Gingerbread muffins with apples and cranberries
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | tablespoons | Mori-Nu light (1% fat) tofu |
| 3 | larges | Ripe bananas |
| Egg replacer for 1 egg | ||
| 3 | tablespoons | Sunflower oil |
| 3/16 | cup | Maple syrup |
| 3/16 | cup | Molasses |
| ½ | teaspoon | Vanilla extract (optional) |
| 1 | cup | Whole wheat pastry flour |
| 1 | cup | Oat flour |
| 1 | tablespoon | Defatted soy flour |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking powder (preferrably aluminum-free) |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| 1 | pinch | Salt |
| 2 | teaspoons | Cinnamon |
| 1 | tablespoon | Ground ginger |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Ground cloves |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Ground mace |
| 2 | cups | Apples; peeled and cut in 1/2-inch dice |
| 1 | teaspoon | Lemon juice |
| ½ | cup | Dried cranberries (preferrably unsulfured) (up to 1) |
Directions
Preheat your oven to 375. In a blender or food processor, proces the tofu, egg replacer, oil, sweeteners, extract and bananas. In a large bowl, combine the flours, spices (reserving 1 teaspoon of cinnamon), salt, baking soda and baking powder. Make a well in the centre and fold in the wet ingredients, working until moistened. Toss the apple pieces in the lemon juice and remaining teaspoon of cinnamon, and then fold into the batter (use a rubber spatula to scrape the sides, so that you don't lose any of the spices). Spoon batter into the cups of a 12-muffin pan (non-stick, or lined with muffin papers). Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, or until golden and a toothpick/cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool briefly beore turning out onto a plate. A note about 'wholefood' baking: Fill the muffin cups very full, using all of the batter, and bake these muffins right away in a preheated oven.
Wholefood batters rise best by this method (but they still don't rise as much as standard muffin mixes). Keep the muffins in the fridge when they're done; they freeze well for short periods of time.
Substitutions: In place of cranberries - dried currants, rasins, blueberries, cherries, etc. In place of the vanilla extract - your fave extract, or this ingredient can be omitted Posted to fatfree digest V97 #206 by Jacqueline <still@...> on Sep 10, 1997