Love baking but need something a touch healthier? I have just the recipe for you! Lovely, low-fat muffins with sweet pear, squidgy dates and almost guilt-free. Well, almost. Muffins are so quick and easy to make, you can be tucking into a lovely warm treat for breakfast within 45 minutes of starting.
This recipe uses yoghurt and just a small amount of rice bran oil instead of butter and a mix of wholemeal and plain flour. Sweetness comes from honey and cinnamon, with just a tiny smidgin of brown sugar. You can also sneak in some mixed milled seeds, eg linseed, chia seed etc for that extra boost of healthiness.
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Loading...Ingredients
- 100g plain flour
- 120g wholemeal flour
- 50g demerara sugar
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- 2 eggs
- 100g plain Greek or natural yoghurt
- 50ml rice bran oil
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 100g chopped dates
- 4 tablespoons mixed milled seeds (optional)
- 1 large, ripe pear, peeled and chopped into small dice
- flaked almonds to decorate (optional)
Instructions
FIrst, mix the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl: the plain and wholemeal flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
In another bowl mix the wet ingredients: the yoghurt, eggs, oil, honey. Mix well.
Add the chopped dates, cinnamon, the pear and the mixed seeds to the dry ingredients before adding the wet ingredients. Mix until just combined, you don't want to mix the batter too much.
Put your muffin cases in the muffin tin and add a large blob of muffin mixture to each one, filling each muffin case about halfway.
Add some flaked almonds to decorate, if you like, or maybe some chopped hazelnuts
Bake in a preheated oven, 170º for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Allow to cool for a 10 minutes or so and tuck in!
Notes
Vegetable oil or sunflower oil will work instead of rice bran oil
Enjoy!
Brina
October 11, 2020 at 12:16 pmLooks amazing! 😋