Amanda Drozdz - Easy Flourless Muffins, Bars & Cookies: Delicious Recipes for Healthy, Portable Gluten-Free Snacks

Easy Flourless

MUFFINS, BARS & COOKIES

DELICIOUS RECIPES FOR HEALTHY, PORTABLE GLUTEN-FREE SNACKS

Amanda Drozdz

creator of Running with Spoons

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I have a passion for healthy living, and I really love showing people how they can use food to look and feel their best. From a young age, my mom taught me that food is medicine and that the things we put in our bodies have a huge impact on how we feel. Her home-cooked meals and freshly baked treats instilled in me not only a love for working in the kitchen with real food, but for getting creative and finding healthier ways to satisfy my massive sweet tooth.

Yup, I have one of those. Its been with me for as long as I can remember, and it means that youll never find me passing on dessert or going a day without a sweet treat. Thats actually another important life lesson my mom taught methat restriction gets you nowhere. Never once do I remember her being an advocate for deprivation. She simply told me to enjoy my sweet treats but make smarter choices, which is an approach Ive adopted into all of the recipe development I do now and how I manage to satisfy my sweet tooth while living a healthy lifestyle.

All of the muffins, brownies, bars and cookies youll find in this book make a smart choice. Each one is flourless and is either made with 100 percent whole grain oats or is completely grain-free. Theyre much lower in sugar than traditional desserts and rely on natural sweeteners like honey, maple syrup or coconut palm sugar for their sweetness. They also taste straight up delicious and dont make you feel like youre making any sacrifices while following a healthy diet.

Ive made these recipes as real lifefriendly as possible, meaning that theyre all quick and easy to prepare and use ingredients that you probably keep stocked in your kitchen. Its my hope that youll be able to adopt them into your daily life and use them to help you look and feel your best so lets dive right in!

Love,

NOTE

Before you get started, heres a quick tip. Since many of these recipes are oil-free, they have a tendency to stick to standard baking paper liners. I recommend using parchment paper baking liners for best results and no sticking! Alternatively, you can use no liners and simply grease the cups of your baking pan with baking spray.

We all have a favorite muffina particular flavor that holds a special place in our hearts. For some it might be simple .

For this chapter, Ive chosen 14 classic flavors that we all know and love. Theyre the simple and comforting muffins that we grew up on, only this time with a healthier twist. Each one of these muffins is made without flour, oil or refined sugar, but they come out so soft, tender and flavorful that youd never be able to tell. Theyre a perfect treat for those looking for something thats both healthy and delicious; theyre for anyone who loves muffins, really.

GLUTEN-FREE, OIL-FREE, DAIRY-FREE OPTION

This particular muffin holds a special place in my heart because its based on the very first flourless muffin recipe I ever created. This new and improved version is just as healthy and made without any flour, butter or oil, but it now has a fluffier texture that makes it even harder to differentiate from a traditional muffin.

YIELD: 1012 MUFFINS

1 cup (101 g) rolled oats (quick or old-fashioned)

3 tbsp (21 g) ground flaxseed

2 tsp (8 g) baking powder

tsp baking soda

tsp salt

3 large eggs

cup (59 ml) unsweetened almond milk

6 tbsp (96 g) almond butter

6 tbsp (128 g) honey

1 tbsp (15 ml) vanilla extract

cup (90 g) semisweet chocolate chips (for dairy-free, use vegan chocolate chips)

Preheat your oven to 350F (177C) and prepare a muffin pan by lining the cavities with parchment paper liners. Set aside.

Add the oats, ground flaxseed, baking powder, baking soda and salt to a high-speed blender. Process the ingredients on high until the oats have broken down into the consistency of a fine flour, about 10 seconds.

Add all of the remaining ingredients except for the chocolate chips. Process the ingredients on high until the batter becomes smooth and creamy, about 30 seconds. Periodically stop and scrape down the sides of your blender, if necessary. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips by hand.

Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each one about of the way full. Sprinkle the tops with additional chocolate chips, if desired.

Bake for 1518 minutes, until the tops of your muffins begin to turn golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely. As soon as theyve cooled, transfer them to an airtight container and store them at room temperature for up to 5 days, or freeze for up to 3 months.

GLUTEN-FREE, GRAIN-FREE, OIL-FREE, DAIRY-FREE OPTION

Chocolate lovers rejoice! These soft and fudgy muffins pack a serious chocolate punch thats guaranteed to satisfy even the biggest cocoa craving. And the best part is that you can totally fit them into your healthy diet! Because theyre 100 percent grain-free and rely on cocoa powder as the main dry ingredient, be sure to use a good quality, natural cocoa powder for the best results. To intensify the chocolate flavor even further, replace the semisweet chips with dark chocolate chunks.

YIELD: 1012 MUFFINS

cup + 2 tbsp (50 g) unsweetened cocoa powder