Well, the actual title of this post should be “Sour Cherry Chocolate Chip Honey Semolina Muffins”, which would tell more about the ingredients, but it was so long that I sticked with this one. Since the freezer is full of sour cherries and we can’t eat them raw with sick stomacks (we all have gastritis & reflux in family), it’s better to use them in desserts. This is yet another semolina muffin recipe, if you remember the one with apples. I really like to put semolina in muffins, because semolina gives a nice texture and I think it increases the nice smell I get from the muffins (and I don’t know why).

This recipe also uses honey; because I don’t want to use too much processed stuff in my recipes, and sugar can easily be replaced with honey in cakes, and it also makes them moist, which I do like. So, enjoy!

Sour Cherry Chocolate Chip Honey Semolina Muffins

makes 15 small muffins

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup whole-wheat flour
• 1 cup semolina
• ½ cup honey
• ¼ cup olive oil
• 2 cups sour cherries (or 1 ½ cup pureed sour cherries)
• 2 teaspoons baking soda + 2 teaspoons baking powder (or 4 teaspoons of either one*)

* Actually, it does matter which one you use. The difference is, baking soda needs some acidic compound to rise; while baking powder also has some acidic salts to do that. So we add 2 teaspoons baking soda, which will be activated by sour cherries, and 2 teaspoons baking powder for the rest. Why 2 teaspoons? I don’t know, I just made it up. Maybe the sour cherries are enough to activate 4 teaspoons of baking soda. I don’t care about these things for these messy kind of recipes, where the taste is more important than the looks. By the way, I learned these stuff from Robert Wolke’s “What Einstein Told His Cook“. GREAT book, it has lots of useful information about food and cooking.

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C (350 degrees F).

Beat the eggs with honey and olive oil and sour cherries. Add ther dry ingredients and pour the batter into muffin cups.

Bake for 20 minutes.

It was another boring night with nothing to do, and apples on the kitchen table. So, it was a “must” to take a risk and make something totally improvisational. I mixed everything that comes into my mind to make a cake, and this is the result. Try!

Semolina Muffins with Apple and Coconut

makes 24 muffins

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 cup milk (I used low-fat)
• 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
• 1 1/2 cups semolina (you can use 2 cups flour and 1 cup semolina instead)
• 3 apples, grated
• 1 cup coconut flakes
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• pinch of ground nutmeg
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 lemon’s zest
• 4 teaspoons baking soda or baking powder

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C (350 degrees F).

In a bowl, beat together eggs, milk, oil and sugar.

Stir in vanilla, flour, semolina and coconuts, and mix well.

Add cloves, salt, cinnamon and baking soda. Then, add the apples and pour the mixture into muffin cups.

Before cooking the muffins, sprinkle the tops with lemon zest, and bake your muffins for about 25 minutes.

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