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And what was inside the box?
This is what makes its way into the house if I don’t keep a steady supply of sweet treats for my husband. His sweet tooth is unrivaled by any person I’ve met. It doesn’t matter if it’s a dessert-type sweet or just a little mini-muffin, Tim needs something sweet after dinner.
Don’t get me wrong, I splurge sometimes and think it’s totally fine to do. But Tim would have one of the above desserts every. single. night. I simply provide him a healthier alternative.
When I spotted the bakery box in the fridge, I knew I’d been slacking in the treat department. First, I made a batch of my Maple Multi-Seed Cookies. They are fast and one of my favorite little healthy cookies. Those lasted a day. These muffins were next on the list to help avoid another bakery box making its way into the fridge.
If you have a sweet tooth or live with someone who does, these are a perfect treat. They aren’t too sweet (I hate super sweet muffins), but hit the spot. They are great for breakfast, snack, or even dessert.
They are called Very Berry instead of just blueberry muffins because I used (unsweetened) raspberry applesauce. You can make them regular blueberry muffins by using plain applesauce.
I must have been in a hurry to get these muffins made, as I forgot the milk in this picture. I used unsweetened almond milk, but most milks would work.
Very Berry Whole Grain Mini-Muffins
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 30 mini muffins 1x
Description
If you have a sweet tooth or live with someone who does, these are a perfect treat. They aren’t too sweet (I hate super sweet muffins), but hit the spot. They are great for breakfast, snack, or even dessert.
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 3/4 cup oat flour (you can grind regular oats in your blender or food processor to make your own oat flour)
- 1/3 cup Xylitol, Sucanat, or organic sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/3 cup raspberry applesauce
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Lightly spray 30 spaces in 2 mini-muffin pans with cooking oil. Set aside.
- In a bowl, combine flour, xylitol or sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add blueberries to the flour mixture.
Add milk, egg, and applesauce.
Stir until well blended. Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups. Bake 13-15 minutes or until the tops spring back when lightly touched. Allow to cool before removing from muffin cups.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 mini muffin
- Calories: 61
- Sugar: 3.3g
- Sodium: 59.3mg
- Fat: 1.1g
- Carbohydrates: 11.7g
- Protein: 1.7g
These muffins did the trick–Tim loved them. My other little sweets monster enjoyed them quite a bit, too:
First, she checks it out.
Then, it’s the trial bite.
And when she likes something, she doesn’t eat it. She attacks it!
These healthy mini-muffins are the perfect size for little hands. Meghan can eat them up and get all the energy she needs to run and play.
Who am I kidding? She would have this kind of energy whether she ate or not.
Sorry in advance for my English. I just try this little muffins. It is delicious. I have made some small changes for my own pleasure! I did not have whole wheat flour for the pastry, so I put my whole wheat flour to 3 / 4 and 1 / 4 of flaxseed meal. Then I cut a little sugar to the principle of 1 / 3 to 1 / 4! I put the apple puree, without the raspberry and so I put half a ripe banana. It’s really delicious, I took two for dessert.
Glad you liked them. Your variations sound fantastic!
Wow – I’ve never heard of anyone with a sweet tooth like that! You should make my nourishing protein bars, they are sweet yet have protein and chocolate and would make a great healthy dessert for your hubbie!
what a great recipe! if it provides energy to run like that, I’m up for it!
Yum. Those muffins look fantastic. Your husband sounds like my dad. He can barely live a day without sweets! Your daughter is adorable, I love how she attacked that muffin 🙂
ahhhhh Meghan is outshining the yummy mini muffins with her pink cowgirl hat and adorableness! its true! but I bet the muffins rock.. shes just a show-stealer! =)
Yesssssss!!!!!! Another blogger mom for my Reader. Those muffins look amazingly amazing. I bought whole wheat flour thinking it was what I needed to make muffins, but apparently I failed to get ‘pastry flour.’ Ugh.
You can always try half regular all-purpose flour and half whole wheat if you want to use up the whole wheat flour you bought. All whole wheat flour doesn’t usually work that well in baked good, unfortunately.
Jack noticed the Dorothy Lane box immediately, and said ” Tim’s cookies ” Do you think Tim or Jack has the bigger sweet tooth ?
Ha ha! I guess the cookies are on his black list. 🙂 I’m not sure who has the bigger sweet tooth–the apple didn’t fall far from the tree! 🙂
I too dislike super sweet muffins. I have never been one to buy bakery or store muffins for this reason. Love the recipe and the pink hat!
Mmm, those look good. My hubby says he doesn’t have a sweet tooth but he’s always bringing home sweet things. And I’m the one that can’t resist anything sweet. It’s frustrating, but I’m learning to make and eat my healthier creations rather than anything he brings home, lol. Love the hat!
I’m not good at resisting sweet things, either, but Tim’s sweet tooth puts mine to shame. I think I have also developed a taste for less sweet items. I had a scone from a coffee shop the other day and couldn’t believe how sweet it was! Way too sweet for me.
Weird how that happens! I’ve noticed this too. I have to make my own sweets(if I make them at all, haha) so that I can reduce the sugar because some things don’t taste very good at all anymore.
Hmmm…..I don’t know if I’ve ever seen unsweetened raspberry applesauce or not. I’ll have to look and see if I can find it. It might be a nice change from usual unsweetened applesauce I usually use. Thanks! Love the last picture of Meghan running—too cute!
It’s the Organic Harvest brand that I used. I’ve seen it a million times, but just assumed it was sweetened so never looked at it. Last time I was in the store something made me look at it and I saw that it had apples, raspberries, and water as ingredients. 🙂 It’s really good!
Ohmygosh!!!! I love her hat 🙂 🙂 🙂 She looks all powered up from those muffins and ready to play ping pong!
I made a similar muffin over the weekend and thought “I bet Maryea’s little Meghan would like these”…Eva ate them up (and so did my husband!)
Yes, my hubby is the same way with “needing” something sweet after dinner. I made the muffins Sat morning and they were gone by Mon afternoon. I made mine with agave instead of xylitol… I plan to try xylitol soon.
Best, Lisa
She is too cute! Those look delicious too Maryea! Mario will love them. He is already infatuated with a vegan banana chocolate chip muffin recipe. I bet your guys would love that too!
http://ouradventureinhealthyeating.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/almond-chocolate-chip-banana-muffins/
Those muffins look fantastic! Banana and chocolate is a great combination. 🙂
your muffins are wonderfully moist and delicious looking
can’t wait to try them! 🙂
I think I have all of these ingredients except for the Xylitol, I think I could use truvia though in which case I will be trying these this weekend! The BF will love them!
(Your daughter is adorable by the way!)
Yum! These will make an appearance in my kitchen soon! I loved the Strawberry Banana muffins so I’m sure these are tasty, too. 🙂