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Muffin Monday: Citrus Coconut Muffins!

October 24, 2011
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These muffins were a hit with my family I baked them for breakfast [half recipe, 6 muffins], both my mom and sister loved them, my brother said they weren’t sweet enough but muffins aren’t supposed to be sweet like cupcakes, right? The smell of citrus and coconut was intoxicating, I will be experimenting with this flavor [...]

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Homemade Granola

September 16, 2011
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This week’s Muffin Monday featured Granola Muffins, which was the perfect excuse to make healthy homemade granola. I made bars for Music Man and left some loose to bake the muffins and *confessiontime* sprinkled some on ice cream during my PMS days. Most commercial granola has a lot of not-so-good-for-you ingredients [HFCS, sugar, palm oil, [...]

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Muffin Monday: Granola Muffins with Homemade Granola!

September 11, 2011
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Muffin Monday has become part of my life and it feels good to be back baking with this wonderful group of blogger friends Music Man has been begging me to come up with healthy snacks and after making some date-nut-protein squares he asked for granola bars. He bought some the other day because he needed [...]

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Muffin Monday: Vegan Orange Raisin Muffins

August 29, 2011
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This week’s recipe is Rum and Raisin Muffins which I veganized and made into Orange Raisin Muffins. Sista ate one and gave them two thumbs up. I tried to make this recipe gluten-free too but the egg replacer I used is not gf. If you know a good egg substitute [vegan and gluten-free] please let [...]

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Vegan Baked Cinnamon-Sugar Spelt Tofu Donuts!

June 9, 2011
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I know donut day was weeks ago but I’ve been drooling over Rachael’s baked donuts: she made honey crème mochi donuts, then red velvet mochi donuts but what kept me checking my reader every morning was something she mentioned on Twitter: TOFU DONUTS. She told me a friend of hers was going to send her the recipe and I [...]

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