Clean Cranberry Muffins

Here's a clean-eating version of a family classic!  I swapped out the sugar and shortening for maple syrup and apple sauce and made a few other alterations to make a great muffin to start your day off right.

Clean Cranberry Muffins

Ingredients

Dry Bowl

• 1 cup AP flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt

• Wet Bowl

• 3/4 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 cup applesauce
• 1 Tbsp. coconut oil, melted
• zest of 1/2 an orange
• 3/4 cup orange juice
• 1 egg

• Add Ins

• 1 cup fresh cranberries, chopped
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional

Makes 12 muffins
Cook Time: 20 minutes

Preheat oven to 350.
Combine all dry bowl ingredients in a medium bowl and all wet bowl in ingredients in a medium bowl.  Add wet bowl to dry bowl and stir until combined; stir in cranberries and nuts, if using.
Pour mixture into a greased loaf pan or using an ice cream scoop, scoop into a muffin tin. Bake for one hour in a loaf pan,  20 minutes in muffins tins, or until tester stick comes out clean.  Let cool until pan is cool enough to handle, then invert onto a cooling rack.