Recipe Corner: Applesauce Muffins

Last week, my friends shared some applesauce muffins with my girls and they have been talking about it non-stop.  So after searching the internet,  I found this recipe on allrecipes.com, but tweaked it a little for my own preference (whole wheat flour, splenda, etc..).  I hope you enjoy!

Ingredients

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon ground allspice
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups applesauce
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup raisins

Directions

1. In a bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, allspice and baking soda; set aside. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, applesauce and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in raisins. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove to a wire rack.

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Mother’s Day Idea

Mothers and Daughters will find the conversation and laughter flowing when they Celebrate Mother’s Day enjoying a festive tea day.

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Tea for Mother’s Day
Mother Earth Zest® - a refreshing blend of ginger, spearmint, fennel and sage which assists in bringing a sense of fullness and grounding to our lives. This blend aids digestion and helps us root to the earth. Healing to the Root Chakra.
Mother Earth Zest® rice Pudding Ingredients
2 cups cooked organic brown rice
1 ½ cups almond milk
2 tablespoons organic maple syrup
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups brewed Mother Earth Zest® Tea

Directions
Place the cooked rice, almond milk, maple syrup and Mother Earth Zest® Tea in a saucepan. Cover and bring almost to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low and simmer 15 to 20 minutes or until creamy. Remove the cover, and add the vanilla. Cover and simmer another 5 minutes.
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Sacred Rose® Organic Herbal Tea is a leading online purveyor of hand blended vibrational tisanes. Nourishing the bodymind with Sacred Herbs, their therapeutic attributes, tastes and aromas, is a gift from the enlightened ones and practiced in every spiritual tradition worldwide. Sacred Rose offers 8 distinctive herbal tea blends. Beloved, Dreamtime, Inner Peace, Clearing Tea, Soul of the Rose, Morning blossom, Mother Earth Zest and Matri. I was sent a sample of Matri and Beloved to try. Matri is a delicate blend of nettles, red raspberry, rose hips, alfalfa, dandelion, lemon and ginger that breathes women in birth in the most high and loving way. Beloved has a blend of damiana leaf, jasmine, hibiscus, hawthorn, pomegranate and wild cherry bark Matri was blended to breathe women in birth in the most high and loving way. Matri was created by Sacred Rose to inspire mothers to be unified with the higher consciousness of the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual body systems. Why not treat your mother to the herbal blends of Matri this Mother's Day?!? Check out the beautiful packaging the tea comes shipped in. It is almost too pretty to open. And once you open it, look at all the herbal goodness on the inside. I love all kinds of teas, sweet tea, flavored teas, herbal teas... As much tea as I have had in my life, I have never tried loose leaf tea. So, I was not sure what to expect. It was very easy to do, all you need to do is infuse one teaspoon of your favorite blend into one cup of boiling water for 3-5 minutes. The longer you seep the more intense the flavor. The aroma of the tea filled my kitchen and the flavors had a nice twist to them. Depending on how sweet you like them you could go without or use your favorite sweetener. If you love herbal teas, then go check out Sacred Rose Tea online or you can check them out on Facebook Sacred Rose Organic Herbal Tea is going to give one lucky reader of Between the Lines the opportunity to win the Mother's Day tea.  

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