Description
The gut-friendly muffins are delicious, gluten-free and made with collagen. They are great as a quick breakfast or a snack.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
1 cup organic almond flour
1/4 cup ground organic flax seed (also called flax meal)
1/4 cup quality collagen peptides (I used Vital Proteins, they have a variety of collagen)
1 teaspoon ground Ceylon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon Himalayan or sea salt
Wet Ingredients:
3 large organic pasture-raised large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon orange extract
1 teaspoon orange zest
1 1/2 Tablespoons freshly squeezed organic orange juice
1 1/2 Tablespoons organic coconut oil. melted and cooled
1 Tablespoon organic maple syrup or honey (if you tolerate it)
1 cup fresh or frozen organic blueberries ( I used frozen organic wild blueberries)
Instructions
1.) Preheat your oven to 350°. Place cupcake liners in six of the muffin holes (or grease six muffin holes very well) and set aside.
2.) Add all of the dry ingredients into a medium or large bowl and whisk to incorporate and to break up and lumps and set aside.
3.) In a smaller bowl, add the wet ingredients EXCEPT for the blueberries (you will add those later), whisking to combine.
4.) Using a large spoon, add the wet ingredients into the dry ones and stir to incorporate the wet and the dry ingredients.
5.) Gently fold in the blueberries. Some will break up in the process turning your batter a little blue, that is just fine and expected.
6.) Spoon the batter equally into the six cupcake liners. It is a good idea to pour a little bit of water into the empty holes to make sure you don’t burn your muffin pan.
7.) Place the muffin pan on the middle rack in your preheated oven and bake for 18-20 minutes. You can test to see if they are done by inserting a clean toothpick into one muffin, if it comes out clean they are done. If there are a lot of crumbs stuck to the toothpick, place it back in the oven for 1 – 2 minutes and test again.
8.) Once the muffins are done, allow them to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes and then take them out to finish cooling on a cooling rack.
9.) Eat these with your favorite nut butter or just by themselves and enjoy!
