Guilt Free Valentine

This weekend, when I came downstairs I found a shiny foil paper trail leading me to my chocolate smeared children. We needed a junk food antidote; we would bake healthy Valentines muffins instead of the sugar cookies I was planning.

We made mini muffins and decorated them with icing hearts. Other than the icing, they were Healthy (note the capital H). My kids proclaimed them yummy, and ate 4 each. The success ended quickly as my daughter decided that the blueberries looked black and she didn’t want to eat black food. And then she reminded my son that he’s scared of the dark, and dark is black so he should be scared of the blueberries. But still, about a week’s worth of goodness had already been consumed by then, so I consider it a success. And I got to eat the rest, so it works for me. In fact, I was scarfing down the last muffin when I had to stop myself to take its picture (it’s actually only half a muffin, that’s why I had to hold it up)

This is my recipe. As with anything I cook, the measurements tend to be inexact, but they’re muffins, so you can pretty much put in anything you want.

1 ½ c Whole wheat flour

½ c Wheat bran

¼ c Flax seeds (whole seeds)

¼ c Wheat germ

¼ c oats

½ tsp Baking powder

½ tsp Baking soda

½ tsp Cinnamon

¼ tsp Nutmeg

½ c White Sugar (a bit more if you’d like a sweet muffin, mine were not super sweet)

¼ tsp Salt

1 Egg

1 cup Milk

3 tbsp Oil

½ c Grated carrots

2 Grated apples

handful of Blueberries (unless you’re scared of the dark)

handful of walnuts

Mix the wet stuff together in one bowl. Mix the dry stuff together in another bowl. Mix it all together. Bake at 350 for about 15 mins. Once cooled, try to shove muffins down the throats of your loved ones and eat the rest yourself.

Happy Valentine's Day!