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Baking powder, Egg white, Flour, Muffin, pumpkin, Pumpkin pie, Sodium bicarbonate, Teaspoon, Trim Healthy Mama
This was my week to bring snacks for my women’s small group too!
I wanted to find something that was easy to eat without utensils and also had a yummy fall taste.
I decided to try my hand at a low fat, low sugar pumpkin applesauce muffin recipe.
For Trim Healthy Mamas – this will be an E or energizing snack. It is E because it is low fat but has carbs for energy or fuel.
Ingredients:
1.25 cups of flour (I used my gluten free flour that is made up of mostly bean flours, you could use whatever flour you want)
1 scoop of protein powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup of egg whites
1 cup of pumpkin canned or fresh (I used canned)
1 cup of applesauce, unsweetened
1/2 cup of xylitol (or your preferred sweetener)
2 teaspoons of vanilla
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a bowl, combine wet ingredients until all mixed. Add flours, baking powders, spices and sweeteners. I used my immersion blender to whisk everything together, you could also use a mixer or hand whisk.
Bake for about 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into muffin comes out clean.After everything is combined, pour into greased muffin cups. My recipe made 15 medium sized muffins.
In a 12 muffin recipe, totals come up to per muffin:
67 calories, 3.6 grams of protein, 11.4 grams of carbs, .6 grams of fat, and 2.4 grams of sugar.
Way to go Trim Healthy Mamas out there!!!! Remember this is an E snack or part of an E meal. You can add some greek nonfat yogurt to it to make it a great breakfast or smear some low fat cream cheese on top – yummy!