158 calorie blueberry muffins (store bought: 450+ cals)
Ingredients:
- 140g self raising flour
- 2 eggs
- 70g butter
- 70g blueberries
- 50g fruit sugar
- 20ml milk
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
Method:
Melt the butter and allow it to cool on the side.
Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add the sugar and stir well. In a SEPARATE bowl beat the eggs, then add the milk and butter and beat some more.
Bit by bit add the liquid mixture into the flour/baking powder/sugar mix, stirring as you go.
GENTLY stir in the blueberries - don't break them!
Fill muffin cases 2/3 full and bake for 30 mins at 180 degrees C/ 350 degrees F / gas mark 4. They really do take 30 minutes to cook so don't open the door to check them until close to the 30 minute mark - nobody wants a sunken muffin!!
Variations (gluten free etc)
You can replace the butter with vegan spread (Pure, etc) or margarine if you wish. The cows milk can be replaced with almond or soya milk (tried and tested, tastes fine).
For GLUTEN FREE you can replace the flour with a gluten free flour of your choice. If the flour you're replacing with is NOT self raising I would add 3 teaspoons of baking powder to make them rise.
I often add a couple of chunks of chocolate to each muffin... blueberries & chocolate isn't a well known combination...but trust me when I say it SHOULD be!
Note 1: I have yet to achieve the insanely perfect muffin as pictured above... but they do come out quite pretty.
Note 2: These aren't as sickly sweet as store bought muffins. But as a guilt free treat they're FANTASTIC. I love them.
Note 3: Add as many blueberries as you like! I just use however many I've got that I need to use up before they go bad. The more the merrier!
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Looks great! I saw your post on the 600 calorie muffin thread and wondered if I could find a recipe. (I didn't even think to ask you) Thanks for sharing!0
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Looks great! I saw your post on the 600 calorie muffin thread and wondered if I could find a recipe. (I didn't even think to ask you) Thanks for sharing!
You're more than welcome!! I had a few messages from people who saw that post asking me to share the recipe so I figured I'd better get posting!! I've always been an avid baker and so now my aim is to fill my personal recipe notebook with some LOW CAL tasty treats.
These are the same cals as the oykos yoghurt I treat myself with.... I'm happy to trade in yoghurt for a muffin sometimes (who wouldn't be??)0 -
I'm definitely trying these for breakfast! Thanks for posting
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looks great girl! i'll have to try them how many muffins does the recipe make? 0
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It normally makes around 10 (8 - 11 depending on how generous you are with how much you put put in to your cases/how many blueberries you're using) 0
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can you put that recipe in units like cups and tablespoons etc--i would love to try it but i do not get the gram thing0
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can you put that recipe in units like cups and tablespoons etc--i would love to try it but i do not get the gram thing
I'm not going to spend my time making the conversions when you can google it just as easily as I can google is your friend! 0 -
can you put that recipe in units like cups and tablespoons etc--i would love to try it but i do not get the gram thing
Get a food scale and measure your food in grams using that.0 -
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Sounds ymmo...will try this for sure.
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Thank you for sharing!0
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Yummmm saving for later this may become our road trip snack !! 0
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Yum! Only problem would be I couldn't stop at one if they are homemade. 0
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Yum! Only problem would be I couldn't stop at one if they are homemade.
Actually I find it quite easy to stop at one.... they're not as sickly sweet as a 'normal' muffin or cupcake so they don't really have a more-ish edge to them 0 -
Bump for later, they sound great! :-)0
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Ohhh, this looks like just what I've been looking for! Thanks for sharing, the recipe went straight into my Food Planner app 0
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This may be a stupid question but what is fruit sugar? I have granular sugar, brown sugar, confectioners sugar, extra fine granular sugar (for frostings) but I've never had any recipes call for fruit sugar : )
Nevermind... I googled it ; ) My extra fine sugar for frosting will work!!0 -
Going to try with a sugar sub .....yum!0
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How I wish they were Eggless.0
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How I wish they were Eggless.
Have a google to see what you could replace the eggs with.... I've definitely made vegan cupcakes before but I can't remember what I used instead of the eggs!0 -
This may be a stupid question but what is fruit sugar? I have granular sugar, brown sugar, confectioners sugar, extra fine granular sugar (for frostings) but I've never had any recipes call for fruit sugar : )
Nevermind... I googled it ; ) My extra fine sugar for frosting will work!!
Normal sugar will work fine... I've always used a low GI sugar that I had lying around. Just be aware that you may need to adjust the calories accordingly as your chosen type of sugar may contain a higher calorie count.0 -
This is the fruit sugar I use...
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