Apple Walnut Muffins Low Fat Low Sugar Version Recipes

JUMBO FLUFFY WALNUT APPLE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Coat top and insides of jumbo muffin pan with cooking spray, or line with muffin papers.
• In a large bowl, cream together 1/2 cup butter, 1 1/4 cups sugar, vanilla, and salt until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at time. Mix together the 1 3/4 cups of flour, baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated. Fold in apples and walnuts. Scoop into muffin cups to fill 3/4 full. Lightly sprinkle the tops with cinnamon crumble.
• To make Cinnamon Crumble: In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup white sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, and 2 tablespoons cubed butter. Mix together using a pastry blender, or two butter knives. The crumble topping should resemble small peas.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until tops are golden brown, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. If they are browning too quickly, cover with tin foil. Remove from pans, and cool on wire rack.

BANANA BREAD MUFFINS LOW CARB LOW SUGAR

Steps:

• Mash banana add egg, Splenda, unsweetened applesauce, vanilla, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, mix well.
• Add in almond flour 1/2 a cup at a time mix well then add the all purpose flour.
• Take muffin pan put in liners or spray with non stick spray spoon in 1/4 cup mixture into each muffin slot. Bake at 350°F for 25 to 30 minutes. Enjoy.

LOW FAT APPLE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine bran and buttermilk. Set aside to soak for 10 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease muffin pan, or use paper liners.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour, brown sugar and baking soda. Stir in bran mixture and egg whites. Fold in grated apple. Divide batter into 12 muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven for 16 to 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing from the pan.

DIETETIC BANANA NUT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin tin, or line with paper muffin liners.
• In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar substitute, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, mix together the egg whites, mashed banana and applesauce. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and mix until just blended. Fill prepared muffin cups 3/4 full.
• Bake for 15 to 18 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top springs back when lightly touched. Allow muffins to cool in the pan over a wire rack for a little while before tapping them out of the pan.

APPLE WALNUT STREUSEL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Butter muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
• Put streusel topping ingredients into a medium-size bowl.
• Mix with a fork, then crumble with fingers until mixture looks like chopped walnuts.
• For muffins: thoroughly mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
• Break eggs into another bowl.
• Add yoghurt and melted butter, and whisk until well blended.
• Stir in diced apple.
• Pour egg mixture over flour mixture and fold in just until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Scoop batter into muffin cups.
• Top each muffin with about 2 teaspoons of the streusel topping.
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until done.

LOW-FAT APPLE SPICE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 12 muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Whisk the whole wheat pastry flour, all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger together in a large bowl until evenly combined. Use your fingers to make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
• In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites, skim milk, yogurt, raw sugar, canola oil, and vanilla extract until smooth; mix in the chopped apple.
• Pour the liquid ingredients into the well in the dry ingredients, and mix to make a thick batter.
• Pour the batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling them about 2/3 full.
• Bake the muffins in the preheated oven until lightly golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Cool the muffins in their cups for about 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on wire racks.

CUPCAKES, LOW-FAT VERSION

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray 24 muffin cups with nonstick flour based cooking spray.
• Prepare cake according to package directions except, add 1 tablespoon of flour to the dry mix and blend well.
• Substitute the applesauce for the oil in the recipe and use only egg whites instead of whole eggs.

BISQUICK LOWER FAT ZUCCHINI NUT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400ºF.
• Place paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease muffin tin.
• In a small mixing bowl, mix the dry ingredients.
• In a larger bowl, mix the milk, oil, egg, vanilla, and zucchini with a large spoon.
• Then very gently stir the dry ingredients into the liquid ingredients just until moistened. Do NOT over-stir, or they will be dry and tough.
• Divide batter evenly among cups.
• Bake until the tops spring back when pressed gently in the center, about 13-18 minutes. Do not over-bake.
• Cool in the pan on a wire cake rim for 10 minutes before removing from cups.

APPLE WALNUT MUFFINS LOW FAT & LOW SUGAR VERSION

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400ºF. Grease 12 muffin tin cups or line with cupcake papers.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder & soda, salt, cinnamon, oats, Splenda and walnuts.
• Thoroughly mix the egg, buttermilk, apple butter, oil & grated apple. Pour into dry ingredients and stir gently just till mixed. A few lumps are OK; overmixing will make the muffins tough.
• Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups. Combine topping ingredients & scatter over muffin tops.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. (They don't rise very much; that's okay.).
• Remove from oven & cool on a rack (if you're "muffin tipper", now's the time to do it ;-) for 10 minutes. Remove from pan & finish cooling on rack.