Winter Muffins Recipe: Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice

Mmmmm....Winter muffins. It's cold outside, it's warm in the kitchen and the kids are giggling at something and gobbling down Winter muffins while I tell them not to talk with their mouths open. This is my ever lasting memory of these muffins: They're sweet, they're spicy and they smell like Winter when they're cooking. Yum!

Winter Muffins

I'm not really sure why we started calling these Winter muffins other than it was Winter when I first made. I guess the kitchen table memory stuck, they've been Winer muffins ever since. It's a pretty fitting name, being flavored with those warming spices, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger in the form of mixed spice. Mixed spice is such a handy little jar of flavor and works like a charm in these simple Winter themed muffins.

The recipe for these is a very basic Cleaned up muffin recipe. That's the thing I love about muffins apart from eating them of course, they're super easy to flavor with fruit, spices, anything you like really. And you can jazz them up for Winter with a tiny bit of icing sugar (snow, obviously!) or some cream, or chopped fruit to give them a twist and adapt them to an occasion.

When we started eating Clean we didn't stop eating all sugars, we simply cut out the refined sugars and cut way back on how often we even ate those. But a little of what you fancy does you good and so I do bake fairly often, I like to have some treats about for the kids from time to time, it stops those dashes to the shop for something sweet, and although much of the baking I do these days is not anywhere near as sweet as the treat snacks we used to have from the store, everyone's got used to the 'new' sweetness levels and no one complains. So that's a win!

Sugar And Spice

Sugar and spice and all things nice. Yep, that's these muffins!

Having been someone who like many of us I suspect, who had spices in the kitchen before but I never really knew what to do with them. I'd buy the odd jar of this and that, but rarely used them and they'd fester for.....quite a long time!

Now, I love spices. I use them all the time, in cooking and baking. The flavor they give is amazing and you can adjust the quantities to suit your tastes. I use this Barts mixed spice and can highly recommend it. I buy it from my local supermarket and it's easy to come by.

Using coconut sugar in this recipe gives you a refined sugar free muffin. Yes, coconut sugar is still a sugar, so these still fall under the sometimes foods and not the everyday foods. But hey, that's what makes eating Clean work, right?

Storing

I store these for up to 3 days if I need to. Baking these in small batches (this recipe makes 6 big muffins because I now have big kids! You can bake these in smaller cases and have 12 smaller muffins if you prefer) means I don't usually have any leftovers, which suits me fine.

Keep these in an airtight container in a cupboard if you do have leftovers and 3 days is the max I would store these.

More Muffin Recipes

• Fresh cherry muffins
• Clean eating carrot cake muffins
• Blackberry and apple muffins
• Zucchini and carrot muffins
• Pear Muffins
• Healthy cinnamon muffins

How To Make Winter Muffins

Ingredients

• 2 Medium Eggs Whisked
• ½ Cup Flour Buckwheat, Einkorn, Spelt, Wholemeal
• ½ Cup Butter Melted
• ½ Cup Coconut sugar
• 2 tsp Mixed spice
• ½ tsp Baking powder

Instructions

• Heat your oven to 190° and line a 6 hole muffin tin with muffin papers
• In a large bowl, using beaters mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
• Add in the whisked eggs and beat until well combined
• Add the flour, baking powder and mixed spice and using a wooden spoon mix until just combined. If the mixture if very thick, add 1 tablespoon of milk (dairy or plant based) and combine
• Spoon the mixture equally between muffin papers and bake for 16-18 minutes until cooked through