Chocolate Oatmeal Yogurt Muffins
At Meranie’s behest:
The Worsted Witch’s Chocolate-Oatmeal-Yogurt Muffins
Makes 6 large muffins
- 1 cup organic, whole wheat or unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 cup organic rolled oats (not the instant kind)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 cup organic honey (I used Ecomeal’s Brooklyn-made organic honey)
- 1 cup of low-fat, plain, unsweetened organic yogurt
- 2 large organic eggs, whisked
- 3 tbs organic, fair-trade cocoa powder (I used Green & Black’s Maya Gold Hot Chocolate)
- 1 cup organic, fair-trade chocolate chips (I used fairly traded organic chocolate chips by Sunspire, but recently discovered some certified ones I’ll get for next time)
- 1 cup raisins (optional)
- 1/3 cup butter (more if you want a more cake-like consistency)
- 3 tbs grapeseed or other vegetable oil
- 1-1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Cream together butter, honey, and eggs. Add the rest of the ingredients, leaving baking powder and baking soda last. Mix well.
3. Lightly grease a muffin pan. (We don’t need no steenking paper liners.) Pour batter into pan.
4. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of muffin comes out clean.
5. Allow muffins to cool for 5 minutes.
7. Watch in horror as family members duke it out for last remaining muffin.
jasmine said,
July 18, 2006 at 11:59 pm
I’m wondering about organic honey…how do they certify that? It seems you would have to cage the bees and feed them — I am not sure that is a good thing. Do you know anything about it?
Jasmin said,
July 19, 2006 at 10:56 am
Reprinting from e-mail:
To be organic, the beekeepers just need to make sure that no pesticides are used in the approximately 200 square kilometres within range of each beeyard.
A bit more info here:
http://www.theorganicreport.com/pages/461_organic_honey.cfm
Hope this helps! Let me know if it doesn’t and I’ll do more digging up for you.
meranie said,
July 19, 2006 at 8:36 pm
CURSE my non-having-of-an-oven!!! Oh MAN those sound good… although instead of choco-chips, I think I’ll substitute raisins. (you know, i LOVE chocolate, but not in everything…) GEEZ those sound good… I want to be your neighbour! =D
Mollie said,
July 20, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Thank you for the great recipe! I am going on a weekend trip with my family tomorrow and just whipped up a batch to take with us. Time to take them out! Bye.