Lessons, Tips, & Recipes — coconut sugar

The other day I was looking at my bowl of clementines and I was inspired to test out a easy, all purpose gluten free  breakfast muffin. I wanted something that would be bright and fresh. Different from the heavy pumpkin or sweet potato muffins I have been making all winter. I ended up taking a standard muffin recipe I found in my old Betty Crocker Cook Book and messing with it a bit.

Gluten Free Mama has a lot of requests for information about baking with different sugars, sweeteners and alternative sugars.  I am a baker and there are many baked goods that call for sugar,  without sugar they would not be called Cake,  Donuts, or Cookies.  I am not a nutritionist nor a doctor, I am a baker.  So instead of debating the health issues regarding each sugar/sweetener I will share the basic information