Gluten Free Blueberry Muffin Tops

After my journey into the country to visit The Berry Patch, (www.theberrypatchonline.com), I came home and quickly turned my harvest into muffin tops.Blueberry muffin tops

Remember the Seinfeld episode where Elaine raved about the importance of eating only the tops of muffins? I agree. Muffin tops are the crunchy, delicious parts of the muffins, and I always eat them first.

Since I also eat gluten free, it’s important that I substitute my recipe with gluten free flours and the end result is a wonderful muffin. You’ll notice that I’m also into almonds, but you can substitute walnuts, pecans or go nut-free.

So here is my version of gluten free blueberry muffin tops. Dee-licious!

  • 2 cups gluten free flour (I use almond, quinoa or amaranth)
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup chopped almonds
  • 2 Tablespoons chia seeds (these are wonderful for fiber and Omega 3’s)

Add all these dry ingredients together in a separate bowl from the liquid ingredients. In another bowl, blend together:

  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1 egg (beaten, but not abused)
  • 3 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Gently stir the liquid ingredients into the dry ones. Then carefully fold in 1 cup of freshly-washed blueberries.

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

With an ice cream scoop, place heaping mounds of the mixture onto a cookie sheet and carefully shape into circles.

Bake 15-20 minutes, depending on your oven. Cool slightly, then spread almond butter on the top before eating with a cup of green tea.

 To honor Reverend G, share some blueberry muffin tops with a single mom.

©2013 RJ Thesman – “The Unraveling of Reverend G” http://amzn.to/11QATC1

0 thoughts on “Gluten Free Blueberry Muffin Tops”

  1. Will have to try these – any chance coconut milk would work in the place of almond? I think I’ve got an almond issue!

  2. This sounds great! Do you think you could substitute coconut flour for part of the almond flour? And by the way, I think you’re brilliant with this method. I guess I always thought I needed a muffin top pan and now I know you don’t! Yay! Because I don’t have one of those. But muffin tops are my fave part of the muffin too.

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