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.
Click for: Chocolate Chip Muffins Nutrition Facts
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!
Ok, odd question: could these be made without strawberries? Would there need to be a substitution made so they turn out alright? (applesauce?) Looking for a great GF/Vegan chocolate chip muffin.
I’m making these this afternoon with my two year old. She loves to help me cook. We are going to use strawberries from our garden. I was so excited when I got this receipt because the strawberries are taking over and now we have something to use them in!
Strawberries and chocolate chips are a match made in muffin heaven! Why haven’t I heard of these before? Can’t wait to try them out!
I actually love to add strawberries to your vanilla donut recipe and make them as muffins!
These are in the oven right now! Just a note for any coconut oil newbies like me out there– if you add melted coconut oil to cold milk, it will form a hard skin on top! So I guess the milk needs to be at least room temperature.
Just made these and waiting for them to cool. They smell amazing!!!!
..what exactly is healthy about these?
I have a great idea!! I’ve been seeing a strawberry white hot chocolate around the internet but I was thinking it would be awesome for it to be strawberry hot cocoa (NOT white chocolate). Do you think you can make that?
I made these muffins this mornings and they were really tasty! 🙂 I used some homemade healthy chocolate (made with cocoa butter, cocoa powder, white almond butter and agave nectar) and fresh strawberries from my garden. the texture was a little bit delicate and crumbly so next time I might add a chia-egg. also I was a little bit disappointed because I couldn’t really taste the strawberries. baking made them rather soggy, watery and not bright and fruity at all 🙁 maybe I’ll try it next time with raspberries. but great recipe all the same, will be my new go to muffin recipe! :))
would whole wheat pastry flour work for this?
Muffins are one of those great things for breakfast or for a snack during the day. I love that these ones are a healthy version though with whole grain, real fruit and a sugar alternative because so many of them that you buy in the store are full of unhealthy additives and they are really bad for you. I love baking so this is definitely something I’ll try out for my family