| Is there really a good low calorie chocolate | | | | about 24 medium muffins. |
| chip muffins recipe? Here's one with the | | | | |
| added benefit of fragrant orange. | | | | Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins: |
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| Chocolate Chip Orange Muffins - Low Fat | | | | 12 Regular or 48 miniaturemuffins |
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| An old-fashioned recipe, slightly modified. | | | | Make one or two days aheadfor best flavor. |
| 331 calories, 6 grams of fat, 1 mg of | | | | |
| cholesterol...and good!! | | | | 1/2 c (1 1/4 ounces) sliced,unblanched |
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| 1 cup all-purpose flour | | | | Almonds |
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| 3/4 cup whole-wheat flour | | | | 1 2/3 c All-purpose flour |
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| 3/4 cup sugar | | | | 1 c Granulated sugar |
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| 1 tablespoon baking powder | | | | 1 tb Pumpkin pie spice |
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| 2 teaspoons finely shredded orange rind | | | | 1 ts baking soda |
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| 2 egg whites | | | | 1/4 ts baking powder |
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| 2/3 cup buttermilk | | | | 1/4 ts salt |
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| 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce | | | | 2 lg Eggs |
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| 1/2 cup chocolate chips | | | | 1 c Plain pumpkin (half of a |
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| 6 servings | | | | 1 lb Can) |
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| 30 minutes 10 mins prep | | | | 1/2 c (1 stick) butter, melted |
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| 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. | | | | 1 c (6 ounces) chocolate chips |
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| 2. Spray 6 large, 3" muffin cups with | | | | Heat oven to 350 F. Put almonds on a baking |
| no-stick spray and set aside. | | | | sheet pie pan and bake about 5 minutes, just |
| | | | until lightly browned; watch carefully so |
| 3. In large bowl mix all dry ingrediants, | | | | almonds don't burn. (You can also toast them |
| including orange peel. | | | | in a toaster oven.) Slide almonds off the |
| | | | baking sheet so they cool quickly. |
| 4. In small bowl, beat egg whites until | | | | |
| foamy. Stire in the buttermilk and | | | | Grease muffin cups, or use foil or paper |
| applesauce. | | | | baking cups. |
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| 5. Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture | | | | Thoroughly mix flour, sugar, pie spice, |
| and stir just until moistened. | | | | baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a |
| | | | large bowl. |
| 6. Fold in chocolate chips. | | | | |
| | | | Break eggs into another bowl. Add pumpkin and |
| 7. Spoon batter into cups. | | | | butter, and whisk until well blended. Stir in |
| | | | chocolate chips and almonds. Pour over dry |
| 8. Bake 20 to 22 minutes. | | | | ingredients and fold in with a rubber spatula |
| | | | just until dry ingredients are moistened. |
| 9. Cool in cups 5 minutes, then remove and | | | | |
| cool on a wire rack. | | | | Scoop batter evenly into muffin cups. Bake 20 |
| | | | to 25 minutes, or until puffed and springy to |
| 10. To make standard sized muffins, spray 12 | | | | the touch in the center. Turn out onto a rack |
| 2 1/2" muffin cups with no-stick spray and | | | | to cool. Wrap in a plastic bag and keep for 1 |
| bake for 15 to 17 minutes. 166 calories, 3 | | | | or 2 days. Reheat before serving. |
| grams of fat, o mg of cholesterol. | | | | |
| | | | Chocolate Pudding: |
| Pumped up pumpkin chocolate chip muffin | | | | |
| recipes | | | | Reserve one gill of milk from a quart, and |
| | | | put the remainder on the fire in a |
| Some pumpkin chocolate chip muffin recipes | | | | double-boiler. Mix three tablespoonfuls of |
| are almost too good to wait for, like these | | | | cornstarch with the cold milk. |
| from the famous Carriage Inn Bed & Breakfast. | | | | |
| | | | Beat two eggs with half a cupful of powdered |
| Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins presented by | | | | sugar and half a teaspoonful of salt. Add |
| The Carriage Inn Bed & Breakfast | | | | this to the cornstarch and milk, and stir |
| | | | into the boiling milk, beating well for a |
| 4 eggs | | | | minute. Shave fine two ounces of Walter Baker |
| | | | & Co.'s Premium No. 1 Chocolate, and put it |
| 3 cups flour 2 cup sugar | | | | into a small pan with four tablespoonfuls of |
| | | | sugar and two of boiling water. |
| 1 cup canola oil | | | | |
| | | | Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy; |
| 1/2 tsp. cinnamon | | | | then beat into the hot pudding. Cook the |
| | | | pudding in all ten minutes, counting from the |
| 2 tsp baking soda | | | | time the eggs and cornstarch are added. Serve |
| | | | cold with powdered sugar and cream. |
| 1/2 tsp salt | | | | |
| | | | This pudding can be poured while hot into |
| 1 small can pumpkin, about 15 oz. | | | | little cups which have been rinsed in cold |
| | | | water. At serving time turn out on a flat |
| 1 12-oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips, | | | | dish, making a circle, and fill the center of |
| mini-size preferred Preheat oven to 350 | | | | the dish with whipped cream flavored with |
| degrees. Beat eggs and sugar. Mix in rest of | | | | sugar and vanilla. |
| the ingredients. Spray muffin pans with | | | | |
| non-stick cooking spray. Fill each section 3 | | | | The eggs may be omitted, in which case use |
| 4 full. Bake in pre heated oven approximately | | | | one more tablespoonful of cornstarch. |
| 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Makes | | | | |