Reduced Fat Cranberry Cappuccino Muffins Recipes

CAPPUCCINO MUFFINS WITH CHOCOLATE AND CRANBERRIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
• Gently stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, salt, chocolate chips, dried cranberries, and orange zest in a bowl until thoroughly combined. Beat butter, white sugar, brown sugar, sour cream, milk, and eggs with an electric mixer on medium speed in a separate large mixing bowl until blended.
• Gently stir flour mixture into the liquid ingredients just until batter is moistened and smooth. Dissolve coffee granules in water in a small bowl and stir coffee mixture into the batter. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling them about 3/4 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of a muffin, 20 to 25 minutes.

LOW-FAT BLUEBERRY BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or use paper muffin liners. Mix together wheat bran and milk, and let stand for 10 minutes.
• In a large bowl, mix together applesauce, egg, brown sugar, and vanilla. Beat in bran mixture. Sift together all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir into bran mixture until just blended. Fold in blueberries. Scoop into muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until tops spring back when lightly tapped.

DELIGHTFUL (LOW-FAT) CRANBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Coat a 12-muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
• Whisk the flour with the baking powder and salt and set aside.
• Beat the egg, sugar and margarine with an electric mixer set on medium until smooth.
• Add the orange juice and orange peel and beat again.
• Mix the flour and cranberries into the batter by hand just until combined.
• Spoon the batter into the muffin cups so that each is about two-thirds full.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes our until the muffins are lightly browned, puff up and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool in the tin set on a wire rack for about 10 minutes.
• Remove the muffins from the tin and eat them warm or let them cool completely on wire rack.

CRANBERRY UPSIDE-DOWN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Place cooling rack over sheet of waxed paper. Spray 12 regular-size muffin cups with cooking spray. Spoon 1 tablespoon cranberry sauce into each muffin cup. Top each with 1 teaspoon brown sugar.
• In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In small bowl, mix milk, oil, orange peel and egg whites until well blended. Add to flour mixture all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. Divide batter evenly over cranberries and brown sugar in muffin cups.
• Bake 14 to 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 1 minute. Run knife around edges of muffin cups to loosen. Invert muffins onto cooling rack over waxed paper; remove pan. Cool 5 minutes. Serve warm.

CRANBERRY YOGURT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder baking soda and salt. Gently fold in yogurt and milk just until moistened. Stir in cranberries and orange zest. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 400° for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done.

SKINNY CHOCOLATE & CRANBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and cinnamon into a bowl. Stir in the sugar and cranberries. Microwave the chocolate on Medium for 1-1½ mins, stir, then set aside.
• Mix the yogurt and milk with the oil and egg. Make a well in centre of the dry mix and gently stir in the liquid. Drizzle half the chocolate over the mix, gently fold in until swirled, then repeat with the remaining chocolate. Take care not to over-mix. Spoon the mix into the muffin cases and bake for 15-20 mins until risen and firm to the touch.

REDUCED FAT CRANBERRY CAPPUCCINO MUFFINS

Steps:

• I also added a tsp of cranberry extract, which I had on hand; but you could possibly add cranberry juice or use chocolate extract if you can find it too.
• Preheat oven to 375*F.
• Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
• Cobine dry ingredients in a medium mixing bowl.
• Combine remaining ingredients, except cranberries, in a seperate bowl.
• Add liquid ingredients to dry, mixing just until the dry ingredients are moist.
• Stir in cranberries.
• Fill muffin cups 2/3 of the way full with batter.
• Bake for about 25 minutes or until muffins test done.
• Cool 5 minutes in pan; and then remove to wire rack to cool completely.