Growing up I was never big on anything that had fruits or veggies in it! Anything baked with carrots, apples, strawberries, bananas or zucchini, I thought it was gross! Adding veggies and fruits to sweet things was a foreign concept to me! I don’t have any clue when I became a fan of adding veggies and fruits to sweets, but since I have started I can’t stop.
Now I love to sneak veggies and fruits into baked goods. They add a lovely texture, enhance the taste and the added fiber is a bonus! Apple sauce muffins have about 1/2 serving of fruit in each muffin, and the added fiber from the oats and apple sauce is a bonus. Let’s not forget apple sauce is high in vitamin c, which is a great way to keep the flu away. Apple sauce muffins are so good you will never know that they are healthy.
Apple Sauce Muffins Recipe:
1 ½ cups flour
¼ cup rolled oats
2 tsps. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
¾ cup sugar substitute (I used stevia)
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup whipped butter
1 egg white
1 tsp. vanilla extract
¾ cup apple sauce
½ cup almond milk
Recipe Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees, grease muffin tin and set aside. In a medium bowl mix dry ingredients. In a large bowl add sugar, egg white, milk, vanilla extract, butter and apple sauce. Stir until wet ingredients are mixed combined. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until moistened. Fill greased muffin tins 3/4 full. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from oven, and let stand a few minutes before removing muffins from the pan.
I was the same way and always preferred chocolate over fruit or veggies but can’t get enough of them now 🙂 These muffins look and sound awesome Shundara – I love that you made them healthier with apple sauce!
Thanks Kelly I am happy were fruit and veggie addicts now 🙂
In the recipe it says “¾ sugar substitute (I used stevia).” but 3/4 what? If it’s a cup, that much sugar or sugar substitute seems like a lot.
Most sugar substitutes allow you to use the same amount as you would sugar in a recipe.. This is not liquid stevia so it will not be bitter if you use this much. If you feel it’s to much, you can always use 1/2 cup.
These look delicious. I noticed that “1/4 cup whipped butter” is listed twice on the recipe. Typo?
Yes it’s a typo thank you for letting me know. 🙂
Where do you add the butter? I assume with the sugar, egg and milk. But since it is listed twice is it 1/4 cup with the wet ingrediants and 1/4 cup somewhere else?
Yes you do add it with the sugar and eggs and you only add the butter once, thanks for letting me know… 🙂