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Chocolate chip banana muffins
Makes 9 Takes 35 minutes
Expend ripe bananas in these fluffy and chocolately muffins which embody coconut oil, not butter, and maple syrup as a replacement of sugar. You’ll be able to whizz the entire combine up in a meals processor, together with mashing the bananas, which implies the muffins is also cooking away all through the oven in minutes.
3 ripe bananas
200g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
75ml maple syrup or honey
1 egg
3 tbsp coconut oil
100g darkish chocolate chips
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Fuel mark 4 and grease and line a muffin tin with 9 conditions.
2. Get the youngsters to peel the bananas, break them up and pop them in a meals processor. Pulse briefly to mash them.
3. Sift the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda correct proper right into a mixing bowl then add to the bananas all through the processor bowl.
4. Add vanilla and maple syrup to the bowl, crack all through the egg and measure all through the coconut oil. Whizz the combination to mix.
5. Take away the blade and stir all through the chocolate chips with a metallic spoon.
6. Divide the combination between the muffin conditions, then bake all through the preheated oven for half-hour. Permit to chill out all through the tin for 10 minutes, then eat heat whereas the chocolate continues to be melted or cool on a wire rack and pack in a lunch self-discipline. Protect in a tin – greatest eaten inside two days or you possibly can freeze them and defrost for lunchboxes or the varsity run, as wished.
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Chocolate bunny bars
Makes 9 Takes 35 minutes
I obtained proper right here up with these as completely totally different chocolate treats for Easter bunny season, nonetheless on account of they embody fairly a number of carrot (rabbit meals) you possibly can even make them and establish them bunny bars all yr spherical. Together with making them only a bit bit additional healthful than your widespread brownie, the carrot and orange zest retains these chocolately bars excellent and gooey. They’re made with maple syrup (or agave nectar) instead of sugar, plus coconut oil instead of butter. Kids do not mannequin any of the carrot, orange or coconut – merely chocolate.
1 orange (zest solely)
100g carrot (that is about 1 enormous one)
100g darkish chocolate
150g self-raising flour (gluten-free when you like)
150g unsweetened cocoa powder
100ml maple syrup or agave nectar
3 tbsp coconut oil
2 eggs
icing sugar to brighten (non-obligatory)
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Fuel mark 4. Grease and line a 20cm(approx) brownie tin. Fill and boil the kettle.
2. Assist the youngsters to zest the orange utilizing a constructive self-discipline grater. Peel the carrot and grate it straight into the sector grater too alongside the orange zest.
3. Set a pan on a medium warmth and fill alongside alongside along with your boiling water. Get the youngsters to interrupt the chocolate up (that is most interesting to do with their arms whereas it is nonetheless all through the foil wrapping) then pop it in a heatproof bowl and set it over the boiling water to soften.
4. Get the youngsters to measure out and sift the flour and cocoa collectively into an unlimited mixing bowl.
5. Measure out the maple syrup (or agave nectar) and coconut oil and put instantly into the bowl of your meals processor. Crack all through the eggs.
6. Add the melted chocolate, orange zest and carrot to the processor bowl and mix the entire objects briefly to mix.
7. Use a palette knife to scrape the combination into the bowl with the sifted flour and cocoa, then fold along with a picket spoon. Kids uncover this most interesting when you pop a folded tea towel beneath the blending bowl to cease it from spinning.
8. Pour into your ready tin and bake for 25 minutes. Depart to chill out for 10 minutes all through the tin then scale back into 9 bars and funky on a wire rack. You’ll be able to mud with icing sugar and use only a bit bunny template to brighten when you like (ours was a felt bunny from an Easter craft set nonetheless you may use any form or go away the icing sugar off altogether).
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Ginger dino biscuits
Makes 12 Takes half-hour
It is also doable to make these easy gingernut biscuits utilizing any cutters your youngsters fancy – we like utilizing our dinosaur form which is actually meant for slicing up sandwiches, nonetheless does the job for us. The dough is made utilizing coconut oil, not butter, maple syrup instead of golden syrup, and a spoonful of floor almonds for added dietary kick.
200g self-raising flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp floor ginger
1 tbsp floor almonds
2 tbsp coconut oil
100ml maple syrup
1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Fuel mark 5 and grease an unlimited baking sheet.
2. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger in an unlimited bowl. Stir all through the bottom almonds.
3. Soften the coconut oil and maple syrup collectively in a pan over a mild warmth then pour into the flour combine. Stir to selection a gentle dough.
4. Roll out to regarding the depth of a £1 coin on a flippantly floured floor. Get the youngsters to stamp out dinosaurs and alter to your ready baking sheet. They are going to use a chopstick or skewer to make little eyes all through the dough.
5. Bake for 10-12 minutes till brown. Cool for five minutes on the baking sheet then change to a wire rack to chill out completely. Retailer in an hermetic tin for 2-3 days.
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Simple-mix carrot muffins
Makes 12 Takes 50 minutes
The meals processor takes all of the pressure when making these easy muffins – grate the carrots in yours in seconds, then swap blades and end the cake batter in there too. As an alternative of butter, sunflower or vegetable oil, we use coconut oil; instead of sugar, maple syrup. They’re light, fluffy and simply candy sufficient – not overly so. Once you wish to make them gluten-free, swap the self-raising flour and baking powder for gluten-free varieties. These freeze accurately so make a batch and bag them up as shortly as cool to have the flexibility to all the time get one or two out to defrost forward of the afternoon faculty pick-up. Furthermore good for lunchboxes.
200g carrots
3 tbsp coconut oil
100ml good top of the range maple syrup or honey
3 eggs
250g self-raising flour (gluten-free when you like)
2 tsp baking powder (gluten-free when you like)
½ tsp floor cinnamon
a grating of updated nutmeg
100g sultanas
1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Fuel mark 3 and line a deep muffin tin with cupcake conditions. Extreme and tail and peel your carrots, then use the grater attachment in your meals processor to grate them in 5 seconds flat. Change to the identical previous blade and decant the carrots into an unlimited mixing bowl.
2. Now the get the youngsters which will enable you measure out the coconut oil and maple syrup instantly into the processor bowl. Crack all through the eggs and whizz merely to mix.
3. Add the self-raising flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg and whizz as quickly as additional briefly to selection a batter.
4. Pour into the blending bowl with the carrots, throw all through the sultanas and stir all of it up with a picket spoon. Kids will uncover this most interesting when you place a tea towel beneath the blending bowl to stop it from spinning.
5. Spoon the combination into your cupcake conditions and bake for 35-40 minutes or till a metallic skewer inserted into the center comes out clear. Cool on a wire rack. Will keep for a number of days in an hermetic tin or you possibly can freeze in baggage and get them out in batches while you need them.
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Citrus frosting
Takes 5 minutes Ices 12 muffins
Made with mascarpone and a dollop of yoghurt, this frosting replaces icing sugar with maple syrup or honey to chop down on refined sugar. For a citrus kick, use limes, lemons or orange. Try utilizing it to ice our easy-mix carrot muffins.
250g mascarpone
2 lemons (or 1 orange or 3 limes)
2 tbsp maple syrup or honey
1-2 tbsp pure yoghurt
1. Empty the mascarpone into an unlimited mixing bowl and use the as soon as extra of a picket spoon to interrupt it down till easy.
2. Get the youngsters which will enable you zest your chosen fruit, then scale back it up and juice it. Topic graters work accurately for zesting and hand-held juicers make light work of the job for little arms.
3. Stir all through the zest and juice of your chosen fruit, then add the maple syrup and honey and stir as quickly as additional. Lastly, add 1-2 tbsp yoghurt – it’s advisable to get to a pleasant spreadable consistency nonetheless not too runny and this may occasionally depend on the quantity of juice you bought out of your fruit.
Attempt remaining week’s recipes for straightforward do-it-yourself variations of children’ favourites, together with rooster nuggets and meatballs. Subsequent week, Emily brings us speedy standby meals for when time is tight.
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