Banana corn muffins(dairy free)

With some help from my 5 year old I made these dairy free muffins.

Dry ingredients:
Whole wheat flour                  - 1 cup
Cornmeal                                - 1 cup
Unsweetened Cocoa powder  - 2 tbsps
Salt                                         - 1/4 tsp
Baking powder                       - 2 tsps
Baking soda                           - 1/2 tsp
Wet ingredients:
Ripe Bananas                          - 2 (mashed)
Egg                                          - 1  
Fresh ginger                            - 1/2 tsp(chopped)
Rice Milk                                 - 3/4 cup
Agave                                      - 1/8 cup
Apple sauce                             - 1/4 cup (home made)

Preheat oven to 400 F.
Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Mix the wet ingredients together in another bowl.Whisk the dry ingredients into  the wet ingredients without mixing too much.
Pour the batter into the regular sized muffin pan filling each 2/3 of capacity. Bake them for about 20-25 minutes or until done.I got 12 regular sized muffins.

Home made apple sauce

Cook half apple(chopped) with a tsp of water and 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder in a covered pan until it becomes soft.Once cooked mash it well.

Tips :

1. You can replace 1 egg with 1/4 cup yogurt

2 Agave can be substituted with sweeteners like honey or sugar(1/2 cup)

3. I mixed 1/4 cup of toasted cashew nuts with half of the batter(6 muffins)

4.Any other non-dairy milk or regular milk can be used instead of  rice milk.

Cashew almond plum snack balls

Ingredients

Home made cashew almond butter - 1/4 cup
Dried plums (prunes)  *                    - 3

Blend the plums and butter together in a processor.Another option is to fine chop the plums and mix it with the butter with your hands. Roll the mixture into balls. I got 8 small sized nut balls.

 *you can use dates or raisins instead of plums.

Almond-cashew Chocolate butter

Ingredients

Cashews(toasted)                 - 1 cup
Almonds(toasted)                 - 1 cup
Salt                                       - 1tsp
Unsweetened cocoa powder - 1 tbsp
Olive oil                                - 2 tsps

Pulse the cashew and almonds together in the food processor until finely chopped. Pulse into finer pieces adding the cocoa powder.

Then add the salt and pulse until a smooth paste. Finally add the oil and pulse for a few seconds.

 

 Tips:
1. You can use raw cashews and almonds to avoid using the oil.
2. I added 1/2 tsp of water in the final pulse as mine was a little dry.
3. You can add 1-2 tsps of honey or sugar if you want a sweet taste to the butter.