Apple Coconut Muffins

Makes 10 muffins

Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 3 Tbsp flax seed, ground to make ¼ cup ground (Note: Flaxseeds can be put in nut grinder or coffee mill to grind to texture of your choice)
  • 1 egg
  • ¼ cup unsalted melted butter
  • ¼ cup walnut or flax seed oil
  • 2 Tbsp apple juice concentrate
  • 1 cup sugar free applesauce (or make your own)
  • ½ cup flaked unsweetened coconut
  • Sunflower seeds, walnut pieces, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds or raisins to your taste

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 400F. Lightly oil 10 muffin cups with any non-hydrogenated oil. In a large bowl mix the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and ground flax seed. In a medium sized bowl beat the egg, butter and oil. Then add the apple juice concentrate, applesauce and coconut and mix well until blended. Don’t beat too much or the muffins will be tough. Spoon the batter into the muffin cups filling 2/3rd’s full. On top of the muffin batter drop a mixture of the nuts and seeds just to taste. Bake for 30 minutes or until the tops are lightly brown. The insides of the muffins will be slightly moist because of the applesauce.

NOTE: If you want to add some iron to this recipe add a few raisins to the batter before beating all the ingredients together. If you need a sweetener, at serving time top the muffin with apple butter, apple pear spread or a fruit sweetened jam of your choice.

(Modified from the book Superimmunity for Kids written by Leo Galland M.D. and Dian Dincin Buchman, PHD)