Or in other words, challenge accepted. With more footnotes than a Terry Pratchett novel.
I was talking about this recipe in another group, and figured I should probably get it down somewhere before I forget it, and get asked for the recipe a week later, at which point I struggle to remember what I put in it.
This is actually mark II of everything free cherry ripe muffins. The first ones didn't have enough cherries in them. I've a sneaking suspicion this lot don't either.
1 3/4C Almond meal**
1C dessicated*** coconut
1/2C cocoa
1/2t bicarb soda
pinch of salt
1C + 1/2C cherries
1/2C raisins
1/2C water
1 banana
1/3C liquid coconut oil
1t vanilla essence
1T lemon juice
4 eggs
200g 85%**** chopped***** dark chocolate
Chop up cherries, I put 1 cup in a saucepan, and the other 1/2 cup left to go straight in to mix. To the saucepan, add raisins and water, and bring to the boil. Simmer for a minute or so, then remove from heat, leave to cool for about 10 mins.
Preheat oven to 180C.
In a blender, mix the cherry/raisin/water mix, add the banana, coconut oil, vanilla & lemon juice. Mix until reasonably smooth.
In a large bowl, whisk together almond meal, coconut, cocoa, bicarb soda and salt.
Pour the blended mix in to the bowl, then add the eggs, mixing well.
Fold in the chopped chocolate and cherry pieces.
Pour in to muffin tins. This mix made 15 muffins.
Bake for 20-25 mins, they're done when a skewer comes out clean.
Cool in tray.
* from title: clearly, 85% chocolate has sugar in it. I'm still not counting that.
** when I say 1 & 3/4 cups, what really happened is that I ran out of almond meal. It should have been 2 cups. I don't think it's suffered.
*** Have I mentioned previously that as a kid I used to call it desecrated coconut? Couldn't understand why my mother laughed whenever I said it.
**** last time I used 90% dark chocolate. I didn't have any in my stash this time, so had to go down a level.
***** I chopped up the chocolate quite coarsely this time. It's got some nice chunks in it, so that if the muffin gets microwaved, it'll have some gooey chocolate in it. You can thank me later.
