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Low Fat Chocolate Muffins

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Recipe Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 heaping tablespoon cocoa
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup boiling water
2 eggs
1-1/4 cup flour
1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
Scant 1/2 cup chocolate mini morsels


Recipe Directions

Muffin Cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Dissolve cocoa in boiling water. Beat cocoa mixture into butter.

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat into butter-cocoa mixture. Fold in chocolate mini morsels.

Bake in muffin tins for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Recipe makes one dozen medium-size muffins.

Nutritional information per medium-size muffin:
Calories: 170
Protein: 3g
Carbohydrates: 28g
Fat: 6g
Cholesterol: 42mg
Sodium: 126mg



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