Allergy Friendly Low Fat Muffins!

I often like to do a bit of baking on my days off then bring whatever I've made into work the following day for morning tea. As I'm on my health kick though I've been looking for recipes that are low fat, and after reading that this particular recipe had no butter or oil I was tempted to give it a go. 

Also, I'm always on the search for recipes (especially baking ones), that are egg free so I can adapt them for my Little Lion, and this one is too! Woohoo!

Plus, the combo of apple and banana always seems totally delicious. 

Here's the recipes courtesy of AllRecipes! 

Low Fat Apple, Banana and Cinnamon Muffins.

Ingredients

Serves: 12

• For the muffins:
• 280g self-raising flour
• 125g caster sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cups low fat milk
• 2 large ripe bananas, mashed
• 2 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and grated
• 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• For the icing glaze:
• 60g caster sugar
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation method

Prep: 10 minutes | Cook: 30 minutes

1.

Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease muffin tin or line with paper muffin cups.

2.

In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, salt and cinnamon. Stir in milk, bananas, apples, orange rind and vanilla extract. Mix lightly and spoon mixture into prepared muffin tin.

3.

Bake 25 - 30 minutes or until golden brown. Check when cooked by inserting a skewer into the centre of a muffin. The muffins are done when it comes out clean.

4.

To make the icing: combine sugar and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 1 minute. Brush icing glaze over baked muffins then sprinkle cinnamon on top.

OK, so I made a last minute edit. Although I had apples in the fridge, I also had frozen blueberries and the thought of banana and blueberries was too good to pass up. I just wanted that tangy berry hit! 

The muffins are soft and moist, but make sure you spray the inside of the patty pans as they're super sticky and you'll lose half your muffin if you don't. They're not super sweet, but they're quite light and you don't get that 'heavy' feeling in your stomach. Winner! If anyone makes these with apple, can you let me know how they turn out? Cheers!