I find muffins are a favorite go-to winter breakfast and snack around here.  While frozen fruit is great, after losing all my freezer contents after the hurricane hit us last fall, I've been doing a bit more baking with freeze-dried fruits - and love it!  The flavor is great in muffins.  I've made these muffins as raspberry-orange muffins, raspberry-orange-chocolate muffins, raspberry-chocolate muffins and just plain raspberry muffins.  The variations are included below.  Enjoy!  

Raspberry-Chocolate Variety, fresh from the oven. Yum!

Freeze-dried Raspberry (Orange and/or Chocolate) Muffins

Makes 12 - 16 muffins (you can easily double the recipe to make 24-32)

Preheat oven to 350 F.  Line muffin tin with paper liners. 

In a mixer combine: 

2 eggs

1/3 cup sour cream

1/2 cup milk

1/2 - 3/4 cup sugar (I prefer 1/2, but if you're wanting more of a cupcake flavor, you can add a bit extra)

1/2 cup butter, softened (OR 1/4 cup oil + 1/4 cup butter, softened)

1/4 cup orange juice (Or an additional 1/4 cup milk)

6 drops wild orange essential oil OR zest of 1 orange OR 1 tsp vanilla extract

Add and mix in: 

1 cup Kristin's Gluten-Free Flour Mix

1/4 cup coconut flour 

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Beat medium high speed 2-3 minutes, until nice and fluffy. 

Fold in: 

1/2 - 3/4 cup freeze dried raspberries, slightly crushed

2-3 Tbsp mini chocolate chips (optional)

Divide in prepared pan - I find it makes 12-16 muffins, depending on how I scoop it. 

Raspberry Orange Muffins, ready to bake! This amount of batter in each muffin tin meant another pan with 4 was also baked to make 16 total.

Bake at 350 F for ~18-22 minutes, until golden.  Remove from oven and let rest a few minutes before removing to cooling rack to fully cool.  Enjoy!!!  Leftovers store well for a day or two in a tupperware, or you can freeze them in ziplocs, and that works well, too. 

Raspberry-Orange Muffins, fresh from the oven!

Raspberry-Chocolate Muffins, ready to bake.  The recipe was doubled, and filled a bit more generously per muffin tin to make 24. 

Raspberry-Chocolate muffins - a double batch fresh from the oven. Yum!

Freeze-dried Raspberry (Orange and/or Chocolate) Muffins Recipe by Successfully Gluten Free!