Cinnamon quinoa muffin tops
Hi friends!! Happy Friday 🙂 What are you up to this weekend?
The past couple of days, I’ve been experimenting with the quinoa flakes:
If you pick some of these up, don’t even try eating it cooked plain with a dash of sea salt.
Its 100% gaggable.
The quinoa flakes are much more edible with some blueberries, cacao powder, protein, and decaf espresso powder
but still not fab.
Quinoa flakes are like a mushy, tasteless version of cream of wheat. If you compare them to oats, they hide away in the corner and cry.
In baked goodie form, however….
Cinnamon Quinoa Muffin Tops
Adapted from my brain
Gluten-free, vegan, foodgasmic
-1 flax egg (1 T ground flax dissolved in 3 T almond milk)
-2 T cashew butter (almond would be lovely too)
-1/4 C maple syrup (can sub agave if you wish)
-1 t vanilla
-1/2 C quinoa flakes
-1/2 C quinoa flour (or flour of choice)
-1/2 t baking powder
-1/2 t cinnamon
-1/4 t baking soda
-pinch of sea salt
-Optional: chocolate chips, chopped apples, chopped nuts, dried fruit
1. Preheat the oven to 350 and lightly grease a cookie sheet. In a mixing bowl, combine the flax egg, cashew butter, maple syrup and vanilla until well-blended.
2. In separate bowl, using a fork as a whisk, combine the quinoa flakes, flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt. If you’re using mix-ins add the dry mix-ins with the dry ingredients (like chopped nuts or chocolate chips) and the wet ingredients to the cashew butter/syrup mixture (like chopped apples or fruit)
3. With the mixer on low, add the flour mixture in batches to the wet mixture. Avoid over-mixing.
Take a photo 🙂
4. Using a melon ball scooper, scoop the mixture onto the cookie sheet, evenly spaced apart.
5. Bake for 10 minutes at 350. Leave on the baking sheet for 1 additional minute and transfer to a cooling rack to cool.
6. Enjoy topped with a smear of almond butter, a drizzle of melted butter or solo
🙂
©2010
AMAZING. Light, fluffy, not too sweet.
I’m very glad I made those after teaching last night, especially since dinner ended up being a fail.
It was my first time steaming fish and for the record, 20 minutes is too long :/ It was like a large, chewy, white eraser.
I washed it down with two muffin tops 🙂
(For the record, I LOATHE the phrase “muffin top” unless it’s being used for baked goods. Don’t ever say you have a muffin top… unless it’s the kind I can eat. I will come through the screen and ninja kick you, mmm k?)
Well I’m off to make some b-fast and then get ready for work.
Hope you have a fabulous Friday! See ya later today with my spring shopping list 🙂
xoxo,
Gina
Something to think:
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” -Confucius
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They make decaf espresso powder?!? I must find some ASAP. I have the regular stuff but still off caffeine, and I miss my mocha infused oats and baked goods.
Have a good weekend Gina!
they do! let me know if i can send you a care package 🙂
love you friend
Glad to know you found something yummy for quinoa flakes! Those muffin tops look delish 🙂
Thank you so much for the recipe! I have some quinoa flakes sitting in my pantry after trying them in hot cereal form – barf. Now I have a use for them!
Those muffin tops sound/look faaaab! 🙂 And you are making me soo jealous posting pictures of flowers like that…I can’t wait for spring!
I love quinoa flakes! I find they need a sweet kick to balance out the bitterness – and maple syrup and sea salt to the trick beautifully!
For your detox-diet sake, I’m glad they make quinoa flakes. For my sake, I’m glad you shared this recipe! (:
:))
I’ve never seen quinoa flakes. Is that the recipe on the box (cooked plain with sea salt?) That does not sound good at all!
I love your recipe “adapted from my brain” — makes me think of the first paper I wrote in high school. It was the first time I had to use a Reference page and I remember putting “My own personal knowledge” as one of my references. I think I got a C 🙂
hahaha! awesome
The difference in how the quinoa looks is ridiculous! Helpful comparison because I agree at first glance – totally gaggable. Happy Friday!!! 😀
Haha those look, um, interesting….
good weekend to you!
by interesting you mean delicious right? 🙂
Oh my goodness, I am soooooo excited to try these! I am terrible at creating my own recipes and we are gluten free now…..so Muffin Tops?!?!?! I can’t wait! My baby girl will loooove them and I love one-handed snacks!!!! 🙂
Agreed. Quite nasty in tha bowl, but SO good in baked items! Love muffin tops! (the edible kind;))
I’ve never tried quinoa flakes but thanks for the info! I’d probably have tried them in the way that I normally eat quinoa and would have been terribly disappointed. I also can’t stand the word muffin tops!
I love that quote so much.
I love the title of the post. Those muffin tops look like they have a nice texture!
ouhh i love this! think honey would sub okay for the maple syrup? great idea to use up quinoa flakes.. totally agree on the flavor/texture as a breakfast! bleh
yep it should totally work- they might be super sticky and sweet, so maybe 1/2 honey and the oil half oil?
oh my muffin. You had me at ‘foodgasmic’. Mmm 🙂
Bahaha! I can see your sweats in the mixing bowl! Too cute!
and my socks! haha so hot 🙂
Interesting recipe! I wouldn’t think to use quinoa in a muffin recipe but I’m sure it’s a lot healthier. Can’t wait for your fashion post!
It’s funny how regular quinoa is so good, but the flakes aren’t. I’m glad you posted on this because if I saw quinoa flakes in the store, I would definitely buy them and then they’d end up collecting dust somewhere. 🙂 Love the quote at the end…so true!
Why mess with a good thing when it comes to oats, right? I’m glad you found a yummy use for the flakes instead, though 🙂
“Adapted from my brain”…haha I love it!
Are those some flowers from the Pilot? 🙂
I laughed so hard at the ninja kick comment!
nope, i buy myself flowers all the time haha
Good to know that quinoa flakes need some help and can’t be eaten by themselves (well, for the tastebuds sake). This is also true for amaranth. It tastes like dirt.
The cookies look really good- can’t wait to try them!
Good to know what does and doesn’t work!
I laughed so hard I almost spit out my tea when I read that bit about ninja-kicking someone! haha. I’ll return to lurking now, friend. (Like you, I lurk but don’t comment much!)
haha thanks friend!
love you!
Ohh, good thing I didn’t go running off getting these to eat as my morning oats! I like oats but not cream of wheat.
Good to know they are not a good replacement for oats. I’ve been eying them, hoping they would be a good way to change it up in the mornings. Guess I’ll pass — unless it is to make goodies!
Quinoa (regular) does make a great risotto, though! I made one last night using quinoa, veggie stock, sauteed mushrooms and caramelized onions. it was fab.
yuuuuum. i might have to try that- i’ve been hankering for mushrooms!
i’m a fish face and i know 20 mins is too long to steam a fish. i would say for a small piece of fish… 5 mins. 🙂 glad your quinoa lab turned out awesome! and p.s. i also loathe the words muffin tops unless it’s the edible kind!
hahah OOPS 🙂
Never tried quinoa flakes but those muffin tops look delish! As for steaming fish- I never steam it more than 10 mins! 🙂
xo
I’m so with you – I hate the term “muffin top.” It makes something so totally delicious have a bad connotation! Your muffin tops look delish!
i love the reflection in the mixing bowl, it totally made me laugh. the recipe sounds great and thanks for the warning. i have been staring at my box of flakes and now i know what not to do!
BAhahahaa!!! I have had quinoa flakes in my cupboard for about a year now and used them 2-3 times. You’re right..not that great. I think the best way to prepare them for breakfast is tropical style, with coconut butter/oil, mango, almonds/almond butter, shredded coconut. 🙂
I had the quinoa flakes for breakfast recently. I made them with cinnamon, pumpkin spice, maple syrup, vanilla and cacao nibs and they weren’t bad! I definitely prefer oats and oat bran, but it was a nice change. I would try giving them another shot! You could also use them for a savory dish…or bake more cookies with them 😉
I love the muffin top idea. Do you think they would work with gluten-free oat flour or coconut flour, too? I’m just making my first foray into the gluten-free baking arena and never know whether they will stay together or not. To use the gum, or not to use the gums, that is the question…
Have a lovely day!
xox
they should totally work with GF flour
Mmmmm, giant eraser! Sounds horrible 😉
I love how your on such a qunioa kick! I’ll have to try me some quinoa flakes- i’m sure they’d be delicious smothered in coconut butter and banana 🙂
Happy Friday Gina!
mmmmmmmmmmmm I want some of those smothered with Almond Butter! Yum!
Oh how i’ve missed your blog, i recently got home from my mexican vacation! i’ve got a little catching up, but love to see things havent changed!
I tried quinoa flakes too….they are nasty!! Baking with anything though probably makes them taste a load better!
ha, I love the “adapted from my brain”. Great recipe!!
Looks like a DELISH recipe!
those cookies look absolutely fabulous! raisins or chopped apples in there sounds divine!
i’ve never heard of such a quinoa flakes though. it sounds kind of redundant, with the quinoa flour and all. could the cookies be made with all quinoa flour or flakes?
i wouldn’t do it- from what i gather, the flakes add crunch and texture– they would be crunchy blobs without the flour. you could prob use only flour though!
In the middle of adjusting my action steps 😉 Thanks Confucious/Gina!!
I like your determination with the quinoa flakes! That first drab bowl may have turned me off forever! Glad the muffin tops worked out so well 🙂
good to know more about some facts the qiunoa flakes. Thanks Gina’s Brain.
Great quote. 🙂
I once tried quinoa flakes as a hot cereal…i took two bites and threw it out. it was so gross.
I hate, hate, hate quinoa. I have tried to eat it a dozen different ways and I don’t enjoy it period. So kudos to you for trying it until it worked for you – I know you eat it in whole form pretty often, so someday I’ll try to come back to it!
Do you and your husband own a Lululemon?
i WISH. they were franchised for a short time, but are now corporately owned
This: “Its 100% gaggable.”
I have actually tried those quinoa flakes years ago when I first started my GF journey. And oh my, coming from gluten and swinging the pendulum all the way to those…yes, my sentiments exactly. I like regular quinoa, just not the flakes like that.
However those muffins you made look wonderful! And adapted from…your brain. So cute 🙂
Fish and steaming…fish cooks so fast sometimes that 18 mins may have been perfect and 20 was way too much. So hard to tell but sorry for the fail.
Enjoy your weekend, Gina!
These look great and totally kid friendly! Going to make some this weekend for their lunchs! THANKS!
I love your new book idea!