For a very important date!
Thanks to my lovely mother in law, our clocks are now set to the right time this morning!
Eric and I had a leisurely breakfast this morning and then we received her time-change reminder email around 11:30am. Who knows how long we would have gone had she not emailed us! lol.
Now, despite our lazy morning, I feel like I am running behind and I need to catch up! I sure love Springing Forward, but I do not like missing an hour out of the day…
Our weather continues to be very Spring like…
However, the weather is supposed to be warm and sunny all week, and just as it gets cool again we will be on a plane for FL! :)
Some of you asked if we are taking Sketchie on our trip with us…LOL…sadly, no! My in laws are coming to stay at our house while we are away to cat sit for us. He loves the in laws (I think more than us!) so he will have a grand old time I’m sure!
Let’s rewind to yesterday’s shopping trip at the outlet mall…
Do you ever have high hopes for a shopping trip and you don’t find ONE thing!? That was me yesterday!
Fun things about shopping:
- Spending time with girlfriends
- Summer clothes
- Starbucks or Mall juices when you are dying of thirst
- Sales
Not so fun things about shopping:
- Trying on a million things and not finding anything
- Huge crowds, people running into you
- Not finding a parking spot
- Too loud music in the stores
Krissy and I went into Guess and we said to ourselves…I think we are getting OLD because this music is just way too loud! It was really bad music too.
It was still pouring rain when we left and made for another 1 hour + drive home.
This morning’s breakfast however, was very tropical! I needed something to brighten the morning…
Close your eyes and picture a tropical beach. Picture the smell of coconut and lemon and the richness of coconut butter all melting together…
I recently met a wonderful lady named Ricki Heller from Diet, Dessert, n Dogs. Ricki is the former owner of a Toronto Bakery called Bake It Healthy and she is also the author of this wonderful cookbook:
It is called Sweet Freedom and it is fabulous. It features breakfast recipes, baking tips and tricks, cookies, bar, squares, cakes, cupcakes, frostings, cheesecakes, and raw and no baked treats! All baked with healthy ingredients of course.
The recipes in this book are very unique and you can tell that she put so much time and effort into every page. I was blown away by the creativity of Ricki’s recipes.
For example: ‘Sweet Potato and Chocolate Chip Muffins’, ‘Cinnamon Coffee Toffee Bars’, ‘Plum Topped Cornmeal Cake’, ‘Twice Spiced Ginger Biscuits’, and ‘Chai Cheesecake’. You will not find these recipes anywhere else. The recipes take more time than I am used to, but the results are definitely worth it.
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15 min
25 min
40 min
6 large muffins
Ingredients
- DRY:
- 3/4 cup ground oats (I just put oats in the blender for a minute)
- 2/3 cup whole spelt flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- WET:
- 1/3 cup softened coconut butter (OR 1/3 cup pureed avocado)
- 1/2 cup agave nectar (or maple syrup, but you might need 2/3 cup)
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (1 lemon)
- 2 tsp. lemon zest
- 1/4 cup almond milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Grease 6 muffin tins.
- Mix the dry ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
- Mix the wet ingredients into a small bowl and pour into dry.
- Stir well and spoon into muffin tins.
- Bake for 20 – 25 minutes.
- Cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
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These were really tropical tasting. Lemon and coconut muffins…who knew?!
With some vegan margarine…
So good! I had two for breakfast and didn’t think I would be full, but I am actually not hungry at all. Must be those filling coconut oils!
GLO BAR DEADLINE:
Don’t forget tomorrow is the LAST day you can place a Glo Bar order and have it shipped out before I leave for my trip! Otherwise, I will not be shipping out orders again until the second week of April! There may or may not be some sales going down! ;)
Plans for today include:
- Workout (I am going to try HITT running today!)
- Helping Eric with renos in the scary basement
- Meeting a girlfriend for tea
- Cleaning bathrooms
- Packing for trip/digging out summer clothes
A huge congrats to Caitlin for rocking the triathlon this morning!
Enjoy your Sunday :)
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when i woke up..i totally forgot about the time change too! Definitly feel like I am lagging behind today :)
Those muffins sound and look delicious! I love anything coconut!
those muffins look amazing!! :) Also does she sell that cookbook online – that link doesn’t work for me!! :)
Have a great trip to Florida… :)
Jess
yes! http://www.dietdessertndogs.com/cookbook/ :)
I love food that transports you to a tropicsl place!
Hope my Twitter advice about st. Pete restaurants helped ya!
Those muffins look and sound delish!!!!!!!
we also have rain rain rain… it’s very blah. i haven’t liked shopping at the mall for years now, although i must admit i used to be a mall rat with my friends in high school! it was the place to be! those muffins look so fluffy and soft and yummy! i LOVE HIIT running. i do it 3 times a week on an incline and i’ve seen a huge improvement in my hill running outside. works wonders. i’ll be interested to hear your thoughts on it after you try it!
When I was reading about Sketchie, It sounds at first like you were saying that Sketchie likes your in laws more than you do -too funny!!
I love Vaughan Mills but is always so freakin busy!!
Agh I forgot about the time change too! My day has been totally off because of it – missed Pilates and am just generally frazzled right now! Haha.
I can’t stand going shopping and finding nothing! It’s okay if I’m going shopping with no expectations to find anything, but when I’m looking for something specific and I can’t find it, its sooo frustrating!
The muffins look tropically divine. What a cool sounding cookbook, too.
I never have luck with outlet malls! I also don’t like buying something and then not having the option of returning it because the outlet mall is too far away. Sorry you didn’t find anything either but I’m sure you’ll have better luck in Florida!
Oh. My. Goodness. Those muffins look so good. I am going to have to make them (luckly I have all the ingredients in my pantry). I think I may have to wait until I get over the cold I woke up with this morning so I can taste all the awesomeness!
I’ve never thought about pairing lemon and coconut, but it sounds delicious! What a great idea.
I totally forgot about the time change today as well – I was so confused when my computer automatically had changed the time!
It’s so true about the shopping. When you’re out on a mission you can never find anything…but when you are shopping without anything in mind you can always find stuff.
The muffins looks great!
Thanks for posting the link to the cookbook, I just called the Cookbook store on Yonge street to find out about getting myself a copy! :))
from the title, I thought for sure you were pregnant!!
Those muffins look pretty tasty. Happy sunday!
bahaha
Man! Everywhere I turn I’m running into coconut muffins or cupcakes. :p And I need the time to bake!!!! :( Soon I will, soon I will. It’ll just have to be some of my procrastination time…
I was the exact opposite. I was up at 8am and thought the clocks had changed but they hadn’t (I live in Scotland). Your list of shopping pros has made me want to go shopping. The nearest clothes shops are 3hours away from me but I can see a trip in my near future! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Those muffins looks so delicious – especially warm with the melty spread! YUM! I love HIIT – it is one of my main workouts of choice!
Those look fantastic– very moist and substantial! I want to go bake those right now :)
I totally need to check out that book!
Losing this hour put me behind this AM too. Those muffins look wonderful – perfect for that tropical feel. Thanks for sharing!
Love the look of those muffins! Tropical flavours remind me of summer!!
xo
K
Haha, I agree that sometimes the music is too darn loud at stores!! And I also am sick of going to bars and staying out after 10 or 11pm… did I mention that I’m only 26?!?! :)
In Saskatchewan we don’t do the day light savings thing :-) Weird hey!
My sister lives in Regina and says you are always on daylight savings time you just don’t bother with the time changing in the fall.
I hate losing that hour! The muffins look pretty yummy though :-)
I forgot about the time change this morning too, and I looked at my cell phone and thought “what? how did I sleep until 10?” and had a complete panic attack.
Try the carrot snack cake in that book! It’s one of my favorites.
Muffins for breakfast are such a good treat…especially if there is COCONUT involved!
I’ve recently discovered that I am not at all a long-distance runner…just not my thing! But I *love* HIIT running. I love giving it my all for those 30-60 seconds – pushing my body to that limit feels like such an accomplishment! Let us know what you thought of it =)
Angela,
Thanks so much for this amazing review of the book! I am so glad you liked the muffins :D
Hope to make it to the next meetup so I can bring along some baked treats for you(I just know you’d love the Ultra Fudgy Brownies!)
xo Ricki
What a busy day! At least it will stay light out for longer–I always love spring forward day and all that extra daylight….
lucky girl! you get to go from warm spring weather to even warmer spring weather with BEACHES! i’m not the biggest fan of losing an hour of sleep, but i am thankful for an extra hour of sunlight! hope your run is good…run a couple yards for me and my gimp knee :)
It’s great weather here; not sure what part of fl you are going first. But, it was a cold winter here so flowers are just about to be major blooming. Have a good trip!
Those muffins sound great!!! Very summery :) And we can always use a little burst of summer in March!
Gosh those muffins look GREAT!! I love the idea of the oat ‘flour’ :)
I hate when planned shopping trips don’t result in big finds!
It never fails for me- if I have money to spend, I find nothing. If I am trying not to spend money that I don’t have in the first place, I find all kinds of goodies!!!
~Christie
Sometimes I am really glad that Arizona doesn’t change times! THose muffins look awesome. I’ve been reading Ricki’s blog forever and her recipes are always a hit!
that cook book looks amazing! I’ll have to check it out myself
Yum! I’ll check out that cookbook and her blog.
I’m in the market for a new blender (broke blender #2 a while ago, and was wondering which kind you use?
I need that book..that’s basically my life summed up in recipes and pictures.
Those muffins look good and like normal muffins, that’s important. :)
That hour really got away from me, too!! I want it back! haha
Those muffins look amazing!
Have a great night :)
Finding anything at the outlets is always so iffy for me. It seems like my size is always gone! Those muffins sound amazing–kind of like summer, which I’ve been dying for since December.
Aw those muffins look so nice…am practically drooling here! I love Ricki’s blog, she seems like the sweetest person, I bet you two got on so well :)
I just wanted to say too, I know this sounds silly as we don’t know each other but I’m so excited for you getting to go on a fab holiday – you work so hard, you and Eric really deserve a lovely holiday together. I’ve never been to Florida but I imagine it’s really relaxed with lovely weather!
I forgot about the time change too, lol. The muffins look great! I have not been outlet shopping in awhile, but I’m itching to go now.
Those recipes do sound good, especially the muffins you made and the sweet potato muffins. Unfortunately I am major slacker when it comes to baking and I like it to be as quick as possible haha. Though if I have many more rainy days like this I guess I could spend some time baking haha.
Sorry about the shopping trip. I definitely have days like that where I just find nothing I want!
those muffins look amazing! yes sometimes shopping can be very draining….i try to take it in small chunks or I go crazy!
hey angela! those muffins look great, i can’t wait to make them! do you know how many calories are in one muffin?
Sweet Freedom looks like a winner. I’ll have to order a copy, my husband and son would love those muffins.
I hope you love Florida! I am heading to NYC.
Those muffins look delish!
The same thing happened to my boyfriend and I yesterday. It wasn’t until I turned on my computer at 12:00. Kind of nice knowing we spent the morning not thinking about time. And I LOVE Ricki’s book. She is a delightful!
those muffins sound AMAZING! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I don’t think you’re getting old, loud music in stores always bothers me, too. Maybe I’m an atypical teen in that way, but I’m always like “geesh! I only have one pair of ear drums!” Haha.
Ricki is awesome! Her stuff in so creative and I love reading her blog. These muffins sound great! They look super moist, too. :)
Those muffins look and seem so delicious and decadent! I cannot wait to try them!
Yay to the vacation! You’ve worked hard creating your dream (and someday mine… well not really but I would LOVE it) bakery creating the best looking and sounding foods!
Have a great vaca!
Those muffins look and sound delicious! I think I may try them out this weekend. I love that I already have most of the ingredients on hand. Thanks for posting the recipe!
Lemon & Coconut go so well together, who knows why!.. Another great addition.. white chocolate!
Those muffins were SO delicious. Being a registered dietitian and health conscious I was hoping I could find the nutrition information for them somewhere (anywhere). They were so yummy. Thank you for posting!
This is the second muffin recipe of yours that I’ve tried and it’s another keeper! Although not as moist as the blueberry banana, they’re still a pleasant change of flavor. I’d use more lemon zest next time and double the recipe. 6 muffins just wasn’t enough for the effort. I only used half a cup of maple syrup and the sweetness was fine. But I also added chocolate chips! :)
I’ve made these twice because I really liked the flavor. I did however just scrape the batter into an 8″ round cake pan the second time so it felt like a bigger result than 6 muffins. Both muffins and cake were slightly dry and slightly crumbly. . . . how can I fix this? I found one site that suggested less baking powder?? What do you think?
Adding a handful of chocolate chips was really tasty :)
Hi,
I have tried this recipe several times. I love the flavour but they always turn out super crumbly. Is there something I am doing wrong or something I can add to prevent this? Thanks in advance. I visit your site often.
xo
I love all your recipes , they are soo delicious . It is truly hard to pick a favorite one , but I love your Lemon and Coconut muffins yummy . I was thinking of trying and replacing lemon with blueberries and see how that tastes .
Hi Angela – just tried these and they’re delicious! Does anyone know the nutrition info per serving?
Can I substitute the spelt for almond meal (made from my almond milk)?
Hi Angela! Thank you for your amazing recipes! Don’t know how I’d have got through my vegan journey without them :)
A quick question about these muffins – Do they freeze well? And how long would you recommend?
Thank you again!
Can you replace the spelt flour for whole wheat flour?
Hello!
I usually LOVE your recipes, but I must have missed something….my muffins turned out very dry and powdery and they looked nothing like yours. The batter was equally powdery, like shortbread cookies before they’re pressed into their cookie shapes and baked.
Has anyone else actually tried this recipe (I tried to look through the comments and the comments I saw all commented on how they looked)?
Thanks!
Hi Sara, Oh I’m so sorry to hear this happened to you! To be honest, it’s been ages since I’ve made this recipe (it’s from 2010) so I will have to revisit it sometime. I appreciate your feedback! I highly recommend trying these muffin recipes:
https://ohsheglows.com/2018/10/17/one-bowl-pumpkin-chocolate-muffins-vegan-gluten-free/
https://ohsheglows.com/2012/08/06/oil-free-chocolate-zucchini-walnut-muffins/
https://ohsheglows.com/2015/10/28/pumpkin-gingerbread-muffins-vegan/
hope this helps! :) Happy baking