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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 (112g) Recipe makes 12 servings
Calories 191
Calories from Fat 38		(19%)
Amount Per Serving		%DV
	Total Fat 4.2g	6%
	Saturated Fat 0.7g	3%
	Monounsaturated Fat 1.1g
	Polyunsaturated Fat 2.0g
	Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 1mg		0%
Sodium 153mg		6%
Potassium 250mg		7%
Total Carbohydrate 34.5g		11%
	Dietary Fiber 3.1g	12%
	Sugars 14.9g
Protein 5.1g		10%
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By: bluemoon downunder
Jun 11, 2005

Muffins designed to trick children into eating some fruit and vegetables. Children think they are having a delicious, moist chocolate treat. In fact they are eating low fat muffins containing apples and beetroot. And when do you confess your deception? Perhaps at their twenty-first birthday party? Or when they leave home, when you give them the recipe? Or if there are other younger children still being deceived, perhaps this is best shared privately. Like the truth about Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Adapted from a recipe on the Simply Great Meals Recipe Club website.

SERVES 12 , 12 muffins (change servings and units)

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups self raising flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
4 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup brown sugar
425 g beetroots, well drained, sliced
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 (200 g) container low-fat yogurt, natural
2 egg whites
2 granny smith apples, peeled and grated

Directions

1
Mix the self raising flour, wholemeal flour, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa and sugar together in a large bowl.
2
Puree the beetroot with the oil, egg whites and yoghurt in a food processor or with a hand held blender.
3
Add the beetroot mixture and grated apple to the dry ingredients, and mix until just combined.
4
Spoon the mixture into a greased 12 x ½ cup muffin tray, and bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC for 20 minutes. Stand for 5 minutes before turning out.
5
Lightly dust with icing sugar to serve.

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From: VegSocialWorker

On Sep 3, 2006

These muffins turned out good. They did not taste like beets, but did not taste like much else either. I think that next time I make these I'll add a bit more sugar and cocoa and maybe some nuts. Hubby liked them. We have been having them all week with fruit for breakfast on the run. Thanks for posting this, will try again.

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From: LUv 2 BaKE

On Oct 10, 2005

These are very good! They sure tricked my somewhat picky (adult) brother!! I ate one just a bit cooled, fresh out of the oven yesterday and thought it was "ok". Today I tried another one I had sitting out for today, and wow, it was really good! I am not sure if the flavours just have to develop, or if they are just much better cool. Anyway, we really enjoyed these. If I were to serve these to picky kids however, I would probably slighly puree the apple after it is grated so the pieces are not as obvious. I didn't have self rising flour so I used 1 1/8 cup flour plus a generous 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, which worked well!

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From: melting pot

On Oct 15, 2005

Er-it mostly tastes like beetroot. Maybe it'll taste better later - i've already left them overnight. THey get 5 stars from me for a WONDERFUL texture though. Maybe mine just had too much bettroot.

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