Corn muffins with carob

[Aldous]

Corn muffins with carob

I decided to look at some recipes having carob in the food rather than chocolate. There's caffeine and theobromine in chocolate, but not in carob. Today I made some corn muffins from a mix and put some carob powder and Ceylon cinnamon in it and put the batter in paper cups having a flower pattern. They don't taste too chocolatey.




I found this online, too,

Hot Carob
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon carob powder
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/204829/hot-carob/

and thought about leaving out the honey and using stevia as the sweetener and also 1-2% low fat milk.

[BigJohn]

Ceylon Cinnamon, I would say, was a wise choice. Where I live, it seems most of the Cinnamon comes from China.

As for your muffins.... they sound tasty.

When I used to cook, I would try new things. In your recipe, I would have cooked them in a slow cooker....... because an oven was not available.

[Aldous]

One problem is that the corn muffin mix has 690 mg of sodium per serving and the egg replacer has 320 mg of sodium per Tbsp. A real egg has about 60-70 mg of sodium. I have some corn meal that has 0 sodium and 0 sugar in it and there's a recipe for corn muffins on the bag. I was thinking about making some corn muffins without added salt or sugar. It needs a leavening agent like yeast or baking powder. Maybe potassium carbonate and citric acid would work good and is sodium free. Ammonium carbonate is used sometimes, too.

[BigJohn]

Looks like you really know what you are doing.

When I cooked, I didn't use salt and rarely used honey.

[Aldous]

Carob Almond Bar
You could leave out the sugar and salt and use stevia as the sweetener.
https://www.australiancarobs.com/carob-almond-bar/

Cocoa butter
The main constituent of cocoa butter is the triglyceride (fat) derived from palmitic acid, oleic acid, and stearic acid.
Cocoa butter, unlike non-fat cocoa solids, contains only traces of caffeine and theobromine.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_butter

[moonlitsage]

I haven't baked in a while, but these muffins look tasty!