Look! I made you muffins!
Straight from the oven, bursting with strawberries and chocolate chips. Feel free to just take one off the screen.
I guess you can’t really take one off the screen…. But someday soon we might have the technology to do just that! Even now, companies such as Canon offer a printer with edible ink. When you hit the print button, different colors of icing zoom across the page and create an image you can actually eat.
The edible-ink printer is mostly used by cake-decorating aficionados; but I’d imagine that, maybe even as soon as 100 years from now, people will be able to “print” any item they see on a computer screen—be it clothing, or jewelry, or even food. It might sound impossible, but if you were to go back to the 1800s and tell our ancestors that someday people would sit at a box and communicate with other people halfway around the world, they’d probably think you were crazy.
Even when I try to explain to my little neighbor how I grew up without a cell phone, she looks at me like I have three heads.
The day when you can snatch a muffin right off the screen might be coming soon… Until that day, you’ll just have to make these healthy muffins for yourself!
Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins
(makes a baker’s dozen)
- 1 cup milk of choice (240g)
- 1 tbsp white or apple cider vinegar (15g)
- 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract (6g)
- 3 tbsp vegetable or melted coconut oil (30g)
- 2 cups spelt flour (or all-purpose flour, or gf mix plus 1/2 tsp xantham gum) (250g)
- 1/2 tsp plus 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup xylitol or sugar of choice (100g)
- pinch pure stevia extract, or 1 extra tbsp sugar
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (80g)
- 1 loosely-packed cup diced strawberries (120g)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and prepare 13 muffin tins with liners (alternatively, you can skip the liners and just grease 12 muffin tins). In a large measuring cup, whisk together first 4 ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, combine all remaining ingredients except the strawberries and stir very well. Pour wet into dry and stir until just combined. Now add the strawberries (adding them earlier will result in pink muffins). Immediately portion into the liners, then immediately place in the oven to bake 20 minutes. Let the whole-grain muffins sit 10 minutes before removing from the muffin tins.
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Question of the Day:
What do you think the world will look like in 100 years… or even in 10 years?
It might look like something out of The Jetsons, with robots doing all of our chores (goodbye laundry!) and people flying around in environmentally-friendly capes instead of relying on cars or airplanes. Most likely, even more of our time will be spent looking at a computer screen, which is a scary thought considering how much time most of us already spend on the computer. Our world can change a lot even in just ten years… Facebook didn’t exist ten years ago! I kind of miss the days when you actually had to call your friends on the phone or meet in person to find out what was going on in each others’ lives.
Link of the Day:
………………Homemade Donuts
It’s National Donut Day!
Looks delicious as always Katie!
Hm, in 10 years I expect we will probably have computers embedded in our brains, or something along the lines of that. My mind is always blown when I see young (think, less that 2 years of age) children playing on iPads, cell phones, and computers with relative ease! In the words of Bob Dylan: times they are a changin’!!
Wow, edible ink? That’s nuts? Is it vegan? LOL. These looks like the perfect breakfast and I love those cute little chocolate chips. Strawberry + chocolate is an ever favourite combo for me
Yeah I’m pretty sure they are… Not necessarily certified, but they come from plant juices
My drama class in college did a genre theatre project on “Isms”, and my group got “post-modernism theatre”. So for our play, we based it on what the world would be like in the future, and we made it so there was a huge Holocaust in the world, and the entire human race had to live in this windowless white building run by “the Purge”. It was quite frightening, because it was all run by this System, so the population was given a specific job at specific times, and told exactly what to do and when all on a microphone by The System’s leader (which turned out to just be a mere recording). It is a very complex story, but scary nevertheless.
Hello, pretty looking muffins. Om nom nom.
That would be so awesome if we could have a edible print button. I’d print me off several of these to munch.
Ha-ha! =)
These look lovely! Just curious what the vinegar does for the recipe?
I was actually just having a conversation the other day about the future..We’ve already come so far in just our lifetime, it’s pretty tough to imagine what’s next!
I think maybe it adds flavour? I don’t know, either.
From what I know, the acid in vinegar reacts with soda in baking powder/soda and produces gas. This causes the muffin to raise and become fluffy. Using vinegar in baking was pretty common in the earlier days and vinegar was often used instead of eggs in cakes and muffins.
When I said gas, I meant CO2 gas, lol.
These sound lovely!! Such a fab idea!
I love chocolate and strawberry together! I’m gluten-free, but I’m always weary to use all-purpose GF flour. Have you had many positive experiences using it in your baking? Maybe I should pick up some xanthum gum and give it a shot.
What is the function of the vinegar? Can I skip it or sub it?
Like I said above, the acid in vinegar reacts with soda in baking powder/soda and produces carbondioxide gas. This causes the muffin to raise and become fluffy. Essentially it acts like a leavening agent so skipping it will probably change the texture I think, maybe I am wrong. I will let Katie reply.
I think other people have mentioned this, but when you add vinegar to muffin and cupcake recipes, it makes them fluffy (and delicious!).
Or use rice vinegar instead?
You might be able use lemon juice or something, though it’s probably not as acidic.
These muffins look so wonderful! I love strawberries with chocolate – I’d have to be crazy not to! It’s so hard to imagine what the world will look like in 100 years. I can’t even imagine 5 years from now, with technology developing so quickly. It’s crazy what we’ve been able to achieve so quickly in this society. Being able to print our meals would be quite interesting!
yummm just pinned this to try soon!