Flax Bundles: The Breakfast Muffin of Choice

Almond flour is my new food rage. It has somehow infiltrated my daily baking and cooking routines and revolutionised the way I think about flour. Yes, flour.


If you need the perfect, fast, healthy, energy-giving breakfast bite, try these.... Gluten free, low sugar, flax-almond flour muffins.

FLAX BUNDLES

1 cup almond meal/flour

1/2 cup flax meal

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp sea salt

2 large eggs

1 Tblsp olive oil

1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce

3 Tblsp honey

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup flax seeds

1/2 cup raisins (any dried berry would work as well)

1. In a large bowl combine almond meal, flax meal, baking soda, and salt.

2. In a smaller bowl blend eggs, olive oil, apple sauce, honey, vanilla, and water.

3. Combine dry and wet ingredients and mix in flax seeds and raisins.

4. Spoon 1 Tblsp of batter into lined muffin tins. I put a dollop of butter on top of each muffin batter before baking to make them golden and soft on top, but this is optional.

5. Bake at 350F for 20-25mins.

Makes about 12 muffins.

Tip: If you are buying almond flour for the first time, know that it needs to be stored in a plastic bag or air tight container in the fridge.

These are an easy on-the-go breakfast that are healthy, low carb, high protein, and therefore give lots of energy! Enjoy!

If you eat flax bundles for breakfast, your legs will end up looking fab enough to rock leather shorts...

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Magnolia Bakery - from the Big Cupcake

Pistachio and Vanilla

I'm in NYC... I'm not quite sure where to begin. I always feel simultaneously overwhelmed and yet sure, and in my place, when I'm in New York... I think it must be the intimidation of every mammoth high-rise building that pushes me to assert my value and place amongst them, otherwise i would be swallowed up and forgotten between the avenues.

When the pavement begins to knock too hard on my feet, and anger seems to find it's way between my cab driver and a menacing bumper ahead, and I've heard yet another saxophone player on a street corner belting out pseudo jazz, I turn to primal comforts.. You know... Food.

Thank goodness I love New York and everything it stands for otherwise you might think I had a pretty nasty view of things. But to the contrary, for it is home to many of my favourite things including MY FAVOURITE CUPCAKES IN THE WHOLE WORLD. That would be the one and only (well now they have several locations) Magnolia Bakery. This cupcake delight factory even made it into a Sex and the City episode... It must be fabulous. It is fabulous.

The bakery I have been frequenting on this visit happens to be a block from where I'm staying. It's dangerous and heavenly all at once. So why my favourite? If you take away the adorable interiors, good selection of treats (cupcakes, cakes, whoopee pies etc) and queues of people wrapping around the street corner waiting for their Magnolia fix, you are left with mademoiselle cupcake - so moist and soft as a cake with heavenly buttercream frosting that you will forget you're eating a cupcake and think you've reached nirvana. The cupcakes are so delicious in fact that their recipe is kept secret and they will stop you from taking pictures of the inside if they catch you. But I'm too sneaky for them... 

** Apologies these photos were taken on my phone and not my good camera!**

69th and Columbus, Manhattan

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An Haut Appétit recommendation of the highest!

www.magnoliabakery.com

Yours truly, from The Big Cupcake.

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