APPLE OAT MUFFINS (OVO LACTO)

Ingredients
- ½ cup old fashioned oatmeal
- ½ cup brown sugar; firmly packed
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt, optional
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ cup skim milk
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 egg whites
- 1 cup chopped apples
Directions
- Directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place prunes and water in a food processor or blender and puree.
- Combine flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder, salt of using and cinnamon in a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat together the prune puree, milk, maple syrup, egg whites and apples.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until the dry ingredients are moistened. Transfer batter to nonstick or paper lined muffin cups, or to muffin cups lightly sprayed with vegetable cooking spray.
- Bae 20-30 minutes until muffin tops are lightly browned and a wooden toothpick inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean.
- Note: You can substitute 1/3 cup commercially prepared pureed prune baby food of prune butter (found in jam and jelly of baking section of your supermarket for the prune puree) the baby food prune jars you will need 2 2/2 oz jars and the prune butter will add extra cal sue to the added sugars in the mixture

