Today, I baked a big batch of pumpkin spice muffins. These are actually fairly healthy. Pumpkin is great for you, and I use applesauce instead of oil and half whole wheat flour, half white flour. You could probably make it healthier by reducing the amount of sugar in the recipe, but you run the risk of having bland muffins if you do it that way. You can substitute pumpkin pie spice for the nutmeg and ginger for equally tasty results. I got this recipe from a friend of mine and modified it to suit my tastes.
Healthy-ish Pumpkin Spice Muffins
4 eggs
1 can pumpkin puree
1.5 cups applesauce (I like cinnamon applesauce for this)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, NOT packed
1 tbs vanilla extract
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2-5 tsp cinnamon (use more or less on all spices depending on what you like)
1-2 tsp ground nutmeg
1-2 tsp ground ginger
1.5 cups whole wheat flour, sifted
1.5 cups white flour, sifted
Preheat oven to 400.
Combine all of the wet ingredients in the order listed. Mix well. Add all of the dry ingredients except the flour. Mix well. Sift 1.5 cups white flour into the batter, mix well, then repeat with the whole wheat flour. If you don't have a sifter, just shake it into the batter slowly. Sifted flour will give you lighter muffins.
Spoon batter into greased muffin cups and bake at 400 degrees until a toothpick or fork inserted into the center comes out clean (about 30 minutes). The recipe is high-yield and makes about a dozen large muffins.
*Edited to add: I went to Calorie Count this morning and entered the recipe into their recipe calculator. If you're curious about the nutrition breakdown, click here. It's slightly off because it doesn't recognize a difference between white flour and whole wheat flour, so I'd guess the nutrition grade would be better than a B- on account of the wheat flour.
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