Well, we have probably all noticed that I don't seem to have time to create new recipes anymore, but I do find myself drawing on other great bloggers recipes from time to time. My daughter was craving lemon poppy seed muffins recently and in searching for a gluten free version I discovered Nicole at Gluten Free On A Shoestring, and I am so glad I did! Here is the link to her recipe for GF muffins (which do contain dairy and eggs) http://glutenfreeonashoestring.com/lemon-poppyseed-muffin-love . Nicole uses a flour blend called Better Batter which I am planning to try in the near future. I didn't have any flour blends on hand so I used one of my usual combos, but there are so many blends out there right now, and you can certainly substitute 2 cups of your favorite blend for the first 5 ingredients in my recipe (also leave out the xanthan gum if your blend already contains it). These muffins are incredible, even without eggs and dairy! ½ c Rice flour
½ c Sorghum flour
½ c Millet flour
¼ c Tapioca starch
¼ c Potato starch
1 t Xanthan gum
1 t Baking powder
1/2 t Baking soda
¼ t Salt
Zest of 1 lemon
2 T Poppy seeds
½ c Dairy free margarine
¾ c Sugar
2 Eggs worth of egg replacer
1 c Soy yogurt (I used half lemon and half vanilla)
½ t Vanilla extract
Juice of 1 lemon
Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium sized bowl, place the flours, xanthan gum, baking powder, baking soda, salt, lemon zest and poppy seeds, and mix to combine. These are the dry ingredients. You want the lemon zest and poppy seeds to be coated in dry ingredients so they don’t clump together in the batter. Set the bowl aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and sugar until fluffy and light in color. Add the egg replacer, soy yogurt, vanilla extract, and lemon juice, beating well to combine after each addition. Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture, and beat well until the batter becomes thicker and a bit more elastic.
Divide the batter evenly among the 12 cups of the muffin tin. Place the muffin tin in the center of the preheated oven, and bake for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
We also drizzled a little icing over ours, made from powdered sugar and lemon juice.
Enjoy!
yum! Ithink Lemon poppyseed is one of my favourite muffins!
ReplyDeleteThey were so good. I had a little trouble finding some of the ingredients but my local organic store pointed me in the right direction. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHi! I wondered over here from the blogroll on Must Follow Recipes. It looks like you have some good recipes here that I'm excited to try. I'll just have to adapt some since my son can't eat soy in addition to no dairy and no gluten.
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for stopping by! I was looking at your blog and it brought back memories of things I had forgotten about (probably suppressed). It looks like you have a good handle on things, but if you ever need a suggestion for substitutions let me know. We used to avoid soy too, so most of my recipes are easily adapted to be soy free.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your helpfulness. I've gotten a fair handle on substitutes from research the past few months. I'm really intrigued by coconut oil, which I just heard about recently. Looking forward to more posts on your blog!
ReplyDeleteThis looks heavenly! I'm wary of letting my son try the poppy seeds though, he has sensitivities to other seeds, like sunflower and pumpkin.
ReplyDeleteYou can certainly make them without the poppy seeds, you won't need to alter anything else. Personally I don't even like poppy seeds, but these were for my daughter. Thanks for stopping by. :)
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