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!
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 :)
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)?