Betty Crocker's Heart Healthy Cookbook shares a recipe! Warm and delightful muffins ready in no time! Packed with dates and a hint of citrus, these muffins make a distinctive treat!
Lemon-Date Muffins
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 35 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ whole wheat flour
- 3/4 cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1 cup fat-free (skim) milk
- 1/3 cup canola or soybean oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup chopped dates

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Grease bottoms only of 12 muffin cups with shortening (do not use paper baking cups).
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Step2Mix flours, baking powder and salt in large bowl; set aside. Beat brown sugar, lemon peel, milk, oil and egg in medium bowl with fork or wire whisk until well mixed. Stir into flour mixture just until flour is moistened. Fold in dates. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.
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Step3Bake 18 to 22 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and tops begin to brown. Run knife around edge of cups; remove muffins from pan to wire rack. Serve warm.
Nutrition
190
Calories
7g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
28g
Total Carbohydrate
11g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Muffin
- Calories
- 190
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 1/2g
- 3%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 6%
- Sodium
- 240mg
- 10%
- Potassium
- 170mg
- 5%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 28g
- 9%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 11%
- Sugars
- 11g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 10%
- 10%
- Iron
- 8%
- 8%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 1/2 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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