Yes, you read that right. Years. When we moved into our current house (and combined our families) my mother and I found s
Where was I again, pre-rant? Right. Leftovers. You'll recall (or you know, scoll down a couple posts) that I had already noticed (and partially dealt with) an almost-dead carton of eggnog that was in our fridge. I left the remainder waiting for either my mom or stepbroth
Seeing as eggnog is full of potentially hazardous milk and eggs (albeit pasteurised), I wasn't going to hedge my bets that someone drinking the rest of it was going to walk away unscathed. So I did what I could to turn the disaster into a treat. I made more muffins.
In this case Andrew was the lucky recipient of these snacks - he asked for them after the last batch I made and I was happy to oblige, on a super-sized scale. And I manged to clear out not only the shared detritus in the icebox, but also some of my personal junk too (hence the random spoonful of pumpkin in the mix... leave it out if you have none handy).
Holiday Dregs Muffin-Cakes
Makes 8 jumbo muffins
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup chunky, unsweetened applesauce (try the roasted kind!)
1 tbsp pumpkin puree
1 1/2 tbsp brown sugar
3/4 cup egg nog
1 egg
1/2 cup Thompson raisins
- Preheat oven to 350F, grease or line 8 jumbo or 16 regular muffin cups.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, spice, baking powder and sugar.
- In another bowl mix applesauce, pumpkin, brown sugar, egg nog and egg until well combined.
- Add wet ingredients to the dry and mix until just combined.
- Fold in the raisins.
- Bake 17 minutes (for regular muffins) or 35 minutes for jumbo muffins.
- Turn out immediately and cool on a rack.
Calories: 243.5
Total Fat: 2.9 g
Cholesterol: 40.6 mg
Sodium: 32.3 mg
Total Carbs: 51.7 g
Dietary Fiber: 4.5 g
Protein: 6.0 g
OMG.
ReplyDeleteTHIS = MY FAMILY.