Archive Post: Favorite Recipe: Mmmm Zucchini Muffins

Sooo busy right now with moving and trying to get through these contractions...i have an appointment tomorrow and hoping that these are just braxton hicks and that i'm not moving towards having this baby over a month early!! ah! ::panic::: so i'm going to share a favorite post. enjoy. :)

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Favorite Recipe - Zucchini muffins

My sister e-mailed me this recipe around this time last year..and we fell in love with this recipe. Sophia gobbles them up. I usually make the mini muffins.. 1. they are so cute! haha. and 2. sophia likes to palm those babies and cruise around..leaving lovely chunks of muffin all over my floor. and the small ones are easier for her chubby hands. (seriously though she can hold the big muffins but i was trying to justify my reason for making the little muffins. i lied. it's only because they are cute. haha.

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs

1/3 cup canola oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup light brown sugar

3 cups shredded zucchini (12 ounces)

 Pam Baking spray

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°.

Combine eggs, oil, vanilla extract in a mixing bowl; add sugars, stirring until combined.

Add zucchini; stir until well combined.

Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and baking soda; stir just until combined.

Pour batter into muffin pans (or your pan of choice) coated with cooking spray.

Bake at 350° for 30 minutes (varies according to the type of pan you used and your oven) or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

This isn't what the recipe says to do but another tip from the busy budgeting mama' mama: my mom would always take the banana bread out of the pan and wrap in foil..it made it so moist! so now i lt the muffins cool on my wire rack a bit but then place them in a zip lock bag(same idea as the foil..trap the moisture!)..

then i pop them in the microwave. i find that if i hide them away i don't eat them all.. that works most of the time. but not always. ;)