Dairy Free "Emilie Love, Cupcake Muffins"

This morning for breakfast we made muffin cupcakes! Ok, I was planning on biscuits or something, but George was insistent on chocolate chips, so this is what we ended up making! George really wanted to just eat the chocolate chips straight right then and there, but was comforted that he would eventually get some! I looked at what a muffin base looked like, with Scott's mom's recipe for Apple Cinnamon muffins (so I wouldn't be too far off the marker), and it turned out rather good! Granted, no butter... or milk, but still really good!  They turned out very wheat-y since it was whole wheat, but still sweet with the chocolate chips.  I was able to feel like I was indulging with eating them, and at the same time, without killing my body with straight sugar! A good feeling :). George seemed to really like it too, and had three! You know your cooking is decent if your toddler will eat it ;) George is my professional tester in our household. He has more of a "safe taste" and not exploritory, so if it's too "out there", he'll let me know too. For the basic "out there" foods that are good and healthy to eat, I just comfort him and let him know that it is indeed food and good for you, and he calms down and can most often buckles down to eat it (if he doesn't hate it). He really is a good eater :)

"Emilie Love, CupCake Muffins"

1 Cup flour (stone ground, whole wheat)
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 C sugar
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1 egg
2/3 C sweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
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3/4 C semi-sweet chocolate chips (dairy free)

Combine dry ingredients and whisk, then add dry ingredients and mix together with spatula. Then fold/stir in chocolate chips. The muffins aren't too sweet themselves but the chocolate chips give them the main sweetness! If you like really, really sweet, try adding more chocolate chips. Spoon (good sized spoon) one good scoop of dough, for each muffin, into mini muffin pans (ex. Martha Stewart mini muffin/cupcake pans). Bake at 350 degrees ferinheight for 12 minutes. Poke with fork to see if done and take them out and enjoy! They make around 1 1/2 pans worth.