Apple Cinnamon Muffins

Fall is by far my favorite season! It's that time of year where apples and pumpkins are in abundance everywhere you go!   Carly and I headed to the Dane County Farmer's Market early Saturday morning before we both had to work, just to get the good pick of produce!  I brought home delicious Honey Crisp Apples for this recipe!  Be on the look out... Carly and I plan to go apple and pumpkin picking soon and there will be plenty more delicious recipes to come!

Ingredients:

• 2 and 1/4 cup almond meal
• 4 eggs
• 1 apple
• 1 banana
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 1/3 cup water
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp cinnamon

Process:

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.  Dice the apple and mash the banana. Put all the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

3.  Add the eggs, coconut oil, banana, water and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients and mix.

 4. Fold in the diced apple.

5.  Use cupcake or muffin liners for easy clean up!
6.  Spoon the batter into the muffin or cupcake pan filling 3/4 of the way.

7. Bake for 15 minutes.

Enjoy warm with some pure maple syrup!

Banana Almond Butter Pancakes

I know I just posted a new recipe yesterday, but given the holiday I decided to get creative with breakfast this morning.  I've been paleo now for a little over a month and I haven't really craved pancakes, YET! That's not to say I won't when the weather starts getting colder!! So, I've been looking into paleo pancakes to see what I'm in for.  A lot of them call for coconut or almond flour.  This recipe is excludes flour all together and can be served a number of different ways.

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 egg
• 1 tbspn almond butter
• cinnamon/vanilla optional

Process:

Mash the bananas and put in a bowl.  Add one egg and whisk until thoroughly mixed.

Add the tbspn of almond butter to the mixture.  The more almond butter you add, the more "cake-like" your pancakes will be. Make sure you mix it up well and don't leave any chunks of almond butter behind.

Heat some butter/oil in a pan over medium heat.  Pour a small amount of batter into the pan.  These tend to be delicate, the smaller you make them, the easier they'll be to flip.  Also, they need a few minutes on each side.  If the pan gets too hot you'll have to turn the heat down or you'll burn your last few!

Look how yummy this stack of pancakes look! Serve warm with organic honey, pure maple syrup, or fresh fruit! They're even good room temperature and they taste very much like banana bread!!

Enjoy! :)