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Flourless Date Muffins

Course Dessert, Soup
Servings 12 muffins

Ingredients
  

  • 370 g almonds
  • 300 g pitted dates
  • 80 g boiling water
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 25 g butter quartered
  • 75 g light olive oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 3 extra large eggs
  • 75 g plain yoghurt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 180C (350F) and grease a 12-hole muffin tin; set aside
  • Put 180g of the almonds into the Thermomix bowl and mill with the measuring cup (MC) on for 6 seconds | Speed 8; remove to a bowl and repeat with the remaining almonds
  • Put dates into an empty Thermomix bowl and chop with the MC on for 8 seconds | Speed 7
  • Add water and heat with the MC off for 7 minutes | 100C | Speed 1
  • Chop the dates with the MC on for 12 seconds | Speed 4
  • Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add baking soda, butter, oil and vanilla and mix with the MC on for 10 seconds | Speed 3
  • Add eggs and yoghurt and mix with the MC on for 5 seconds | Speed 3
  • Add milled almonds and mix with the MC on for 30 seconds | Speed 5
  • Divide mixture into each hole of the muffin tin and bake on the middle tray for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean
  • Serve warm

Notes

  1. These muffins are best served warm
Keyword Dates, Muffins, Thermomix