Leprechaun muffins with blueberries (colored with spinach!)
Sometimes I forget how much fun holidays can be when you’re a kid. I suck at making sure we do fun things….like making green food. Though some of the super food color-ific foods make me cringe….enter spinach muffins! Tonight I wanted to make these muffins with Evan for St. Patrick’s Day but he was having none of that. He would MUCH rather play Angry Birds. Oh well, I made them any way and Evan loved them. We’ll see how Dewey likes them. I think he is starting to wonder where else I might try to hide spinach…remember our green smoothies?
Leprechaun Muffins with Blueberries (colored with spinach)
Author: Adapted from Weelicious
Recipe type: Snack
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Serves: 9
Ingredients
- 1 single serving cup of strawberry kiwi unsweetened apple sauce (or ½ cup applesauce)
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup baby spinach, packed
- 2 tsp vanilla
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 1½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup frozen wild blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Puree applesauce, egg, spinach, vanilla, sugar and oil in a blender.
- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
- Add puree to the flour mixture and stir until just mixed.
- Fold in blueberries.
- Grease a muffin tin. This recipe either makes 24 mini muffins or about 9 large muffins. Bake for 12 mins for mini muffins or 17 mins for big muffins (depends on your stove).
Recipe Note: You can taste the spinach a bit when they are warm. Once they cool…no spinach taste.
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Great idea! I’ll have to try it because Max has been giving me major headaches with his eating habits lately!
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Evan liked them. I was worried because at first he picked out the blueberries but then he ate the muffin too.
We made a different version of these without eggs or blueberries. The blueberries are a great addition! Chloe liked them raw, but once I baked them not as much – go figure.
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I saw your recipe last night. I was going to make those but I didn’t have powdered milk.
I found the muffins tasted way less “spinach-y” after they cooled. Evan ate his in no time flat. I *may* have had 2 for my dinner last night. 
Sneaky! I love it
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