Cranberry Cappuccino Muffins
Healthy Christmas Recipe
By Fitness and Freebies
A coffee-lover's muffin laced with cocoa and cinnamon, and dotted with fresh and dried cranberries.
Recipe Ingredients
1-3/4 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup sugar
1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 tablespoon instant coffee
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup lowfat (1 percent) milk
1 egg
6 tablespoons vegetable oil
1-1/4 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
1 package (6-ounce) sweetened dried cranberries
Recipe Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease or spray a 12-cup muffin tin.
Combine dry ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. Combine liquid ingredients in a separate mixing bowl. Make a well in the dry ingredients and add liquid ingredients to dry, mixing just until dry ingredients are moist. Stir in cranberries.
Fill each muffin cup 2/3 of the way full with batter. Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
Nutrition information per serving:
Recipe makes 12 Muffins
Serving size: 1 muffin
Calories: 189;
Fat: 8g;
Carbohydrates: 27g;
Cholesterol: 18mg;
Sodium: 264mg;
Protein: 3g;
Fiber: 1g;
Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1 Fruit, 2 Fat
See also:
Apples, Cranberries and Yams
Dried Cranberry Spice Bread
Frozen Cranberry Pie
Cranberry Soup
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Christmas Fact
Christmas caroling began as an old English custom called Wassailing - toasting neighbors to a long and healthy life.
