Hemp Apple Muffins

Ingredients

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp ground allspice

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 rounded tsp salt

2 large eggs

1 cup plus 2 tbsp frozen, thawed apple juice concentrate

2/3 cup buttermilk(or non-dairy milk)

2 tbsp oat bran

2 small Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and chopped

1/3 cup hemp hearts (shelled hemp seeds)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350C. Grease 12 standard size muffin-pan cups.

Mix together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and salt. Mix together eggs, apple juice and milk. Stir flour mixture and oat bran into egg mixture until dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not overmix. Gently stir in chopped apples and Shelled Hemp Seed. Spoon batter into prepared pan, filling cups 2/3 full. Garnish each muffin with an apple slice,sprinkle with Shelled Hemp Seed.

Bake muffins until lightly golden and tops spring back when pressed, 25 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack to cool slightly. Turn muffins out onto rack to cool completely.

Recipe provided by Manitoba Harvest