Baking Experiments

Lately I have been doing a lot of experimenting in the kitchen with baking. It all started the day I started to make muffins and discovered I had no butter. I used canola oil instead and it worked. And a bonus it has less saturated fat!

Now I was onto something. So I started trying with different milks and sugars too. A lot of recipes are still in the working stage but here are my low fat no dairy muffins

PEAR MUFFINS

1 1/2 cups of flour
4tsp baking powder
1tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup linseed meal
1/2 cup of fine or caster raw sugar (make sure it is not the usual big stuff)

1/2 cup of canola oil
1 cup of Almond milk
1 egg (lightly beaten)
1 cup of pear cubed (try different fruit blueberry's work too)

brown sugar for sprinkling on top

• Sieve the first 3 ingredients
• Add the rest of the dry (not the brown sugar) & lightly mix
• Make a well and add the wet ingredients, don't start mixing till they are all in
• Mix together with wooden spoon, DO NOT OVER MIX! YOU WILL GET RUBBERY MUFFINS. Once the mixture is together stop!
• Put into tins and sprinkle a little brown sugar on top
• Bake at 220 Celsius for 12-15 min (5 min longer if fruit is frozen)

Makes about 18 medium muffins