Sunday, August 17, 2014

Muffins for Lunchboxes

My little darlings have started to assemble their own lunches in the morning. YAY!!!! It does mean I need to be a little more organised and have some treats on hand so they can easily grab something healthy for morning tea snacks so I headed for the kitchen.

This recipe was shared with me by Susie and came from the Coles magazine, so I've converted for the thermo and pimped it a bit to boost fibre and make it easier.

First finely grate a whole apple and 1 carrot in the thermo using pulse and set aside in a large bowl.

Then add 300g self raising flour, 50g rolled oats and 2 tsp finely ground ginger to the bowl and blitz speed 5 for 5 seconds. Add to the bowl with the apple/carrot and mix together until well combined.

Mix together 1 egg,  250g skim milk, 50g oil and 40g rice malt syrup (if you would rather use sugar add 1/3 cup of your preferred sugar to the flour/oats instead before blitzing) at speed 7 for 10 seconds

Combine quickly into your flour mix with a fork being careful not to over do it. We baked as mini muffins at 160 degrees fan forced for about 20 mins or until golden but you could do larger muffins if you want to and just cook a little longer. These will freeze well and just tuck into lunch boxes frozen they will be defrosted by morning tea time.