Tutti-Frutti Muffins

Submitted by Engrossed

"Inspired by RSC#11 ingredients. While I had to use white flour as a contest ingredient- I tried to compensate with other healthy ingredients. I hope you enjoy these soft fruity muffins. They seem like something you would buy at a bakery! If you like a lot of streusel double it. The glaze is optional but adds a nice fruity sweet touch. You could also try this as a loaf baked at 350F."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 24
• Yields: 12 large muffins
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1⁄3 cup oat bran (ground rolled oats)
• 1 cup all-purpose white flour
• 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3⁄4 cup Splenda granular or 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup ripe banana, mashed
• 1⁄2 cup crushed pineapple, drained
• 1⁄2 cup strawberry, crushed
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1⁄4 cup canola oil (I used Enova) or 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce (I used Enova)

• Streusel Topping(can double)

• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons all-purpose white flour
• 2 tablespoons Splenda brown sugar blend or 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1⁄2 - 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons pecans, finely chopped

• Filling

• 1⁄4 cup raspberry preserves

• Optional Glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
• 2 -3 tablespoons blood orange juice
• 1⁄2 teaspoon orange zest

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Grease 12 muffin tins or line with paper liners.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together oat bran, white flour, whole-wheat flour, salt, baking soda, ground cinnamon, Splenda and sugar.
4. In a medium bowl, stir together bananas, pineapple, strawberries, eggs, vanilla, applesauce and oil.
5. Stir fruit mixture into flour mixture.
6. Streusel: In a small bowl, stir together flour, brown sugar and cinnamon. Cut butter into flour mixture. Stir in pecans.
7. Put a mounded tablespoon of batter into each muffin tin.
8. Put 1 teaspoon of raspberry preserves over the center of the batter in each muffin tin.
9. Use remaining batter to nearly fill muffin tins.
10. Sprinkle streusel over the top of batter.
11. Bake for 30-40 minutes until toothpick tests clean.
12. Let sit for 5 minutes and turn out of tins.
13. Optional Glaze: Stir together powdered sugar, blood orange juice and zest. Once muffins are room temperature, drizzle glaze over them.
14. *Good with whipped cream too!

Reviews

[anme7039]

Wow I wish I found these eariler! I doubled the recipe and made them in mini muffin tins. Also I used a bit more oat bran and whole wheat flour and a bit less of the white flour. Also I used part egg beaters and whole eggs. I LOVED the little rasberry surprise in each muffin. And the streusel is very tasty too!

 

[LUv 2 BaKE]

5 stars. Delicious muffins! Cute name for these fruity creations. They sure are large muffins, but bake up beautifully uniform. The amount of topping was plenty for me without doubling it. I chose not to add the optional glaze as I think it would have been a bit overkill and definitely make them too sweet. Withough the glaze these beautiful muffins have so many fruity flavours that blend so well together. Great recipe. Reviewed for RSC #11.