Mini Pistachio Pudding Muffins
PIN IT!These delicious mini pistachio pudding muffins are low-fat and low-calorie, and make perfect breakfast bites or afternoon snacks!
Guys, I’m so sorry for the lack of updates. I feel like I’m letting you all down. With my cookbook due in a month, work trips picking up (I’m traveling at least 1 1/2 weeks a month!) and a heavy recipe workload for work, I’m just struggling for time. Oh and the lack of wifi doesn’t help with updates either. But I promise to have my blog back up and running again in tiptop form (with 2 – 3 new recipes a week) soon. Now, let’s talk muffins.
Pistachio pudding is my favorite pudding in the entire world. Actually, scratch that, pistachio EVERYTHING is my favorite. I mean, have you ever had pistachio gelato? it’s like an angel dancing on your tongue. I never really thought to make a pistachio baked good, well, until I made this bundt cake. And my life has been forever changed. That’s why when I found a box o’ nutty puddin’ in my pantry; I knew I was going to bake something. The fact they turned out to be wee cute little mini muffins was purely chance.
I mean, how cute are they? I accidently filled the liners a bit too full which is why they are so spewing. But I still love them. They make me almost want to buy a bright colored bike with a basket just so I can ride away tossing these little muffins to passerbys. Anyone else ever have that dream when they make muffins? Nope? Just me? Okay then.
You know the best thing about these muffins? Besides the taste and the adorable look, of course. The fact that each mini muffin has less than 55 calories. 52.5 CALORIES, to be exact. Can you believe that? Makes you almost want to have 6. And even if you did, you’d still consume less calories than are in a giant muffin from Starbucks.
Will you all please take these little muffins as a token of my appreciation? Just pretend I delivered them to you in a fancy bike with a fun basket, mmk?
Mini pistachio muffins
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Yields 32 mini muffins.
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: About 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 (3.4 ounce) box fat-free pistachio pudding
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Dash of salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup fat-free milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- Walnuts for garnish
- Icing for garnish (I love this recipe)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a mini muffin pan with mini muffin liners.
- Whisk the flour, pudding, sugars, baking powder, baking soda and dash of salt together in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, milk, vanilla and applesauce, mix to combine.
- Fill each muffin liner about ¾ the way full with batter.
- Bake for about 12 – 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Nutritional information per muffin:
Calories: 53.5
Fat: >1 gram
Carbohydrates: 7.5 grams
Fiber: >1 gram
Protein: 0.75 grams
Weight Watchers Points: 1
Thank you for this gloriousness!!!