{"id":4591,"date":"2011-06-09T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2019-04-29T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:00:19","slug":"honey-oat-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/honey-oat-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Oat Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Honey<\/a>

Honey Oat Muffins (c)2011 LaDomestique.com<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate with muffins, shall we? The time has come to wrap up muffin week, and I have enjoyed it- maybe too much. Lots of baking and sweets this week. Maybe I’ll focus on salads next week, so I can recover. For now, let’s enjoy the muffins. While researching oats this week I came across this recipe over at Food & Wine. Chef Spike Mendelsohn, of Top Chef fame, contributed a recipe for White House Honey-Oat Muffins.<\/a> Spike was inspired by the new beehive in the White House Garden. Cool, I get to use some local Boulder honey. After trying every honey at the Boulder Farmer’s Market<\/a>, I’ve settled on a favorite from 2 R’s Farm<\/a>. I’m a fan of the deep, rich, slightly floral flavor and dark golden color. Spike’s Honey Oat Muffins have a nice delicate crumb and are moist without being oily or wet. Honey lends a lovely soft sweetness to the muffins. The ground coriander is an interesting flavor, sweet and citrusy with a mild spice that lingers after the last bite. I keep coriander seeds in the pantry and grind them fresh as I need to. I really like these muffins because of what they are not: too sweet, oily, too big, or too dense. I enjoy the comforting flavors of oats, wheat, cinnamon, and honey more than something super sweet and sugary.<\/p>\n

These little muffins beg to be served with tea. Slather them simply with butter or maybe some blackberry jam. For a Chef infamous for being loud and proud, these muffins are decidedly reserved. They are simple and nourishing and I quite like them. The recipe is ridiculously simple, which totally made me feel like a domestic goddess. I’ll just whip these up for breakfast! Let’s just dump everything in a bowl and call it done! Isn’t that the best?<\/p>\n

Have a lovely weekend. Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n

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Muffins And Tea (c)2011 LaDomestique.com<\/p><\/div>\n

White House Honey-Oat Muffins from Spike Mendelsohn<\/h5>\n

makes 12 muffins<\/em><\/p>\n

3\/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
\n3\/4 cup whole-wheat flour
\n3\/4 cup all-purpose flour
\n2 teaspoons baking powder
\n1 1\/2 teaspoons baking soda
\n1\/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
\n1\/2 teaspoon ground coriander
\n3\/4 teaspoon salt
\n1\/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons honey
\n1\/2 cup buttermilk
\n1\/2 cup canola oil
\n2 large eggs<\/p>\n

Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 12 cup muffin tin. Combine the oats, whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, coriander, and salt in a large bowl. In a small bowl, whisk the honey, buttermilk, canola oil and eggs together. Pour the mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Do not over-mix. Spoon the batter into the muffin tin and bake 18 minutes or until the muffins are golden and a toothpick comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool in the pan for 5 minutes, the remove from pan and transfer to a rack. These muffins will keep for 3 days if stored in an airtight container.<\/p>\n

\"Honey<\/a>

Honey Oat Muffins (c)2011 LaDomestique.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Baking Notes<\/h5>\n

I live at an altitude of 5,000 feet above sea level. Therefore, I usually alter a recipe just a bit to ensure success. The recipe you see above is the original recipe, without any changes from me. For these muffins I increased the buttermilk by 1 tablespoon, but if I baked them again I would probably increase it by 2 tablespoons. I decreased both the baking powder and baking soda a little bit. Adjusting the leavening in recipes for baking at altitude is something you just have to experiment with. I’m happy with the results, but I will continue to fiddle with this recipe to get a better rise out of the muffins.<\/p>\n

Since I didn’t have buttermilk on hand, I followed the ratio of adding 1 tablespoon vinegar to 1 cup of milk to make my own. After sitting for 10 minutes, the milk can be used as buttermilk in baking.<\/p>\n

Also, I did not have canola oil on hand, so I used grapeseed oil and it was all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate with muffins, shall we? The time has come to wrap up muffin week, and I have enjoyed it- maybe too much. Lots of baking and sweets this week. Maybe I’ll focus on salads next week, so I can recover. For now, let’s enjoy the muffins. While researching oats this week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[9,160,91],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19429,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/19429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}