DIY VitaTop Muffins (and Cookies!)

VitaTop muffins are oh so good, but hardly cheap. Why can’t we just make our own for less?

We can!

This recipe posted by Healthy is Always Better is pretty good, especially if you have a good food processor that can easily flour rolled oats. (I mention this because mine is not the best.) The more “floured-down” the oats, the better the dough.

Oh, and if you’re confused about the cookie-muffin tops pictured above, well, I made them small enough to double as cookies, which I then made into ice cream sammies (pictured at the bottom of this post). Mmm.Mmm.Mmm!

Makes 1 muffin or 2 medium-sized muffin tops.

Ingredients

2.3 T oats

.5 t or less of egg white

2 t unsweetened applesauce

pinch of vanilla

2 t vanilla yogurt (Greek may work as well)

tiny pinch of cream of tartar (or .33 t vinegar)

pinch of baking powder, baking soda, and salt

1.3 T hot water

1.5 t stevia

Optional: Chocolate chips

Directions

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a cupcake liner or lightly grease a muffin tin. Set aside.

-In a food processor, mix all ingredients except chocolate chips. Blend until dough is smooth and well mixed. Remove and mix in chips.

-Scoop dough into tin and bake for about 10 minutes. Remove and place a few chocolate chips on top for aesthetics :).

-Place back in oven for another 2-3 minutes, or until you can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean.

-Cool muffins (or muffin tops, or muffin ice cream sammies!) and enjoy.

S’more Whoopie Pies

 

Remember my fascination with vanilla-maple ice cream? Well I found the perfect treat to mix it with…

Whoopie pies! S’mores style and seasonally appropriate.

Thanks, to Chocolate-Covered Katie’s multiple serving recipe, I’ve broken this one down and subbed coconut butter (the marshmallow part) for vanilla-maple ice cream.

And since s’mores are traditionally eaten during the summer, when you can actually toast them up around the campfire, I’m dubbing this the perfect too-cool-for-camping winter alternative. You can make it indoors and it features cold and creamy ice cream instead of a warm marshmallow.

Ingredients

2 T + 2 t spelt or whole wheat flour

pinch of baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon

1 t stevia

1 T non-dairy milk

a few drops vinegar

1 T applesauce

1 T water

small splash of vanilla

Directions

-Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet. Set aside. (Or if you have a whoopie pie maker, you can just use that and follow the manufacturer’s directions.)

-Mix vinegar drops into milk. Mix well.

-Then mix all wet ingredients into milk-vinegar mix, and then mix in each of the dry ingredients.

-Once all is blended, drop small balls on sheet and bake about 8 minutes.

Let cool slightly, but while still warm rub a few chocolate chips on the flat, bottom side of half the cookies. Once completely cooled, put a dollop of ice cream (or other preferred topping) on the other half of the cookies. Press together and enjoy!