Guilt-Free Blackberry and Cinnamon Fairtrade Muffins

I recently found out about the Fairtrade Big Fair Bake and I couldn't resist getting involved because I fully support the Fairtrade Foundation. I decided to whip up a guilt-free recipe that was fair to everyone in as many ways as I could think of! Therefore, my recipe is:

• Fair to the farmers who get a sustainable price to their products - because I am using Fairtrade ingredients.
• Fair to my health, because I have used wholemeal flour and reduced sugar for a tempting but not terrible treat.
• Fair to the wallet, because it makes use of the blackberries that everyone can get from their local hedgerow for free! Hooray!

In this recipe, I used Fairtrade cinnamon which you can get from Sainsburys. They have a range of herbs and spices on their own label and are the only supermarket that I have seen which do this. I also made use of Fairtrade sugar (of course!) although that's not part of the Big Fair Bake cos of course sugar's in a lot of bakes and doesn't require much creativity!

Guilt-Free Blackberry and Cinnamon Wholemeal Muffins
Makes 12 small muffins

Ingredients

250g wholemeal plain flour
75g butter/low fat spread (I used Tesco Dairy Free Spread)
2tsp baking powder
1 tsp Fairtrade cinnamon
70g Fairtrade golden granulated sugar
1 egg
200ml milk
2 handfuls of blackberries (frozen is fine if that's what you have)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 200'C.
• Cut the butter into the flour with a knife. Muffin recipes are better when they are worked less, so remember it doesn't have to be like breadcrumbs - just amalgamate all the larger pieces of butter.
• Add the other dry ingredients and give a quick mix.
• Mix up the egg and milk into a jug.
• Mix the wet ingredients into the dry with a few stirs. The mixture is quite lumpy and that's fine, do not overmix it or beat until smooth.
• Gently crush your blackberries a bit with a fork and then lightly fold into the mix so you get a ripple effect.
• Spoon the mixture into your cake cases
• Cook for 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

And just to prove that these are a pretty good choice when it comes to treat food, I inputted the recipe into an online calorie calculator, and per muffin, here is the nutritional info. Most(ly) virtuous!!

Amount Per Serving
Calories		138.1
Total Fat		4.3 g
	Saturated Fat	0.9 g
	Polyunsaturated Fat	1.6 g
	Monounsaturated Fat	0.9 g
Cholesterol		13.9 mg
Sodium		68.1 mg
Potassium		31.6 mg
Total Carbohydrate		23.3 g
	Dietary Fiber	3.4 g
	Sugars	7.4 g
Protein		3.7 g

This is my entry to the Foodies100 Fairtrade Big Fair Bake competition. 

I hope you enjoyed it and try the recipe out!

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