Heart Healthy Muffins Food

HEALTHY MUFFIN RECIPE (+ 6 FLAVOR VARIATIONS)

Steps:

• First, preheat oven to 350ºF and line a muffin tin with muffin liners. We suggest also spraying your muffin liners with cooking spray just in case.
• Next, place dry ingredients into a medium bowl and mix.
• Then, in a large bowl crack 2 eggs and whisk. Add maple syrup, almond milk, and preferred pureed fruit* and mix again.
• Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and then mix. Then, add in melted coconut oil and mix again.
• At this point, add any of the add-ins for one of the 6 muffin recipes in this post and mix again.
• Fill each muffin about 3/4 of the way full (these are going to be big muffins). Then, place in the oven at 350ºF and bake for 18-22 minutes or until the center is fully cooked.
• Let cool for 5 minutes and then remove from the muffin tin to continue cooling.

HEARTY BREAKFAST MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
• Mix carrots, banana, zucchini, vegetable oil, yogurt, and eggs together until fully incorporated.
• Whisk flour and baking soda in a separate bowl. Mix brown sugar, oats, coconut, pecans, cherries, cinnamon, salt, and ginger into flour mixture until all ingredients are coated in flour. Stir wet ingredients into flour mixture until just combined. Scoop batter into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean and edges are slightly brown, 17 to 22 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

THE ULTIMATE HEALTHY BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin pan with liners and spray the inside of the liners to prevent sticking.
• In a large bowl, mix together mashed bananas, honey, egg, vanilla, olive oil and milk until well combined. Add in whole wheat pastry flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and use a wooden spoon to mix together until the batter is just combined. DO NOT overmix. Fold in ½ cup chopped walnuts.
• Divide batter evenly into muffin liners, sprinkle each muffin with chopped walnuts. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the toothpick comes out with just a few crumbs attached.
• Cool muffins for 5 minutes then remove and transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling. Muffins are best served warm and even better the next day. Makes 12 muffins.

HEART-HEALTHY PUMPKIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Add raisins and stir to coat with flour. Set aside.
• Mix brown sugar, oil and molasses; add milk, egg, and pumpkin; blend well.
• Stir in flour mixture, blending only until flour disappears. Fill greased muffin pans.
• Bake at 375 degrees F for 16 to 18 minutes.

HEART HEALTHY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Mix together flour, flaxseed meal, oat bran, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt (if desired), and cinnamon into a large bowl.
• Stir in carrots, apples, raisins (if desired), and nuts.
• Combine milk, beaten eggs, and vanilla.
• Pour liquid ingredients into dry ingredients.
• Stir until ingredients are moistened.
• Do Not over mix.
• Fill muffin cups 3/4 full.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

HEART HEALTHY APPLE OAT BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Make the streusel topping first by mixing together the brown sugar, ground flaxseed and chopped pecans.Cut in the cold butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Combine flour, oat bran, brown sugar, ground flaxseed, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt well with a whisk. Stir in diced apples and golden raisins.
• In another bowl whisk together milk, applesauce, vanilla extract, egg whites and coconut oil.
• Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture and stir together until combined.
• Spoon three tablespoons of batter into lined or cooking spray coated muffin cups. Sprinkle streusel topping over the batter if desired. Tip: try these parchment paper muffin liners!
• Bake at 375 degrees for approximately 18 minutes.

HEART HEALTHY OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Prepare standard sized muffin tins by spraying with a low fat cooking spray or line with muffin cups.
• In one large bowl, combine first five ingredients, mixing all dry ingredients well.
• Stir in raisins.
• In a separate bowl combine the following wet ingredients: egg substitute, applesauce, milk. Stir well.
• Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir until moistened. Do not over-mix muffin dough.
• Spoon into prepared muffin tins.
• Bake in a pre-heated 400 degree oven for 18-20 minutes or until muffins are lightly browned on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin is dry when removed.

HEALTHY HEART MUFFINS

Steps:

• Beat egg whites lightly.
• add milk, yoghurt and apple sauce.
• In a separate bowl combine dry ingredients and dried fruit.
• Add liquid to dry ingredients, combine with care.
• Spoon into muffin tins.
• Bake 180 C for 20 minutes.