If there is one thing my family loves it is bananas, and even more than bananas, banana muffins! Today I wanted to try something different to try to make these heavenly snacks a little bit more healthy for my little ones. So I found a recipe on a low-cal site for muffins using unsweetened applesauce in place of butter/oil. Of course I substituted the flour for whole wheat pastry flour and added some chai seeds. The result was a success, hooray! According to the low-cal site these babies only have 75 calories and 0.5 grams of fat. The ingredients are:
1 C Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
1 Tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp kosher salt
2 bananas, mashed
1/4 C sugar
1/4 C applesauce
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp chai seed
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray muffin tins with cooking spray.
2) Mix together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, chai seed and baking soda.
3) In a separate bowl blend together applesauce, bananas, egg, vanilla, and sugar.
4) Pour banana mixture into the flour and mix until well blended and scoop into muffin tin.
5) Cook about 15-20 minutes, or until tooth pick comes out clean.
