Showing posts with label zucchini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zucchini. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Zucchini Muffins

I've never been good at improvising or just whipping a bunch of random ingredients together. I really need a recipe to follow. I think the more you cook the more you learn what works well together though. I also think that the more times I cook the same recipe the more comfortable I am with changing it- just a little. Like this one. I've changed it from the one someone gave me, and substituted part of the ingredients, like whole wheat flour, agave, and flax seeds, to make it healthier.

3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil (I use half olive oil)
1 cup sugar
3/4 c agave nectar
2 c grated zucchini
2 teaspoon vanilla
2 scoops (3 or 4 Tbsp) ground flaxseed OR 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (Gregory didn't have teeth to chew the nuts so I decided to sub flaxseed)
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 350.
In a large bowl, beat eggs until light and frothy. Mix in oil, sugar, and agave. Stir in zucchini and vanilla. Combine flours, cinnamon, soda, baking powder, salt and faxseed; stir into the egg mixture. Pour into paper lined muffin pan.
Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

*Of course you can always add some chocolate chips if you like. ;)