Gingerbread Spice Muffins, Apples, Raisins, Walnuts - Dairy-Free

Dairy-Free Gingerbread Spice Muffins with Apples, Raisins and Walnuts

Here's a yummy gingerbread spice muffin with apples, raisins and walnuts! I think you’ll find the gingerbread spice in these dairy-free muffins a real delight. The muffins calls for Thompson raisins, but you could substitute Sultanas or even dried cranberries if you wish.

Blueberry Sour Cream Muffins

Blueberry Muffins

There were an abundance of blueberries available where I live this summer, which inspired me to bake some delicious blueberry muffins. 

I usually use buttermilk in my baking recipes, and then a reader on Pinterest wrote to say she’d modified one of my recipes with sour cream. I decided to give it a try and it worked like a charm. Hence, these muffins are made with sour cream. 

Oat Bran Rhubarb Orange Muffins

Oat Bran Rhubarb Orange Muffins

 This is a nice recipe for a delightful breakfast muffin. It’s not too sweet and  has a nice blend of bran, wheat germ, oats and orange.

Delicious Rhubarb Muffin with Sugar Topping

Rhubarb muffin with sugar topping

If you have some fresh rhubarb, here is a quick and delicious rhubarb muffin recipe to bake. The sugar and cinnamon topping make it extra special. 

Dairy-Free Oatmeal Orange Muffins

A simple Oatmeal Muffins that's Dairy-Free!

I like to have muffins in the house for those mornings when I've overslept and have to hustle out the door without breakfast. This yummy, dairy-free muffin is a perfect grab-and-go snack for busy days.

Pumpkin Ginger Muffins with Walnuts and Pumpkin Seeds

Yummy Pumpkin Muffins

These delightful pumpkin muffins have the right about of ginger in them from both fresh ginger and crystallized ginger. If you're not familiar with crystallized ginger, it's thinly sliced fresh ginger cooked in a simple syrup, then dried and sprinkled with sugar. 

Chia Seed Oatmeal Wheat Germ Blueberry Muffins

 A delicious healthy blueberry muffin with chia seeds, wheat germ and oats.  It's a muffin to serve for breakfast or send in the kid's lunch.

Banana Sunflower Seed Muffins

Banana Sunflower Seed Muffins

I was all set to make pumpkin muffins for the family the other day, but then I realized I had no canned pumpkin! Dang it. 

Hunting around for Plan B I found some black frozen bananas in the freezer. Bingo! 

My husband hates to throw out black bananas, which is why there are bags and bags of them in the freezer. I’m not sure why he saves them. It’s not like he’s planning on baking pans of banana bread, because he certainly doesn’t bake…but I digress. 

I exchanged the pumpkin in the recipe for bananas, lowered the amount of sugar and added raisins. 

Here’s what I got.

Spiced Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins With Chocolate Chips

Pumpkin, Cranberry with Chocolate Chips

These pumpkin cranberry muffins have a nice blend of savoury, sweet and sour. They are spiced with ginger, cinnamon and allspice. You can use fresh or frozen cranberries. They are great for breakfast or for a snack anytime. 

Blueberry Cake

Blueberry Cake

Raspberry, Cornmeal Muffins

Raspberry cornmeal muffins

These raspberry, cornmeal muffins make a great snack. They have a nice blend of tart, sweet, and buttery flavour. It's an easy recipe to make and one your whole family will enjoy!

Three-Grain Muffins

Three-Grain Muffins with Wheat Bran, Oatmeal and Corn Flour

This muffin recipe has wheat bran, which is the tough outer cover of the wheat kernel and has little nutritional value. However, it is loaded with fibre, which is a good thing!

The muffins remind me of a cross between a biscuit and a muffin. They have wheat bran, oats and cornmeal and are low in sugar and fat. They’re a great snack at any time of the day. 

Banana Wheat Germ Muffins

Banana Wheat Germ Muffins are a Great Way To Use Black Bananas

I don’t know what happens in your house, but the bananas in our house often go brown, and then black. But, I hate throwing out black bananas, so I usually hide them in the freezer and forget about them. Eventually I'll stumble upon the large stash of black, frozen bananas and have to deal with them. 

Baking muffins is an easy solution. These banana muffins have wheat germ for taste and nutrition, and walnuts for crunch. Make lots and freeze the extra.

Growing Carrots To Make Carrot Muffins

Carrot Muffins

I am a fair weather gardener (is that possible?). I still have not planted my seeds (except for lettuce) because the weather is too cold, damp and miserable. Heck, we still have our furnace on! I bought the soil and the seeds awhile back but, I'm waiting for warmth. I went on Brian Minter’s (gardening expert) website and he says some things can’t go into the garden until its warm (that’s a good enough excuse for me). 

But today, (in the cold overcast skies, temp 12ºC) I am going to plant my carrots. 

Fresh carrots are awesome and I plan to make lots of carrot slaw, carrot soup, roasted carrots, and carrot muffins. In fact, I’m going to make the following muffin recipe right not to inspire me to get out the door to plant! Are you planting carrots this year?

Carrot Muffins with pineapple, raisins and spiced with ginger and cinnamon

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

In this recipe you can swap semi-sweet chocolate chips for bittersweet chocolate chips, if that’s what you have on hand. The texture is almost like a cake and goes nicely with afternoon tea. However, my hubby likes to eat them for breakfast.

Bran, Berry and Banana Muffin

Bran, Berry, and Banana Muffins

I always have black bananas hanging around the kitchen counter. Too many actually. I often freeze them which means I have black bananas everywhere! Eventually I deal with the problem and bake them...I'm sure this sounds familiar.

This recipe calls for buttermilk. If you don't have any buttermilk don't worry you can still make the muffins. What you do is add 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice into the milk before you start the recipe. When it's time to add the wet ingredients into the dry the milk will be a perfect buttermilk substitute.

Bran-Cheddar Cheese Muffins

This next recipe calls for buttermilk. I actually really like baking with buttermilk…it adds such a yummy tang. That said, I’m often left with half a carton of buttermilk, which ends up in the trash. So….I suggest the next time you bake with buttermilk, find two recipes to bake, or double the recipe, so you’ll use up a whole carton and avoid unnecessary food waste.

You may wonder what buttermilk is exactly. Well, back in the day, buttermilk was the liquid left over after butter was churned. Today, special bacteria are added to the milk, thickening it slightly and giving it that tangy tinge.

But if you’re in a pinch and don’t have buttermilk, then here’s a little baking secret. Add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to 1 cup of milk and let it rest for 5-10 minutes. Bingo! Homemade buttermilk to use in place of store bought.

Bran-Cheddar Cheese Muffins

Cornmeal Cranberry Muffins

I love cranberries and tend to buy too many when they appear on the shelves at this time of year. Hence the reason I try to find recipes with....you guessed it...lots of cranberries.

Here's a muffin recipe with cornmeal. It's a nice blend of flavours and textures.

Banana Muffins

Banana Muffins

An easy recipe to make using up blackened bananas.  Freeze extra muffins to throw into kids lunches.

Rhubarb, Apple, Pecan Muffin Recipe

Muffins filled with rhubarb and apples

This muffin recipe is a nice combination of sweet and tart. It's loaded with fruit, nuts and has a hint of cinnamon.