Whipping out lemon poppy seed baked goods is like an unwritten rule of spring.
Like if you don’t, YOU CAN’T SIT WITH US.
I kid. I randomly bought poppy seeds in the bulk bins because I was fantasizing about bagels after the dreamy one I laid mouth on this weekend. As if I’m going to go home and use those poppy seeds to make everything bagels. Ha. One tablespoon of those bad boys went into these muffins and I speculate that that’s the end of that.
I don’t want to make bagels. I barely wanted to make muffins.
I want to celebrate my academic freedom. I want to do nothing. I don’t want to think about cooking. I just want to eat Northstar for every meal.
Believe it or not, I’m not always prancing around the kitchen eating lentils. I love blogging 98.7% of the time, but the other 1.3% of the time (did I do that math right?) I feel kind of uninspired and uninteresting. I’ve been eating boring food. Should I post about the tiramisu ice cream I ate in Cleveland this weekend along with 200 pictures of my two-year-old model nephew? I mean I could, but is that interesting? As a food blogger, I sometimes feel this icky pressure (that I totally put on myself) to consistently create interesting, drool-worthy content. I get claustrophobic in my own brain.
While I was driving home this weekend, I thought about how I wasn’t going to cook anything meaning I would have nothing to blog about on Monday. Why do I think that way? You guys know I’m a normal person just like you. You know I’m not hiding away in my secret legume laboratory creating recipes every freaking second. I’m not even organized. I don’t have ten backup posts for moments like this. And you’re not going to boycott my blog if I don’t post on Monday.
Moral of the story….sometimes I have nothing exciting to say and it stresses me out. Like this whole post about muffins that has nothing to do with muffins and everything to do with me betching about having nothing to say. GAH. But I swear, these taste really, really good. Today I made two recipes for you guys. I felt a gust of that inspirational wind today so and I grabbed it and baked my butt off before it flew away.
Inspiration is what fuels my voice. Inspiration is what fuels my recipes. Though we all find ourselves at a loss for words at some point or another, we always seem to find them again, right?
Today, instead of talking, let’s just eat. These.
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Made with almond butter, fresh lemon juice and pure maple syrup, these flourless muffins are a delicious spring snack that you won’t feel guilty about!
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp chia seeds + 3 tbsp water (or 1 egg)
- 1/2 cup raw creamy almond butter
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 3 tbsp pure maple syrup
- Juice (about 2 tbsp) and zest of half a lemon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1 tbsp poppy seeds
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray and set aside.
- Stir together chia seeds and water to make chia “egg.” Set aside to gel for a few minutes.
- Combine the rest of the ingredients in a blender or food processor, adding chia egg last. Blend to combine. You may need to use a spatula to fully incorporate the almond butter and to get all the batter into the muffin tin.
- Pour batter evenly into muffin tin, filling almost to the top.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until muffins are set.
- Store in the refrigerator.
I very much felt this way today, which is why I didn’t even bother posting. It can be hard to get back into the blogging groove after spending a weekend away! But I’ve already said too much… let’s just eat 😉
Right?! Sometimes I just want to unplug for like a reeeeally long time. One of these days!
Oh I feel you girl…which is why I took a step back from blogging for a while! I felt like I was putting unnecessary pressure to constantly post or create fresh content (i.e. recipes). Glad you had a great weekend..because lets be honest: any weekend involving tiramisu ice cream has to be good!
Love the sound of these muffins. I was expecting almond flour when I read “flourless” but its absence has me all the more curious to try this out. Would it be terrible to admit that I adore the lemon & poppy seed muffins at Starbucks- or at least what I remember of ’em ;)!
PS Go do NOTHING…now!!
I’m so glad you’re back! I’m quite jealous of your little hiatus, though. I could really use one! Off to do nothing!!
I legit feel a blogging break. Not that I don’t enjoy it…I do. But I’m afraid it might get overwhelming…
That, and you and Davida give me migraines. And both present lemon and poppyseed baked goods. Staaaahp it.
And tiramisu ice cream? That deserves a post in itself.
I should have done a whole post about the ice cream. I mean it was legit that good. I’m still dreaming about it!
I seriously never thought chia egg, applesauce, almond butter & coconut could = flourless muffins. Nice job! I’ve been craving lemon poppyseed… So I think you’re right, it’s an obligatory spring thing. Writer’s block is hard but I think sometimes, like with exercise, even if we don’t want rest it makes us appreciate it more.
Me either…until they did before my eyes!! Rest sounds SO great right now 🙂
I feel ya. I hate that feeling “uh-oh, I have nothing to blog about!” Luckily over the years I’ve learned that it’s totally okay. I am not a blogging machine because I have a life outside blogging that has to take priority. Love the looks of this recipe–lemon is my favorite!
Your blog is on one my faves 🙂 I’m sure you can relate! We all have lives that take precedence over our blogs, as they should. Enjoy!
I have everything except for the poppy seeds and I love lemon and poppy seeds together. And yes, like you I freak out when I don’t have anything to say in a post, but then I start rambling about nothing and before I know it I have it all together. Who the heck knows…LOL! Thanks for sharing! XOXO
Let me let you in on a little secret…you don’t even really need the poppy seeds!! So I say go for it 🙂 Thanks for dealing with my rambling!
Oh! Wowza.. these look so darn good 🙂
Thanks girl! They’re tasty 🙂
I’m boycotting your blog if you don’t post on Monday. KIDDING. Love you and you know I love LP anything!!
LP for dayzzzzz. Your coconut lemon poppyseed bread (I legit just wrote poopyseed) is mine next week when these cookies are gone!
just read this comment and laughed out loud.
I so get it! and I would oodle over pics of your nephew!
Oh yes you would! He’s seriously the cutest thing ever.
sometimes its okay to ramble…and not have much to talk about. im glad i got a muffin recipe out of it though 🙂
It’s allllll gonna be all right, right?! Cheers to writer’s block and muffies!
I feel like that sometimes too and then I realize the world probably won’t end if I don’t post a blog one day…. or even two. We all need time to relax and just do nothing. Enjoy your freedom!!! 🙂
Truth!! Thanks dear 🙂
I can definitely relate to every word you said, sister! Uninspired isn’t a fun place to be, but it’s gotta happen every once in a while to balance out your creative genius. At least that’s what I like to tell myself (can you tell I like to inflate my ego a lot…creative genius…yup…ego a-flame!). Your mini muffins are little bombshells of joy! I’d love to lay mouth on one/1,000 😉 Keep doing whatcha do, my dear! I think I speak for eeeeveryone when I say we love the crap out of ya!
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Awww thanks, lovely lady! You have such a way with words. I mean holy moly, you always know EXACTLY what to say. And you are telling the damn truth when you say you’re a creative genius. Flaunt it, sista! Thanks for the pep talk 🙂
Mmm these look delicious!