Mon, Oct-11-04, 19:45
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Cast Iron Chef
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Plan: lc, higher protein
Stats: 170/132/127
BF:
Progress: 88%
Location: nyc
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Amazing chocolate flaxseed muffins
Chocolate flaxseed muffins
I’ve had a bag of flaxseed meal hanging around in my fridge for awhile, and the other day, I saw a post by Karen in which she linked to a number of different flax muffins. I decided to make one of the chocolate flax muffin recipes, but when it came time to do so, I didn’t have all of the right ingredients (for instance, we were out of whole eggs, and had no whey protein powder). I guessed and poured, and came up with the following. These are excellent – moist and light, with a very good texture.
1 cup flaxseed meal
1/4 cup Atkins chocolate shake mix
1/4 cup vital wheat gluten
2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa (I used Ghirardelli's - it's not Dutch process)
1/4 cup Splenda (or 2T Splenda and 2T brown Sugar Twin)
1/8 tsp stevia
2 tsp baking powder (double acting)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla powder (or 1/2 tsp vanilla extract)
1/2 cup egg whites
5 Tbsp oil
1 cup unsweetened soy milk
Preheat oven to 350 (my oven runs a little hot, so you might have to go to 375 if yours is accurate). Mix dry ingredients together; sift into wet ingredients. Stir and let rest about 15 minutes. Mixture will thicken considerably. Stir again, briefly but vigourously. Pour into a 12-muffin tin sprayed with non-stick spray (note: do NOT use paper muffin cups). Bake for 25 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
They don’t hold together very well if you do something like try to spread cold cream cheese on them, but I’m not sure that real muffins would, either. I’m not even a muffin person, and I love these. They work out to just over 1.5g net carbs per muffin with all Splenda, and exactly 1.5g net carbs with ½ Splenda and ½ Sugar Twin.
Whole recipe (12 muffins) – calculated in FitDay PC with all Splenda:
1492 calories
115g fat (69% of total)
13g saturated
63g carbs (5% of total)
44g fiber
83g protein (23% of total)
Per 1 muffin/2 muffins:
124 calories/248 calories
10g/19g fat
(1g/2g saturated)
5g/10 carbs
4g/7g fiber
7g/14g protein
Last edited by Milhafre : Mon, Oct-11-04 at 20:57.
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