Sunshine Muffins

Sunshine Muffins

Wet ingredients:

1 orange

½ cup orange juice

1 egg

¼ cup butter or coconut oil

Dry ingredients:

1 ¼ cups flour (we used rice and almond flour)

¼ cup tapioca or arrowroot starch

¾ cup sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

Optional:

½ C. raisins

½ C. chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 375 degrees; grease 16 muffin tins, or line in paper cups.

Melt butter or coconut oil in a saucepan over medium-low heat.

Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl.

Wash orange well and cut up into eight pieces (leave the skin on).  Put wet ingredients in a blender; blend until smooth.  Add dry ingredients; blend.  Add raisins and nuts and blend until just mixed.  Pour mixture into 16 muffin tins and bake 15 – 20 minutes.

Adapted from “The Best of the Best and More”

For Easter, we can decorate these like cupcakes – ice them, dip the icing in coconut, arrange jelly beans on top to look like eggs, and poke in a pipe cleaner like a handle on an Easter basket.