22 Apr

Recipe of the Month: Wild Garlic & Cheese Muffins

At A Touch of the Wild, our Wild Tots at Home families have been getting wonderfully creative in the kitchen, bringing a little bit of the woodland indoors!

This month’s favourite has been these wild garlic and cheese muffins. They’re simple, tasty, and perfect for little hands to help make. Ideal for picnics, lunchboxes, or a post-adventure snack 🍃

If you don’t have access to wild garlic, don’t worry, you can swap it for leek, chives, or spring onions just as easily.

🌱 A Foraged Favourite

Foraging is a lovely way to connect children with nature, encouraging curiosity, confidence, and a deeper appreciation for the natural world. Wild garlic is one of the easiest (and safest) plants to identify in spring, with its unmistakable garlicky scent.

🧺 Ingredients

225g self-raising flour
50g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
100g grated cheese
6 tbsp vegetable oil
150g natural yoghurt
125ml milk
1 egg
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 large handfuls of wild garlic leaves, washed and chopped

👩‍🍳 Let’s Get Baking!

Preheat your oven to 200°C (180°C fan) / Gas 6.
In a large bowl, mix together the self-raising flour, plain flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
In a separate bowl, combine the cheese, oil, yoghurt, milk, egg, Worcestershire sauce and wild garlic.
Gently mix the wet and dry ingredients together until just combined.
Spoon the mixture into muffin cases in a tray.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden and risen.
Allow to cool slightly on a rack… then enjoy warm or pack up for an outdoor adventure!

🌟 Wild Tip

Why not turn this into a mini activity before baking? Head out on a short walk to spot wild garlic together, sniff, explore, and chat about what you find. It’s a brilliant way to bring learning to life 🌼

If you’d love more nature-inspired activities like this, our Wild Tots sessions are full of hands-on fun, from foraging to campfire cooking. Perfect for curious little explorers and their grown-ups 💚