Flax-meal Breakfast Muffins

I think I may have just found a decent bread substitute.

Although these muffins have the texture of a cake, they are nowhere near as sweet and they taste like wholemeal bread.

I’m not kidding.

Now, when that all-encompassing craving for bread comes upon me I have these to fall back on.

And it was a complete coincidence that it happened.

The recipe is adapted from one I saw from bran muffins. I thought flax-meal would be a good substitute, and boy is it. But I had never imagined that they would taste as similar to wholemeal bread as they do. I know I’m beginning to sound a little repetitive, but I really can’t get over it.

The only downside – if you can really call it a downside – is that they do need an accompaniment of some sort, even if it is just butter. Personally I have had then with butter and jam, warmed with a good helping of almond butter, and finally – to revive them a few days later – I cut one into three, dipped it in beaten egg and French toasted them (with the compulsory drowning of maple syrup and a sliced banana). Delicious. And just as versatile as bread. Even if it is a little tricky to make them into a sandwich.

I topped them with frozen berries but you could leave these off and then you will be free to cover them in something savoury.

I’m making myself hungry.