new recipe book

I found this recipe book recommended on Instagram, I rarely buy myself recipe books as I have some beautiful books that my children have bought me over the years. But this one uses mainly unrefined ingredients like spelt flour and honey or maple syrup in place of sugar etc. which appealed to my taste

It's called Love Bake Nourish by Amber Rose

I began with making the Honey & Lavender tea cake which is delicious and then Apple & Honey muffins which are equally as good.

I will include the muffin recipe below but if you love to bake and would like healthy alternatives to the usually extra sweet cakes, muffins, cookies etc, I would recommend buying this great book. 

The photos are wonderful too and so make the book lovely to look through.

                            

                  

                                

                     

Apple & Honey Muffins

125g unsalted butter, softened

150g whole grain spelt flour, sifted

2 large free range eggs

1 heaped teaspoon of baking powder

185g honey

60g ground almonds

50ml while milk

Finely grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon and 1/2 unwaxed orange

Unrefined icing sugar for dusting if required

For the apples 

2 eating apples (I found one was enough for 12 muffins) cored and thinly sliced

20g unsalted butter, melted

1.5 teaspoons of rapadura or unrefined castor sugar

Preheat oven to 180 degrees

Place apple slices in a bowl, pour over melted butter and sprinkle with the sugar. Coat the apples well and lay slices in the bottom of muffin cases

Cream butter for about 4 mins add a spoonful of flour and beat briefly, add eggs one at a time and add more flour if mixture is curdling

Gently fold in the rest of the flour, the baking powder, honey, ground almonds, milk and zest 

Spoon mixture into muffin cases (I like to use a nice cream spring release scoop to do this) and bake for 25-30 mins