Millet Muffins And Excuses

Maybe I'm not cut out for blog life, what with this "regular posting" and all. Maybe I'm just super lazy. And maybe, just maybe, it's both. In any case, I made these muffins ... a week ago? Three? And better late than never ...

Millet Muffins
Adapted from Super Natural Every Day.

2 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1/3 cup raw millet
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup plain yogurt
2 large eggs
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup honey
2 lemons, zested and juiced

Preheat your oven to 400 F with a rack in the top third of it. Grease a standard 12-muffin pan, or line with paper liners.

Whisk together all dry ingredients. In another bowl, after lightly beating the eggs, whisk together the remaining ingredients (the wet ones). Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir until the flour is just incorporated - over-stirring this will make the batter dense, making the muffins dense, making you (the assumed eater) very unhappy.

Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, leaving about 1/4 inch below the top of the pan. For me this meant making two batches. Bake 15 minutes or until muffin tops are browned and just starting to crack. Remove from oven and let cool in pan for about 5 minutes before transferring the muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.

Notes

• These were great as snack food. Lightly sweet, I quite liked them with either raspberry preserves or butter and honey. Especially if I warmed the muffin in the microwave for about 11 seconds first. 
• Heidi (this cookbook's author) notes that these go over well with the "cornbread crowd" and I can see why. If you were going to make cornbread as a side to a meal or as a component of stuffing, you may want to try these instead since millet is supposed to be super healthy or something.

Cost

• As you can surmise, this is a super quick recipe. Between mixing and making, you're only looking at a half hour. Cooling brings it up to about an hour.
• My apartment has become a Bermuda Triangle of lost receipts which, regretfully, means I can't give you an exact cost per muffin on these guys. I will say, though, that shopping in the bulk section at Whole Foods for the millet and whole wheat pastry flour will make your costs more than reasonable. Those were the only two things I had to buy and I'm confident I paid less than $5 for them.