Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins
Posted on
February 13, 2014
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by Laura Piazza /
Breakfast, Dairy Free, Gluten Free, On The Go, Online Exclusive, Phase 3, Recipes, Snacks, Vegetarian
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These delicious Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins make a wonderful breakfast or dinnertime accompaniment.
This recipe appeared in our the first edition of our book, but was in Phase 4 because it used whole wheat flour. To accommodate both our readers and ourselves, my mom has gone back into her test kitchen to make this recipe for gluten-free and this recipe is an online exclusive.
Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins
Recipe Type: [b]Phase 3 • Breakfast[/b]
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Total time: 45
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- ¾ cup canned, or cooked and pureed, pumpkin
- ¼ cup Cran-Raspberry Sauce (page 275)
- 3 tablespoons safflower oil
- 1 egg, beaten*
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup Gluten-Free Baking Mix
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Grease a 6-cup muffin pan and set it aside.
- Combine the pumpkin, cran-raspberry sauce, oil, egg*, honey, syrup and vanilla in a medium-sized bowl.
- Combine the remaining ingredients, except for the nuts, and stir this flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture.
- Stir in the nuts.
- Fill each muffin cup with a scant 1/2 cup of batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
* To make this recipe egg free, add one additional tablespoon of flaxseed meal to the dry ingredients and add 1/4 Almond Milk (page 260) to the wet ingredients.
Tags: cranberry, muffins, pumpkin
