Low Fat Strawberry Muffins

Sorry for the late post, we closed for President's Day so I'm posting on Monday night. This week's post is somewhat of a change in that it's a low-fat recipe. It was requested by someone in the office and I figured I'd give it a shot. It's a standard recipe but the vegetable oil is replaced with equal parts applesauce. They didn't seem to rise as much as if made with oil and generally seem to be very dense.



Ingredients

1 2/3 cups fresh strawberries, sliced to small bits
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions

1.Heat oven to 425 F.
2.Put a paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease just the bottoms of 12 muffin cups.
3.Slightly smash strawberries in large bowl, using fork.
4.Stir in sugar, applesauce and eggs until mixed.
5.Stir in other ingredients just until moistened.
6.Spoon batter into muffin cups.
7.Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until light golden brown or toothpick poked in center comes out clean.