Sunday, February 10, 2013

Whole Wheat Pumpkin Muffin


For this week Blogging Marathon, I choose baking with wholegrain theme. This was interesting tried lot of recipes and my first post was healthy whole wheat muffin with apple sauce and pumpkin. To attract my kids shredded some chocolate on top of the muffin. Adding raisins and nuts are optional.

Ingredients:


Whole wheat flour
2 cups
Baking powder
1 tsp
Baking soda
¼ tsp
Salt
1 tsp
Nutmeg powder
½ tsp
Brown sugar
2/3 cup
White sugar
1/3 cup
Olive oil
¼ cup
Apple sauce
½ cup
Pumpkin sauce
½ cup
Buttermilk
1/3 cup
Eggs
2
Raisins
¼ cup
Walnut
¼ cup
 
 
 

 

Directions:


  1. Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
  2. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg powder and set side. Beat the eggs lightly.
  3. Combine brown sugar, white sugar, oil, applesauce, pumpkin, and beaten eggs and mix well until blend well.
  4. Add the pumpkin mixture to the flour and stir until combine well. Add raisins and walnut and fold the mixture.
  5. Divide the batter evenly in 12 muffin cups and bake for 15 – 20 minutes. Add shredded chocolate on top of the muffins and cool it.
 
 
 
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14 comments:

Unknown said...

Delicious muffins :) very healthy too

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said...

Very delicious and healthy muffins! Perfect for the quick morning snack :)

Babitha said...

Healthy muffin

divyagcp said...

Healthy and delicious muffins.. Love it..

divyagcp said...

Healthy and delicious muffins.. Looks so soft..

Unknown said...

yummy muffins and looks so cute:)thanks for linking:)

Priya Suresh said...

Gorgeous and super attractive muffins.

Harini R said...

good one!

Unknown said...

Very healthy muffins.

Chef Mireille said...

pumpkin is my favorite flavor of muffin and these are so healthy using 100% whole wheat flour

Suma Gandlur said...

Yummy muffins.

Pavani said...

Yummy looking pumpkin muffins.

Srivalli said...

Very interesting muffins..I have not tried with pumpkin ..

Home Mantra said...

Hi Manju, the muffins look very tempting. I am gonna try these :)
Btw Would love to see your muffins at my on going event - Dish It Out Squash & Sugar

http://www.myhomemantra.com/2013/03/02/squash-or-pumpkin-dish-it-out-event-anouncement/