How delicious and comforting a berry muffin served with a nice cup of green tea can be! Berries are rich sources of antioxidants, raw cacau and green tea provide polyphenols and catechins with many health benefits. Enjoy!
Vanilla & Raspberry / Cacao & blueberries cupcakes
Ingredients
- ¾ cup buckwheat flour
- ¾ cup rolled oats flour (process dry oats in a food processor or blender for 1-2 minutes)
- ½ cup gluten free flour
- ½ cup coconut flour
- ¾ cup coconut milk
- ½ cup coconut cream (you can freeze leftovers to use later)
- 2 tbsp butter or olive oil
- 4 eggs
- 100 g honey
- 8 rehydrated dates (soaked in hot water for a few minutes)
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar;
- 1 tbsp raw cacao
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 50-70 g frozen blueberries
- 50-70 g frozen raspberries
Instructions
- Turn on the oven at 180 degrees to preheat while the batter is prepared.
- Line a 12 muffin/cupcake tray with paper muffin/cupcake casings and set aside.
- Measure the flours and add to a large mixing bowl.
- Add baking powder and cinnamon to the flour mix and stir all dry ingredients well. Reserve the raw cocoa.
- Add all wet ingredients to a blender: rehydrated dates (discard the water), coconut milk, coconut cream, vanilla paste or essence, honey, butter or olive oil, eggs and apple cider vinegar.
- Blend all wet ingredients until well combined, about 2-3 minutes.
- Pour over the flour mixture and use a large spoon to mix well until the batter is well combined and uniform.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin casings, filling them half way. Insert a few raspberries. Spoon more batter over the top filling ¾ of the casing volume. Insert a few more raspberries at the top.
- Add reserved raw cacao and frozen blueberries the half of the batter left and mix well until well combined. If necessary add 2-3 tablespoons coconut milk to adjust batter consistency.
- Repeat the process to fill the remaining 6 muffins casings with cacao flavoured batter
- Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 25 minutes. Test with a skewer to check if it is cooked through. Let cool and enjoy!
