Why make cookies when you can make healthier gingerbread muffins? These muffins are tender and go wonderfully with a warm cup of coffee.
Gingerbread! Gingerbread MUFFINS.
Once you pass Thanksgiving, take all your spices and make muffins and serve them with coffee. These muffins are life. They’re all the things we love about gingerbread cookies, like the SPICE. But served up in a tender and puffy package that’s undoubtedly more acceptable to serve for breakfast any day of the week. Although, I’m not above having cookies for breakfast. But I’m pretty sure that’s just me.
Additionally, these are healthier gingerbread muffins because we’re making them with coconut oil and splitting some of the flour into whole wheat. We’re also cutting back on some of the sugar and using applesauce to help sweeten the muffins naturally. I love adding applesauce to baked goods like carrot cake muffins [1], zucchini muffins [2] and of course, these gingerbread muffins because it not only adds a hint of natural sweetness but also lots of moisture, leaving us without a dry crumb in sight.
When I want something sweet for breakfast (which is like, every day), the first thing I get a hankering for is a soft and fluffy muffin that’s swirled, topped, or loaded with cinnamon something. It’s such a regular thing in our house that Anees often asks, ‘are you looking for your breakfast dessert?’ More often than I’d like to recall, I find myself saying yes. Every meal of the day needs its own dessert.
I see no problems here.
Skinny muffins are my thing. I love these healthier gingerbread muffins and the fact that they’re lower in calories and fat doesn’t hurt either. Of course that all changed if you decide to dip them in maple icing like I did.
It’s also enticing that they take in the ballpark of 30 minutes to make from start to finish and you don’t need any proper equipment. Just a muffin pan [3] (affiliate link), measuring cups [4] (affiliate link), a bowl, and a spatula.
Make the weekend a little extra special with a fresh plate of muffins to go with your joe!
P.S. make healthier gingerbread muffins, then dunk them in maple icing and make them unhealthy. There’s always room for a little icing!
Why make cookies when you can make healthier gingerbread muffins? These muffins are tender and go wonderfully with a warm cup of coffee.
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