We were at a family reunion a few weeks ago at a hotel that served free breakfast. Since Cooper has been on an egg strike recently, and the Cheerios were actually generic cardboard toasted O’s, we needed to find something else for him to eat. Luckily, he’s been on a big yogurt kick lately, but as we quickly found out, dude loves muffins.
I tried to give him the healthiest muffins I could, but let’s be real: we were talking food service muffins that come in flavors like chocolate, chocolate chip, and something that resembled blueberry, but may have just been “tic-tac-flavored” or some damn thing. I’m good with him eating muffins, but I wanted to find a recipe that was a little bit healthier once we returned home.
After a quick Google search, I found one that caught my eye on cooks.com. It involves Cheerios, which as we all know, is baby crack, so I knew he’d like them. It gets most of its flavor from spices, rather than sugar, but I threw in some blueberry-infused craisins, just to give it a kick.
Cheerio Muffins
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Ingredients:
Just mix the dry ingredients together and add the oil, egg white, milk, and apple sauce. mix with fork until it forms a batter (about 30 seconds or so of stirring is really all you need). Put in desired amount of craisins and bake at 425 for 8-10 minutes.
I love this recipe because it’s super-simple and quick to make, and the only thing I had to buy was the canola oil and the apple sauce. I used soy milk, because that’s what we had on hand, but you can use whatever you want.
I baked mini muffins and put them in a ziploc bag for breakfast the next morning. Luke apparently let Cooper eat five of them. Yay for him liking the muffins, but five? That’s probably not a good idea.
Clacked by Kona Gallagher 
on Aug 21, 2010 @ 09:00 EST5EDT
