Mama Muffins

I always find breakfast difficult. The ordinary breakfast foods have never really appealed to me.  There's something very wrong about a bowl of cereal with milk. Firstly, I'm still dairy free - so that puts the kibosh on the milk; and secondly, milk just makes the cereal go all mushy. I find that whenever I am tempted to have a bowl of cereal that I sink quite a lot of time into trying to save all of my cereal from drowning in the milk. Cereal is generally not really my thing.  So that pretty much leaves toast. And toast is a bit blah.

The Little One seems to also be a bit blah on the breakfast front.  For the last week the toast has been thrown to the floor. Blurgh. So, I thought I'd try making her a batch of some other kind of food for breakfast.  I was gonna make some kind of sweet potato muffins but the veggie market didn't have any sweet potatoes this week, so I decided I'd just make her plain potato muffins.  I took two recipes and smooshed them together and this is what we got.


Potato Muffins
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cardamon
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup melted olivani (so that it is dairy free)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup mashed cooked potato
1 egg
1/2 cup oat milk (or cow milk if you're not dairy free)

• Heat oven to 180°. 
• Combine the dry ingredients and mix
• In a separate bowl, beat together the melted olivani, oil, mashed potato, egg, and oatrmilk.
• Fold the wet mixture into the dry mixture and don't over mix!
• Fill the muffin tray.
• Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown on top.
• Cool and feed to baby!

I reckon this would work with other veggies too - maybe grated carrot, mashed pumkin, kumara, yams.