Pumpkin and Apricot Muffins

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             FOOD FUNNY
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Thanks to Rosemary Zwick for these:

Forrest Gump: Life is like a box of chocolates...
Forrest Shakespeare: Chocolate, or no chocolate that's the question
Forrest Presley: Hunk a hunk of milk chocolate
Forrest Zen: I am one with the chocolate
Forrest Turner: What's chocolate gotta do, gotta do with it?
Forrest Spock: Logically speaking, we are all chocolate
Forrest Butler: Frankly Scarlett, I don't like chocolate
Forrest Copperfield: Poof, the chocolates are gone!
Forrest Noah: 2 creams, 2 nuts, 2 coconuts, 2 peanut butter
Forrest Ali: I am the chocolate boxer!
Forrest Andrews: The Hills are alive, like a box of chocolates
Forrest Freud: Is life really a box of chocolate..or is it your mother you want?
Forrest Lincoln: Forescore and several chocolates ago,
Forrest Popeye: I yam a box of Chocolets...eg eg eg eg

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             TODAY'S RECIPE
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To be honest, "low-fat muffin" has always been an oxymoron as far as I
am concerned. "Small lumps of wet clay" is a better description for most
I have tasted, but this one scores high on the taste-and-texture scale
and is relatively low in fat as well.

Pumpkin and Apricot Muffins

1 3/4 cups (430 ml) all-purpose flour
1 tsp (5 ml) baking powder
1/2 tsp (2 ml) baking soda
1 tsp (5 ml) ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp (2 ml) ground ginger
1/2 tsp (2 ml) ground allspice
1/4 tsp (1 ml) ground cloves
1 tsp (5 ml) salt
2 egg whites, lightly beaten
3/4 cup (180 ml) canned pumpkin
1/4 cup (60 ml) canola oil (or other low saturated fat oil)
1/3 cup (80 ml) brown sugar
1/3 cup (80 ml) non-fat milk
1/4 cup (60 ml) non-fat plain yogurt
1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
1/4 cup (60 ml) dried apricots (about 6 to 8), finely chopped
2 Tbs (30 ml) chopped walnuts or almonds (optional)

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and salt into a large
mixing bowl. In another bowl mix the egg whites, pumpkin, oil, brown
sugar, milk, yogurt, vanilla, apricots, and optional nuts. Add the wet
ingredients to the dry ingredients, stirring as little as possible to
incorporate. Divide the mixture among twelve muffins cups that have been
greased or sprayed with a cooking spray. Bake in the middle of a
preheated 400F (200C) oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the top of the
muffins spring back when pressed.
Makes 12 muffins.
Received on Mon Dec 17 19:51:55 2007