Almond Flour Muffins | Simple, Flippantly Candy, Tender

Prep Time : 10 minutes

Prepare dinner Time : 17 minutes

These massive, lovely almond flour muffins are the right buttery-tasting, nutty, and tender grain free muffin that you simply’re trying to find. Sweetened solely with pure maple syrup and pure applesauce.

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These almond flour muffins are identical to the beneficiant muffins you see in a bakery, however method decrease carb and solely flippantly candy. Make them with chocolate chips, no matter mix-in you want, or nothing in any respect!

What makes these almond flour muffins particular

My children actually, actually like it once I bake with almond flour. They do not know Paleo from Schmaleo. They simply know what they like. And these almond flour muffins hold my children full all morning after they have them for breakfast.

My household likes that these muffins are candy, tender and filling. I like that they are flippantly candy, full of a lot of wholesome fat and low in easy carbs. I contemplate these a real breakfast meals, and so they additionally double as an excellent afternoon gf snack.

These almond flour muffins are, actually, compliant with the Paleo food regimen, however I discover myself much less and fewer involved with labels like that. I’ve tried consuming each which method (low carb, Mediterranean, Paleo, sugar-free grain-free, you identify it), and I principally really feel greatest once I eat principally crops, some protein and wholesome fat, like these grain free muffins.

Notes on almond flour muffins components

• Almond flour – This recipe may be made solely with finely floor, blanched almond flour. Blanched almond flour is simply almond flour that’s made with almonds which have had their outer skins eliminated. Your almond flour should be finely floor, and by no means coarsely floor almond meal, or your muffins will not maintain collectively and even look very like muffins in any respect. I actually like Honeyville model, Wellbee’s model, and nuts.com sells a pleasant model. Simply make sure it is finely floor and blanched.
• Tapioca starch/flour – Tapioca starch (often known as tapioca flour) helps steadiness the excessive fats content material of almond flour, lightening the batter, and serving to maintain the muffins collectively with out being too crumbly.
• Baking soda – That is the one chemical leavener in these muffins, and it will get activated as quickly because it’s added to liquid, so work rapidly to get the muffins into the oven after you make the batter. Baking soda additionally helps baked items brown within the oven.
• Salt – This balances the sweetness and brightens all the opposite flavors.
• Pure maple syrup – The one added sweetener, pure maple syrup provides sweetness and tenderness to those muffins. Plus, that caramel taste of actual maple syrup provides actual depth of taste.
• Applesauce – Be sure you’re utilizing easy, unsweetened applesauce, since we’re already sweetening these almond flour muffins with maple syrup. Chunky applesauce will not have as a lot moisture as easy, and it will not combine into the batter as properly. In case you’re utilizing home made applesauce, puree it properly.
• Virgin coconut oil – That is the sort of coconut oil that is strong at cool room temperature (in heat climate, it is normally sort of tender within the pantry). In case you’re in any respect involved about coconut taste, you’ll want to use a triple-filtered sort of coconut oil, which removes any hint of coconut.
• Eggs – This recipe requires 3 eggs, which offer construction and assist these muffins rise within the oven. The burden measurement I present is admittedly only for these readers who use farm-fresh eggs that have not been sorted into sizes. I exploit giant cage free eggs.
• Miniature chocolate chips – I actually love Get pleasure from Life model miniature chocolate chips, since they’re dairy free and gluten free (and likewise freed from all prime 8 allergens) and so they’re additionally darkish and wealthy and are by no means white with the bloom that may seem on lesser high quality chocolate chips.

Ideas for baking the right almond flour muffins each time

Combine your almond flour with tapioca starch

Almond flour blended with tapioca starch/flour is my present favourite combination for baking issues like our recipe for almond flour cookies. Finely floor, blanched almond flour is already fairly versatile in baking, and including tapioca absorbs a number of the fats, resulting in extra even baking and lighter baked items typically.

Keep away from utilizing almond meal

Almond meal is constituted of coarsely floor almonds that have not been blanched to take away their skins. Because it is not finely floor, like our almond flour, it does not mix into the tapioca starch, or into the remainder of the muffin batter, absolutely. It tends to make crumbly, oily baked items.

Be sure your components are on the proper temperature

Elements that clump after they’re chilly, like coconut oil and even almond flour (all that wholesome fats!), will not mix properly into the opposite components within the batter. So make certain your applesauce, eggs, maple syrup, and another components you retailer within the fridge come to room temperature earlier than you mix them into the batter, or they’re going to trigger components that are likely to clump to just do that! In case your eggs are chilly, attempt floating them in a bowl of very heat (not sizzling) water proper from the faucet for about quarter-hour.

Remember to use full sized muffin tins

The batter is comparatively unfastened and skinny, however the muffins rise fairly a bit and somewhat rapidly. There’s not a whole lot of chemical leavener in these muffins, however there are 3 eggs in simply 12 muffins and meaning a good quantity of rise, so make certain your muffin tins aren’t on the small aspect.

Do not bake your almond flour muffins too sizzling

Almond flour baked items tend to burn within the oven, which is why we bake these muffins at solely 325°F. We do not have the choice of baking first at 425°F to get the muffins to rise into a pleasant dome like we do with our gluten free applesauce muffins, or the bottoms and sides would burn. Most ovens run sizzling, so you’ll want to gauge your oven’s temperature utilizing a standalone oven thermometer and regulate your oven’s dial accordingly.

Almond flour muffins variation ideas

You may miss the chocolate chips, or swap them for an additional mix-in, like chopped nuts or dried fruit. Simply watch out to not combine in something with an excessive amount of moisture as that may change the whole steadiness.

If you would like so as to add some heat spices to your almond flour muffins, attempt including 1 teaspoon of floor cinnamon to the batter, after which a mix of cinnamon-sugar to the tops of the muffins earlier than baking. I might most likely miss the chocolate chips fully in that case.

FAQs

Can I freeze these almond flour muffins?

Sure, these almond flour muffins freeze fairly properly. Simply wrap them tightly in freezer-safe wrap, or place them in an air tight freezer protected container with a tight-fitting lid. They will not freeze strong, and you’ll defrost them on the counter in a single day or within the microwave rapidly on low energy.

Are these almond flour muffins Paleo?

Sure, these almond flour muffins, made with out grains, dairy, or refined sugars, are acceptable to eat on a Paleo food regimen.

Can I make miniature muffins with this almond flour muffins recipe?

You may attempt to make 24 mini muffins in a light-colored muffin tin with this identical recipe. I might make certain the wells are full-sized, and actually watch the baking time as a result of they’re much more more likely to burn than the full-sized muffins.

Almond flour muffins ingredient substitution ideas

Since these muffins are already compliant with the Paleo food regimen, they’re gluten free, grain free and dairy-free. Listed below are a number of phrases in regards to the different attainable components you would possibly prefer to substitute on this recipe. Please remember that these are my educated guesses, however I have not tried these substitutions so you will must experiment!

Are you able to make these almond flour muffins egg-free?

Since this recipe has 3 complete eggs, it is harder to switch them with a substitute. Usually, my go-to egg substitute is a “chia egg” (1 tablespoon floor chia seeds + 1 tablespoon of lukewarm water, blended and allowed to gel), however I am not likely positive it could work on this recipe. I do not advocate Ener-G egg replacer.

Almond flour muffins with out coconut oil

If you would like to switch the virgin coconut oil, I like to recommend attempting Spectrum model nonhydrogenated vegetable shortening. I do not advocate Earth Stability buttery sticks on this recipe, as they’ve far more moisture.

Almond flour muffins with out applesauce

These muffins don’t style in any respect like applesauce, as it is a comparatively impartial taste in baking. If you cannot have it, you’ll be able to attempt changing it with mashed bananas, however the finish consequence will style like bananas. You’d most likely be higher off with our almond flour banana muffins recipe!

Almond flour muffins with out almond flour

If you cannot have almonds, you’ll be able to attempt finely floor cashew flour and even finely floor blanched hazelnut flour. It ought to work nice. To keep away from nuts and nut flours fully, however nonetheless go grain-free, I like to recommend attempting my Paleo Blueberry Muffins, as they’re made fully with coconut flour. If you would like to attempt sunflower seed flour, be happy to experiment, however know that the baking soda within the recipe can react with the chlorophyll within the sunflower seeds and switch your muffins inexperienced!

Are you able to make almond flour muffins with out tapioca flour/starch?

Usually, tapioca starch has no correct substitute because it’s distinctive in its conduct in baking (in all the very best methods). However I’ve a sneaking suspicion (learn: I’ve not tried this!) that arrowroot would possibly work as a replacement right here. You may also attempt superfine glutinous rice flour, often known as candy white rice flour.

Almond flour muffins with out maple syrup

Maple syrup is significantly thinner and fewer viscous than honey, so I do not advocate utilizing honey as a replacement right here. However I wager agave syrup would work simply high-quality.