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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!

  • Blackberry & Apple Cake
  • Blackberry Tofu Brulee
  • Blackberry & Raspberry Jam
  • Blackberry & Apple Jam
  • Blackberry & Apple Loaf

More Muffin Recipes

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

  • Blueberry, Banana & White Chocolate Chip Muffins
  • Raspberry, Almond & White Chocolate Muffins
  • Easy Lemon Curd Muffins
  • Strawberry Banocolate Muffins

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

Do leave a comment and rating when you try these Blueberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins! You can also share a pic by tagging @FabFood4All on Instagram as I love seeing my recipes come to life!

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
Keyword easy, Muffins, speculaas
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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Comments

  1. Nazima

    24/08/2014 at 11:21 pm

    these look fab! love the spices in speculooos biscuits and must be lovely with these seasonal fruits

    Reply
    • Camilla

      25/08/2014 at 12:08 am

      Thank you Nazima:-)

      Reply
  2. Ursula Hunt

    24/08/2014 at 1:40 pm

    gorgeous moist looking muffuns

    Reply
    • Camilla

      25/08/2014 at 12:09 am

      Thank you:-)

      Reply
  3. Paul Wilson

    23/08/2014 at 11:22 pm

    What kind of spices does the Speculaas spice mix contain?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      23/08/2014 at 11:25 pm

      They are all listed in my post on Great British Chefs along with the recipe:-)

      Reply
      • Paul Wilson

        24/08/2014 at 11:16 pm

        Cheers. Will take a looksee.

        Reply
  4. George Worboys Wright

    23/08/2014 at 10:50 pm

    They look gorgeous!

    Reply
  5. Jeanne Horak-Druiff

    23/08/2014 at 9:21 pm

    Mmm, blackberry and apple are such a fab combination – and I do love me a good muffin!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      23/08/2014 at 9:41 pm

      Thanks Jeanne:-)

      Reply
  6. Stuart Vettese

    23/08/2014 at 2:40 pm

    Love these Camilla and I bet your speculaas mix sets them off just perfectly!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      23/08/2014 at 9:51 pm

      Thanks Stuart:-)

      Reply
  7. gouldie7

    23/08/2014 at 12:08 pm

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

    Reply
    • Camilla

      23/08/2014 at 9:52 pm

      Oh joy a thornless bramble, wish they grew around here!

      Reply
      • William Gould

        26/01/2015 at 5:08 pm

        It’s a variety called “Loch Ness”. Someone bought us one – fab present!

        Reply
        • William Gould

          26/01/2015 at 5:11 pm

          oops – just put the Tweet url in the Pinterest box….

          Reply
          • Camilla

            26/01/2015 at 10:09 pm

            I’ll remember that then:-)

        • Camilla

          26/01/2015 at 10:10 pm

          Lovely, not heard of that before!

          Reply
  8. Anne Wallwin

    23/08/2014 at 7:17 am

    now these would be lovely with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      23/08/2014 at 9:56 pm

      Ooh I’d want them warm then:-)

      Reply
  9. Paul Wilson

    22/08/2014 at 11:19 pm

    They look brilliant – seasonal too.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      22/08/2014 at 11:59 pm

      Thanks Paul:-)

      Reply
  10. Sarah (@tamingtwins)

    22/08/2014 at 10:10 pm

    These look delicious, I love the fact that they are technically healthy too – hurrah! Def going on my to bake list.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      22/08/2014 at 10:54 pm

      Thank you Sarah, yes one doesn’t need to feel quite so guilty eating one of these:-)

      Reply
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