

The poppy seeds here are really just for fun, although I do love the bit of texture that they lend, but if you do not have them on hand or don’t want to buy them, the muffins will still be delicious without. For example, you could add in fresh blueberries for a blueberry lemon muffin. However, this is a great base recipe that you can tweak and add different flavors to come up with all sorts of combinations. And that is no good because not only do you have a failed muffin batter on your hands, but grain-free flours are much pricier than others, so I don’t want anyone to be wasting expensive ingredients. For example, if you were to take a basic muffin recipe and swap the white flour for coconut flour, you would end up with a complete disaster. However, I have found myself discouraging them slightly from playing around with swapping out grain-free flours for standard grain flours, because it is not so cut and dry. In my classes, I often times will encourage my students to adapt recipes they love- swapping in and out different ingredients and spices to mix it up a bit.
