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Serves: 22
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Serving Size: 1 muffin
Claudia Howe - Hickory Hills, Illinois
Bake-Off® Contest 34, 1990
These muffins are full of coconut, macadamia nuts, bananas and pineapple. Serve them warm with the light and fluffy fruit spread.
MUFFINS
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup fortified whole bran cereal with oat bran or fortified whole bran cereal
1/2 cup coconut
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 (3 1/2-ounce) jar macadamia nuts, chopped, if desired
1/2 cup margarine or butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 eggs
3/4 cup (about 2 medium) mashed ripe bananas
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple in unsweetened juice, drained
FRUIT SPREAD*
1/2 cup margarine or butter, softened
1/3 cup low-calorie fresh pineapples, fruit spread, preserves or jam
Heat oven to 350°F. Line with paper baking cups or grease bottoms only of 22 regular-sized muffin cups or 12 jumbo muffin cups. In large bowl, combine flour, cereal, coconut, baking powder, cinnamon and macadamia nuts; mix well.
In another large bowl, combine 1/2 cup margarine, sugar and brown sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs; blend well. Stir in mashed bananas, vanilla and pineapple; blend well. Add to dry ingredients all at once; stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. Fill greased muffin cups 2/3 full.
Bake at 350°F. for 20 to 30 minutes or until light golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 2 minutes; remove from pans. In small bowl, combine fruit spread ingredients at low speed until well blended. Serve with muffins.
*TIP: To make cream-cheese fruit spread, substitute 8-oz. pkg. reduced-fat cream cheese, softened, for margarine. Increase pineapple spread to 1/2 cup. Prepare as directed above.
HIGH ALTITUDE - Above 3,500 feet: Decrease sugar to 3/4 cup. Bake as directed above.
Nutrition Per Serving (1 muffin): Calories 240; Protein 3g; Carbohydrate 28g; Fat 13g; Sodium 160mg
PICTURE: Top to bottom: Tropical Oat Bran Muffins, Chocolate Chunk Pistachio Muffins
From "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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