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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!

 

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Blackberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins

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

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 Light 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.

For more Blackberry inspiration you might like my:

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

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

 

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

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  1. Ania

    28/12/2020 at 4:35 am

    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!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      28/12/2020 at 3:47 pm

      Aaw, that’s so good to hear Ania, thank you so much for your feedback:-)

      Reply
  2. Lizi Beevor

    14/10/2016 at 1:42 pm

    Loving the addition of speculaas in these muffins! I’ll definitely have to give these a go – they look delicious!

    Lizi

    Reply
    • Camilla

      14/10/2016 at 2:35 pm

      Thank you Lizi:-)

      Reply
  3. Anne Dalzell

    04/10/2015 at 11:03 am

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

    Reply
    • Camilla

      04/10/2015 at 1:12 pm

      Thank you for your feedback Anne, so glad you like them:-)

      Reply
  4. Eb Gargano

    30/09/2015 at 10:59 am

    These look lovely. I love the sound of speculaas spice mix – so many lovely flavours!!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      30/09/2015 at 4:13 pm

      Thanks Eb, yes they work so well here:-)

      Reply
  5. Paul Wilson

    19/09/2015 at 12:07 am

    I have blackberries and apples at the moment – this would be ideal!

    Reply
  6. Maya Russell

    13/09/2015 at 6:40 am

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

    Reply
    • Camilla

      13/09/2015 at 12:34 pm

      Excellent Maya:-)

      Reply
  7. Tracy Nixon

    16/10/2014 at 7:13 am

    Great recipe for a Halloween party!

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