Blueberry Muffins

I have been working on a recipe for egg-free blueberry muffins for a while. Since I always have a bag of wild blueberries in the freezer, I wanted an easy muffin recipe that I could use them in. I recommend using wild blueberries for this recipe because they are smaller, and therefore less likely to sink to the bottom of the muffin than regular-size blueberries.

It's still amazing to me that using flax seed meal, apple cider vinegar, and some extra baking soda, I can replicate the properties of egg in a muffin. These muffins hold together, rise, and stay moist, even without the egg. Hooray for egg-free muffins!

Blueberry Muffins
makes 6 muffins

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup rice milk. I used Trader Joe's vanilla rice drink or vanilla-flavored Rice Dream.
  
• 1 Tbsp. ground flax seed meal. I used Bob's Red Mill brand.
• 1 cup and 2 Tbsp. Bob's Red Mill Gluten-free flour
• 3/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. sea salt
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/3 cup granulated white sugar
• 3 Tbsp. canola oil
• 1/2 Tbsp. (which is 1 1/2 tsp.) apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup frozen wild blueberries

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease 6 cups of a muffin tin with canola oil. Heat the rice milk in the microwave for about 45 seconds. Add the flax seed meal to the rice milk, stir, and then set aside.

Into a medium bowl sift the flour using a sifter or a sieve. Add the baking soda, salt, and cinnamon, and stir to combine. In a small bowl mix together the sugar, canola oil, apple cider vinegar, and the rice milk and flax seed mixture. Then make a hole in the flour mixture and pour the liquid mixture into it. Stir just until you don't see any more dry flour.

Take the frozen blueberries and pour them into a small Ziploc bag. Add 1 teaspoon of gluten-free flour, seal the bag, and toss the berries around in the bag until they are coated in flour. Then gently stir the blueberries into the muffin batter. Quickly scoop the batter into the muffin tin and place the tin in the oven.

Bake the muffins for 15 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out of them mostly clean.