These muffins are slightly healthier than the average. They're made with spelt flour and contain yoghurt, berries and dark chocolate. Particularly delicious warm from the oven. A real breakfast treat.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Total Time30 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine: British
Keyword: chocolate, dark chocolate, ground cherries, muffins
Sift the flours into a large bowl along with the baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
300 g spelt flour, 2 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, 1 pinch fine sea or rock salt
Beat in the eggs together with the sugar and vanilla extract until smooth.
2 large eggs, 75 g golden granulated sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract
Add this to the flour together with the yoghurt and milk and mix until just incorporated.
100 ml natural yoghurt, 100 ml milk
Fold in the ground cherries and chocolate bits.
200 g ground cherries, 100 g dark chocolate
Finally stir in the melted butter.
100 g unsalted butter
Divide the mixture between 12 muffin holes lined with cases and bake in a preheated oven at 200℃ (400℉, Gas 6) for about 20 minutes until risen and golden.
Notes
Unless you grow your own, ground cherries are hard to get hold of. So it's fine to swap them for your berry of choice. Blueberries are an obvious one, though blackberries or raspberries would be good too.Please note: calories and other nutritional information are per serving. They're approximate and will depend on exact ingredients used.