Honey Oat Muffins
We have been looking for a muffin recipe that feels a bit more healthy. I know muffins aren’t supposed to be a health-food, but these ones, with the addition of oats, and using vegetable oil instead of butter seemed a bit less ‘naughty’ than others. Although, we discovered that they taste delicious if you slice them open when they’re still a little warm from the oven and spread butter on them. It defies the whole point of the healthier muffin, but if you’re that concerned about avoiding snacks, just call it lunch! The original recipe came from our BBC Good Food 100 Cakes and Bakes book, but we tweaked it by adding dried apricots in place of some of the raisins and soaking the remaining raisins in orange juice. We made two versions from the same batch of mixture – regular size and mini-size. Honey-Oat Muffins Ingredients 250g plain flour 85g porridge oats 1tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground allspice 1/2 tsp salt 45g raisins, soaked in 100ml orange juice …