Reduced Sugar Pumpkin Muffins
From Cooking with Coconut Flour, by Bruce Fife
Although this recipe contains some sugar, we offer it as an example of nutritional harm reduction. It contains no gluten and very limited sugar, but the texture is quite close to that of a traditional flour muffin.
- 3 eggs
- 2 tablespoons butter or coconut oil melted
- 0.25 cup mashed pumpkin
- 0.25 cup sucanat or brown sugar*
- 20 drops liquid stevia
- 0.5 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 0.125 teaspoon ground mace
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
- 0.5 teaspoon vanilla
- 0.25 cup sifted coconut flour
- 0.25 teaspoon baking powder
Blend together eggs, butter, pumpkin, sugar cinnamon, mace, salt, and vanilla. Combine coconut flour with baking powder and whisk into batter until there are no lumps. Pour batter into greased muffin cups. Bake at 400 degrees for 18 minutes.Makes 6 muffins and 10 mini muffins. (Recipe #714)2X Reduced Sugar option: 1/8 cup sugar and 10 drops of stevia. Coconut flour: Digestible Carbs (g/cup) 3, Fiber (g/cup) 9, Percent Fiber 75%
