How To Make 110 Calorie Chocolate Cherry Muffins
Have a bite of these rich chocolate cherry muffins, filled with delightfully fudgy choco and cherry delight. The best thing is it has lower calories!
Serves:
Ingredients
- ¾cupapplesauce,unsweetened
- ⅓cupgranulated sugar
- ¼cuphoney
- 2large egg whites,or 1 large egg
- ¾cupplain Greek yogurt,or regular plain yogurt, or vanilla
- 2tsppure vanilla extract
- ½cupall-purpose flour,spoon and leveled
- ½cupwhole wheat flour,spoon and leveled
- ½cupcocoa powder,unsweetened
- ¼tspsalt
- 1tspbaking soda
- 1tspbaking powder
- 1cupfresh dark sweet cherries,chopped, or frozen
- chocolate chips,optional, for sprinkling
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
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Spray a 12-count muffin pan with nonstick spray. Do not use liners.
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In a large bowl, combine the applesauce, sugar, honey, egg whites, Greeek yogurt, and vanilla extract.
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Whisk them all together until smooth, with no yogurt lumps remaining.
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Sift the flours, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder together.
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Slowly stir in the wet ingredients, being careful not to overmix.
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Get any dry pockets of flour out.
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Fold in the cherries. The batter will be a little chunky. This is okay.
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Divide the batter evenly between each muffin cup – fill them all the way to the top if possible.
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Bake for 5 minutes at 425 degrees F then, keeping the muffins in the oven, reduce the heat to 350 degrees F and continue baking for another 15 minutes.
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Insert a toothpick into the center of 1 muffin. If it comes out clean, they are done.
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If not, bake for 2 more minutes.
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Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 3 minutes in the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Recipe Notes
- The muffins stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
- Freezing Instructions: For longer storage, freeze the muffins for up to 3 months. Allow to thaw overnight in the refrigerator and heat up in the microwave if desired.
- Sifting: If the cocoa powder has lumps, sift it with the dry ingredients to avoid any dry cocoa powder lumps in the muffins.
Nutrition
- Calories: 128.30kcal
- Fat: 1.68g
- Saturated Fat: 0.92g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 0.19g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.11g
- Carbohydrates: 27.19g
- Fiber: 2.50g
- Sugar: 16.91g
- Protein: 3.99g
- Cholesterol: 2.39mg
- Sodium: 203.41mg
- Calcium: 50.77mg
- Potassium: 134.51mg
- Iron: 1.11mg
- Vitamin A: 1.83µg
- Vitamin C: 4.05mg
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