Pumpkin Coconut Muffins with Chocolate Chips
Description
As the title states, this recipe makes pumpkin-flavored muffins with coconut and chocolate chips, but also uses applesauce, unrefined sugar, and whole-wheat and pastry flours.
Ingredients
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2 cups pumpkin puree
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4 egg, beaten
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3/4 cup canola oil
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3/4 cup applesauce
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3/4 cup turbinado sugar
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1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
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1 1/2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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3/4 cup flaked coconut
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3/4 cup chocolate chips
Directions
1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour muffin pans or use paper liners.
2
Whisk together the pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, applesauce, and sugar in a bowl. Combine the all-purpose flour, pastry flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a separate bowl. Slowly add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture, whisking continually. Fold in the coconut and chocolate chips. Pour the resulting batter into the muffin pans.
3
Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Allow to cool completely on a wire rack before serving, about 1 hour.