Daily Unadventures in Cooking

A recipe for coconut pumpkin muffins with walnuts. Healthy but still light and fluffy.

I really love Cinnamon Roll Muffins, I have a serious weakness for them. But the real ones involve a yeast dough, and basically a cinnamon bun recipe.    This version is a hybrid, more muffin then cinnamon bun but still spicy and delicious.   Plus, oh so pretty.

Using bananas in baking is great because not only does it use up your blackened bananas but it makes your muffins and other baked goods naturally sweeter. The riper the banana the sweeter the fruit and the resulting muffin. If you are lacking in blackened bananas try ripening them on your counter at room temperature, [...]

Simple and quick, this blueberry bran muffin recipe is light and full of sweet and juicy berries. Perfect for breakfast or a light snack.

In lots of healthy baking you see applesauce, pumpkin, banana, and yogourt substituted for oil and butter. Well you can use chia too. Apparently you can replace up to half of the butter in a baked recipe with chia gel. I used a previous muffin recipe and cut down the butter accordingly. I [...]

After the success of the Pumpkin Banana Muffins, and how quickly they disappeared (less then 24 hours) I thought I needed to make another batch of muffins – a full batch of 12 this time. They are such great snacks at work so I used my recipe for Banana Oatmeal Carrot Muffins as the basis [...]

These are totally dessert muffins, not because they are so cakey, but because they are sweet and really lack any fiber whatsoever. Plus they are so very yummy. I was totally skeptical about the added peanut butter, assuming it would really overpower everything, but it didn’t; you could just taste it enough to [...]

I have been seriously craving baked goods for the last few weeks. Like, as soon as I am about to run out I must bake more! I have made three batches of muffins in 10 days, I have also made two more batches of the oatmeal raisin cookies. I just can’t stop! Of course I [...]

These pumpkin carrot muffins are not only healthy but also soft and delicious. Each muffin is less then 100 calories and the addition of sunflower seeds gives them a nice crunch.

I had a plan yesterday, a plan to wake up early and make muffins. Doesn’t that sound enterprising and domestic goddessy? My plan was perfect, all dry ingredients were mixed the night before and everything non-perishable including the mixer and bowls was out on the counter and ready. I was hoping to send J [...]

Back from vacation and I am feeling a little in need of healthy food so I made a batch of hummus for snacking and salad for dinner and now a batch of breakfast muffins. This recipe is based on a basic muffin recipe out of Moosewood Restaurant Cooks At Home. The very first cookbook [...]

I have been a little quiet this week since we are at the cabin on vacation. Well…. technically it is a vacation but in practice it is more like landscaping, painting and cleaning chores. We are on Day 5 and today is the first non chore based day. Earlier in the week I [...]

Although these are oatmeal muffins, because of the blueberries they remain sweet and light. Try making these muffins with half whole wheat flour, you will hardly notice a difference. If you are looking for an even lighter, fluffier, cakier muffin try these regular blueberry muffins.
I got 5lbs of fresh blueberries last week and ended [...]

I have been cravings cranberries for months now and today was the day. My favorite use is honestly probably in martinis but you can’t drink those everyday. There is something so nice about their tartness in a sweet surrounding. Plus they are full of antioxidants and so really good for you!

I love making [...]

Yes indeed more blueberries! I went away for the weekend and came back to a box of blueberries which I couldn’t let go to waste so I decided to make muffins. I am usually not a fan of cakey muffins but these are so heavy on the blueberries you don’t feel so bad [...]

I like to try and make something on Sundays for easy weekday breakfasts. It varies weekly but is usually some form of muffin or granola. This week I took advantage of some banana’s in the freezer to make these muffins from a Mark Bittman cookbook.Also, I should rave about my fantastic new purchases. Firstly, [...]