Breakfast

Gluten-Free Pumpkin Muffins with Streusel Topping are a delightful fall treat. Pumpkin pie spice lends warm flavor to these cozy muffins and that topping makes them simply irresistible. 

Election Day.

Today is a nerve-wracking day for everyone. You may feel your fate lives outside of yourself. Is that really true?

Rather than allowing ourselves to get carried away with fear and anxiety, our energy is best served turning inward. 

What can I do to improve my well-being today?

Is there something I can do to help someone?

What is really, truly important when I zoom out?

A few simple questions and some deep breathing may be all it takes to bring ourselves back to peace and to recognize: life is a journey, and it doesn’t need to be controlled.

Surrender isn’t for the weak. It’s for the courageous. When we allow life to be as it is, we’re receptive to its lessons. If we try to resist, that which we resist persists.

So we can take a collective moment, you and me, to take a deep breath, exhale out our need for control, really take a look around and find something beautiful we can appreciate.

You are your own leader.

And streusel topping always improves a muffin. Always. That is a fact.

So if you’re game for another pumpkin treat, if you’re like me and you stress-bake-and-share, I’m here for you.

Let us bake.

4-Ingredient Banana Waffles that are nut-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and Paleo! These healthy banana waffles are nutritious, full of fiber, dense yet fluffy and crispy, and are easy to make! Welcome to the most interesting waffle recipe I, for one, have ever made.  Interesting because it only requires 4 ingredients, results in crispy-dense waffles LOADED with …

Grain-free Paleo Chocolate Banana Breakfast Cake made with almond flour and sweetened mostly with ripe bananas! This healthier cake recipe is suitable for breakfast for all those times you want to start the day with a treat. 

Moist, fluffy, oil-free, refined sugar-free and only a handful of basic ingredients are required to bake this cake!

We’ve discussed the fact that it doesn’t take a perfect world for cake to be an acceptable breakfast food. My Grain-Free Cranberry Orange Breakfast Cake, Strawberry Breakfast Cake , and Chocolate Chip Walnut Grain-Free Banana Cake all serve as both the proof and the reason.

For this edition of breakfasting on cake, we’re going with a double chocolate ditty, so you know it’s sultry.

All things considered, this healthy cake recipe is grain-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free, and delicious any time of the day!

Pssst! You can eat it for dessert and I won’t tell on you.

Let’s dive into the details.

Healthy Apple Muffins are grain-free and naturally sweetened with fruit. This paleo apple muffin recipe is grain-free, oil-free, dairy-free and contains no added sweeteners! Light, fluffy and warmly-spiced with cinnamon, this delicious apple cinnamon muffin recipe is a lovely breakfast or snack! As you may have seen in my Healthy Pumpkin Cake recipe last week, I’ve …

Flourless chickpea banana bread made with – you guessed it – chickpeas instead of flour! Simply blend the ingredients in a blender for a fluffy, dense, flavorful and delicious banana bread that is grain-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free and healthy!

You knew this was coming, didn’t ya?

It was only a matter of time…

If you’ve been around The Roasted Root a while, you know I have a tendency to make sweet treats using chickpeas or black beans. 

On this week’s edition of bean-infused deliciousness, we’re baking banana bread! No need for flour of any kind! All you need is a can of garbanzo beans (chickpeas), and you have a solid foundation for bean bliss.

Highlight Reel:

• Gluten-free, grain-free, flourless
• Dairy-free
• Refined sugar-free
• Lower in fat and sugar than regular banana bread
• Fun and easy to prepare with minimal cleanup

 

Let’s discuss the details behind this bread.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread with pumpkin pie spice is a fall explosion of warmly-spiced loaf bliss. Add chopped nuts, and/or omit the chocolate chips to your heart’s desire. Love a good glaze? Drizzle ‘er up!

Fall is my comfort zone. 

When it’s safe to go to bed at 7pm, my fuzzy socks make a permanent home on my feet, the majority of my liquid intake is fall-inspired tea, and I don’t feel as compelled to compete with myself to do every single thing while it’s light outside and there’s SO MUCH light outside. 

It’s a breath of fresh air.

Fall is my permission to hibernate.

Most importantly, It is my permission to bake sweet carby treats and pepper them around like I’m the treat fairy spreading little seeds of love all asunder.

What you need to know about this gluten-free chocolate chip pumpkin bread is it is crazy fluffy, perfectly moist, studded with delicious chocolate chips, warmly spiced for the most incredible fall treat.

The combination of pumpkin, warm cinnamony spices and chocolate is crazy scintillating on the taste buds!

Let’s dive right in here!

Gluten-free sourdough pancakes made with no additional flour! Using sourdough discard and a few basic ingredients, you can make the easiest pancakes that are low-carb and big on sourdough flavor. You won’t believe how moist, soft and flavorful these pancakes are!

If you belong to any of the following camps, this crazy simple recipe for sourdough pancakes is for you:

1. You’re out of flour 
2. You don’t want to wait the 8 recommended hours for your pancake batter to ferment in the refrigerator because you want pancakes MEOW!
3. “Fun” is your middle name.
4. You’re a human on planet earth.

True story: I ran out of flour because my gluten-free sourdough starter ate it all. 

But I wanted to make pancakes and there my sourdough starter was, all full and ready to be used

…so I put on my thinking cap and I whipped up a batch of sourdough pancakes using sourdough discard only and no additional flour. Cue the bells, whistles, and parade!

All you need is sourdough discard, an egg, butter/ghee/oil, baking powder and baking soda. THAT’S it!

The result? Pancakes that actually taste like sourdough, are nice and squishy, not at all fluffy, soft and chewy, but did I mention not fluffy?

Just thought I would set the proper expectation.

Actually, these pancakes remind me of 50’s diner-style flapjacks…you know the ones that are actually flat instead of fluffy? That’s these. But gluten-free. And tasting all sourdough like.

I smear them with almond butter and fold them up like a pancake burrito. Fun fact.

Let’s make them.

Paleo Lemon Blueberry Bread made with coconut flour, tapioca flour and pure maple syrup is a zesty, perfectly sweet, berry-studded treat! Simply whip up the batter in a blender, and enjoy this healthy quick bread!

Light, fluffy, and crispy chocolate-studded Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Sourdough Waffles are an absolute dream breakfast! Dairy-free and refined sugar-free, these waffles are amazing for serving guests.

Oil-free, no added sugar, gluten-free, Flourless Oatmeal Banana Nut Muffins made with only a handful of basic ingredients.

Flourless Oatmeal Banana Pancakes made with only 6 ingredients! These moist, fluffy, sweet and cinnamon pancakes make a delicious healthy gluten-free breakfast and are awesome for serving kids and guests of all ages.

Did you see, or have you made my Sweet Potato Oat Protein Pancakes, or Flourless Oatmeal Banana Bread I posted recently? The concept here is very similar! We are simply making flourless pancakes by turning whole oats into flour.

Plus, we’re banana-ing them up using a whopping 3 ripe bananas!

My guess is you already have everything you need to make these pancakes. Check it!

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins sweetened with coconut sugar are a flavorful healthy breakfast or snack! Moist, fluffy, perfectly sweet, these muffins are better for you than regular muffins and come together quickly!

Have you checked out The Best Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread Recipe yet? If you have, you’re already familiar with these gluten-free chocolate chip zucchini muffins, as they are a riff off of the ol’ loaf.

These zucchini muffins are studded with both chocolate chips and walnuts for that ultra fluffy, moist, cinnamony, chocolatey treat with a little texture and spunk. They come together quickly, are perfect for sharing, and make for a lovely breakfast or snack. 

If you have made zucchini bread or zucchini muffins in the past, you may already know that many recipes call for draining the zucchini of water before adding it to a recipe. While this may not seem like a big deal to some of you, I find it to be an ultra inconvenience, because I like hitting things hard and fast, you feel?

SO when it comes to zucchini baked goods, I always factor the zucchini moisture into the equation. I compensate for it, if you will. Don’t fight it, join it, is my motto when it comes to zucchini splooge.

The point is, there is no draining of the zucchini necessary, and this recipe comes together very quickly and requires just one bowl. You basically add the ingredients into the bowl in stages, just adding to the ease of preparation profile here. In fact, it’s so easy, it is a great baking project for children. AND it’s even easier to clean up!