Muffin Mistress
Lately I’ve been on a baking binge. A muffin baking binge to be precise. To date, I’ve tinkered with banana-nut, carrot-nut, carrot-nut-with-Meyers-rum-soaked-Thompson-raisins, strawberry-oatmeal, strawberry-lemon, peanut-butter-banana, PB&J, and blueberry-lemon. I say tinker because I’ve tried to play with the balance and make them low fat (classic substitution of applesauce for part of the fat), using whole-wheat flour, flaxseed meal, cutting back on the sugar. So, why the obsession with muffins? I couldn’t get anyone to sign up to be the guinea-pig taster of cookies, brownies or cake. Everyone is watching their intake. But a muffin? Made with healthy ingredients and some fruit and veg and fiber? Well – that’s as guiltfree as anything that will ever come out of my oven! And not to toot my horn but they are dee-lish! No pics…I wasn’t that coordinated.
