Pineapple Upside-down Muffins

With the cooler weather today and the threat of thunderstorms, I have been baking up a storm. After nearly a week of temps in the upper 80s, my family is welcoming this baking. They have been complaining about the lack of already-prepared food–*ingredients* I have!

I received this recipe on an email list I’ve been on for years. I changed the ingredients to fit what my family will tolerate and made the switch to GF. It’s probably a bit premature to post this recipe without checking to see if it actually tastes good-but I do have high hopes. The ingredients list looks long but, really, it isn’t bad. If you aren’t allergic to wheat, replace the teff, sorghum, and coconut flours with 1 ½ cup regular flour.

Pineapple Upside Down Muffins

Oven: 400 degrees

• 3 TB butter
• 6 TB brown sugar
• 1 can pineapple, chunks
• ¾ cup teff flour
• ½ cup sorghum flour
• ¼ cup coconut flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ cup oatmeal
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup oil
• 2 TB pineapple juice
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup applesauce
• ½ cup grated carrot
• 2/3 cup raisins

Place a small bit of butter into paper-lined muffin cups. Place 1 tsp brown sugar on top of butter and top that with 1 chunk pineapple. Set aside.

In large bowl, mix together flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, oatmeal and sugar. Add the eggs, oil, juice, vanilla, and applesauce, stirring until mixed well. Fold in carrots and raisins. Place batter on top of pineapple chunks. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and let stand for a couple of minutes before removing muffins from tin. Invert on plate and remove baking paper cups. Makes 18.

The Results: We had these for breakfast this morning and most of the family liked them. The 3 boys, who are very anti-GF diet, said that they would like me to make them again–soon. LOL! One of my girls said that the topping/bottom was really, really good and my other girl wouldn’t touch it. at. all. They had raisins in them. I keep hoping that one of these days she will actually try a raisin–and like it.