Single Serve Muffin

Ever make an entire batch of cookies, or brownies, or bars, or muffins. And well…Accidentally eat the entire batch yourself? Not even in one sitting, but over the span of a few days? You see, I live a certain kind of life called “Single Living,” where I have no one but myself to cook for. So it is pretty much inevitabe that the entire batch will be consume by yours truly. Unless…I take it upon myself to do something nice and knock on my neighbor’s door and offer them a taste. *idea* Maybe I should deliver some to the people who live above me so they’ll stop doing their Jillian Michael’s dvd at 11PM. I am all for getting fit, but once the sun goes down…please refrain from jumping and or bouncing balls.

Haha. Okay I’ll stop complaining now. But seriously, my apartment building has paper thin walls and I can pretty much hear anything and everything from my neighbors above, below, and across from me. hmph. 

Back to my point about eating an entire batch of cookie…Sometimes I just want one cookie instead of tempting myself with an entire batch of goodness. So…I decided to create a recipe for a single serve muffin! I went with a classic flavor, blueberry. I like to call this method of baking…prevention. 

At the last minute I decided to to jazz it up a bit and add some protein frosting. Prior to this baking sesh, I did an upper body strength training workout along with one of the dvd’s from Booty Camp Fitness. AKA I could use the extra protein boost. More on my workout after the recipe.

Here is the muff pre frosting…

There was a lot of texture in this muffin. I could especially taste the flax. I am wondering if I should have used multiple different kinds of gf flour to get a smoother texture. I don’t really know the “rule” for gluten free baking, but I do know that Bob’s Red Mill’s Gluten Free Baking Mix has a bunch of different flours in it. Next time, I am going to try and add a mashed banana for some extra sweetness

Moving on to my workout. As you know, Booty Camp Fitness sent me a collection of dvd’s to test out. Today was the perfect day to try out “Ab-Salute! Core Vol. 2″ I did an upper body workout and still had some oomph in me when I got home for some abs.

Have you ever had issues with loud/rowdy neighbors?

Are you a gluten free baker? Do you have tips for me?!