Monday, May 24, 2010

questionably healthy muffins

You know how muffins seem healthier because you eat them for breakfast but are pretty much just cake?  Well, this is a step in the right direction, but it still has an entire stick of butter in it.  Martha calls them "healthy."  I call them "a treat."  But they are yummy.

Martha's Healthy Banana-Blueberry Muffins (link)

  • 1 cup whole-wheat flour (spooned and leveled)
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
  • 1/4 cup wheat germ
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup packed light-brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 ripe bananas (about 1 pound)
  • 1/3 cup reduced-fat (2 percent) milk
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup frozen blueberries

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. In a bowl, whisk together flours, wheat germ, baking soda, and salt.
  2. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. In another bowl, mash bananas with a fork (you should have 3/4 cup); stir in milk and vanilla.
  3. With mixer on low, alternately add flour mixture and banana mixture to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix just until combined. Fold in frozen blueberries.
  4. Divide batter among muffin cups. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 25 to 28 minutes, rotating pan halfway through. Let cool in pan 10 minutes; transfer muffins to a rack to cool 10 minutes more.

3 comments:

LieslPie said...

this is how unhealthy i am...what is wheat germ and where do you buy it? i can't wait to make these after i find out about wheat germ. woops.

Megan said...

wheat germ is like a flour....it is found next to the regualr flour in the grocery store. i didn't have any at home when i made it, so i just used flaxseed meal and it worked just fine. you could replace the wheat germ with whole wheat flour, but you're losing extra nutrients and yumminess.

Jana said...

I love the contrast in these two comments!