Almond Butter and Chocolate Chip Muffins

First of all, hooray for the food setting on my camera producing a decent picture for a change! Ha! Happy Saturday everyone! :) It has been madness in my kitchen today. I have two things to post tonight. I will know tomorrow if something else I made today will make it to the blog (has to chill overnight, be taste tested, and then we'll know!) and will most likely mention something else I threw together today! It was a cooking and baking sort of afternoon!

I was focusing a bit on solid foods for our toddler today. I'm trying desperately to get the little guy to start weaning, and to do so need to get him to eat more solid food! He just doesn't like any food as much as his milk! I thought I'd start focusing more on what I can get him to eat, while trying to sneak in healthy things.

I know that it's important to teach kids to eat the healthy stuff, regardless, but I'm taking it one step at a time. First step, get him to eat more, period!

I busted out the Barney Butter, again wanting to use almond butter since he's still too young for peanut butter.

2/3 cup almond butter
3 tbsp butter, melted
2 eggs (back on our Egg Beaters kick - worried about the massive amount of eggs we're eating)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup flax (plus) seeds
1 1/2 cup flour blend (equal parts all purpose flour, wheat flour and wheat germ)
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and put paper muffin/cupcake liners into a 12 cup muffin pan.

Combine the almond butter, melted butter, eggs, vanilla, and milk in a mixing bowl.

In a separate bowl, combine the sugar, baking powder, salt, flax, and flour.

Combine wet and dry ingredients, just until it's all moist. Mix in the chocolate chips.

Add the mixture to the muffin cups, equally, filling each of them to the top.

Bake for 20 to 22 minutes.

I'm told that they taste like "Nutter Butters", which I consider mission accomplished! Mr. Riley refused to eat anything at all this evening. >:-/

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