Pineapple Carrot Muffins Take 1

Claire is allergic to something. We're still trying to figure out exactly what. Right now we're avoiding corn, dairy, soy, nuts and chick peas. Because of this I have to cook a lot of food from scratch. For example, even if I found a dairy/soy free muffin must liking it contains baking powder with contains corn starch which would have me up all night with a very unhappy child. Here's today's experiment. Please read the comments at the end before trying the recipe.

Pineapple Carrot Muffins

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. (350 if using convection.) Grease a nonstick muffin pan. (I use light olive oil and a pastry brush.)

• 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour (ran out of pastry flour or I would have only used it)
• 5/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon coriander

Whisk together all the dry ingredients.

• 1/2 Grated Carrots
• 20 oz can pineapple chunks
  

Drain the pineapple and save the juice. Finely dice the chunks. (Next time I'm using crushed but I'm leaving the chunks for now since that's what I tested.) Measure 1 cup of diced chunks. Eat the rest or feed to impatient toddler hanging off your knee.

• 1 Large Egg (Eggs are not dairy.)
  
• 1/4 cup Maple Syrup
• 1/2 cup Light Olive Oil or Canola Oil

Whisk the wet ingredients together. Add enough water to the pineapple juice to equal 1 cup. Whisk into the wet ingredients. Add the dry ingredients, carrots and pineapple chunks to the wet ingredients. Stir until just combined. Spoon into 12 muffin tins. The batter will fill come almost to the top. (They did not overflow when I baked them... but I give no guarantees.) Bake until a toothpick inserted in a middle muffin comes out clean. (A few dry crumbs stuck don't count.) I think this will be about 20 minutes but at this point I had a very hungry toddler trying to cling to my neck so I'm not sure. Eat immediately or freeze. Muffins get stale after a day.

Comments:

• Got the toddler and husband seal of approval.
  
• Next time I'm using crushed pineapple. (Those of you who know me will realize that when I say dice I meant that I individually cut each chunk into 8 equal sized pieces. Yes I am that crazy. If you only have chunked pineapple just go over all of it with a knife for a while. Then maybe you will not have an impatient, starving child clinging to your neck.)
• Needs more carrots. They were way to understated in this version.
• If making for a toddler's breakfast preprep the ingredients the night before. Do NOT combine wet and dry ingredients until it is time to bake. I need to experiment with mixing the wet ingredients and letting them sit over night in the refrigerator.