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Blackberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins

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Blackberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins, healthy, nutritious, 5-a-day, snack, packed lunch, high fibre, vegetarian

I came up with these muffins when I wanted to bake the family a healthy sweet treat.

Hence I used wholemeal flour, unpeeled apples and blackberries to provide plenty of roughage as well as contributing to our 5-a-day!

I also decided to use speculaas spice mix which is a fairly new kid on the block, hot on the heels of the popularity of Speculoos Spread, to provide a warm back note to the muffins.

If you’ve ever eaten a Lotus biscuit then you will be familiar with the taste of speculaas spice mix which is a combination of cinnamon, ground ginger, ground cloves, nutmeg, ground white pepper, coriander, aniseed (or fennel), mace and ground cardamom.

There are many recipe variations to be found on the internet and you can also buy ready-made speculaas (or speculoos) spice mix if you don’t fancy preparing it yourself.

This year seems to have been a bumper year for blackberries and I don’t think I have ever foraged so many in such a short space of time, plus the season started a lot earlier than usual.

With all this free fruit at our fingertips there really is not excuse not to make full use of it and get baking! I used Coxes apples in the recipe but if you can find a dessert apple tree to forage from that would be even better!

Blackberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins, healthy, nutritious, 5-a-day, snack, packed lunch, high fibre,vegetarian

Blackberry, Apple and Speculaas Muffins are really easy to make and by using the blackberries straight from the freezer you will avoid them breaking up and staining the muffin mixture purple.

I froze half my batch put them in my family’s packed lunches for a healthy treat.

I do hope you will try these healthy and delicious muffins for yourself as they prove that food that is good for you needn’t be boring

More Blackberry Recipes

Once you’ve tried my Blackberry & Apple Muffins you should also try the following blackberry recipes!

More Muffin Recipes

Here are a few more muffin recipes for you to try:

What’s your favourite way to use up foraged blackberries?

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NB: This recipe was previously featured on Great British Chefs.

Blackberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins, healthy, nutritious, 5-a-day, snack, packed lunch, high fibre,vegetarian
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Blackberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins

A fabulous muffin made with foraged blackberries, apples and speculaas spice mix.
Course Snack, teatime
Cuisine British
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 18
Author Camilla Hawkins

Ingredients

  • 100 g Plain wholemeal flour
  • 200 g Plain white flour
  • 4 tsp Baking powder
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • 2 tsp Speculaas or speculoos spice mix
  • 3 Coxes apples chopped, peel on (or dessert apples) about 350g
  • 125 g Frozen blackberries
  • 150 g Light brown Muscovado sugar
  • 150 mls ight olive oil
  • 2 Eggs lightly beaten
  • 200 g Greek or Greek style yogurt

Instructions

  • Pre-heat the oven to 180⁰C.
  • Line 2 muffins trays with 18 muffin cases.
  • Put the wholemeal flour in a bowl and sieve in the plain flour, baking powder, speculaas spice mix and salt, then mix well.
  • In another bowl whisk together the egg, yogurt and oil.
  • Mix the sugar, chopped apple and blackberries into the flour mixture and then mix in the oil mixture with a wooden spoon until just combined.
  • Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases.
  • Bake for 20 minutes until spring back to the touch or an inserted skewer comes out clean.
  • Allow to cool for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

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  1. Ania

    Absolutely delicious! Only had plain flour and used gala apples. The tart blackberries with the sweet baked apples that still had a ‘bite’ to them was wonderful. I popped all the blackberries on top, as they were fresh and so big and soft I thought I’d moosh them too much by folding in.
    Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!

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  3. Anne Dalzell

    Just made these with freshly picked apples from the garden and blackberries from the park. These are light and tasty and perfect for Autumn

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  6. Maya Russell

    Ooh, this would be perfect to do today as yesterday we went blackberry picking and apple harvesting.

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  10. Adam garratt

    I love it when the new season blackberries come in, it’s like finding treasure when you spot the glistening black jewel along the hedgerow. The only problem is you end up scrathing your arm to ribbons trying to get the best ones, which are inevitably right out of reach.

    They will always have a prominent place in my heart, because my nanny used to take me out to her secret spots around the village, returning with armfulls of plastic tubs filled with them.

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  14. YOLANDA (yoey) DAVIS

    I usually make apple & blackberry crumble when I’ve picked blackberries, so it will be great to try something different. They look delicious and I can’t wait to try them myself.

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  15. Galina V

    We managed to forage quite a lot of blackberries this year too, but I don’t have much space left in my freezer from all the red and black currants from the garden. Lovely flavourful muffins!

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  17. Florence Cross

    Perfect for this time of year, and with all the apples & blackberries we have the garden it would be a great opportunity to use some of the,

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  24. gouldie7

    We have a thornless bramble in our garden, and have lots of berry smithies and blackberry & apple crumles!

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