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Organic Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Organic Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Today my girls asked me for some blueberry muffins. I went to my recipe collection and realized I didn’t have one. So I thought it might be a good time to create a delicious and healthy blueberry muffin. A few things I want to note here. I am using two new ingredients that I don’t use very often, and I have to say I am very pleased with how these muffins turned out. One of the ingredients that I am showcasing in this recipe comes with some controversy. Read further to make an informed decision on whether or not you will use this product.

 

The first ingredient is tapioca flour. Tapioca flour, also known as tapioca starch, is a gluten-free baking ingredient and an ideal thickening agent. Use tapioca for thickening a wide variety of baked goods, sauces, and desserts.

Tapioca is made from the root of the cassava plant, a shrub native to South America (in one South American indigenous language, cassava is known as tipióka, leading to the English word tapioca). The cassava root is very starchy but gluten free. The root can be processed into tapioca pearls, tapioca sticks, tapioca flakes, and tapioca flour.

According to Nuts Online, tapioca flour is one of the most popular thickeners, and rightly so. It thickens at a low temperature and retains its consistency when frozen, making it easy to use in many recipes. Tapioca flour thickens so quickly that it can sometimes be used to correct the thickness of sauces right before serving!

When used as a thickener, tapioca flour becomes a clear, glossy gel – the perfect sheen for your dish. It is starchy and chewy, with a neutral taste that won’t compete with the other flavors in a recipe. Because tapioca flour is a fine powder, it will dissolve with a uniform consistency, unlike tapioca pearls.

Tapioca flour can be used to thicken muffins, cake, pancakes, soups, sauces, gravy, and puddings. It can be added as a sweetener to bread made with rice and millet flour or used as a substitute for other thickeners, like cornstarch. There are several places you can purchase this product on line. If you don’t want to order on line, most local grocery stores carry tapioca flour for a reasonable price.

The second ingredient that I am using is unrefined coconut palm sugar. Coconut palm sugar is naturally low on the glycemic index (GI about 35), unrefined and high nutrient. A healthy alternative to high fructose sweeteners and processed cane sugars; Gluten free and Kosher. Coconut Palm Sugar has a soft caramel flavor, similar to light brown sugar; Dissolves in liquid. Read this article to learn more about this product at Big Tree Farms.

So I began to do some research on this product and I came across this really interesting article from Tropical traditions and thought I would share it. It is always good to know all sides of a story or in this case product/ingredient, right? Read both these articles, I think you might be a little surprised at what you might learn! You will have to make the decision if you want to use coconut palm sugar or not. I have given two different sweetener choices, so this recipe will work either way! Want to discuss these articles in more detail? Let’s start a discussion in the comment section below this post. I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this product.

** After I posted this post, one of our followers found this article about coconut palm sugar. I think it is important to read this article as well from Coconut Secret. (Thanks, Colleen!)

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Organic Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Organic Blueberry Muffin Recipe


★★ 1.8 from 5 reviews
  • Author: Halle Cottis
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 23 minutes
  • Total Time: 33 minutes
  • Yield: 6 Jumbo Muffins 1x
  • Category: breakfast
  • Method: baking
  • Cuisine: american
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Description

This is a great recipe for healthy blueberry muffins.

 


Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup coconut flour
  • 1/3 cup tapioca flour
  • 1/4 tsp unrefined sea salt
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tbsp unrefined coconut palm sugar or 1 tbsp raw honey (your choice)
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil (melted and cooled)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup frozen organic wild blueberries

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
  2. In a small bowl mix together, coconut flour, tapioca flour, salt, and baking soda and set aside.
  3. In a larger bowl whisk together eggs, coconut oil, unsweetened applesauce, coconut palm sugar, and vanilla extract.
  4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
  5. Fold in wild blueberries.
  6. Grease a muffin tin with coconut oil.
  7. Pour batter into muffin pan, filling each muffin almost to the top.
  8. Bake for 23 minutes or until lightly browned.

Notes

Nutrition Info: Calories: 205.9 Fat: 13.1g Carbohydrates: 18.6g Protein: 4.9g

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Jumbo Muffin

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Comments

  1. Sharon Baker Burress says

    January 9, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    I will test it again another day on an empty stomach.

  2. Whole Lifestyle Nutrition says

    January 9, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    Wow Sharon, that is great! I am so glad it is working for you! So out of curiosity if you were to have 2 tsp of sugar, how much do you think your blood sugar would rise?

  3. Sharon Baker Burress says

    January 9, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    I have never tested it that precisely, but when I have cheated with something in the past with sugar in it, it has gone up 50 points.

  4. Rhonda Harader Cain says

    January 15, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    I love the coconut sugar. I use it in my coffee : )

  5. JeanetteContreras says

    March 9, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Hello Halle,
         I made this recipe a few weeks ago, and the muffins looked golden brown and smelled great coming out of the oven, so I did not test the center with a toothpick. They were soggy in the center. I’m not sure what I did wrong. I used honey instead of the coconut palm sugar, would using too many blueberries cause the sogginess? I didn’t exactly measure the blueberries. I also tried to bake them longer, but they just got darker and the center never seemed to dry out. Any tips for my second attempt? 🙂

    • hallecottis says

      March 9, 2012 at 3:07 pm

       @JeanetteContreras were your blueberries frozen?  Also, wild blueberries are much smaller then traditionally blueberries.  Were your’s wild?  Next time I would try a little less blueberries and see if that works.

      • JeanetteContreras says

        March 9, 2012 at 4:45 pm

         @hallecottis
         Thank you for replying so quickly. The blueberries I used were not frozen, or wild. I believe I used fresh, not thinking it would make a difference. I will definitely seek out the frozen, wild blueberries next time.Thank you for your help, and I will let you know how they turn out.

  6. Austin says

    December 9, 2013 at 12:05 pm

    I’m sorry, but the quantities listed in this recipe can’t be right.

    There is too much liquid. My muffins look so sad.
    7/12 cup of dry ingredients? I have never poured batter into muffins tins that were this runny.

    They smelled good baking, but that was it.

    I hope to save others from the same disappointment.

    • Halle Cottis says

      December 11, 2013 at 9:35 am

      I am sorry they didn’t work out for you. Coconut flour can be tricky to work with depending on what brand you buy. What brand of coconut flour did you use?

  7. jodi says

    February 1, 2014 at 4:28 pm

    these are waaaaaay to runny, wasted a lot of time and ingredients 🙁

  8. Kristin Hadley says

    June 13, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    These blueberry muffins came out amazing! Never made gluten free muffins before. So glad I tried it.

    ★★★★★

  9. George says

    September 12, 2018 at 8:09 am

    All ingredients look pretty good. I am a bit alarmed by the use of 4 eggs, that is quite a lot. I am no vegan, there is so much confusion and misinformation on what is really good for us or not. One day an item is hailed as a super food and the next it is dammed as a poison. Of course this is due to the billions of dollars at stake. So I go with proven statistics and documented evidence.
    The blue zones around the world, are where people live the longest and healthiest, so i go with what is common among them. The number one thing common among them is vegetable, lots of vegetables. low meat and other animal foods. They eat these an average of only twice a week, and they eat high quality organic foods. This is what stands out among them food wise.

  10. George says

    September 12, 2018 at 8:48 am

    I will try the recipe, but I’ll probably use 2 eggs and an egg substitute for the remaining two eggs. By the way, how many muffins do you get out of this?

  11. Laura says

    September 20, 2019 at 9:11 am

    I liked the idea of these to try for my picky toddler. I used regular organic blueberries and substituted flax eggs for the 4 eggs. My muffins more resembled oatmeal when they were done so definitely think maybe the bigger blueberries and flax eggs made it to be too much liquid.

  12. Anna says

    January 24, 2021 at 1:53 pm

    This recipe is good, but when I made it I had to double it. This amounted to 8 eggs which worried me as I made it so, I cut down the eggs. Even though I only used about 4-3 eggs in a doubled recipe, the muffins still tasted eggy. I don’t think this recipe should have 4 eggs. Maybe you could change some of the eggs to a substitute for eggs.

    ★

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