Sunday, November 13, 2011

Raspberry Cornmeal Muffins

It started snowing like a muthaplucker, which of COURSE made me want to bake. But what? What should I sabotage my diet with today? Squares? Tarts? Bread? Cookies?
The sad reality is that I wanted to bake cookies but realise that this would be a colossal error in judgement at this time of year. Cookie season will soon be upon us, and the smart thing to do is to wait until then to give into my cookie desires.
Which left me pondering what to bake.
I also had another dilemma to face, namely, what on earth to do with all the leftover apple and blueberry baby food that is sitting in my cupboard, not being fed to my baby, who, alas, is nearing the end of her babyhood *sniffle*. I have a ton of this stuff, which was given to me by a friend:

Then it hit me: MUFFINS! I could make muffins and substitute the applesauce/oil with some baby food! SaWEET!
So, here they are, without further ado:

Raspberry Cornmeal Muffins
12 muffins
Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 1/2 tbsp ground flaxseed
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup low fat buttermilk
1/4 cup applesauce OR apple and blueberry baby food
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 whole egg + 1 egg white   
1 1/4 cups raspberries or 1 1/2 cups blueberries

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 F.
Grease or line 12 muffin fan cups with paper   
In large bowl, mix first 7 ingredients.
In small bowl, beat buttermilk, applesauce, vanilla, and egg until blended; stir into flour mixture just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy). DO NOT OVERMIX!
Fold in berries.
Spoon batter into muffin cups.
Bake muffins 20 to 25 minutes until toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean.
Immediately remove muffins from pans; serve warm.
This is how mine looked in my really disgusting muffin pan:
And this is how one of them looked on my less than gleaming stovetop:
Nutritional Analysis: 
Per muffin
 Calories 128.5
  Total Fat 1.5 g
      Saturated Fat 0.3 g
      Polyunsaturated Fat 0.7 g
      Monounsaturated Fat 0.4 g
  Cholesterol 15.8 mg
  Sodium 308.5 mg
  Potassium 117.8 mg
  Total Carbohydrate 25.5 g
      Dietary Fiber 2.4 g
      Sugars 7.5 g
  Protein 4.0 g

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