BLW appropriate from 7 months: just cut into tiny pieces and let your baby explore it. The recipe has an egg but if you don’t have any family egg allergies, I wouldn’t hesitate giving eggs. We started early with whole eggs following our pediatrician recommendation. Use your judgement and follow your intuition. I was impatient to introduce a lot of new ingredients into my son’s world and I just had a sense that he would be ok. Mama knows best.
I would say that last year of all the recipes, I used this one the most. These muffins are just a perfect healthy snack for babies and toddlers. There is no sugar of any kind; just apple and banana as a sweetener.
Pomegranates are in season now. Buy as much of it as you can. It’s an amazing source of vitamins and minerals among other things. The crazy person that I am, I used to squeeze spoonfuls of pomegranate juice using garlic press but now I give to Soren just like that for a snack and he loves eating the little bright sweet seeds. It’s fun to play with it too.
The recipe makes 12 mini and 6-8 large muffins.
INGREDIENTS:
1/3 cup melted coconut oil (if you don’t have it, the recipe works just fine without it)
2 eggs
3 ripe bananas (mashed)
2 small apples, grated (with or without skin works. More fiber with skin)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon (put more if you love it)
1/2 cup wholewheat flour
3/4 cup instant oats
Optional: raisins, nuts, chocolate
METHOD:
Preheat oven to 325F. Hand beat eggs with coconut oil in a bowl. Add mashed bananas, baking powder, vanilla and cinnamon. Mix. Add apples. Mix. Add flour and oats. Stir well. Pour half a batch in a lightly greased muffin mold for babies. Then add raisins, chocolate and any other goodness you like to the adult batch. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool off.
- ⅓ cup melted coconut oil (if you don't have it, the recipe works just fine without it)
- 2 eggs
- 3 ripe bananas (mashed)
- 2 small apples, grated (with or without skin works. More fiber with skin)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp cinnamon (put more if you love it)
- ½ cup wholewheat flour
- ¾ cup instant oats
- Optional: raisins, nuts, chocolate
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Hand beat eggs with coconut oil in a bowl. Add mashed bananas, baking powder, vanilla and cinnamon. Mix. Add apples. Mix. Add flour and oats. Stir well.
- Pour half a batch in a lightly greased muffin mold for babies. Then add raisins, chocolate and any other goodness you like to the adult batch.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool off.
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