With Halloween upon us,
sweets and treats are bountiful. Those
of us with children know that there is an additional challenge to curb the
desires, of our young ones, to overindulge in the sugar-laden and unhealthy options
out there. Good news – we can prepare
treats that offer more balanced nutrition.
When my daughter’s teacher requested my contribution for the 5th
grade class’s Halloween party, I got excited to come up with a yummy Halloween
treat recipe. Instead of KitKats and
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, this year we’ll try Pumpkin Muffins. You should try it too!
Pumpkin Cake/ Muffins
Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour ½
stick butter
¼ cup
white sugar 1
heaping cup pumpkin puree
2 tsp
baking powder ¼
cup applesauce
1 ½ tsp
cinnamon ½
cup evaporated milk
¼ tsp
ginger 2
eggs
½ tsp
nutmeg 1
½ tsp vanilla
½ tsp salt
1 cup
nuts, chocolate chips, or raisins (optional)
For Frosting
¼ cup softened butter
4 oz cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
½ tsp vanilla
Preparation
1
Combine all dry
ingredients in a large bowl. Cut in
butter.
2
Mix in the rest of the
ingredients in a separate bowl. Combine
until mixture blended well.
3
Pour wet mixture into the
bowl with the dry mixture, and then fold just enough to combine the two.
4
This is the point where
you can add nuts, chips, raisins if you’d like.
5
Grease cakepan or muffin
tins (or use fun Halloween muffin cups). Fold batter into cakepan or fill muffin cups ½
of the way up.
6
In a small bowl mix a bit
of sugar with cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle
top of muffins or cake with sugar/cinnamon/nutmeg mix.
7
Bake at 400 degrees for 22-28 minutes for
muffins, 30-35 minutes for cake.
8
Let muffins/cake cool. Blend frosting ingredients well and frost if
desired.
I'd increase the baking time. I'm making mini muffins and I kept them in for 30 minutes.
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