Healthy & Delicious Cranberry Orange Muffins

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose wheat flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup sugar substitute, baking splenda
• 1/2 cup packed sugar substitute, brown sugar slenda
• 2 teaspoons orange zest
• 1/2 cup orange juice or 2 oranges, squeezed
• 1/2 cup jellied cranberry sauce
• 1 (3 ounce) box sugar-free orange gelatin
• 1/2 cup egg substitute
• 1/3 cup apple, sauce
• 1 (6 ounce) bag of cran raisins or 1 (6 ounce) bag dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts (optional)
• 1/2 cup crushed pecans (optional)
• brown sugar, splenda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup of crushed pecans

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350* and then spray a 12 count muffin pan with a nonstick spray.
• 2 soak cranraisens in the orange juice and set aside.
• 3 sift wheat flour with the salt, soda. cinnamon and baking powder.
• 4 add the orange zest and the powdered jello to the flour mixture and set aside.
• 5 cream the sugars and the egg substitute until sugar is dissolved then add applesauce & cranberry sauce and mix well.
• 6 next add the soaked cranraisens to the egg mixture then add the chopped nuts.
• 7 gently add the dry mix to the wet mix until well incorporated.
• 8 pour batter into the muffin pans leaving enough room for the topping.
• 9 mix the topping ingredients, ( thats a 1/2 cup of brown sugar splenda) and sprinkle over the muffins before baking.
• 10 bake muffins for 18 to 20 minutes depending on your oven. when muffins are done you will need to bake the last 6 muffins making the total of 18.
• 11 these muffins will be dense and hearty they will fill you. if you wish you can use 1 cup of regular all purpose flour & 1 cup of the wheat flour and you'll get a slightly lighter muffin.
• 12 enjoy!