Cranberry Chocolate Chip Muffins

I am extremely proud of these:

Gluten free Cranberry Chocolate Chip Muffins!

If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you know I rarely bake. I usually avoid it because there are way too many rules and that freaks me out.

Cooking is way more forgiving. Cooking doesn’t require measuring cups.

I recently watched a friend make these and I quickly realized that she bakes like I cook.

She doesn’t follow a recipe word-for-word, she sometimes uses a measuring cup, and she isn’t afraid to improvise.

She made it look — dare I say it — fun.

So today I attempted her muffins and I am happy to report that they are pretty fantastic!

Ingredients:
3 cups almond flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
8 tbsp butter, 1 stick, melted and cool
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup honey, or swerve
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups cranberries
1 cup chocolate chips

Heat the oven to 325F.

Combine the almond flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl.

In another bowl, combine the melted butter, vanilla extract, honey, and eggs.

Make sure the melted butter is cool — you don’t want to cook the eggs.

Martha used Swerve instead of honey — either one will work.

Now add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients:

And mix well.

Go ahead and taste the batter, it’s delicious!

Add the cranberries:

And last, but certainly not least, the chocolate chips!

I used dark chocolate chips but milk chocolate will work, too.

Of course you don’t have to add chocolate chips, but as John said: you need them to balance out the cranberries.

Note: If you use Swerve or sugar instead of honey, you might need to add a tiny bit of water to thin out the batter.

Spoon the batter into a greased muffin pan.

You should have enough to make 12 muffins.

Bake for 18-20 minutes.

After a minute I put them on a rack to cool.

They smelled fantastic…

So I dug right in!

Moist. Tart. Sweet. Gooey.

I did it! I baked something and everyone loved it!

Please make these Cranberry Chocolate Chip Muffins as soon as possible.

Even if you aren’t on a gluten free diet, you will adore them.

They are super easy, too.