa. He helped Pa in the garden, picking pumpkins and putting them in the trailer of his bike, which he then rode around the neighbourhood. He also insisted that he take a pumpkin home. Luckily it was a butternut pumpkin which is moderate… Read more
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Apricot and Fresh Coconut Muffins
I modified my pear muffin recipe to make apricot muffins as part of Oscar’s High Salicylate re-introduction. The grated coconut is fresh coconut that we grate and store in the freezer. Apricot and Coconut Muffins (High Salicylates, Low Glutamates, Low Amines) Canola oil spray for greasing muffin pans 1 cup plain self-raising flour 1 cup wholemeal… Read more
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Carrot and Zucchini Muffins
Another Zucchini recipe! Once again Oscar thought the zucchini and carrot were “yukky” going in, but he had no hesitation in eating the muffins once they were cooked (or as we filled the muffin tray!). The recipe is adapted from one on the Sydney Markets Fresh for Kids site. [gmc_recipe 5419] Read more
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Christmas Treat – Almost Gingerbread Muffins
While out shopping with Oscar today we found some Gingerbread Man muffin moulds, so wanting to make something Christmasy I decide to try the Gingerbread Muffin recipe in the The Failsafe Cookbook. The recipe was gluten free, so I replaced the gluten free ingredients with ordinary flour, but have listed both recipes here. There’s no… Read more
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Pear and White Chocolate Muffins
These muffins are based on the Pear Muffin recipe in the Friendly food cookbook. Pear and White Chocolate Muffins Pear and White Chocolate Muffins (Amines, Low Salicylates, Low Glutamates) Canola oil spray for greasing muffin pans 1 cup plain self-raising flour 1 cup wholemeal self-raising flour 1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar 2/3 cup milk… Read more
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Chokos
Chokos are something that I have recently started experimenting with. Chokos are surprisingly easy to cook with, they can be eaten as both fruit and a vegetable, and take on the flavour of whatever they are cooked with. The sweet dishes I’ve had more success with.I’ve tried a couple of savoury dishes, which have tasted… Read more