Healthy Pumpkin Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting: 128 calories

Hi Everyone!

I found another great recipe, and tweaked it a bit. It is both healthy and delicious. Try it out! It was easy, and relatively fast to make! I modified the recipe from the one I found on the blog Sunday Baker. She did a pumpkin bread with a more traditional cream cheese filling. I created muffins with a healthy cream cheese frosting. 

Melissa

Ingredients for the muffins: Makes 12 Muffins. Pre-heat oven to 350. 

1-1/2 c. pureed pumpkin

1/2 c. unsweetened applesauce

1 whole egg

3 egg whites

1 c. all-purpose flour

2/3 c. whole wheat flour

1/2 c. Stevia Cup For Cup sweetener or 24 packets of Stevia in the Raw

1/2 c. granulated sugar

1 t. baking soda

1/2 t. ground cinnamon

Ingredients for healthy cream cheese frosting:

2 heaping tablespoons of 0% Greek yogurt 

2 heaping tablespoons of whipped cream cheese

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 packet of stevia in the raw

Step 1:

Start your batter. Stir all of the dry batter ingredients (both flours, stevia, baking soda, sugar, cinammon) in one bowl, and mix all of the wet ingredients in a second bowl (pumpkin, apple sauce, egg and egg whites). The wet ingredients can be mixed with an electric mixer on low to medium speed. 

Step 2: 

Slowly mix the dry mixture into the wet mixture. 

Step 3: 

Scoop the mixture into muffin pans. Bake 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the middle. 

Step 4:

The muffins are delicious plain so you can eat them now or continue and make the frosting!

Step 5: Mix the Greek yogurt, whipped cream cheese, vanilla extract, and stevia in a bowl. 

Step 6: 

Spread the mixture on your muffins. Top with a drizzle of honey if you want to. (There is no honey on the one pictured). Try it out on one muffin to be sure you like it!

Step 7:

Enjoy!