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TIP: You'll find the exact recipe I'm demo-ing here, the Apple Spice Morrning Mug Muffins, in the Week 1 meal plan, the Breakfast Recipes PDF, and the All P3 Recipes PDF in the PDF Downloads section here! AND I just went ahead and posted the recipe below as well. 🙂
These are some IMPORTANT NOTES in making the morning mug muffins.
- You can make them as one serving, they are pretty quick OR
- If you're busy you can also make them in batches then refrigerate or freeze them. Let them cool before freezing and get all the air out from the bag to keep frost buildup and freezer burn. You can keep this frozen for a few weeks.
- To make multiple servings at once in the microwave: 4 mugs takes about 6-8 minutes in the microwave. Reheating a frozen muffin takes an extra minute or so.
- For the Apple Spice Mug Muffin, you only use 1/4 of the apple per serving. What you can do is cook 4 servings so you get to use the whole apple in one cooking.
- Use a bigger ramekin/mug. It will rise in the microwave so give at least 2-3 inches of space for that.
- Check the label of the egg white cartons. Some have flavorings. You need only the egg whites.
- These mug muffin recipes have flax seed meal which is fiber so remember to drink a lot of water after eating this.
- The sweetener we're using for this mug muffins has erythritol in them which is okay. If you want, you can play with the ratios and use more stevia and decrease the erythritol.
- ALTERNATE OVEN COOKING METHOD: Please note, oven cooking method is temporary guesstimate till fully tested! PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees. Pour batter into mug, bake for 25 minutes. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND making several at a time so you’re not spending all that time for 1 muffin lol!
- BATCH OVEN COOK ALTERNATE METHOD: A P3tolifer has now batch cooked these mug muffins as a LOAF pan - she 8x the recipe and put it in a loaf pan- note that once you multiple a recipe like this often the ratios of ingredients need to be adjusted and it's a bit trial and error. So far what she has found with her best loaf result was that a reduction in liquid (I'm sorry I'm not sure how much!) and then cooked at 375 degrees for 55 minutes turned out her best loaf yet.
Here's her description of the loaf pan method:
Heather adds protein powder to her mug muffins to make it lunch:
The Recipe!
Apple Spice Morning Mug Muffin
Ingredients:
1/4 cup flax meal
1/4 cup peeled and grated apple
2 tbsp unsweetened coconut milk
3 tbsp egg whites
1 tsp butter, melted
1 tbsp swerve/truvia
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tiny scoop stevia*
What to Do:
- COMBINE ingredients in a mug or small bowl. Stir well until smooth and moistened.
- MICROWAVE for 1 minute and 50 seconds.
Alternate Cooking Method OVEN:
Please note, oven cooking method is temporary guesstimate till fully tested!
PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees. Pour batter into mug, bake for 25 minutes. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND making several at a time so you’re not spending all that time for 1 muffin. :)-
NOTE: I will work on making these in the oven to get exact cooking times for each recipe of these- in the meantime, this is a good guesstimate based on a mug muffin recipe my recipe developer has made in the past for someone else.
Are these mug cakes too big to batch in cupcake tins?
Hey Vandi! For using a cupcake tins, 1 mug cake will fill more like 2-3 tins- I’m not exactly sure how many but if you try it and do the calculations, let us know how it turns out!
Love Mug bread. It’s FAB. Have no idea how you came up with all of this – but THANK YOU!!!!! Grateful for these recipes, the insights, the community you have built, and way you laid out this program.On week 2 and loving it. Thanks again!
I’m so happy to hear this!
When making 4 at a time how long should we microwave for?
I’m not sure, I’ve never done 4 at a time before. I think quite a bit longer though.
I am a week for phase 3…and I do not use a microwave at all! My thinking is why have something so nutritionally good…and then kill it all in the microwave?
Anyway, I do use a Cuisinart bake, air fry, convection et al….and will try that using a loaf pan…then cut pieces and refrigerate or freeze. I am very excited to try these! 🙂
I totally get you- we actually didn’t own a microwave for about 7 years but this past year we have been using one again- I did some further research and it seems like I’m finding conflicting updated info on if microwaves are as bad as they seemed to be – but nevertheless, if you don’t need one, definitely avoid! Another gal made her mug muffins in a muffin pan in the oven- cooked much faster that way- but I know she got more than 1 muffin per serving since less batter fit, except I can’t remember how much- so mayb just keep track of how many servings the recipe makes when you do it, see how many muffins it results in, then divide so you get the full serving (like maybe you’ll get 2 smaller muffins for instance). I hope you like them!
Hi Rayzael, for consistency issues, can unsweetened apple sauce be substituted for the grated apple, if so how much of the applesauce should be used?
Possibly- apple sauce is a lot more wet, so likely you’d use less of it, and ultimately it may not work I’m not sure.
Ok, dummy me, I did not notice the difference between flax meal and seed. But did google it and used the ordinary 62 oz wet container of the vitamix blender to make the meal from the seed. a small amount even worked.
So made the Chocolate morning bread correctly. But have made the apple one with the seed. Will have to try that again with the meal ! !
Oh teehee! Kind of better actually that that happened because making fresh ground flaxseed meal is best anyway- from what I read it tends to go rancid fairly quickly one ground up because if the high oil content – although I think keeping the meal in the fridge or freezer helps slow that process down.
Would it be possible to use unsweetened applesauce instead of the grated apples?
Hey Sam! I think you could try it- the one thing I might do is use less possibly because I think the applesauce might be quite a bit more “wet” than the raw grated apple, so it could make the mug muffin overly moist I think – so I’d try using less of the applesauce or adding a little more flaxseed meal to compensate- we’d love for you to report back and let us know how this alternate turns out for others to know!
Did everyone know about mug muffins except for me? These have helped so much! Not only is it like being able to eat a piece of chocolate cake every day but let’s just say the flax is sure doing its job. (Sorry, probably TMI.) Sugar is definitely my trigger, but these are satisfying without making me crave anything else. Yay!
I’m so glad you’re loving those muffins Christine! There will be more flavors for that style of recipe in weeks 4-6 as well. 🙂 I’m so glad they aren’t causing cravings while providing the satisfaction factor- that was my whole goal and what I need in my own life too.
Hey there,
Rather than making and cooking right away, is there any problem making the batter and leaving in the fridge (for a couple of days) until you’re ready to bake? Or have you tried freezing the batter? Haven’t tried these yet, but they seem like they would taste better freshly cooked than reheated. Thanks!
CP
Hey Chris! Great question- that I actually don’t know. I only made several at once and then refrigerated or froze them already made and that worked well. I think making the batter and leaving in fridge may not work because I think the baking powder will lose it’s power and it may not rise once you go to microwave or bake it. With freezing, guess what I just googled this and it appears that may work! Here’s the link I found: http://www.thekitchn.com/3-ways-to-freeze-cupcake-batte-126022 and this link has various things to say about refrigerating batter- it sounds like it might work, just might not fluff up as much on the 2nd or 3rd day, but possibly still be fine enough to be worth the time savings? The freezing option sounds best though but then of course you have to remember to thaw, which I always forget lol. https://food52.com/hotline/20940-in-regards-to-chemical-leavening-baking-soda-powder-why-can-cookie-doughs-be-made-24-hours-ahead Wait! The other thing I just thought of- what if you didn’t add the baking powder to the batter in the fridge until you made it? But then it would be have to be in individual bowls for that to work- just another though thought. Please let me know what happens whatever it is you end up trying!
Hi Rayzel!
This video is great but is there a way to get the list of ingredients and recipe details?
Thanks????
Rose
It’s in the recipes PDFs- the apple spice morning mug bread – if you look in the breakfasts doc you’ll see it under PDF downloads-hope that helps!
I just added the actual link and which docs you’ll find the recipe in to the page itself Rose- hope that helps!
Haha okay I added the recipe to the tutorial here too now- how’s that! :)-
Watching this one, the instant pot vid, and the smoothie demo… it would be so so awesome to see more recipe demo videos from the meal plan! Maybe too much time to do it but I’m really digging them. ❤️
Im so glad! It was a lot of work but it was also neat working with my little bro who did all the filming. I’d be open to Creating some more if you guys picked out what you would most like to see demo-wise.