Ok, flat out, these muffins ARE DELICIOUS!! The chai gives in a slight salt spice, but it is complimented by the sweetness of the dates. One thing i do recommend is not being an idiot like me and putting dates, that ARE NOT pitted, into a food processor. For some reason, your food processor doesn’t seem to like that. Extremely loud and not that fun digging out pits from a runny date mixture. Just saying, but feel free to try it out if you like eating pits….that’s a joke.
Blueberry Chai Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cup almond flour
- 1 cup dates, pitted (I used a mixture of dates and prunes)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 chai blend tea bags, opened
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 large eggs
- 1/3 cup dried blueberries (or fresh if you’d like)–buy dried in bulk section
- Muffin tin liners
- Optional: Coconut sugar or unsweetened shredded coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Grab your handy-dandy food processor. If you don’t have one, your life is going to be much more difficult, so invest in one…you SO won’t regret it!! Combine wet ingredients in your food processor: dates, coconut milk, coconut oil, vanilla, and eggs. Turn that wonderful food processor on and let run until you get a smooth, slightly wet paste.
- While your food processor does all the work for you, grab out a large bowl and combine your dry ingredients: almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, chai tea bags, and cinnamon.
- Once your date mixture is well combine, add your wet ingredients to your bowl of dry ingredients. Stir until mixture is fully combined. The muffin mix should be slightly runny, but thicker than normal crappy-grain filled muffins 🙂
- Fold in your dried blueberries into the mixture.
- Now grab your muffin tin and line 6-7 muffin centers with a liner. You can use normal paper liners OR check out these silicone liners that are absolutely fantastic!! Nothing sticks to them—so they are great for egg muffins as well, just FYI.
- Fill 6-7 muffin tins with your delicious muffin mix.
- If you want a bit more sugar added to this recipe, top your muffins off with some coconut sugar (or shredded coconut) before you throw them in the oven. Coconut sugar is super sweet and acts like sugar crystals….ahhhhh hells yeah. Optional though!!
- Now throw those little suckers in the oven for 20-25 minutes. Insert a toothpick in the middle of a muffin to make sure it comes off clean. Let cool for 5 minutes before you chow down!!
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Whoa- these are insanely good!! Used fresh blueberries (maybe like a cup and a half) and didn’t have coconut crystals but drizzled (or maybe poured :)) agave nectar into the wet mixture. Was a little weirded out baking with tea leaves but they turned out great! Thanks!
Yummmmo!!
We really enjoy these muffins, but I think the recipe has been altered. Wasn’t it 1/2 cup of coconut oil?
Yes it is Michael. Sorry about that, all fixed now hopefully!
I LOVE THESE. Thought you should know :).
That’s awesome you tried them!! That was one of my first recipes haha!
You weren’t kidding Juli – These are FANTASTIC! I made a double batch which is a TON of ingredient but well worth it. My lil Max LOVES them!! 😀 Thanks for fun and exotic take on Paleo food. The chai tea really puts it over the top!!!
Glad you liked them Jeanne!! I haven’t made those in ages. I need to change that.
I just came across your site today and knew right away that I had to start trying your recipes. I just finished making these muffins and OMG, they are amazing!! I used fresh blueberries and they turned out fabulous. I can’t wait to try some more of your recipes!!!
Love ’em, love ’em, love ’em! How the heck big is your muffin tin?? I ended up with a dozen of these wonderful goodies. Froze some for the first week of school for a quick breakfast. Now I need to try the caramel pecan bars!
ONE of my favorites!!! Definitely a keeper. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Made these tonight for the work week… OMG so yummy and light!
The only thing i didn’t have was the coconut crystals, unfortunately my area do not have a natural foods store like whole foods or trader joes 🙁
But THANKS for the awesome recipe
Love this recipe! And there was zero guilt factor when licking the bowl! I used fresh blue berries and I had to eliminate the tea as the husband wasn’t so keen…but, delicious all the same! Thank you your recipes are fab!!
These were great! I did have to tweak a bit based on what I had on hand when I made them (I used half ground flax and half almond flour and subbed craisins for the blueberries…also used my own chai spice blend instead of chai tea mixture) but they were awesome–moist and delicious! I froze them individually and they reheated well also. Thanks so much!