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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I have made these before and they are AH-Mazing! But I have a quick question should I be using caned coconut milk or just from a carton, or does it matter?
A-freaking-mazing!!!!! I love chai and of course blueberries and I was so excited to not see honey in the recipe! I will DEFINITELY be making this again. 🙂
These aren’t just the best paleo muffins, they are the best muffins ever. Sooo good! I’ve made a batch very week for the past three weeks.
Whoa. These were seriously the most delicious things ever! I’m really having a hard time not eating them all in one sitting! I threw a banana in there and doubled the blueberries. YUM! I can’t stop raving about them… THANK YOU!
I just made these last night for the first time and I LOVE them! My coworkers love them too. I will admit when i dumped that second bag of tea in the muffins, I freaked out and worried, but they came out awesome! I used fresh instead of dried blueberries and they were perfect! I will definitely be doing this one again!
i am having a debate with my bf as to whether anything baked can be paleo. He says anything that has to go through a process is automatically no longer paleo. But i say that if you are making it with the right flours ect then its still ok. can u settle this for us please?
that’s dumb. tell him he’s wrong
I made these in the middle of a thunderstorm. Power went out soon after I put them in the oven. A couple hours later, I baked them & they still turned out delish! I substituted one of the eggs w/ flax & water. I may try to do more of this substitution & see how they turn out. Will be making them again soon. One of my new faves, so thanks 4 sharing!
Omgosh. These Blueberry chai tea muffins are super-duper gurrrrl! Love, love, love em’.
These came out delicious! My kids loved them (and they are teens!) My son is a very finicky eater..and I had to stop him several times from eating the entire batch.
These are perfect! I added 3 roobios chai tea bags from trader joes and no blueberries, but i added dark chocolate baby chips and it was to die for.