I was looking through some recipes and ideas for holiday goodies and came across the post I did for Lee at Fit Foodie Finds awhile back. I had this extra copy of the post and I thought I’d re-share it because I am super proud of the recipe. It is definitely a semi-healthy recipe.
This is exactly what I sent to Lee to post to her readers and it shows a little of where I was at in my blog a couple of months ago. Enjoy!
{{Hello everyone! My name is Amanda and I am the author of the healthy living blog called Diary of a Semi-Health Nut. I blog about balance in my daily life which involves healthy recipes, running, and of course, baking delicious treats.
I started blogging about a year ago…like once a month. In January 2011 I was training for a half-marathon so I started blogging more frequently and then a crazy thing happened…I started looking at *gasp* other blogs!
I had no idea there were so many talented people out there blogging! One of the first blogs I found that interested me was Fit Foodie Finds. Such fun writing! The most beautiful photography! So so healthy! I was in love and so began an obsession of following some amazing foodies.
I also got on Twitter a couple of months ago (how many years after everyone else got on??) and found even more people who shared my passion! Lee is, of course, one of the peeps I follow (let’s face it, I want to make sure I know when she posts another amazing recipe or fun workout) and she sent a message out along the lines of “who wants to do a guest post for me?”
Didn’t have to ask me twice! I’d love to give this gal a break from posting for one day and I will even share a new recipe with her because I appreciate all of the hard work she puts into her blog!
So I present to you, followers of Fit Foodie Finds, a sweet fall recipe:
Pumpkin Spice Orange-Soaked Muffins
One of the best desserts I have made yet. I could barely stop myself from licking the batter bowl and the glaze bowl…oh how I love you pumpkin muffins!
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| I brought these to the BF’s farm this weekend and he caught me mowin down on 2 of em! |
Ingredients (for muffins):
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup cream (I used cinnamon vanilla creamer..yum) {healthier: skim milk or water}
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar {healthier: can be omitted}
- 1 can of Pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup oats {healthier: can add 1/4 to 1/2 cup more but will be very dense!}
- 2 cups flour {healthier: sub 1 cup whole wheat flour}
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 1 tsp pumpkin spice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- (see below for *orange soaked* part)
(Note: I know spices can be expensive…so if you don’t have them and don’t want to buy them now…this recipe can be made with spice cake from a box + vegetable oil+eggs+cream..although it won’t be quite the same!)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine moist ingredients (eggs, creme, vegetable oil) and add sugar.
- Add pumpkin and stir.
- Add oats to moist ingredients and combine.
- In a separate bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients and then slowly add and combine to moist ingredients.
- Pour into baking pans and bake for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry.
- Prepare *orange-soaked* part (below).
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| This is my recipe in progress…a lot of erasing, re-writing and when I sniffed the allspice, decided to cross it out altogether. |
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| The batter is pretty goopy so I had to spoon it into the cupcake holders. |
*Orange-soaked*-ness:{healthier: use 1TBS butter, 1TBS sugar plus 1/4 cup orange juice and gratings}
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 TBS water
- 2 TBS orange juice
- 2 TBS grated orange peel (or as much as you can get from one orange)
- sunflower nuts for topping (or almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc)
How To:
- Melt butter on stovetop on medium-low heat (or nuke it for 30 sec at a time)
- Add sugar, zests and water and heat until it dissolves.
- Remove from heat and stir in orange juice.
- Poke holes in cooled muffins with a toothpick and drizzle over muffins.
- Add your choice of topping, let cool and ENJOY!
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| Poking holes with a toothpick |
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| Didn’t melt the butter enough…but it was still scrumptious! |
Great for breakfast, snack, dessert…lunch, dinner, study treat…SO. GOOD.
What’s your favorite fall ingredient?}}
What do you think? Pretty good guest-post eh? 😉
Guess what??! I am doing a holiday foodie/decorating/craft link-up very soon! Possibly tomorrow?? {Here’s the link! –> http://semihealthyblog.com/2011/12/sweet-cinnamon-biscuits-recipe-round-up/)
I am excited as it is my first link-up ever and I know there are a lot of talented cooks/bakers/crafty people out there that I can get ideas from.
Stay tuned for the link-up friends and have an amazing week!
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