Blueberry and Banana Muffins

Baking is such a fun rainy day activity, but it can be hard to keep it natural and healthy. These yummy little treats are naturally gluten and dairy free and don't contain loads of weird ingredients that are hard to get hold of.

The muffins are seriously good and the blueberries make them lovely and gooey. You essentially make your own flour by blending almonds, oats and ground flaxseed - which is pretty fun!

Anyway, here are the ingredients we used to make 15 muffins:

• 85g oats
• 150g almonds (or ground almonds could be easier)
• 85g ground Flaxseed
• 4 ripe bananas
• 85g raisins (we used dried cranberries as Katie has an irrational hatred of raisins)
• 250g fresh blueberries 
• 180ml apple juice 
• 240ml water
• 6tbsp organic honey
• 2tsp cinnamon

Method:

If you have a food processor, put the almonds, oats and ground flaxseed in it and blend until it is nice and smooth. I don't, so I ground the almonds in a pestle and mortar (so old school, you might want to buy ground almonds instead) and then put those, the oats and the flaxseed in a blender and it worked just fine!

Add your homemade flour (be proud) to a mixing bowl, then slice the bananas into it. Next add the water, apple juice, honey and cinnamon and whisk into a smooth muffin mixture.

When this is done, stir in the raisins/any dried berry and the blueberries, pour into muffin cases in a muffin tray and bake for about 40 minutes.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Happy baking x