Good For You Muffins
📝 Ingredients
- 1/4 cup applesauce (homemade or no sugar added)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 mashed ripe bananas
- 1/2 cup carrots, grated
- 1/2 cup Hot Cereal
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1 egg
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon*
- 1 package (8 oz) Neufchatel Cheese, softened
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Unsalted butter for greasing
- 3/4 cup whole-wheat flour
👨🍳 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Using a handheld or standing mixer, beat neufchatel cheese, sugar, and butter on medium speed until well blended. Add banana, egg, applesauce, lemon zest and juice, and carrots. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients (except cranberries) together until combined. Add combined dry ingredients gradually to the wet ingredients and mix until moistened. Leave about 1 tbsp of the dry ingredients in the bowl to coat the cranberries. After coating the cranberries with the flour mixture, add to the batter, and fold in with a spoon until evenly distributed. Pour batter into greased and floured, or paper cup-lined muffin tray.
- Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from muffin tray. Cool completely on wire rack. Serve and enjoy! Make 12 "puffy" muffins, or up to 18 normal-sized muffins.
- Note: I had a "Momnesia" moment and thought that I had some oranges on hand, which would have tasted delicious with the cranberries and carrot! However, when I went to grab one, I noticed that the only citrus I had was lemons... Oops! So, I used lemon and it turned out fine. If you decide to use orange, you could use half or all of the zest of one orange, and about 2-3 tbsp of the juice. :)
📊 Nutrition Facts
- Calories: 196.57 kcal
- Fat: 9.18 g
- Saturated Fat: 5.19 g
- Carbohydrates: 25.55 g
- Net Carbohydrates: 23.13 g
- Sugar: 8.02 g
- Cholesterol: 38.38 mg
- Sodium: 267.75 mg
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Alcohol %: 0 %
- Protein: 4.76 g
- Manganese: 0.53 mg
- Vitamin A: 1251.48 IU
- Selenium: 11.04 µg
- Folate: 43.6 µg
- Vitamin B1: 0.16 mg
- Fiber: 2.42 g
- Vitamin B2: 0.16 mg
- Phosphorus: 87.15 mg
- Vitamin B6: 0.16 mg
- Iron: 1.42 mg
- Vitamin B3: 1.53 mg
- Magnesium: 25.32 mg
- Potassium: 178.9 mg
- Copper: 0.09 mg
- Zinc: 0.61 mg
- Vitamin B5: 0.37 mg
- Vitamin C: 3.06 mg
- Calcium: 34.63 mg
- Vitamin E: 0.48 mg
- Vitamin B12: 0.18 µg
- Vitamin K: 2.12 µg
- Vitamin D: 0.2 µg
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