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Apple Streusel Muffins

Ingredients

• 3 cups cake flour minus 1 tablespoon
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup silken soft tofu
• 1 cup canned pumpkin
• ½ cup soybean oil (vegetable oil)
• 2 cups coarsely chopped apple
  

Streusel Topping

• 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon cake flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• 4 teaspoons margarine

In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

Directions

• In a medium bowl, combine tofu, pumpkin and oil.
• Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients; stir just until moistened.
• Sir in chopped apple.
• Spoon batter into greased or paper-lined muffin cups filling ¾ full.
• Blend all Streusel Topping ingredients until well blended and crumbly.
• Sprinkle topping on top of batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Per muffin: calories 232, 7 g fat (1 g sat fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 130 mg sodium, 42 g carbohydrate, 2 g protein (0.2 g soy protein), 1 g dietary fiber

*Adapted from first place entry Sonja Metzer, South Dakota Nutrition and Food Science and Hospitality Department