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Paleo Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins

October 23, 2015 By Becky 12 Comments

Today is an exciting day–it’s the first time I’ve ever had a guest author here on my site. Lauren Lester, one of my very favorite paleo bloggers, created this recipe for paleo chocolate pumpkin muffins. Read a little more about Lauren at the bottom of this post, and check out her blog Wicked Spatula for more delectable paleo recipes and gorgeous photographs! Take it away, Lauren…

I’m so excited to be guest posting today on A Calculated Whisk! I’ve been a fan of Becky’s recipes for a while so when we started chatting about swapping guest posts I was thrilled. I’ve got a great fall recipe for you today and if you’d like to check out Becky’s Chicken Apple Sausage that she’s sharing on my site Wicked Spatula you can head on over there as well!

Alright, is there anything better than a warm muffin early in the morning? I personally don’t think so, especially when they’re filled with dark chocolate. These Paleo Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins take one step further into fall heaven with the addition of pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice. Before going Paleo last year muffins were a breakfast staple. I would pick up a few mixes for the week and with only 30 minutes of effort I’d have breakfast ready for the entire week. We all know Paleo baking baking isn’t that simple though. Usually there are precise measurements, speciality ingredients, and one too many bowls if you were to ask my husband. Read More…

Grain-free Coffee Cake Muffins

March 7, 2015 By Becky 6 Comments

These grain-free coffee cake muffins make a decadent grab-and-go breakfast, complete with a cinnamon swirl inside and streusel on top.

Having a dozen freshly baked coffee cake muffins in your kitchen is like having all 12 new episodes of House of Cards waiting for you on Netflix, brand new and ready to be enjoyed. In fact, I think the muffins are even better, because I can make more of them whenever I want. Once I finish watching that last House of Cards episode, I’m out of luck for a long time.

Can you tell that I’ve already watched all of Season 3 (and eaten all of these coffee cake muffins)? What is left for me to look forward to?

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins + Pure Indian Foods Grassfed Ghee

February 11, 2014 By Becky 4 Comments

I had a snow day last Wednesday, and spent the morning making these banana chocolate chip muffins. They’re a worthy project for any morning, unexpected day off or not. Here are some reasons to give these muffins a try: they’re gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, and lactose-free, they’re high in protein, they’re sweetened mostly (or entirely) with fruit, and they’re delicious. Oh, and they have chocolate in them!

Baking with just coconut flour requires a lot of eggs, but the finished muffins don’t taste eggy. They’re moist and bursting with chocolate chips, and they have a subtle banana flavor. Unlike many muffins that are packed with sugar and low in protein, eating a couple of these makes for a pretty balanced breakfast in terms of protein, carbs, and healthy fats. That means they’ll keep you full for longer, but they still taste like treats.

Maple Brown Butter Muffins (Paleo, Gluten-free)

October 6, 2013 By Becky 1 Comment

I’ve been having a lot of brownies for breakfast lately. First salted caramel brownies, and then some pumpkin cheesecake brownies that I’m still working on. I’m even willing to admit that one day, I had a salted caramel brownie sundae for breakfast. I’m not sorry–it was a fabulous day!

But, after a while, I started wanting something a little more appropriate in the morning. Something more like muffins. Because, even though we all know that muffins are really just naked cupcakes, they are totally a legit breakfast food.

I like these muffins because they are simple, easy, and delicious. There’s not even any streusel topping to worry about. The most complicated part is browning the butter, which adds a great richness to the muffins. However, you can use regular butter or coconut oil and still end up with scrumptious results. The best part is that these muffins are gluten-free, paleo, nut-free, and lactose-free if you use ghee, so hopefully most of your friends and family can eat them! Enjoy!

Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins (Gluten free, Paleo)

August 31, 2013 By Becky 28 Comments

These grain-free double chocolate zucchini muffins strike the perfect balance between healthy and indulgent eating.

It’s strange not to be getting a classroom set up this time of year. To get my classroom layout fix, I went to help my friend set up her room. She’ll be teaching kindergarten, and her space is amazing! Her classroom has its own coatroom with a full length cubby for each kid, plus a bathroom. The room has lots of windows on two sides, tons of built-in storage, and TWO sinks at the back–one kid height and one regular. On top of all that, the building is air conditioned! In six years of teaching, I definitely never had it that good.

Anyway, I wanted to bring something for me and my friend to snack on while we set up her classroom, and since I was going there mid-morning, I decided double chocolate zucchini muffins would be just the thing. I went with double chocolate muffins because what I really wanted was to make cupcakes. These are the perfect happy medium, and I snuck in a zucchini to make them extra moist and even more healthy.

A weird thing happened with these muffins. Let me know if you have any insights about this muffin mystery: when I tried a warm muffin before leaving the house, some of the muffin stuck to the paper liner. Not a ton, but a fair amount. I then wrapped some muffins in tinfoil to bring with me, but left the top of the tinfoil open since the muffins were still warm. At my friend’s school, the papers peeled off the muffins with virtually no crumbs attached–completely clean. The next morning, I expected the muffins I had left at home to do the same thing, since I assumed it was from cooling completely. But no! Crumb stuck on the liner again. So–did wrapping the bottoms of my muffins in tinfoil while they were still warm make the papers come off with no crumbs? If so, I might have to try that trick every time I make muffins or cupcakes! Any thoughts?

Anyway, on to the recipe. I hope these double chocolate zucchini muffins will help you strike the perfect breakfast balance.

If you’re looking for more amazing paleo muffins, check out the Papaya Pecan Muffins in my cookbook Paleo Planet. They’re on page 231!

Banana Blueberry Muffins

August 14, 2013 By Becky 5 Comments

I have been on a quest to make delicious paleo & gluten-free muffins, because I can’t have eggs for breakfast every single day. This is the third time I’ve tried, and I finally have what I want: a moist, sweet muffin with a beautiful domed top that is bursting with blueberries in every bite. Best of all, these muffins taste like the real thing, not a gluten-free imitation.