BERRY MUFFINS

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups of organic brown rice flour
• 1/2 cup flaxmeal
• 2 tsps cinnamon
• 3 tsp non-aluminium baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/8 tsp sea salt or Real Salt
• 3 large ripe bananas
• (optional:  1/2 cup fresh pineapple)
• 6 Tbsp unsweetened juice (apple, pear, cranberry, etc.)
• 1/2 cup cold pressed sunflower oil
• 1 tsp natural pure vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 cups mixture of fresh or frozen berries (raspberries, saskatoon, blueberries or blackberries)
• (optional:  1/2 cup raw organic pecans)

Mix all of the dry ingredients together.  Thoroughly blend bananas, pineapple, juice, vanilla and oil in a blender.  Add liquid mixture to dry ingredients and stir.  Fold in berries and pecans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes in a stainless steel muffin tin lined with unbleached muffin cups. Makes 12 medium muffins.