If you follow us, you know that we don't post a lot of recipes. Occasionally, however, when we come up with something amazing we do it! These muffins are fantastic with coffee, especially our medium roasts! They're refreshing, healthy, very low in sugar, and taste wonderful! They're not the sugary blueberry muffins you're used to getting from the store, with a load of butter and really high in calories--this is more like a blueberry coffee cake muffin!
Makes: 6 Muffins (double recipe for a full dozen!)
Preheat Oven: 425 Degrees Fahrenheit
Ingredients
(For the Muffins)
(For the Topping)
Instructions for Muffins:
Step One: In a small bowl, combine rice flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, salt, and grated lemon peel.
Step Two: In another bowl, mix the egg, milk, and coconut oil. Mix well!
Step Three: Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix well!
Step Four: Add the blueberries (I save this step for last because I like to see my blueberries to still be whole and not mashed in when I eat them)!
Step Five: Pour contents of the muffin mix into a greased six-cup muffin pan!
Instructions for Streusel Topping:
Step One: In a small bowl, mix the Coconut Sugar (or regular sugar) and the Rice flour.
Step Two: Add the Coconut Oil. Mix well into a grainy or sand-like texture.
Step Three: Place the topping on top of the muffin batter.
Cook for 15-20 minutes, checking the muffins with a knife insert to ensure they are cooked through thoroughly. The muffins should be lightly brown.
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It's actually one of the things I love most about doing this. In case you thought otherwise, coffee roasting is not a get rich vocation. It's just not. When the farmer makes his profit, the distributor makes theirs, and the roaster finally gets to the bean, there's just not a lot of price wiggle room to get the coffee into the hands of the consumer. It's hot, tedious, and frustrating at times. But oh man, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's art, watching and smelling the change of the beans from pure green and grainy in smell to distinctively aromatic and gorgeously uniform in color.
To move from the roast, to the grind, and then to the brew is simply a craft of love and art. That's why we do it. And that's why we've decided recently to go with a hand-pressed espresso machine for our events and on-site sales.
So I made this the other day and that's when I started to realize I wanted to reflect on the art of coffee. I might write an entire post on this at a later time, but for now I just wanted to introduce you to this drink. It's a latte, prepared differently than most iced lattes. But oh, the shift from a near-boiling espresso brew to an ice cold drink does something in locking in the flavors of the espresso.
What you Need:
2% or Whole Milk
Sugar Free Caramel Syrup
Drinklings Espresso (Sumatra -- specify in order if you'd like espresso roast)
Ice
Step 1: Grind (don't use already ground) coffee into a fine espresso blend
Step 2: Boil the water and place into espresso machine. Put three to four ice cubes into the espresso glass/mug
Step 3: Run one shot of caramel syrup over the ice.
Step 4: Brew. And smell the sweetness of happiness.
Step 5: With half cold and half cold froth, fill the remainder of the cup with the milk and top off the top with the froth.
Step 6: Enjoy!!
]]>You know how some recipe websites go ON and ON and ON and On telling a story about how they came up with whatever recipe they came up with, a funny story that is completely irrelevant to the recipe anyways, or try and load you up with all sorts of "extra" information about how this recipe will change your life forever? Yeah...we don't have time for that and neither do you.
Recipe
1/4 Cup of Almond Milk (or Milk of Choice)
3/4 Cup of COLD Drinklings Coffee (I used Sumatra, but almost any kind will taste delicious!)
1 Frozen Banana
2 Handfuls of Spinach Leaves
1 Handful of Baby Carrots
1 Scoop of Chocolate Weigh Powder
1 TSP of Peanut Butter
2 TSP of P2B Powdered, Peanut Butter (or one more TSP of Peanut Butter)
1 TSP Chia Seeds
1 TSP of Flax Seed
Ice (to whatever consistency desired)
Put everything together. Blend until smooth. Tweak as necessary.
Tip: Don't put the ice in first...the smoother you start the easier it will be to blend.
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