I'm Muffin It!
By PAM D., Allen F. and Joanne B. from Toano Middle School, Williamsburg, VA.
Description
Moist and flavored with a surprise ingredient, these muffins are delicious. A perfect farm to table product, butternut squash and some of your favorite seasonings make a wonderful whole grain muffin. As part of a healthy breakfast or as a side dish for lunch or dinner, just one muffin provides almost one-third of the Vitamin A you need in a day. You will be "muffin" it!
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1 muffin
| Calories | 135 |
| From Fat | 30% |
| From Saturated Fat | 6% |
| From Sugar | 32% |
| Sodium | 251mg |
Ingredients
| Ingredient | 6 servings | 50 servings |
|---|---|---|
| Squash, butternut, ckd, w/o salt | 1/2 cp | 4 cp |
| Flour, wheat, whole grain | 1/2 cp | 5 cp |
| Milk, fluid, skim or nonfat | 3 oz | 24 oz |
| Baking powder | 1 tsp | 2.5 TBSP |
| Baking soda | 1/8 tsp | 1.5 tsp |
| Salt, table | 1/8 tsp | 1 tsp |
| Cinnamon, ground | 3/4 tsp | 2 TBSP |
| Nutmeg, ground | 1/8 tsp | 1 tsp |
| Margarine, reg, 80% fat, w/o salt | 1 oz | 8 oz |
| Sugar, granulated | 2 TBSP | 1 cp |
| Sugar, brown, packed | 3 TBSP | 1.5 cp |
| Egg, whole, fresh, raw, large | 1 | 6 |
| Vanilla extract | 3/4 tsp | 1 TBSP |
Preparation
Wash hands.
Note: 3 pounds of whole, fresh butternut squash yields about 4 cups of cooked butternut squash
Cut whole, fresh butternut squash in half. Steam halves in steamer, flesh side up, for 10-15 minutes until fork tender. Allow to cool. Scrape flesh from shells. Measure 4 cups of cooked squash and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, mix flours and add baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinammon & nutmeg.
In a separate bowl, blend margarine & sugars. Add eggs. Add vanilla extract. Add milk. Mix until blended.
Add wet to dry ingredients. Stir gently and completely. Add butternut squash. Stir gently.
Place paper muffin liners in muffin tins. Use #16 (2 ounce) scoop to scoop muffin batter into muffin cups.
Bake at 350* in a convection oven or 400* in a regular oven for 20 minutes until lightly browned and cooked through.
Yield: 50 muffins
Serve 1 muffin.
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