Vegan Apple Date Muffins

If you have been reading this blog, you know that I am very fond of muffins. They can be made healthy and are perfect for breakfast or for a snack. I had a library borrowed book which had something called 'Pear Fig muffin'. When I read that, suddenly I wanted to make 'Apple Date Muffin' since I neither had pears nor figs on hand. But, this recipe is not adapted from that. I worked my other muffin recipes a bit and came up with this recipe. Result was very moist, tasty muffin and with very less fat.

Here they are..

Ingredients:

1. Whole wheat flour - 1 cup
2. All purpose flour - 3/4 cup
3. Baking Powder - 2  tsp
4. Baking Soda - 1 tsp
5. Nutmeg powder - 1/4 tsp
6. Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp
7. White sugar - 1/3 cup
8. Salt - 1/2 tsp
9. Unsweetened applesauce - 1 cup
10. Vegetable or Canola oil - 1/3 cup
11. Water - 1/4 cup
12. Apple cored and diced finely - 1 medium 
13. Dates chopped finely - 1/2 cup

Method:
Preheat the oven to 400 F. I did at 375 since I was using dark colored pan. Line a 12 standard size muffin pan with liners or grease them with vegetable oil spray. In a large bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients (1 through 8). In another bowl, combine applesauce, water, vegetable oil. Whisk it well. Dump the whole wet ingredients to dry mixture and stir. Do not over mix. Stir in apples and dates. Divide the batter (it'll be quite thick) between the 12 muffin cups. It will be almost full. Bake for 22 - 24 minutes or till a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Mine were done at exactly 22 minutes. Cool on the wire rack for 2 - 3 minutes before unmolding from the pan. Let them cool on the wire rack. We ate them warm and they were delicious.

Some more pictures..

 

By the way, if you are reading this line, thank you for that and this post marks my '100th' post. 100 posts in about 4 months - I guess it's not bad. What do you think?

Happy Baking!!

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