Meal Makeover Moms Book Giveaway
December 5, 2008 by Rachel Segal
Filed under Recipes
For busy families who don’t want to compromise nutrition when it comes to meal time, the Meal Makeover Moms, Janice and Liz, have a cookbook 
with healthy recipes made just for you. The Mom’s Guide to Meal Makeovers includes strategies for incorporation nutritious ingredients and cooking tactics into hectic weeknights where it’s all too easy to fall back on fast food or other convenient options that aren’t nutritious at all.
Ultimately, healthy eating isn’t about quick solutions or easy fixes. So instead, the Meal Makeover Moms have developed simple strategies to encourage consistency and establish house rules for food.
Here is their recipe for Apple Cinnamon Muffins, reprinted with permission from The Mom’s Guide to Meal Makeovers. Here at Robust Cooking we are giving away a copy of this book to one lucky reader.
All you need to do is comment on this post with your favorite type of muffin or baking tip. Next Friday, December 12th at 11pm ET we will announce the randomly selected winner!
Please only enter once and make sure you use an accurate email address so we can get in touch with you and ship your prize.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Makes 12 Muffins
Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs, beaten
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup granulated sugar, reserve 1 tablespoon for the topping
1/3 cup canola oil
1/4 cup 1% lowfat milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup Mom’s Best Naturals Toasted Cinnamon Squares
1 small apple, unpeeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice (about 1 cup)
2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Generously oil or coat 12 muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
2. Whisk together the all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl.
3. Combine the eggs, applesauce, sugar, oil, milk, and vanilla in a medium bowl and stir until well blended. Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and stir until just moistened.
4. Meanwhile, prepare the topping by placing the cereal in a plastic, zip-top bag. Crush into small pieces (about the size of lentils) with your fingers or a rolling pin. Place the cereal, apple, flaxseed, remaining 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a bowl and stir to combine.
5. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups. Top evenly with the apple mixture, pressing down gently into the batter.
6. Bake about 20 minutes or until the muffins are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Transfer the pan to a wire rack and cool for 5 minutes before removing.
Nutritional Information per Serving: 200 calories, 8g fat (1g saturated fat, 0.8g omega-3), 190mg sodium, 29g carbohydrate, 2g fiber, 4g protein
Photo Credit: Meal Makeover Moms
Update: The contest is now closed! We’ll be announcing the winner tonight!
The best tip I can offer is to let my husband do the baking – he’s a whiz with the oven. I cook, he bakes
Sounds like a great book. My favorite muffin (currently) is a pumpkin apple muffin, which is really moist and really yummy.
As for tips, I would advise (based only on my own experience) against (yes, against) using silicone muffin cups. Maybe it’s just the ones I have, but they’re too thick, and the muffin ends up sticking to the cup and they don’t unpeel very attractively.
My favorite type of muffin is blueberry!
My favorite muffin is blueberry!!
My favorite muffins are bananna nut. I love to mix a small block of cream cheese with an equal amount of lemon icing until its smooth and use as a cream center for them. i split each muffin in half and fill with icing cheese. yummy in my tummy.
pumpkin cream cheese muffin
My favorite is a recipe I have for cinnamon muffins. They never last a full three days around here!
my fave muffin-black forrest cheesecake!
I love muffins I have 2 favorite Blueberry and Banana Nut!
My favorite is Banana Nut.
love me the blueberry muffins
My favorite types of muffins include blueberry and cranberry orange. Thanks for the chance!
banana nut
I like pumpkin muffins the best.
Banana nut with lots of nuts.
I love blueberry and cream cheese muffins.
I love to add a struesel topping to the muffins I make. Blueberry are our favorite! I always keep blueberries on hand in the freezer for just this purpose.
My favourite muffin is actually a majorly savourly one; that I haven’t had for years!
They are muffins with bacon, cheese and I’m pretty sure were made with cream of mushroom soup……….grrr I’m going to have to hunt that recipe down now!
Thanks
my favorite muffin is banana nut. I also add a struessel topping.
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I don’t really have any muffin tips but I do like apple cinnamon muffins with a little drizzle of frosting on top. Also we like blueberry with streusel.
I love Chocolate Chip Muffins.
I’m not big on sweets but I love a savory quinoa red onion fennel dinner muffin.
Banana Nut Muffins are my favorite and easy to make.
I personally love making chocolate cheesecake muffins. Stir in some dried cranberries for a divinely tasty boost!
I love warm chocolate chip muffins.
Perfect Cookies Every Time — Using parchment paper to bake the cookies is easy, safe (and food-grade!), and is my favorite cookie-baking trick. Parchment paper allows you to be more precise in baking cookies, because you can remove them all from the pan at the same moment. Plus, you can make more cookies faster, which is never a bad thing.
I love to bake and am always looking for new ideas
My all time favourite muffin is a banana muffin, the top of the muffin needs to be just a little firm.
hands down its blueberry
my favorite muffins are pistachio muffins hard to find but worth the effort thanks for the contest
I love raspberry muffins!
We love pumpkin spice muffins. delish
My favorite muffin is chocolate chip!
My favorite is apple nut muffin.
My favorite are apple cinnamon muffins.
Pina Colada muffins are my very favorites.
Pumpkin Spice is my favorite muffin.
My favorite is Chocolate Chip Muffins.
I love apple carrot muffins.
My fav. is Chocolate chip. Thanks for the chance to win.
Blueberry muffins
my favorite type of muffin is either blueberry or chocolate with chocolate chips.
Betty Crocker Bluerry muffins and I add a quart of fresh blueberries-yum.
The whole reason I’m here is for baking and meal tips so I’ll give you my fave – blueberry – yumm- would love some right now!
Although I kinda have a tip from my sister who does bake she bakes with apple sauce which is yummy but less fattening.
CHOC CHIP MUFFINS FOR ME!
Blueberry!
I Love LOVE LOVE Blueberry muffins
Blueberry muffins are my favorite!
I love pumpkin muffins with cream cheese in them, thanks!
This sounds like a great cookbook, I would love to read it!
My favorite kind of muffin is chocolate chocolate chip! MMM. A quick cooking tip: since we’re on the topic of making over meals to be healthier, the first one that comes to mind is substituting apple sauce for oil in baked goods. Thanks so much for the giveaway, what fun!