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Healthy Gingerbread Muffins

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These whole grain muffins are laced with cinnamon, ginger and cloves and is made super-moist with Greek yogurt and applesauce. Each perfectly cooked muffin is swirled with a light vanilla glaze.

Ingredients

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Gingerbread Muffins:

  • ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
  • ½ cup plain Greek yogurt
  • ½ cup dark molasses
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup oil
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 ⅔ cups flour*
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon coarse salt
  • 1 tablespoons turbinado sugar (optional)

Vanilla Glaze:

  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin with muffin liners and coat with cooking spray. Set aside.
  2. Place the applesauce, Greek yogurt, molasses, brown sugar, oil, egg and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl. Use a hand mixer set on medium speed to beat until fluffy. Slowly beat in the milk until combined.
  3. In a separate medium mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt until combined. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients while mixing with a spatula, being careful to mix until the ingredients are just combined (do not overmix).
  4. Use a cookie scoop or measuring cup to fill each muffin liner with batter until almost full to the top. Sprinkle the top with the sugar (if using).
  5. Bake at 400 degrees F for 5 minutes, then without removing the muffins from the oven, reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F and cook for another 8-10 minutes or until just set. Remove from the oven and let them cool 5 minutes before removing them from the tin and letting them completely cool on a wire rack.
  6. While the muffins bake, whisk the glaze ingredients together in a small glass measuring cup.
  7. Once the muffins are mostly cooled, drizzle each with the vanilla glaze.

Notes

Baking Tip: Don't overmix the batter. Mix it until the batter is just combined for the most tender muffin.

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