Basic Spa Fruit Bran Muffins

(from Lawmom’s recipe box)

Source: Tina Wassermans's Cooking and More

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
  • 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup bran-pure cellolose; natural sugar-1.5 x sweet as sugar (= 1/2 cup sugar)
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup skim milk
  • 2 tablespoons melted margarine-Fleishman's or mazda, not diet or in tub because air and water added
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • Grated zest of 1 small lemon
  • 3/4 cup diced fruit of your choice [apples, blueberries, bananas (mashed or diced), peaches, etc]

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

  2. Spray muffin tin with non-stick spray or line cups with muffin papers

  3. Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl

  4. In a smaller bowl, beat the egg and then whisk in the milk, vanilla, margarine, and lemon zest

  5. Add liquid ingredients to the flour mixture and stir only until mixture is combined

  6. Fold the fruit into the muffin batter and then rapidly pour into muffin tin and bake for 15-20 minutes or until muffins are golden

  7. Calories: Approximately 136 depending on fruit used

  8. Fat: about 3 grams

  9. Note: If using berries, such as raspberries, they aren’t very sweet-add more fructose or sugar

  10. Okay to use frozen fruit, but run under water to get ice crystals out and the strain

  11. Can make it sweeter by sprinkling cinnamon and sugar on top before baking

  12. Crusty’s low fat muffin mix is good (sam’s) less fat and less nutritions than these

  13. These don’t get as dark as regular muffins

  14. Double -— baking powder: reacts 1st to liquid and then to heat

  15. Okay-needs to be sweeter

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