Healthy Spiced Butternut Squash Muffins

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3/4 cup butternut squash, cooked and pureed (original calls for 1 cup)
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon clove
• 1/4 teaspoon ginger
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• cinnamon baking chips (optional)
• chocolate chips (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees f (200 degrees c). lightly grease a 12 cup muffin pan.
• 2 in a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and pumpkin pie spice.
• 3 in a medium bowl, thoroughly mix together milk, egg and butter. stir in squash. fold the squash mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened.
• 4 spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan, filling cups about 1/2 full.
• 5 if desired, drop a few chocolate chips or cinnamon chips on top of the batter.
• 6 bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. remove from muffin pan and cool on a wire rack.
• 7 please note: from reviews on allrecipes the cooling time is really important; apparently these are pretty doughy when they first come out of the oven.