Mini Muesli and Apple Muffins

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Angeline
I made mini muesli and apple muffins for Alicia yesterday while she was taking her nap. A close friend of mine whose daughter liked the eggless apple muffins I baked last time asked me to post the recipe here so that she can make the muffins in her own time. Well, this recipe’s found on the packaging of the Heinz Muesli and Apple Cereal (for 10-15mths) so I think it’s ok to share it here. 🙂

Mini Muesli & Apple Muffins

Ingredients

  • 11/2 cups self raising flour, sifted
  • 1/2 cup Heinz Muesli & Apple Cereal
  • 1/2 cup light brown or raw sugar (I used Origin’s organic raw sugar)
  • 2T sultanas
  • 1tsp cinnamon
  • 3/4cup full cream milk (I used breast milk)
  • 1/3cup canola oil (I used olive oil)
  • 1 x 120g can Heinz Apples (I used 8T of homemade applesauce)

Method

  1. Combine flour, muesli, sugar, sultanas and cinnamon.
  2. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients.
  3. Stir in the milk, oil and apples, until just combined.
  4. Spoon into lightly greased mini muffin tins. (I used mini silicon muffin cups I bought at Daiso and the muffins came out so easily!)
  5. Bake at 180degC for 12-15min, or until golden. (I had to bake it for 20-25minutes before they turned slightly golden.)

Freeze for up to 3 months.

I made 28 mini muffins (I told my friend 32 – mis-counted) but I ate 2 coz they tasted so yummy so there’re just 26 mini muffins left for her. She’s eaten one yesterday and one today… 24 left! 😀

Here’re a couple of pictures of the muffins:

The first batch fresh from the oven!

Yummy!

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Feeding at 13 months (and beyond)

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Angeline

When Alicia turned 13 months, we brought her for her pneumoccocal booster jab. When I asked the doctor about her weight, he said she was at the 10th percentile and he advised me to either increase her food intake or supplement 1 milk feed with formula milk. Very reluctant to supplement her milk intake with formula (which she hasn’t had any for the past year), I decided that we had to increase her food intake (which really isn’t easy, but we had to try somehow). My hubby said that we should start giving her a bit of everything that we had (unless it was seafood or nuts) in the hope that she’d be a less picky eater. I agreed to do so, so Alicia started eating table food from this month onwards. This means that from this month onwards, there’s really nothing much to blog about since she’s just eating what we eat 🙂 I’d only blog about the food that I make specially for her from now on…

Eating table food also means that from this month onwards, she gets to taste the condiments used in our food. As long as the taste’s not too extreme, we let her try it. Has letting her try everything we eat worked in making her a less fussy eater? I would say that it has to quite an extent because she does seem more keen to try out our food every time we eat something. Whether or not she actually accepts what we’re eating is another issue altogether but well, it seems that she’s becoming less fussy this month. The best part this month? It’s gotta be her eating and loving rice! On a good day, she can eat up to 8-10 tablespoons of rice (more than what I used to eat during pre-preggie days!). I’m also quite sure that amount’s more than what my 21-year-old cousin eats… haha…
Here’s a picture of a typical dinner:

In the picture: rice, broccoli, cod with applesauce, quail egg, sweet potato (orange and yellow), a small piece of salmon and chicken without the sauce (from our dinner – I cooked stir-fried salmon in black pepper sauce and baked chicken that night)

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